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Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.

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Become a member and receive career-enhancing benefits

Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.

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Awards

Distinguished Service Award (Established 1957) Recipients

Year
Recipient
2024
Layton F. Rikkers, MD, FACS
2023
Ronald M. Stewart, MD, FACS
2022
Mark A. Malangoni, MD, FACS
2021
David P. Winchester, MD, FACS
2020
Hilary A. Sanfey, MB BCh, FACS
2019
R. Phillip Burns, MD, FACS
2018
Valerie W. Rusch, MD, FACS
2017
Richard J. Finley, MD, FACS, FRCSC
2016
Frank G. Opelka, MD, FACS
2015
John A. Weigelt, DVM, MD, FACS
2014
J. Wayne Meredith, MD, FACS
2013
Barbara L. Bass, MD, FACS
2012
Jack W. McAninch, MD, FACS
2011
Mary H. McGrath, MD, MPH, FACS
2010
Amilu S. Stewart, MD, FACS
2009
F. Dean Griffen, MD, FACS
2008
Paul E. Collicott, MD, FACS
2007
David B. Hoyt, MD, FACS
2006
Patricia J. Numann, MD, FACS
2005
Donald D. Trunkey, MD, FACS*
2004
Richard B. Reiling, MD, FACS
2003
J. Roland Folse, MD, FACS
2002
F. William Blaisdell, MD, FACS*
2001
David L. Nahrwold, MD, FACS
2000
Murray F. Brennan, MD, FACS
1999
Claude H. Organ, Jr., MD, FACS*
1998
LaMar S. McGinnis, Jr., MD, FACS
1997
Josef E. Fischer, MD, FACS*
1996
James C. Thompson, MD, FACS*
1995
John O. Gage, MD, FACS
1994
Robert E. Hermann, MD, FACS*
1993
Barry M. Manuel, MD, FACS
1992
S. Stuart Mally, MD, FACS*
1991
John H. Davis, MD, FACS*
1990
Robert Zeppa, MD, FACS*
1989
Luis F. Sala, MD, FACS*
1988

Edwin W. Gerrish, MD, FACS*

Frank Padberg, MD, FACS*

1987
Vallee L. Willman, MD, FACS*
1986
Seymour I. Schwartz, MD, FACS*
1985
George E. Block, MD, FACS*
1984
C. Barber Mueller, MD, FACS*
1983
C. Thomas Thompson, MD, FACS*
1982
David W. Robinson, MD, FACS*
1981
Joseph P. Evans, MD, FACS*
1980
R. Gordon Holcombe, Jr., MD, FACS*
1979
Charles Eckert, MD, FACS*
1978
Truman G. Blocker, Jr., MD, FACS*
1977
Henry T. Randall, MD, FACS*
1976
Oscar P. Hampton, Jr., MD, FACS*
1975
William A. Altemeier, MD, FACS*
1974
William D. Holden, MD, FACS*
1973
George W. Stephenson, MD, FACS*
1972
John W. Cline, MD, FACS*
1971
George G. Finney, MD, FACS*
1970
(No recipient)
1969
R. Lee Clark, MD, FACS*
1968
Harris B. Shumacker, Jr., MD, FACS*
1967
Herbert E. Coe, MD, FACS*
1966
Mr. Edward George Sandrok*
1965
John Christopher Burch, MD, FACS*
1964
Howard A. Patterson, MD, FACS*
1963
Robert Hayward Kennedy, MD, FACS*
1962
Allen O. Whipple, MD, FACS*
1961

Howard H. Bradshaw, MD, FACS*

H. Prather Saunders, MD, FACS*

1960
Edward W. Sprague, MD, FACS*
1959
Hilger Perry Jenkins, MD, FACS*
1958

William R. Laird, MD, FACS*

E. Payne Palmer, Sr., MD, FACS*

1957
H. Winnett Orr, MD, FACS*

* Deceased