The Dr. Nathan Davis Awards are presented annually by the
American Medical Association (AMA) and awarded to elected and career public servants in national, state, and local governments for outstanding government service. These awards are named for the founder of the
American Medical Association,
Nathan Smith Davis.[1]
The first Dr. Nathan Davis Awards were presented in 1989. Since then a number of prominent individuals have received a Dr. Nathan Davis Award for outstanding government service.[2]
2010 Vice Admiral
John Mateczun, M.D., Commander, Joint Task Force, National Capital Region Medical
2011
R. Gil Kerlikowske, Commander, Director, White House Office of National Drug Control Policy
2013
Donald Berwick, M.D., former Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
2015 Bruce G. Gellin, MD, MPH Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health Director, National Vaccine Program Office, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
2017
Andrew M. Slavitt, Acting Administrator, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Member of the Executive Branch in Career Public Service
1989
Donald A. B. Lindberg, MD, Director, Library of Medicine, NIH, Ruth L. Kirschstein, MD, Director, National Institute of General Medical Sciences, NIH
1991 William F. Raub, PhD, former Deputy Director, NIH
1992
Anthony S. Fauci, MD, Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases; Director, Office of AIDS Research
1993
Samuel Broder, MD, Director, National Cancer Institute, NIH
1994
Donald L. Custis, MD, former Surgeon General of the Navy, former Chief Medical Director of Department of Veterans Affairs
1995
Kenneth P. Moritsugu, MD, Assistant Surgeon General and Medical Director, Federal Bureau of Prisons
2000
Marilyn H. Gaston, MD, Assistant Surgeon General, Associate Administrator Bureau of Primary Health, U.S. Public Health Service, Gerald David Fischbach, MD, Director, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health
2001
James P. Bagian, MD, Director, VA National Center for Patient Safety Department of Veterans Affairs
2002
Joseph F. Fraumeni, Jr., MD, Director, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics National Cancer Institute
2003
Judith Elaine Fradkin, MD, Director, Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases, National Institute of Diabetes and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health
2004
Duane F. Alexander, MD, Director, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development National Institutes of Health
2006 Christopher Allan Percy, MD, Medical Officer and Director of Community Health Services, Northern Navajo Medical Center
2007
Douglas R. Lowy, MD, Chief, Laboratory of Cellular Oncology, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, John T. Schiller, PhD, Principal Investigator, Neoplastic Disease Section, Laboratory of Cellular Oncology, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health
2008 W. Marston Linehan, MD, Chief, Urologic Oncology Branch Center for Cancer Research National Cancer Institute
2009 D. Joe Boone, PhD, Associate Director for Science, Division of Laboratory Systems National Center for Preparedness, Detection and Control of Infectious Diseases Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
2010
Ira Pastan, MD, Chief of the Molecular Biology Laboratory, National Institute of Health’s Center for Cancer Research
2011
William A. Gahl, MD, PhD, Clinical Director, National Human Genome Research Institute, Director, intramural program of the National Institutes of Health Office of Rare Diseases, Director, National Institutes of Health Undiagnosed Diseases Program
2012 Leon Esterowitz, PhD, Program Director, Biophotonics Directorate for Engineering, National Science Foundation
2013
Thomas R. Insel, M.D., Director, National Institute of Mental Health, Member of the Executive Branch of the Federal Government in Career Military Service
2000 Lieutenant General
Ronald R. Blanck, DO, USA, Surgeon General of the Army, Rear Admiral Joyce Johnson, DO, MA, Director of Health and Safety, United States Coast Guard
2002 Lieutenant General
Paul K. Carlton, Jr., MC, CFS, Surgeon General, United States Air Force, Captain Daniel Carucci, MD, Director, Malaria Program, Naval Medical Research Center, United States Navy
2003 Captain Daniel Carucci, MD, Director, Malaria Program, Naval Medical Research Center, United States Navy
2015
Dale P. Sandler, PhD, Senior Investigator, Epidemiology Branch/Chronic Disease Epidemiology Group, National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences
2016 Karen Midthun, MD, Director, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research
2017
Janine Austin Clayton, MD, Associate Director for Research on Women’s Health and Director of the Office of Research on Women’s Health, National Institutes of Health; and Patrick Conway, MD, MSc, Deputy Administrator for Innovation and Quality and Chief Medical Officer, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services