| Year | Gold Headed Cane Award | Place | Honorary Diplomates | Additional Awards |
| 2025 | Dr. Casey Barton-Behravesh Dr. Andew Maccabe |
Washington DC | Mr. Phil Arkow Dr. Katherine Benedict Dr. Diego Diel Dr. Kimberly Dodd Dr. Michael Fox Dr. Michael Neafsey Dr. Angela Pelzel-McCluskey Dr. (COL) Justin Schlanser Dr. Alexander Travis Dr. Alexander Zingher |
Early Career Professional Achievement Award: Dr. Amandine Gamble Above and Beyond Public Health Service Award: Dr. Cynthia Hoobler |
| 2024 | Dr. Paul Gibbs Dr. Ade Ojeniyi |
Austin, TX | Dr. Garry Adams Dr. Lynne Cassone Dr. (COL) Nicole Chevalier Dr. Kevin Cummings Dr. (CDR) Wanda Wilson Egbe Dr. Wondwossen Gebreyes |
Early Career Professional Achievement Award: Dr. (LT) Michele Kerns |
| 2023 | John Kaneene Jonna Mazet |
Denver, CO | John de Long Conrad Estrade Katherine Flynn Nancy Frank Alice Green Barbara Martin Stephanie Mont Ade Ojeniyi Steven Osofsky Ronald Warner |
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| 2022 | Corrie Brown John Herbold |
Philadelphia, PA | Andrew Bowman Walter Daley Ilana Schafer Amy Delgado David Goldman Camila Hamond Philip Kass Andres Perez Valerie Ragan Rohini Roopnarine Richard Seifman Brianna Skinner Amy Vincent Baker Deborah Whitmer Thomas Yuill Cristobal Zepeda |
Early Career Professional Achievement Award: Caitlin Cossaboom |
| 2021 | Peter J. Fernandez Karen M. Becker |
Zoom | Amanda M. Berrian Francois Elvinger Stephanie B. Campbell Karsten Nöckler Lothar H. Wieler Paul J. Plummer Margaret N. Carter Steven T. Greiner Marvin L. Thomas, III |
Early Career Professional Achievement Award: Agricola Odoi |
| 2020 | John L. Poppe H. Michael Chaddock |
Zoom by University of Kentucky (COVID-19) |
Alfonso Clavijo Carney B. Jackson Estella Z. Jones Guy H. Palmer Helena J. Chapman Kelly H. Giesbrecht Michael D. Lairmore Nancy J. Chaney Romeo S. Gundran Stacy M. Holzbauer |
Early Career Professional Achievement Award: Sally Ann Iverson |
| 2019 | Jack A. Shere Andrew T. Maccabe |
Washington D. C. | Kelley J. Donham Asheley E. Hill Casey Barton Behravesh George R. Lueddeke Gloria L. Gellin Gregory C. Gray Kis Robertson Hale Megin C. Nichols Yrjo T. Grohn Christa R. Hale |
Early Career Professional Achievement Award: Matt Doyle (Inaugural Award) |
| Myron G. Schultz | Georgette Wilson | |||
| 2018 | Hugh M. Mainzer | Denver, CO | Candace A. Jacobs | |
| Bernadette M. Dunham | Lorin D. Warnick | |||
| Mary Leigh Morris Merrill | ||||
| Willie M. Reed | ||||
| Robert Smith | ||||
| Juan Lubroth | ||||
| Peter J. Timoney | ||||
| Sarah Keller White | ||||
| 2017 | Indianapolis, IN | |||
| Terri Clark | ||||
| Lisa Conti | Jason Johnson | |||
| Terry McElwain | Mo Salman | |||
| John Gibbins | ||||
| Paul Gibbs | ||||
| Thomas Honadel | ||||
| Trevor Ames | ||||
| 2016 | ||||
| Alan M. Beck | ||||
| W. Ron DeHaven | Brian J. McCluskey | |||
| Laura H. Kahn | San Antonio, TX | Cynthia G. Hoobler | ||
| Russel W. Currier | Eric H. Torring, III | |||
| Michele T. Jay-Russell | ||||
| Norman C. Cheville | ||||
| Peter J. Costa | ||||
| Stephanie Miles-Richardson | ||||
| Stephen Berger | ||||
| 2015 | René Carlson | |||
| Isabel de Kantor | Bruce Akey | |||
| Thomas P. Monath | Gopal Reddy | |||
| Theodore Cohn | ||||
| Boston, MA | Jonna Ann Keener Mazet | |||
| Jacqueline L. Smith | ||||
| Charles Muscoplat | ||||
| Cheryl Stroud | ||||
| Timothy Stevenson | ||||
| 2014 | John Clifford | Denver, CO | Max Coats | |
| Robert A. Crandell | Virginia M. Dato | |||
| Kelley J. Donham | ||||
| Ronglian Hu | ||||
| Lisa K. Nolan | ||||
| Jack Woodall | ||||
| Edward J. Young | ||||
| 2013 | William F. McCulloch | Chicago, IL | Herbert J. Van Kruiningen | |
| Yoshihiro Ozawa | Berlin, Germany (WAVLD) | Lloyd A. W. Webb | ||
| Martin P. Hines | ||||
| James M. Hughes | ||||
| Linda R. K. Schlater | ||||
| Philip A. LoBue | ||||
| Thomas P. Monath | ||||
| Babasola O. Olugasa | ||||
| Gregory L. Parham | ||||
| 2012 | Donald Noah | San Diego, CA | Jack A. Shere | |
| Bruce Kaplan | Orlando, Fl (NAVC) | Isabel Narvaiz de Kantor | ||
| William F. McCulloch | ||||
| Billy G. Johnson | ||||
| Kristy K. Bradley | ||||
| Y. M. Saif | ||||
| Eric Fonken | ||||
| George O. Winegar | ||||
| 2011 | Craig N. Carter | St. Louis, MO | Timothy K. Adams | |
| Alejandro Thiermann | Corrie C. Brown | |||
| Peter J. Fernandez | ||||
| Michael J. Gilsdorf | ||||
| Paul E. Grunenwald | ||||
| John U. Thomson | ||||
| Eldon K. Uhlenhopp | ||||
| 2010 | Paul Nicoletti | Atlanta, GA | Michael Auslander | |
| Alfonso Torres | Michael Chaddock | |||
| John Clifford | ||||
| Lisa Conti | ||||
| William Hardy | ||||
| Rube Harrington Jr. | ||||
| Laura Kahn | ||||
| Roger Mahr | ||||
| 2009 | Charles O. Thoen | Seattle, WA | Joann M. Lindenmayer | |
| Robert A. Crandell | ||||
| Laura L. Hungerford | ||||
| Carina Blackmore | ||||
| Johannes(Hans) L. Storz | ||||
| Faye E. Sorhage | ||||
| Enrique T. Carlos | ||||
| 2008 | William Stokes | New Orleans, LA | Terry McElwain | |
| Noah Cohen | ||||
| Gail Hansen | ||||
| Bernadette M. Dunham | ||||
| Manuel Moro | ||||
| Hugh Mainzer | ||||
| 2007 | Washington, DC | James Kazmierczak | ||
| Tracee Treadwell | ||||
| Alex Thiermann | ||||
| Leon Russell | Stephanie Ostrowski | |||
| Bruce Kaplan | ||||
| Peter Cowen | ||||
| Primo Arambulo | Leslie Dierauf | |||
| 2006 | Marguerite Pappaioanou | Honolulu, HI | Sean F. Altekruse | |
| Jeffrey B. Bender | ||||
| Theresa M. Bernardo | ||||
| John L. Poppe | ||||
| Ole H..V. Stalheim | ||||
| Kevin D. Walker | ||||
| 2005 | William D. Hueston | Minneapolis, MN | Michael B. Cates | |
| Ron DeHaven | ||||
| Jennifer H. McQuiston | ||||
| Lee M. Myers | ||||
| Mary Grace Stobierski | ||||
| Charles O. Thoen | ||||
| 2004 | Bennie Osburn | Philadelphia, PA | Bonnie Buntain | |
| Millie Eidson | ||||
| Tsegaye Habtemarium | ||||
| John Herbold | ||||
| William Stokes | ||||
| Gerald Parker | ||||
| Charles Mebus | ||||
| Karen Becker | ||||
| 2003 | A. Konrad Eugster | Denver, CO | Craig N. Carter | |
| Michael G. Groves | ||||
| John C. New | ||||
| Carol Rubin | ||||
| Charles E. Rupprecht | ||||
| James A. Zingeser | ||||
| 2002 | Saul T. Wilson | Nashville, TN | Daniel R. Jarboe | |
| Paul Garbe | ||||
| Irish Satalowich | ||||
| Linda Tollefson | ||||
| Alfonso Ruiz | ||||
| John Kaneene | ||||
| 2001 | John R. Gorham | Boston, MA | Russell W. Currier | |
| John S. Fournier, Col. | ||||
| Dennis D. Juranek | ||||
| Donald L. Noah, Lt. Col. John Mason | ||||
| 2000 | Thomas Murnane, | Salt Lake City, UT | William Rosser | |
| Brigadier General, Ret. | Alfonso Torres | |||
| Linda Cork | ||||
| Fritz Kaferstein | ||||
| Paul Teufel | ||||
| Bernard Schwetz | ||||
| 1999 | David L. Huxsoll, | New Orleans, LA | Fred Angulo | |
| Colonel, Ret. | Hector Campos Lopez | |||
| Michael Osterholm, PhD | ||||
| Marguerite Pappaioanou | ||||
| Saul T. Wilson, Jr. | ||||
| 1998 | Suzanne R. Jenkins | Baltimore, MD | Primo Arambulo III | |
| Linda Anne Detwiler | ||||
| William D. Hueston | ||||
| Morris Eugene Potter | ||||
| Leo A. Whitehair | ||||
| 1997 | Lonnie J. King | Reno, NV | Paul L. Barrows | |
| Michael Blackwell | ||||
| Joan M. Arnoldi | ||||
| Phyllis J. Kanki | ||||
| 1996 | Robert R. Jorgensen | Louisville, KY | Joanne M. Brown | |
| Brigadier General (Ret.) | James Lieberman | |||
| Peter M. Schantz | ||||
| Stephen F. Sundlof | ||||
| Claud Kissin | ||||
| 1995 | Myron E. Essex | Pittsburgh, PA | Jerry J. Callis | |
| David L. Huxsoll | ||||
| Roscoe M. Moore, Jr. | ||||
| Lyle P. Vogel | ||||
| 1994 | William J. Hadlow | San Francisco, CA | Clifford I. Johnson | |
| Lonnie J. King | ||||
| Bennie Osburn | ||||
| Arpad Somogyi | ||||
| 1993 | George W. Beran | Minneapolis, MN | Gerald B. Guest | |
| William Hadlow | ||||
| Ronald E. Engel | ||||
| Suzanne R. Jenkins | ||||
| James O. Mason, MD | ||||
| 1992 | William R. Pritchard | Boston, MA | Walter Bowie | |
| Myron Essex | ||||
| Z. Matyas | ||||
| 1991 | Harry C. Mussman | Seattle, WA | William R. Pritchard | |
| John R. Gorham | ||||
| 1990 | James Glosser | San Antonio, TX | Norman Heidelbaugh | |
| Special Award on | ||||
| Retirement from | ||||
| Texas A&M Univ. | ||||
| Leon Russell | ||||
| William Perlberg | ||||
| Keith Clark | ||||
| 1989 | Robert A. Whitney | Orlando, FL | Paul Nicoletti | |
| (USPHS 100th Anniv.) | David Dreesen | |||
| 1988 | William Reeves | Portland, OR | Paul Williams | |
| Robert L. Haddock | ||||
| Pedro Acha | Lima, Peru | |||
| (Posthumously) | ||||
| 1987 | Sanford Elberg | Chicago, IL | John Rust | |
| Jacob Brody, MD | ||||
| Russell Jim Martin | ||||
| Juan Figueroa | Montreal, Canada | Guy Lafreniere | ||
| (President, WVC) | Charles Merieux, MD | |||
| 1986 | Fred Murphy | Atlanta, GA | Myron Schultz | |
| David A. Mossel, MD | ||||
| E.H. Kampelmacher, Ret. | Bilthoven, The | K. Gerigk | ||
| Netherlands | ||||
| 1985 | Raymond Bankowski | Las Vegas, NV | Betty Hobbs, PhD | |
| Max Sterne | ||||
| Harry Hoogstraal, PhD | Athens, GA | |||
| Calvin Schwabe | Washington, DC | |||
| 1984 | Colonel A.S. Benenson, MD | Los Angeles, CA | Daniel Cohen | |
| Julius Schachter, PhD | Paul Arnstein | |||
| Don Mason | ||||
| John Richardson | ||||
| 1983 | John Miles, MD | Dunedin, New | David Blackmore | |
| President, Pacific Science | Zealand | |||
| Congress | ||||
| Mario Fernandes | New York, NY | Lawrence Altman | ||
| Ernest Witte | ||||
| David Sencer | ||||
| James Gear, MD | ||||
| Margarita Issaacson, MD | ||||
| 1982 | Joe R. Held, Asst. Surgeon | Salt Lake City, UT | John Emerson | |
| General, USPHS | O.J. Rollag | |||
| Robert Jorgensen | ||||
| Don Barnum | ||||
| 1981 | Robert K. Anderson | St. Louis, MO | A.K. Eugster | |
| E.R. Ted Price | ||||
| Lloyd Selby | ||||
| 1980 | Lester Crawford | Washington, DC | Thomas Murnane | |
| Edward Menning | ||||
| Walter Graves | ||||
| Otto Siegmund | ||||
| Edward Shilf | ||||
| D. Bjorkmann | ||||
| H.J. Hansen | ||||
| K. Linderholm | ||||
| E. Thal | ||||
| 1979 | Robert Rausch | Seattle, WA | Charles Shepard | |
| Michael Torten | ||||
| 1978 | C. Don Van Houweling | Dallas, Texas | Harvie Ellis | |
| Frank Mulhern | USAHA- Miami | Joe Salisbury | ||
| FL | ||||
| Edward H. Kass, MD | ||||
| Joaquin Simpaico, MD | ||||
| Francisco Dy, MD | ||||
| Director, WHO Pacific | ||||
| E. Ryu | ||||
| 1977 | Stanley Hendricks | Atlanta, GA | Jerry Winkler | |
| Charles LeMaistre,, MD | ||||
| Reuven Katain | ||||
| 1976 | Dieter Grossklaus | Berlin, Germany | K.H. Kampelmacher | |
| Henry Holle, MD | ||||
| Carrol Mingle | ||||
| 1975 | Aage Jepsen | WVC, Athens, | Ross Cockrill | |
| Greece | ||||
| Mohamed Abdussalam | WHO, Geneva | K. Polydorou | ||
| A.B. Rich | ||||
| 1974 | Herbert Stoenner | Denver, Colorado | Charles Mitchell | |
| Kenneth Wells | ||||
| Robert Avery | ||||
| Julien Frank | ||||
| Czeslaw Gerwel | ||||
| Charles Caraway | ||||
| Charles Reid | ||||
| 1973 | Arthur Wolff | AVMA | R. Keith Sikes | |
| Philadelphia, PA | Raymond Kerlin | |||
| Nathan Sinai | APHA, San | Clarence Manziano | ||
| Francisco, CA | ||||
| Charles Fuller | ||||
| James McQueen | ||||
| J.R. Irons, PhD | ||||
| Ernest Willers | ||||
| A.F. Ranney | ||||
| Fred Soper, MD | ||||
| Retired as Director of | ||||
| PAHO | ||||
| Monroe Holmes | ||||
| Ernest Bowmer, MD | ||||
| 1972 | Ernest S. Tierkel | APHA, Atlantic City, NJ | Robert Kissling | |
| 1971 | Willard Wright | NIH | K.H. Kim | |
| Washington, DC | Y.S. Lee | |||
| William G. Liston, MD | Walter Reed Lab | Y.S. Chung | ||
| Washington, DC | C.H. Min | |||
| W.I.B. Beveridge | WVC, Mexico | |||
| Aurelio Malaga | City, Mexico | |||
| 1970 | Alexander D. Langmuir, MD | Atlanta, GA | P.C.C. Ratnatunga | |
| (CDC Retirement) | Bertie A. D'Souza | |||
| (K.F. Meyer spoke | P.R. Nilakantan | |||
| about A.D. Langmuir's | V.N. Pargaonker | |||
| accomplishments via | B.K. Soni | |||
| telephone from San | Achmad Dhalan | |||
| Francisco | Made Kertaharta | |||
| D. Dashnym | ||||
| William Feldman | Mayo, Rochester | Shyam Bir Malakar | ||
| Minnesota | Tiang Tansanguan | |||
| 1970 | John Ritchie | |||
| Weldon Dalrymple | ||||
| Ken Sellers | ||||
| John Brooksby | ||||
| Allen Betts | ||||
| 1969 | Oscar Sussman | Trenton, NJ | ||
| 1968 | William T.S. Thorp | St. Paul, Minnesota | H.J. Stafseth | |
| Mildred Galton | Atlanta, GA | |||
| 1967 | Martin Kaplan | WVC, Paris, France | Adriano Montivani | |
| Gaston Ramon | H. Gasse | |||
| J. Verge | ||||
| R. Vuillome | ||||
| Erwin Eicchorn | ||||
| George Beran | ||||
| 1966 | James H. Steele | Atlanta, GA | ||
| 1965 | Donald Dean | Atlanta, GA | ||
| COL Raymond Randall, VC | Portland, Oregon | |||
| 1964 | Karl F. Meyer (80th birthday inauguration of Karl F. Meyer Gold Headed Cane Award) |
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