Dr. Nathan Davis Awards

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.

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.

United States Senator

 * 1989	Lowell P. Weicker, Jr., Connecticut
 * 1990 	Orrin G. Hatch, Utah, Edward M. Kennedy, Massachusetts
 * 1991 	John D. Rockefeller, IV, West Virginia
 * 1992 	Dale Bumpers, Arkansas, Bob Dole, Kansas
 * 1993 	Christopher Dodd, Connecticut
 * 1994 	John H. Chafee, Rhode Island
 * 1995	Mark O. Hatfield, Oregon
 * 1996 	Connie Mack, Florida
 * 1997 	Mike DeWine, Ohio
 * 1998 	John McCain, Arizona
 * 1999 	John B. Breaux, Louisiana
 * 2001 	Richard J. Durbin, JD, Illinois
 * 2002	Dianne Feinstein, California
 * 2003 	Pete V. Domenici, New Mexico
 * 2004 	William H. Frist, MD, Tennessee
 * 2005 	Max Baucus, Montana, Chuck Grassley, Iowa
 * 2006 	Jon Kyl, Arizona
 * 2007 	Gordon H. Smith, Oregon
 * 2008 	Tom Harkin, Iowa
 * 2009 	Edward M. Kennedy, Massachusetts
 * 2012	Debbie Stabenow, Michigan
 * 2015 	Irene Aguilar, MD, Colorado
 * 2017 	John Barrasso, MD, Wyoming

United States Representative

 * 1989 	Henry A. Waxman, California
 * 1990 	William H. Natcher, Kentucky
 * 1991 	J. Roy Rowland, MD, Georgia, C. W. "Bill" Young, Florida
 * 1992 	Charles B. Rangel, New York
 * 1993 	Charles W. Stenholm, Texas
 * 1994 	Nancy Johnson, Connecticut
 * 1995 	Bill Archer, Texas
 * 1996 	John Edward Porter, Illinois
 * 1997 	Marge Roukema, New Jersey
 * 1998 	Greg Ganske, MD, Iowa, Louis Stokes, Ohio
 * 1999 	Benjamin L. Cardin, Maryland
 * 2000 	John D. Dingell, Michigan, Charlie Norwood, DDS, Georgia
 * 2001 	Michael Bilirakis, Florida
 * 2002 	Constance A. Morella, Maryland
 * 2003 	James C. Greenwood, Pennsylvania
 * 2004 	William M. Thomas, California
 * 2006 	J. Dennis Hastert, Illinois
 * 2007 	Sherrod Brown, Ohio
 * 2008 	Steny H. Hoyer, Maryland
 * 2009 	Nathan Deal, Georgia
 * 2010 	Donna Christensen, MD, U.S. Virgin Islands
 * 2011 	Rosa L. DeLauro, Connecticut
 * 2012 	Allyson Y. Schwartz, Pennsylvania
 * 2014 	Fred Upton, Michigan
 * 2015 	Michael C. Burgess, MD, Texas
 * 2016 	John Boehner, Ohio; and Nancy Pelosi, California
 * 2017 	Phil Roe, MD, Tennessee; and John Nygren, Wisconsin

Member of the Executive Branch by Presidential Appointment

 * 1989	C. Everett Koop, MD, Surgeon General of the United States
 * 1990 	Louis W. Sullivan, MD, Secretary of Health and Human Services
 * 1991 	Margaret M. Heckler, former Secretary of Health and Human Services
 * 1992 	Antonia C. Novello, MD, Surgeon General of the United States
 * 1993 	Philip R. Lee, MD, Assistant Secretary for Health, Health and Human Services
 * 1994 	J. Jarrett Clinton, MD, MPH, former Assistant Secretary of Defense, Regional Health Administrator, Region V, Georgia
 * 1996 	David Satcher, MD, PhD, Director, Center for Disease Control and Prevention
 * 1997 	Donna Shalala, Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
 * 1998 	Kenneth W. Kizer, MD, MPH, Under Secretary for Health, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
 * 1999 	Ricardo Martinez, MD, Administrator, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
 * 2000 	John M. Eisenberg, MD, Director, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
 * 2001 	Jeffrey P. Koplan, MD, MPH, Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
 * 2002	William H. Foege, MD, MPH, Former Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
 * 2003 	Tommy Thompson, Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services
 * 2004 	Mark B. McClellan, MD, PhD, Commissioner, Food and Drug Administration
 * 2005 	William Winkenwerder, Jr., MD, MBA, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs
 * 2006	Carolyn Clancy, MD, Director, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
 * 2007 	Margaret J. Giannini, MD, FAAP, Director, Office on Disability, US Department of Health and Human Services
 * 2009 	Jeffrey William Runge, MD, FACEP, President, Biologue, Inc.
 * 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
 * 1996 	Edgar R. Anderson, Jr., MD, former Surgeon General of the U.S. Air Force
 * 1997 	Kevin R. Kerrigan, MD, Naval Hospital, North Charleston, South Carolina
 * 1998 	Claude J.M. Lenfant, MD, Director, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute National Institutes of Health
 * 1999 	Rear Admiral Michael L. Cowan, Deputy Director for Medical Readiness, The Joint Staff, Janet Woodcock, MD, Director, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration
 * 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
 * 2005	Vice Admiral James A. Zimble, MD (USN Ret.), President Emeritus, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
 * 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
 * 2011 	Vice Admiral Adam M. Robinson, Jr., MD, Surgeon General, United States Navy
 * 2012 	Lieutenant General Eric B. Schoomaker, MD, PhD, Surgeon General and Command General, USA MEDCOM, United States Army
 * 2013 	Major General Kimberly Siniscalchi, Assistant Surgeon General, Air Force
 * 2014 	Paul K. Carlton, Jr., MD, Lt. Gen., United States Air Force (Ret.)
 * 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

Governor or Statewide Elected Official

 * 1989 	William Donald Schaefer, Governor, Maryland
 * 1993 	Brereton C. Jones, Governor, Kentucky
 * 1994	Mike Leavitt, Governor, Utah
 * 1995 	Parris Glendening, Governor, Maryland
 * 1996 	Pierre Howard, Lieutenant Governor, Georgia
 * 1997 	George Pataki, Governor, New York, Mike Moore, Attorney General, Mississippi
 * 1998 	Howard Dean, MD, Governor, Vermont
 * 1999 	Christine Todd Whitman, Governor, New Jersey
 * 2000 	Mel Carnahan, Governor, Missouri
 * 2001 	Richard Blumenthal, Attorney General, Connecticut
 * 2002 	John Oxendine, Commissioner of Insurance and Fire Safety, Georgia
 * 2004 	Jeb Bush, Governor, State of Florida
 * 2005 	Drew Edmondson, JD, Attorney General, State of Oklahoma
 * 2006 	Susan Combs, Commissioner, Texas Department of Agriculture, Joe Manchin, Governor, State of West Virginia
 * 2008 	Jodi Rell, Governor, State of Connecticut
 * 2009 	Rick Perry, Governor, State of Texas
 * 2010 	John Baldacci, Governor, State of Maine, Sandy Praeger, Commissioner, Kansas Insurance Department
 * 2013 	Anthony Brown, Maryland Lieutenant Governor