| Year | Gold Headed Cane Award | Place | Diplomates | Early Career Professional Achievement Award |
| 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 |
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 | Philadelphia, PA | Andrew Bowman | Caitlin Cossaboom |
| John Herbold | 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 | ||||
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2021 |
Peter J. Fernandez | Zoom | Agricola Odoi | Amanda M. Berrian |
| Karen M. Becker | Francois Elvinger | Stephanie B. Campbell | ||
| Karsten Nöckler | ||||
| Lothar H. Wieler | ||||
| Paul J. Plummer | ||||
| Margaret N. Carter | ||||
| Steven T. Greiner | ||||
| Marvin L. Thomas, III | ||||
| 2020 | John L. Poppe | Zoom by University of Kentucky (COVID-19) | Alfonso Clavijo | |
| H. Michael Chaddock | Carney B. Jackson | |||
| Estella Z. Jones | ||||
| Guy H. Palmer | ||||
| Helena J. Chapman | Sally Ann Iverson | |||
| Kelly H. Giesbrecht | ||||
| Michael D. Lairmore | ||||
| Nancy J. Chaney | ||||
| Romeo S. Gundran | ||||
| Stacy M. Holzbauer | ||||
| 2019 | Jack A. Shere | Washington D. C. | Andrew T. Maccabe | |
| 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 | ||||
| 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 | CDC, Atlanta, GA | ||
| (80th birthday, | ||||
| inauguration of Karl F. | ||||
| Meyer Gold Headed | ||||
| Cane Award) |