MAA Alum of the Year

The award recognizes dedication to the true principles of a physician, contributions to medicine, and service to the community.

Awardees are graduates of UCSF who have demonstrated outstanding qualifications in research, teaching, and/or clinical practice.

Past Awardees

2025: Stephanie Chao, MD ’06
2024: Richard Carmona, MD ’80, MPH, Resident Alum, Clinical Fellow Alum
2023: Pamela Sutton, MD ’73
2022: Larry Hill, MD ’67
2021: Ahimsa Porter Sumchai, MD ’81, Resident Alum
2020: Lucy Reifel, MD ’75
2019: David E. Smith, MD ’64, Resident Alum
2018: Marc Schenker, MD ’73, MPH
2017: Kent T. Yamaguchi, MD ’72

2016 
Michael C. Sinclair, MD ’66
A. Brent Eastman, MD ’66

2015
Judy Forbes, MD ’75
Eugene Hessel, MD ’60

2014: Joseph Sabella, MD ’54
2013: Glenn Braunstein, MD ’68

2012
Michael W. Chapman, MD ’62
Melvin L. Rubin, MD ’57

2011: William R. Shapiro, MD ’61

2010 
J. Brooks Crawford, MD ’60
Donald Morton, MD ’58

2009
Charles Aronberg, MD ’54
Harold Karpman, MD ’54

2008: William Hoyt, MD ’50
2007: Ronald Stoney, MD ’59
2006: Hans Newton, MD ’52

2005 
David W. Furnas, MD ’55
John A. Kerner, MD Feb ’43

2004: Albert D. Hall, MD ’52
2003: Anthony Sebastian, MD ’65
2002: Susan D. Wall, MD ’78
2001: Robert A. Schindler, MD ’67

2000
Michael V. Drake, MD ’75
Jack D. Thorburn, MD ’45

1999: A. Eugene Washington, MD ’76
1998: John P. Geyman, MD ’60
1997: Robert C. Lim, Jr., MD ’60

1996
Homer A. Boushey, Jr., MD ’68
Kenneth H. Fye, MD ’68

1995: Allen H. Johnson, MD ’46

1994
Edward G. Biglieri, MD ’52
Elliot Rapaport, MD ’46

1993
Frank H. Leeds, MD ’43
Ariah Schwartz, MD ’43

1992: Ralph O. Wallerstein, Sr., MD ’45

1991
Clayton D. Mote, MD ’30
Norman J. Sweet, MD ’38

1990: Dorothy M. Horstmann, MD ’40
1989: Ellen Brown, MD ’39
1988: Mervin J. Goldman, MD ’38
1987: Michael B. Shimkin, MD ’37
1986: Maurice Sokolow, MD ’36
1985: Moses Grossman, MD ’46
1984: Charles T. Carman, MD ’51
1983: Harold H. Lindner, MD ’33
1982: William O. Reinhardt, MD ’39
1981: William Silen, MD ’49
1980: Jacquelin Perry, MD ’50
1979: C. Henry Kempe, MD ’45 
1978: Leslie L. Bennett, MD, PhD ’40
1977: John S. Najarian, MD ’52
1976: John V. Carbone, MD ’48
1975: Donald R. Smith, MD ’35
1974: A. Crawford Bost, MD ’26 
1973: Francis A. Sooy, MD ’41
1972: Robert H. Crede, MD ’41
1971: Warren Bostick, MD ’40
1970: Leon Goldman, MD ’30
1969: Mary B. Olney, MD ’32
1967: Edward B. Shaw, MD ’21