Medicine Alumni Awards
The UTHSC College of Medicine Alumni Council recognizes alumni in the Outstanding Alumnus Award category.
2025 award winners
About The award
Outstanding Alumnus Award
The Outstanding Alumnus Award will not be limited to those in active medical practice, and will recognize a member of the medical profession who has distinguished himself/herself in the areas of:
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past alumni award winners
Outstanding Alumnus Award Recipients
2024 Kelly Rodney Arnold, MD
2024 Jan Delozier, MD
2024 Michael “Mickey” McAdoo, MD
2024 Joan Sullivan MD
2023 Richard Dew, MD
2023 Catherine Robilio Womack, MD
2022 Stewart Edwards (Ed) Dismuke, MD
2022 Ryan Mire, MD
2021 Michael Bronze, MD
2021 Alvin Powers, MD
2021 Sid Wilroy, MD
2020 Rear Admiral Susan J Blumental, MD
2020 Phil Roe, MD
2020 Chadwick P Smith, MD
2020 Janet S. Wright, MD
2019 Donald E Baker, MD
2019 Eugene C. Mangiante, Jr., MD
2019 Peter Whittington, MD
2018 Suzanne Satterfield, MD
2018 Paul D. Blaylock, JD, MD
2018 Elijah M. Dudney, MD
2018 Dennis A. Higdon, MD
2017 Mark S. Gaylord, MD
2017 Ronald H. Kirkland, MD
2017 Robert J. Kaplan, MD
2017 Mitchell L. Mutter, MD
2017 Rodney Y. Wolf, MD
2016 Martin A. Croce, MD
2016 Paul J. Huffstutter, MD
2016 John C. Jennings, MD
2016 William Woods, MD
2015 James B. Dale, MD
2015 B. Mark Evers, MD
2015 Robert M. Herndon, MD
2014 Jack B. Alperin, MD, FACP
2014 Jesse J. Cannon, MD, FACP
2014 James D. Link, MD
2014 Dana V. Wallace, MD
2013 Dennis D. Black, MD
2013 Charles R. Handorf, MD, PhD
2013 H. Norman Noe, MD
2013 Charles W. White, Sr., MD
2012 Bobby C. Higgs, MD
2012 Kelly K. Hunt, MD
2012 Jon C. Robertson, MD
2012 Joseph A. Smith, MD
2011 James H. Beaty, MD
2011 Allen S. Boyd, MD
2011 Kenneth D. Sellers, MD
2011 Beverly Williams-Cleaves, MD
2010 James C. Fleming, MD
2010 Ann McGuire Grooms, MD
2010 Phyllis E. Miller, MD
2010 Jesse C. Woodall, Jr. MD
2009 Henry C. Farrar, MD
2009 James L. Netterville, MD
2009 David L. Sisk, MD (posthumous)
2009 O. Douglas Wilson, MD
2008 Robert G. Demos, MD
2008 A. Richard Grossman, MD
2008 Robert Kerlan, MD
2008 Randal Weber, MD
2007 Garland D. Anderson, MD
2007 Rufus R. Clifford, MD
2007 John M. Hodges, MD
2007 Labe Scheinberg, MD
2006 S. Terrance Canale, MD
2006 Edwin W. Cocke, MD
2006 Alan S. Gubin, MD
2006 George W. Hansberry, MD
2005 Charles E. Allen, MD
2005 Robert E. Tooms, MD
2005 Lawrence D. Wruble, MD
2004 Albert J. Grobmyer, MD
2004 Roberto C. Heros, MD
2004 Howard R. Horn, MD
2004 Russell W. Mayfield, MD
2003 Reed Baskin, MD
2003 Dan G. Blazer, MD
2003 Ted Galyon, MD
2003 William A. Sims, MD
2002 J. Kelly Avery, MD
2002 R. Phillip Burns, MD
2002 Nancy Flowers, MD
2002 Sam Patterson, MD
2001 Leonard H. Hines, MD
2001 Dean Metcalfe, MD
2001 Stewart Nunn, MD
2000 Phillip Lieberman, MD
2000 Evelyn Ogle, MD
2000 John N. Whitaker, MD
1999 Ralph S. Hamilton, MD
1999 James H. Hendrix, MD
1999 E. Steve Roach, MD
1998 Robert G. Allen, MD
1998 James L. Cox, MD
1998 William J. Hoskins, MD
1997 Lynne Annette Drake, MD
1997 Walter T. Hughes, MD
1997 Alvin John Ingram, MD
1997 Shane Roy, MD
1996 Thomas Kelly Ballard, Jr., MD
1996 David Tennyson Dodd, MD
1996 Ronald C. Jones, MD
1995 Allen S. Edmondson, MD
1995 James Gibb Johnson, MD
1995 Sue Welch Johnson, MD
1994 Hershel P. Wall, MD
1993 James M. Tuholski, MD
1992 Larry P. Elliott, MD
1991 Mario E. Ramirez, MD
1990 Jack B. McConnell, MD
1989 John Burkhart, MD
1988 Thoralf M. Sundt, Jr., MD
1987 John Brown Lynch, MD
1986 Lt. Gen. Murphy A. Chesney, MD
1985 James Etteldorf, MD
1984 Robert L. Summitt, MD
1983 C. Hal Henard, MD
1982 W. Eugene Mayberry, MD
1981 Maj. Gen. Colin F. VorderBruegge, MD
1980 Samuel L. Raines, MD
1979 Sam H. Sanders, MD
1978 no recipient
1977 James G. Hughes, MD
1976 Marcus J. Stewart, MD
1975 Henry Gotten, MD
1974 Robert G. Brasher, MD
*bold italicized denotes deceased recipients
Recent Outstanding Alumnus Award Recipients
2022 Kenneth Elliot Tenpenny, MD
Distinguished Alumnus Award Recipients
1994 John Bostwick, MD
1994 Jay Y. Gillenwater, MD
1994 Alys H. Lipscomb, MD
1993 Irvin D. Fleming, MD
1993 William E. Mitchell, MD
1993 Hall S. Tackett, MD
1992 Noble O. Fowler, MD
1992 W. Gerald Rainer, MD
1991 Edwin W. Cocke, Jr., MD
1991 Allen S. Edmonson, MD
1991 Richard L. Tannen, MD
1990 William Boddie R. Beasley, MD
1990 Robert D. Moreton, MD
1990 James T. Robertson, MD
1989 John V. Handwerker, MD
1989 Seldon B. Korones, MD
1989 Lester Van Middlesworth, MD
1988 George T. Bryan, MD
1988 Roger L. Hiatt, MD
1988 Clifford C. Snyder, MD
1987 Alvin H. Crawford, MD
1987 Carl W. Hughes, MD
1987 Robert R. Waller, MD
1986 Bergein F. Overholt, MD
1985 John H. Burkhart, MD
1985 Rhea Seddon, MD
1985 Jay H. Stein, MD
1984 John K. Duckworth, MD
1984 Charles C. Verstandig, MD
1983 Louis G. Britt, MD
1983 John P. Nash, MD
*bold italicized denotes deceased recipients