The objectives of this Society shall be to bring together men and women for the advancement of the study of children and their diseases, for the prevention of illness and the promotion of health in childhood, for the promotion of pediatric education and research, and to honor those who, by their contributions to pediatrics, have aided in its advancement.

Award recipients

• 1952 Edwards A. Park
• 1953 Grover F. Powers
• 1954 Bela Schick
  Béla Schick
  Béla Schick , was a Hungarian-born American pediatrician. He is the founder of the Schick test. Was born in Balatonboglár, Hungary, and brought up in Graz, Austria, where he attended medical school. In 1902 he joined the Medicine Faculty of the University of Viennawhere he remained until 1923...
  
  
• 1955 James L. Gamble
• 1956 Harold K. Faber
• 1957 Ethel C. Dunham
• 1958 Irvine McQuarrie
• 1959 Daniel C. Darrow
• 1960 Bronson Crothers
• 1961 Rustin McIntosh
• 1962 Joseph Stokes
• 1963 Lawson Wilkins
  Lawson Wilkins
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• 1964 Samuel Z. Levine
• 1965 John Caffey
• 1966 L. Emmett Holt
• 1967 Martha M. Eliot
  Martha May Eliot
  Martha May Eliot was a pediatrician and specialist in public health, an architect of New Deal and postwar programs for maternal and child health. Her first important research, community studies of rickets in New Haven, Connecticut, and Puerto Rico, explored issues at the heart of social medicine....
  
  
• 1968 Paul Gyorgy
• 1969 Allan Macy Butler
  Allan Macy Butler
  Allan Macy Butler was Chief of the Children’s Medical Services at Massachusetts General Hospital and a professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School...
  
  
• 1970 Josef Warkany
• 1971 Helen B. Taussig
  Helen B. Taussig
  Helen Brooke Taussig was an American cardiologist, working in Baltimore and Boston, who founded the field of pediatric cardiology. Notably, she is credited with developing the concept for a procedure that would extend the lives of children born with Tetrology of Fallot...
  
  
• 1972 Waldo E. Nelson
• 1973 Louis K. Diamond
• 1974 Albert B. Sabin
  Albert Sabin
  Albert Bruce Sabin was an American medical researcher best known for having developed an oral polio vaccine.-Life:...
  
  
• 1975 Harry H. Gordon
• 1976 Clement A. Smith
• 1977 A. Ashley Weech
• 1978 Charles Alderson Janeway
• 1979 Amos U. Christie
• 1980 C. Henry Kempe
• 1981 Saul Krugman
  Saul Krugman
  Not to be confused with Paul Krugman.Saul Krugman was a medical researcher who discovered a vaccine against hepatitis B.-Early Years and Education:The son of Russian Jewish immigrants, Krugman was born in the Bronx in 1911...
  
  
• 1982 Horace L. Hodes
• 1983 Helen C. Harrison and Harold E. Harrison
• 1984 Henry L. Barnett
• 1985 Wolf W. Zuelzer
• 1986 Richard L. Day
• 1987 Robert A. Good
  Robert A. Good
  -External links:** can be found at The Center for the History of Medicine at the Countway Library, Harvard Medical School....
  
  
• 1988 Joseph Dancis
• 1989 Barton Childs
  Barton Childs
  Barton Childs was an American pediatrician and geneticist. He was born in Chicago, Illinois, and graduated from Williams College in 1938. In 1942, he received his M.D. from Johns Hopkins University. Following military service in World War II, he returned to Johns Hopkins for a residency in...
  
  
• 1990 Julius Richmond
• 1991 Robert E. Cooke and Roland B. Scott
• 1992 Gilbert B. Forbes
• 1993 Lewis A. Barness
• 1994 Sydney S. Gellis
• 1995 Floyd W. Denny
• 1996 Mildred T. Stahlman
  Mildred T. Stahlman
  Mildred T. Stahlman is a professor of pediatrics and pathology at Vanderbilt University. A 1943 graduate of Vanderbilt's College of Arts and Science, she earned her M.D...
  
  
• 1997 Melvin M. Grumbach
  Melvin M. Grumbach
  Melvin M. Grumbach is an American pediatrician and academic who specializes in pediatric endocrinology. Currently Edward B. Shaw Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics, Emeritus at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, Grumbach is noted for his research and writing on the...
  
  
• 1998 Robert J. Haggerty
• 1999 Abraham M. Rudolph
• 2000 Samuel Katz
  Samuel Katz (pediatrician)
  Samuel Katz is an American pediatrician and virologist whose career has been devoted to infectious disease research, focusing principally on vaccine research and development. Katz is currently the Wilburt Cornell Davison Professor and Chairman Emeritus of Pediatrics at Duke University.He is an...
  
  
• 2001 Delbert A. Fisher
• 2002 Howard A. Pearson
• 2003 David G. Nathan
  David G. Nathan
  David G. Nathan is a pediatrician and hematologist. He is known for his authorship of Nathan and Oski's Hematology of Infancy and Childhood, a standard reference in pediatrics, currently in its seventh edition. Nathan remains an author on the current edition. Now retired, he was Robert A...
  
  
• 2004 Frederick C. Battaglia
• 2005 Mary Ellen Avery
  Mary Ellen Avery
  Mary Ellen Avery is an American pediatrician. In the 1950s, Dr. Avery's pioneering research efforts helped lead to the discovery of the main cause of respiratory distress syndrome in premature babies: her identification of surfactant led to the development of replacement therapy for premature...
  
  
• 2006 Kurt Hirschhorn
  Kurt Hirschhorn
  Kurt Hirschhorn , is an Viennese born American pediatrician, medical geneticist, and cytogeneticist who identified the chromosomal defects that underlie Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome....
  
  
• 2007 Ralph D. Feigin
• 2008 Richard B. Johnston
• 2009 Jerold F. Lucey