| Funda Meric-Bernstam, MD | 2024 |
| Valerie W. Rusch, MD, FACS, FRCSI (Hon), FRCSEd (Hon) | 2023 |
| Elizabeth Teisberg, PhD | 2022 |
| Bert Vogelstein, MD | 2021 |
| Peter WT Pisters, MD, MHCM | 2020 |
| Lieping Chen, MD, PhD | 2019 |
| B. Mark Evers, MD | 2018 |
| Jedd D. Wolchok, MD, PhD | 2017 |
| Steven A. Rosenberg, MD, PhD | 2016 |
| Charles M. Balch, MD | 2015 |
| Charis Eng, MD, PhD | 2014 |
| Armando Giuliano, MD | 2013 |
| Alfred E. Chang, MD | 2012 |
| Heidi Nelson, MD | 2011 |
| Richard L. Schilsky, MD | 2010 |
| H. Shelton Earp, MD | 2009 |
| John E. Niederhuber, MD | 2008 |
| Donald L. Morton, MD | 2007 |
| James S. Econonou, MD, PhD | 2006 |
| William C. Wood, MD | 2005 |
| Jeffrey M. Trent, PhD | 2004 |
| Andrew C. von Eschenbach, MD | 2003 |
| Andrew L. Warshaw, MD | 2002 |
| Umberto Veronesi, MD | 2001 |
| Henry T. Lynch, MD | 2000 |
| Kirby I. Bland, MD | 1999 |
| Seymour I. Schwartz, MD | 1998 |
| Edward M. Copeland, III, MD | 1997 |
| Samuel A. Wells, Jr., MD | 1996 |
| Oscar Auerbach, MD | 1995 |
| Samuel Broder, MD | 1994 |
| Bernard Fisher, MD | 1993 |
| Murray F. Brennan, MD | 1992 |
| Oliver H. Beahrs, MD | 1991 |
| Walter Lawrence, Jr., MD | 1990 |
| William P. Longmire, MD | 1989 |
| William W. Shingleton, MD | 1988 |
| LaSalle D. Leffall, Jr., MD | 1987 |
| Harvey W. Baker, MD | 1986 |
| Jerome A. Urban, MD | 1985 |
| Edward F. Scanlon, MD | 1984 |
| Lewis Thomas, MD | 1983 |
| Vincent T. DeVita, Jr., MD | 1982 |
| Willet F. Whitmore, Jr., MD | 1981 |
| Arthur I. Holleb, MD | 1980 |
| Eugene M. Bricker, MD | 1979 |
| Guy Robbins, MD | 1978 |
| R. Lee Clark, MD | 1977 |
| Theodore R. Miller, MD | 1976 |
| Joseph H. Burchenal, MD | 1975 |
| Jonathan E. Rhoads, MD | 1974 |
| Charles S. Cameron, MD | 1973 |
| William L. Watson, MD | 1972 |
| Edgar L. Frazell, MD | 1971 |
| Murray M. Copeland, MD | 1970 |
| Joseph H. Farrow, MD | 1969 |
| G. Burroughs Mider, MD | 1968 |
| Danely P. Slaughter, MD | 1967 |
| Alexander Brunschwig, MD | 1966 |
| William S. MacComb, MD | 1965 |
| Wendell M. Stanely, PhD | 1964 |
| Harold W. Dargeon, MD | 1963 |
| Shields Warren, MD | 1962 |
| Gioacchino Failla, DSC | 1961 |
| George T. Pack, MD | 1960 |
| Norman Treves, MD | 1959 |
| Bradley L. Coley, MD | 1958 |
| Cornelius P. Rhoads, MD | 1957 |
| Arthur Purdy Stout, MD | 1956 |
| Frank E. Adair, MD | 1955 |
| Lloyd F. Craver, MD | 1954 |
| Edward D. Churchill, MD | 1953 |
| Hayes Martin, MD | 1952 |
| Howard C. Taylor, Jr., MD | 1951 |
| Fred W. Stewart, MD | 1950 |
| Edith H. Quimby, DSc | 1949 |