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Walter Reed Medal

Nominations for 2024 are now closed.
Medalist(s) will be announced at the Annual Meeting, November 13, in New Orleans.
For a list of previous medalists, scroll down.

"The Walter Reed Medal recognizes distinguished accomplishment in the field of tropical medicine."
Starting in 2021, the Walter Reed Medal will be awarded annually.

Please Note: Members of the Awards Committee cannot nominate anyone for a medal, cannot add a supporting letter or be nominated for a medal. Not being eligible to receive a medal also extends to all sitting members of the Board/Executive Committee. The Society encourages members to look beyond elected leadership in nominating deserving candidates. Former elected leaders are eligible.

The Walter Reed Medal is awarded every year to recognize distinguished accomplishments in the field of tropical medicine. The story of how Walter Reed led the Yellow Fever Commission in Havana that discovered the mosquito vector of the disease is legendary. The first award was made to Mrs. Walter Reed and to the Rockefeller Foundation. It is of interest that in 1942 in a spirit of ecumenism, the award was made posthumously to Carlos J. Finlay - a Cuban contemporary of Walter Reed - to whom many Latin Americans credit the original idea that yellow fever was a mosquito-borne disease.

	2023 Charles H. Calisher Colorado State University View an introduction of Dr. Calisher by nominator Dr. Thomas Monath.
	2022 William A. Petri, Jr. University of Virginia School of Medicine View an introduction of Dr. Petri by nominator Dr. Louis Miller.
	2021 Dyann Wirth Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
	2020 Myron “Mike” Levine University of Maryland School of Medicine
	2017 Scott Halstead Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
	2015 (In Memoriam) Alan J. Magill Immediate Past President, ASTMH Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation