Previous Honorary Degree Recipients

1972

John Rusten Hogness, M.D.
Robert Bruce Merrifield, Ph.D.
Robert M. Zollinger, M.D.

1973

Robert A. Good, M.D., Ph.D.
Irvine H. Page, M.D.

1974

Britton Chance, Ph.D.
John A. D. Cooper, M.D.
Rubin H. Flocks, M.D.

At the Dedication of the Health Science Building
Robert M. Berne, M.D.
Charles Huggins, M.D.
George Palade, M.D.
Elizabeth S. Russell, Ph.D.

1975

Norman Kretchmer, M.D., Ph.D.
Keith R. Porter, Ph.D.
W. R. Willard, M.D.

At the Dedication of the Raymon H. Mulford Library Building
Frank B. Rogers, M.D.
Owsei Temkin, M.D

1976

Alene B. Duerk
A. M. Harvey, M.D.
William A. Sodeman, Sr., M.D.

At the Dedication of the Health Education Building
Robert W. Leader, D.V.M.
Walsh McDermott, M.D.
Lewis Thomas, M.D.

1977

D. Carleton Gajudsek, M.D.
Sir Robert Macintosh, D.M.
Lawrence E. Young, M.D.

1978

John P. Hubbard, M.D.
Walter H. Seegers, Ph.D.
Eugene A. Stead, Jr., M.D.

1979

Paul B. Beeson, M.D.
Paul R. Gross, Ph.D.
Frank F. A. Rawling, M.D.

1980

Michael E. DeBakey, M.D.
Henry L. Morse
Charles Rammelkamp, Jr., M.D.
Walter F. Riker, Jr., M.D.

1981

Michael J. Damas
Richard M. Krause
Bernard Lachner, M.B.A.
James V. Neel, M.D., Ph.D.
Thomas L. Stern, M.D.

1982

Edward Vaughn Evarts, M.D.
Loretta C. Ford, Ed.D., RN
James A. Rhodes

1983

Frank J. Dixon, M.D.
Charlotte Friend, Ph.D.
Frederick C. Robbins, M.D.

1984

Harold F. Falls, M.D.
F. Story Musgrave, M.D.
James B. Wyngaarden, M.D.

1985

Maclyn McCarty, M.D.
Edmund D. Pellegrino, M.D.
Jonathan Evans Rhoads, M.D.

1986

George Libman Engel, M.D.
Ruth L. Kirschstein, M.D.
James V. Warren, M.D.

1987

Delbert Latta
Lloyd H. Smith, M.D.
Robert G. Petersdorf, M.D.
T. Franklin Williams, M.D.

1988

Bernard B. Brodie, Ph.D.
Ada Sue Hinshaw, Ph.D., RN
Victor A. McKusick, M.D.

1989

Ann Landers
Hans Neurath, Ph.D.
Louis W. Sullivan, M.D.
Danny Thomas

1990

Robert C. Gallo, M.D.
Lewis L. Judd, M.D.
Antonia Coello Novello, M.D., M.P.H.
Arnold S. Relman, M.D.

1991

Elwood V. Jensen, M.D.
Harold A. McMaster
George W. Thorn, M.D.
Rosalyn S. Yalow, Ph.D.

1992

James P. Comer, M.D.
Bernadine P. Healy, M.D.
David P. Rall, M.D., Ph.D.
Ora L. Strickland, Ph.D., RN

1993

Edmond H. Fischer, Ph.D.
John Glenn
Edwin G. Krebs, M.D.

1994

Mary McKinney Edmonds, Ph.D., PT
Willis C. Maddrey, M.D.
Lucien E. Morris, M.D.
Wilbur H. Sawyer, M.D., Ph.D.

1995

Stephen Abrahamson, Ph.D.
William F. Ganong, M.D.
George D. Lundberg, M.D.
Angela McBride, Ph.D., M.S.N., B.S.N.

1996

Ashel G. Bryan
J. Warren Perry, Ph.D.
Donald W. Seldin, M.D.

1997

Geraldene Felton, Ed.D., RN, FAAN
Robert Furchgott, Ph.D.
William B. Kannel, M.D.

1998

John M. Fredrickson, M.D.
Jerome P. Kassirer, M.D.
George O. Ojemann, M.D.
Richard D. Ruppert, M.D.

1999

Dorothy Brooten, Ph.D., RN, FAAN
George Isaac
Holmes Morton, M.D.

2000

Elsa L. Brown, Ph.D., RN
Richard F. Leighton, M.D.
Robert G. Page, M.D.

2001

John M. Howard, M.D.
Bernard Lown, M.D.
Beverly L. Malone, Ph.D., RN
David Satcher, M.D., Ph.D.

2002

Leah Curtin, M.A., M.S., RN
Jamie Farr
Claude Lenfant, M.D.

2003

U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur
Ara Parseghian
Robert W. Schrier, M.D.

2004

Daniel K. Inouye
Claude H. Organ, Jr., M.D.

2005

Allan Block
John Robinson Block
Patrick J. Mulrow, M.D.

2006

Tim Porter-O’Grady, Ed.D, APRN, FAAN
Raymond R. Sackler, Hon KBE, M.D.
Walter B. Shelley, M.D., Ph.D., MACP
Kenneth I. Shine, M.D.

2007

Darrell G. Kirch, M.D.

2008

David C. Leach, M.D.

2009

Bruce Edward Keogh, KBE, M.D.

2010

Herbert Pardes, M.D.
Kevin B. Weiss, M.D., M.P.H.

At UToledo Fall Commencement
James C. Stanley, M.D.

2011

Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, M.D., M.B.A.

At the Health Science Campus Research Day
Ferid Murad, M.D., Ph.D.

2012

Jo Ivey Boufford, M.D. Chancellor James M. Petro, J.D.

2013

Thomas J. Nasca, M.D., MACP

2014

James L. Madara, M.D.
U.S. Sen. Rob Portman, J.D.

2015

Yvette Roubideaux, M.D., M.P.H.

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