Distinguished Alumni Award

BHAA meeting attendee

Linda J. Addonizio, MD with Warren Zuckerman, MD

The Distinguished Alumnus Award is presented to “an alumnus or alumna who has received wide recognition for distinguished service to the science or practice of pediatrics or for excellence in public service for the health and welfare of children." Dr. Linda Addonizio, resident class of 1981, was the 2025 award recipient. Dr. Addonizio is an accomplished cardiologist, gifted clinician, prominent researcher; she began the Pediatric Cardiac Transplant Program in 1984 and served as director of the Program for Pediatric Cardiomyopathy, Heart Failure and Transplantation.

Past Award Recipients

  • 2024: Richard A. Polin, MD, New York, NY
  • 2023: John M. Driscoll, Jr, MD, in memorium presentation
  • 2022: William Speck, MD, New York, NY
  • 2020: Harold Maurer, MD, New York, NY (honored virtually in 2021)
  • 2019: Barbara Stoll, MD, New York, NY
  • 2018: Arnold Gold, MD (posthumously), New York, NY
  • 2017: Fred Bomback, MD, New York, NY
  • 2016: Philip LaRussa, MD, New York, NY
  • 2015: Welton Gersony, MD, New York, NY
  • 2014: Michael Katz, MD, New York, NY
  • 2013: John M. Driscoll, Jr., MD, New York, NY
  • 2012: Robyn Barst, MD, New York, NY
  • 2011: Elaine Abrams, MD, New York, NY
  • 2010: Burton Grebin, MD (posthumously), New York, NY
  • 2009: Sylvia Griffiths, MD, New York, NY
  • 2008: Barbara A. Barlow, MD, New York, NY
  • 2006: Robert B. Mellins, MD, Atlanta, GA
  • 2005: Walter E. Berdon, MD, Washington, DC
  • 2004: Nicholas Cunningham, MD, San Francisco, CA
  • 2003: Anne A. Gershon, MD, New Orleans, LA
  • 2002: John C. Sinclair, MD, Boston, MA
  • 2001: Melvin M. Grumbach, MD, San Francisco, CA
  • 2000: Ruth C. Harris, MD, Chicago, IL
  • 1999: E. Richard Stiehm, MD, Washington, DC
  • 1998: Paul A. di Sant’Agnese, MD, San Francisco, CA
  • 1997: Jerry C. Jacobs, MD, New Orleans, LA
  • 1996: James A. Wolff, MD, Boston, MA
  • 1995: Jerold R. Lucey, MD, San Francisco, CA
  • 1994: William A. Silverman, MD, Dallas, TX
  • 1993: L. Stanley James, MD, Washington, DC
  • 1992: Mary Jane Jesse, MD, San Francisco, CA
  • 1991: R. James McKay, MD, New Orleans, LA
  • 1990: Birt Harvey, MD, Boston, MA
  • 1989: Charles Wood, MD, New York, NY