The Society Citation is a discretionary award given in recognition of exemplary contribution to IDSA, and outstanding discovery in the field of infectious diseases, or a lifetime of outstanding achievement. More than one award may be given each year.
2020 Winners: Adarsh Bhimraj, MD, MS, FIDSA & Christopher Ohl, MD, FIDSA
Past Society Citation Award Winners
| 2019 | Brian S. Schwartz, MD |
| Steven K. Schmitt, MD, FIDSA | |
| 2018 | Louis D. Saravolatz, MD, FIDSA |
| 2017 | Wendy S. Armstrong, MD, FIDSA Patrick Joseph, MD, FIDSA Dean, L. Winslow, MD, FIDSA |
| 2016 | Mark A. Leasure Bruce G. Gellin, MD, MPH, FIDSA Martin G. Myers, MD, FIDSA, FPIDS |
| 2015 | Helen W. Boucher, MD, FIDSA |
| 2014 | David L. Thomas MD, MPH, FIDSA |
| 2013 | Marguerite A. Neill, MD Catherine M. Wilfert, MD |
| 2012 | Myron S. Cohen, MD, FIDSA N. Cary Engleberg, MD, FIDSA Alan D. Tice, MD, FIDSA, FSHEA |
| 2011 |
Carol J. Baker, MD, FIDSA |
| 2010 |
John G. Bartlett, MD, FIDSA |
| 2009 | Warren D. Johnson, Jr., MD, FIDSA |
| 2008 | Russell Petrak, MD |
| 2007 |
Gary P. Wormser, MD, FIDSA |
| 2006 |
Larry J. Strausbaugh, MD, FIDSA |
| 2005 |
George G. Jackson, MD |
| 2004 |
Stanley Falkow, PhD |
| 2003 | Morton N. Swartz, MD Julie Gerberding, MD, on behalf of the CDC staff |
| 2002 | Marvin Turck, MD C. Douglas Webb, PhD |
| 2001 | George W. Counts, MD |
| 2000 | Dennis George Maki, MD Dennis L. Stevens, MD, PhD |
| 1999 | Sydney Finegold, MD |
| 1998 | Porter Anderson, PhD John Robbins, MD Rachel Schneerson, MD David Smith, MD |
| 1997 | Johan Septimus Bakken, MD |
| 1996 | Donald A. Henderson, MD |
| 1995 | King Holmes, MD, PhD |
| 1994 | David Rogers, MD Edward Hook, III, MD |
| 1993 | Dorothy Horstmann, MD Samuel Katz, MD Harold Neu, MD |
| 1992 | Robert Austrian, MD Jay Sanford, MD |
| 1988 | Martha Yow, MD |
| 1987 | Margaret Pittman, PhD, MS |
| 1986 | Victor Nussenzweig, MD |
| 1985 | Robert Gallo, MD Luc Montagnier, CNRS Sheldon Wolff, MD |
| 1984 | Allen Steere, MD |
| 1983 | Maurice Hilleman, PhD Saul Krugman, MD |
| 1982 | James Todd, MD |
| 1981 | Don Brenner, MS, PhD William Cherry MS, PhD and Colleagues James Freeley, PhD Joseph McDade, PhD |
| 1977 | Edward Kass, MD, PhD, M |