The Watanakunakorn Clinician Award

Named to honor the memory of Dr. Chatrchai Watanakunakorn, this award is given annually by the IDSA Education and Research Foundation to an IDSA member of fellow in recognition of outstanding achievement in the clinical practice of infectious diseases.

Nominees must have spent most of their career working predominantly in direct clinical care, whether private practice or part of a health-system group. The recipient must be in clinical practice, and exhibit excellence in one or more of the following areas:

Clinical care, clinical research, patient or community education, compassion, patient advocacy, general community service, and service to a national or state infectious diseases society. Local recognition in medical journals, newspapers, or magazines will also be taken into consideration.

2020 Winner: Ronald Nahass, MD, MHCM, FIDSA

 

Past Watanakunakorn Clinician Award Winners 

2019	Virginia D. Banks, MD, MBA, FIDSA
2018	Barry J. Hartman, MD, FIDSA
2017	Douglas R. Osmon, MD, MPH, FIDSA
2016	Wilbert H. Mason, MD, MPH, FIDSA
2015	James Horton, MD, FIDSA
2014	Eliot W. Godofsky, MD
2013	Johan S. Bakken, MD, PhD and Thomas M. File, Jr., MD, MSc
2012	David N. Gilbert, MD, FIDSA
2011	Stan Deresinski, MD, FIDSA
2010	Marvin J. Tenenbaum, MD, FIDSA
2009	Lawrence J. Eron, MD, FIDSA
2008	Michael L. Butera, MD
2007	Timothy T. Kuberski, MD, FIDSA
2006	Barbara H. Wade, MD, FIDSA
2005	James S. Tan, MD
2004	Donald M. Poretz, MD
2003	Steven Jon Berman, MD, FACP and Richard N. Olans, MD
2002	William A. Agger, MD
2001	H. Gunner Deery, MD and Peter T. Frame, MD
2000	Martin C. McHenry, MD, MS and Chatrchai Watanakunakorn, MD
1999	Gonzalo Ballon-Landa, MD and Thomas G. Slama, MD
1998	David S. McKinsey, MD and Daniel J. Sexton, MD
1997	Ramon E. Moncada, MD
1996	George Atkinson, MD Pankey, MD and Alan D. Tice, MD
1995	Ellie J.C. Goldstein, MD
1994	George Thornton, MD
1993	Edward Septimus, MD