Past recipients

2019 | Professor Sir Mason Durie

2018 | Not awarded

2017 | John Walsh, Dame Jane Dacre

2016 | Not awarded

2015 | Dr Kevin Imrie

2014 | Mr Geoffrey Laurence, Professor Ron Paterson

2013 | Not awarded

2012 | Dr Neil Dewhurst, Professor Sarath Lekamwasam, Professor Kriang Tungsanga, Dr George Anderson Clothier, Professor Ian Hector Frazer

2011 | Dr Michael Wallis Ross, Dr Padma Gunaratne, Dr Patrick Chung-Ke Li, Dr Joseph Ralston Jr., Dr Kammant Phanthumchinda, Associate Professor Tan Kok Chai, Professor Khalid Yusoff, Professor Dame Carol Mary Black, Professor Kathryn Margaret McPherson

2010 | Dr Alex D. H. Brown, Dr Richard Heazlewood, Dr Nazmun Nahar, Dr Terence J Stephenson, Dr Joseph W. Stubbs, Dr Kamani Wanigasuriya

2009 | Professor John William Tapsall, Dr Naomali Amarasena, Professor Somwang Danchaivijitr, Professor Zephne van der Spuy, Professor Kok Seng Wong, Dr G. William N. Fitzgerald

2008 | Dr John Barton Best, Dr Ruth Frances Bishop, Professor Zafar Ullah Chaudhry, Dr Steven K. W. Chow, Dr John Donohoe, Professor David Murray Fergusson, Professor Sir Ian Thomas Gilmore, Clinical Professor David Hillman, Dr Renee Rosalind Jenkins, Dr Jioji Tuwai, Professor Gurmukh Sajanmal Sainani, Professor Mohamed Rifdy Mohideen Malani

2007 | Professor Kathy Eagar, Professor Lai Yun Ho, Dr Patricia Hamilton, Dr Brian Owen Williams, Dr Keng Yeen Ng, Dr Lynne Anne Marcum Kirk, Professor Robert Edward Pounder, Professor David Murray Fergusson

2006 | Professor Peter Allen Fricker, Professor Neil James Douglas, Laureate Professor Alan Lopez, Dr J Robin Warren, Professor Shih-Hui Lim, Professor Grace Tang, Professor Sir Graham Michael Teasdale, Dr Stewart M Hamilton

2005 | Professor John Stanley Strang, Professor T Joseph McKenna, Sir Alan William Craft, Dr Zainudin Bin Md Zin, Dr Bandula Wijesiriwardena

2004 | Mr Barry Alan Young, Professor Hithanadura Janaka de Silva

2003 | Dr Errol Alden, Dr Sarath De Silva, Dr John McDonald, Dr Munsy Wheby, Dame Carol Black, Dr Ralph Kirsch

2002 | Professor James Rankin, Dr Leslie Drew, Dr Saman Gunathilake, Professor Ross Lorimer, Dr Niall Finlayson, Dr David Morrell, Dr Cecil Wilson, Dr Allen Christophers  

2001 | Professor Kenneth Roberts. Professor Robert Williamson, Dr Mohd Ismail Bin Merican, Dr Anula Wijesundere, Dr Bernard Langer, Professor Walter Tan, Dr Bernard Rosof, Professor David Penington

2000 | Professor Michael Good, Dr Sohail Ansari, Professor Zaliha Omar, Dr Maher Al Jadid, Dr Mohammed Mandoorah, HRH Princess Chulabhorn, Professor Sunthorn Tandhanand,  Professor Termchai Chainuvati, Professor Brian Keogh,  Associate Professor Pinit Kullavanijaya, Dr Kolitha Sellahewa, Dr David Campbell, Professor David Allbrook, Professor Tess Cramond, Professor Teresa Cramond, Professor David Allbrook, Dr Ivan Lichter

1999 | Professor David Cook, Dr William Knaus, Professor Joseph Sung, Mr Colin MacKay, Professor Mohammad Farooqui, Professor Whitney Addington, Dr Richard Baltzan, Professor Richard Yu, Professor Bruce Dowton, Dr Jagdish Maharaj, Professor James Petrie, Professor Mohammad, Farooqui, Professor Whitney Addington

1998 | Professor Peter Doherty, Dr Harold Sox, Dr Lowitja O'Donoghue, Dr Bridget Ogilvie, Dr Michael Woolridge

1997 | Dr William Reynolds, Dr David Fang, Dr Siang TongKew, Dr Ser Kiat Tan, Dr Nanda Amarasekera, Sir Michael Hardie Boys, Professor Anthony McMichael

1996 | Dr Henry Rajaratnam, Dr Her Majesty Queen Sirikit, Dr Don Grimes, Professor Murray Brandstater, Dr June Crown, Dr Alessandro Liberati, His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej

1995 | Professor Khun Nana Maranetra, Professor Jean Woo, Professor Raymond Liang, Professor Judith Black, Dr Brendan Nelson, Dr John Cash, Sir Brian Barratt-Boyes, Dr Henry Dinsdale, Dr Bill Hayden, Professor Norman McKay, Dr William Peart, Mr Mechai Viravaidya, Dr CB Wynn Parry, Professor John Loeser, Professor Alf Nachemson, Professor Carl Granger, Professor Alf Nachemson, Professor Carl Granger, Dr Christopher Wynn Parry, Sir Brian Barratt-Boyes,  Sir William Peart

1994 | Professor Fiona Stanley , Dr Francis O'Kelly, Professor MH Rezvi Sheriff, Dr Ronald Tucker, Professor Leslie Turnberg, Clinical Professor Yam Cheng Chee, Professor Ching Lung Lai, Professor Wah Kit Lam, Dr Eng Kiong Yeoh, Professor Per-Olof Astrand, Professor Ernest Johnson, Dr Doug Short, Professor Wai-On Phoon, Dr James Milne, Professor William Glass, Dr William Nelson, Professor David Ferguson, Dr Gordon Smith, Dr Keith Wilson, Dr John Lane, Dr Francis O’Kelly, Professor Cyrill Dixon, Dr Charles Collins, Dr Douglas Short, Dr Bruce Ford, Sir Zelman Cowen, Professor Per-Olof Astrand, Dr Samuel Wrightson, Professor John Basmajian, Professor Ernest Johnson, Professor Justus Lehmann, Professor Jerome Tobis, Dr William Utley, Dr Ronald Tucker, Dr Bryan Gandevia

1993 | Dr Albert Courtemanche, Dr Anthony Toft, Professor Stephen Doyle, Dr Selvie Perera, Professor Leonie Kramer, Dr Tzee-Cheng Chao, Sir Donald Campbell, Professor Dame Kramer

1992 | Professor John Burgess, Professor Geoffrey Berry, Professor Willis Maddrey, Professor Raj Nambiar, Dr Dame Mitchell, Professor Basil Hetzel, Professor Douglas Gordon

1991 | Dr Robert Hume, Dr Nicholas Davies, Professor John Richmond

1990 | Dr Donald Wilson, Dr Norton Greenberger, Dr John Stocker

1989 | Professor Edwin Maynard

1988 | Dr Michael Oliver, Dr Owen Dent, Dr Ramsay Gunton, Dr Jayantha Peiris, Dr Ngoh Tan, Professor Arthur Kennedy, Dr Ralph Wallerstein, Dr Ramsay Gunton, Dr Say Lim, Dr Michael Drury, Dr John McCaughey

1987 | Not awarded

1986 | Sir David Weatherall, Dr John Kirker, Sir Ceylon Lewis 

1985 | Professor Ronald Girdwood, Professor Edward Hook

1984 | Sir Raymond Hoffenberg

1983 | Dr Lionel McLeod

1982 | Not awarded

1981 | Sir George Proctor

1980 | Dr Douglas George Cameron, Dr James Graham, Dr Donald Wilson

1979 | Professor Derek Ashworth Denton, Professor Ian David Gust, Dr Ronald Foote Robertson, Sir Zelman Cowen

1978 | Sir Douglas Black

1977 | Dr Edward Rosenow

1976 | Sir John Crofton

1975 | Miss Dorothy Roseby, Sir Kenneth Robson

1974 | Mr Kuan Yew Lee

1973 | Sir Cyril Clarke

1972 | Sir John Croom

1971 | Not awarded

1970 | Lord Arthur Porritt

1969 | Dr Christopher Clayson

1968 | Lord Max Rosenheim

1967 | Not awarded

1966 | Sir Ian Hill, Professor Clement Boughton

1965 | Not awarded

1964 | Lord Robert Platt

1963 | Dr Wesley Spink, Professor Charles Dodds

1962 | Not awarded

1961 | Not awarded

1960 | Not awarded

1959 | Dr Andrew Gilchrist, Sir Arthur Sims

1958 | Not awarded

1957 | Not awarded

1956 | Dr George Strong

1955 | Sir Robert Menzies, Dr Viscount Slim, Lord Walter Brain

1954 | Dr William Castle, Dr Robert Loeb

1953 | Not awarded

1952 | Not awarded

1951 | Not awarded

1950 | Not awarded

1949 | Not awarded

1948 | Not awarded

1947 | Sir Frank Burnet, Lord Charles Wilson, Dr Hugh Morgan

1946 | Not awarded

1945 | Not awarded

1944 | Sir Howard Florey

1943 | Not awarded

1942 | Not awarded

1941 | Not awarded

1940 | Not awarded

1939 | Not awarded

1938 | Dr Herbert Fletcher, Dr Noble Jones