The candidate must meet the following criteria:
- A practicing physician who has demonstrated longitudinal excellence throughout their career in performing clinical laser research, providing high-quality laser services to patients, or educating others in medical laser applications
- Share the characteristics of honesty, high ethical standards, and a dedication to patients that were possessed by its namesake
No award will be granted to any person if the award would be contrary to any United States law, including but not limited to trade embargoes administered by the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control.
2026 Recipient
Keyvan Nouri, MD, MBA
Past Recipients
2025 – Omar A. Ibrahimi, MD, PhD
2024 – Emil A. Tanghetti, MD
2023 – Merete Haedersdal, MD, PhD, DMSc
2022 – Pablo Boixeda, MD, PhD
2021 – Arielle N.B. Kauvar, MD
2020 – Suzanne L. Kilmer, MD
2019 – Paul M. Friedman, MD
2018 – Kristen M. Kelly, MD
2017 – Gerald Goldberg, MD
2016 – Christine Dierickx, MD
2015 – Mathew M. Avram, MD, JDE
2014 – E. Victor Ross, MD
2013 – Raymond J. Lanzafame, MD, MBA
2012 – Robert A. Weiss, MD
2011 – Stephen G. Bown, MD, FRCP
2010 – Brian S. Biesman, MD
2009 – Christopher B. Zachary, MBBS, FRCP
2008 – Jerome M. Garden, MD
2007 – J. Stuart Nelson, MD, PhD
2006 – Roy G. Geronemus, MD
2005 – Ronald G. Wheeland, MD
2004 – Richard E. Fitzpatrick, MD
2003 – Kenneth A. Arndt, MD
2002 – R. Rox Anderson, MD
2001 – Tina S Alster, MD
2000 – Jeffrey S. Dover, MD
1999 – David J. Goldberg, MD