Past and Current Award Winners

Basmajian Award  ~ Young Investigators Award ~ Henry Gray/Elsevier Distinguished Educator Award~

Henry Gray/Lippincott Williams Wilkins Scientific Achievement Award ~

AAA/Wiley A.J. Ladman Exemplary Service Award ~

  Lippincott Williams Wilkins/AAA Education Research Scholarship ~

 ~ AAA Fellows ~ Short-term Visiting Scholarship

Basmajian Award Winners

This award recognizes health science faculty who are in the formative stages of their career, teach human or veterinary gross anatomy, can document excellence in their contribution to the teaching of gross anatomy, and have outstanding accomplishments in biomedical research or scholarship in education. Nomination information.

R.R. Bensley Award Winners (became Young Investigator Award)

Presented to someone who has made a distinguished contribution to the advancement of anatomy through discovery, ingenuity, and publications in the field of cell biology. The recipient gives a lecture at the AAA Annual Meeting. Nomination information.

Charles Judson Herrick Award Winners (became Young Investigator Award)

Established in 1962 to recognize young investigators who have made important contributions to the field of comparative neuroanatomy and have demonstrated remarkable promise of future accomplishments. The area of comparative neurology is broadly defined; previous awardees are outstanding scientists who have made contributions to areas of neuroscience, including neurochemistry, development, neurocytology, neuroendocrinology, neurophysiology, and molecular neurobiology. Nomination information.

Harland Winfield Mossman Developmental Biologists Award Winners (became Young Investigator Award)

AAA Morphological Sciences Award Winners (became Young Investigator Award)

Henry Gray/Elsevier Distinguished Educator Award Winners

AAA's highest education award, first awarded in 2007, is for human anatomy education in the anatomical sciences, broadly defined—including gross anatomy, embryology, histology, and neuroanatomy—at the medical/dental, graduate, or undergraduate level of teaching. Nomination information.

Henry Gray/Lippincott Williams Wilkins Scientific Achievement Award

AAA's highest scientific honor recognizes unique and meritorious contributions to and achievements in anatomical sciences by its most distinguished members. Nomination information.

AAA/Wiley A.J. Ladman Exemplary Service Award

Presented to an AAA member distinguished in the field of anatomical sciences who has provided exceptional service to the Society. Nomination information.

Lippincott Williams Wilkins/AAA Education Research Scholarship

AAA Fellows

The rank of Fellow of the American Association of Anatomists (FAAA) is designed to honor distinguished members who have demonstrated excellence in science and in their overall contributions to the anatomical sciences. Nomination Information.

2007
John V. Basmajian*
Bruce Carlson
Stephen Carmichael
Carmine Clemente
George Erikson*
John Fallon
Don W. Fawcett*
Donald Fischman
Michael Gershon
Duane Haines
Elizabeth D. Hay*
Mary J.C. Hendrix
Edward Jones*
Kathryn Jones
Robert Kelley
Roger R. Markwald
Robert McCuskey
George E. Palade*
George Pappas
John Pauly
Alan Peters
Henry J. Ralston
Joseph Sanger
Birgit Satir
Peter Satir
Chuck Slonecker
David Whitlock
Bob Yates

2008
George Bernard*
Jeffrey Laitman
Charlie Little
Keith Moore
David Yew

2009
Allan Basbaum
Richard Drake
Gary Schoenwolf
Kathy Svoboda
Robert Tomanek
Wayne Vogl

2010
Kurt Albertine
Parker Antin
David Bernanke
David Burr
A. Kent Christensen
Allen C. Enders
Cornelia Farnum
Karen Hitchcock
William P. Jollie
Douglas E. Kelly
Dick Marchase
Drew Noden
Douglas Paulsen
Vid Persaud
Raymond Runyan
Mitchell Schaffler
Kimberly Topp
Thomas Van De Water

2011
Vivien Casagrande
Gwendolyn Childs
John Clancy, Jr.
Vincent Gattone
Dallas Hyde
Aaron John Ladman
Scott Lozanoff
George Martin
Takashi Mikawa
Bjorn R. Olsen
Lynne Opperman
Dennis Stelzner

2012
David Bader
Marion Gordon
Anna Lysakowski
Wojciech Pawlina
Robert Specian
Jean-Pierre Timmermans
Judith Venuti

2013
Charles Blake
Carol Gregorio
Baljit Singh
 

* Deceased

Short-term Visiting Scholarship

AAA's Short-term Visiting Scholarship Program is intended to provide travel expenses to graduate students, postdoctoral fellows or faculty to facilitate visiting a laboratory or participating in a course.  Application Information.