Gold Key Award

Award Description: This award was established in 1932 as a certificate of merit for members of the medical and allied professions who had rendered extraordinary service to the cause of rehabilitation. It is the highest honor given by ACRM.

Current Winner: Douglas I. Katz, MD, FACRM, FAAN, FANA, FASNR

Eligibility

This award was established in 1932 as a certificate of merit for members of the medical and allied professions who have rendered extraordinary service to the cause of rehabilitation. Candidates are nominated by members of the ACRM Board of Governors and the recipient chosen by the ACRM Awards Committee. This is the highest honor given by ACRM.
Candidates may be any medical professional who has demonstrated extraordinary service to the cause of rehabilitation.
The winner is required to be an ACRM member.

Past Winners

2025

Donna Langenbahn, PhD, FACRM

2024

Allen Heinemann, PhD, ABRP, FACRM

2023

J. Preston Harley, PhD, FACRM

2022

Philip A. Morse, PhD, FACRM

2021

Christine MacDonell, FACRM

2020

Michael L. Jones, PhD, FACRM

2019

John Whyte, MD, PhD, FACRM

2018

Harvey S. Levin, PhD, FACSM

2017

Gary R. Ulicny, PhD, FACRM

2016

Kenneth J. Ottenbacher, PhD, OTR, FACRM

2015

John Corrigan, PhD, FACRM

2014

Donald T. Stuss, PhD, C Psych, ABPP-CN, Order of Ontario, FRSC, FCAHS

2013

Ralph Nitkin, PhD

2012

Marcel Dijkers, PhD

2011

Wayne Gordon, PhD, ABPP/Cn, FACRM

2010

Ruth Brannon, MSPH, MA

2009

Gale Whitneck, PhD, FACRM

2008

Keith Cicerone, PhD, ABPP, FACRM

2007

Kristjan T. Ragnarsson, MD

2006

Marilyn Price Spivack

2005

Margaret G. Stineman, MD

2004

Donald E. Galvin, PhD

2003

Barbara de Lateur, MD

2002

Mitchell Rosenthal, PhD, FACRM

2001

Karen A. Hart, PhD, FACRM

2000

Katherine D. Seelman, PhD

1999

L. Don Lehmkuhl, PhD

1998

Gerben DeJong, PhD, FACRM

1997

Thomas P. Dixon, PhD

1996

Theodore M. Cole, MD, FACRM
Thomas E. Strax, MD

1995

Carmella Gonnella, PhD, PT
Irving K. Zola, PhD

1994

Lex Frieden, MA
Samuel L. Stover, MD

1993

Martin Grabois, MD
Roberta B. Trieschmann, PhD

1992

Sheldon Berrol, MD
Leonard Diller, PhD
Dale E. Eazell, MS

1991

Joel A. DeLisa, MD
Dorothy L. Gordon, DNSc
Don A. Olson, PhD

1990

Thomas P. Anderson, MD
J. Paul Thomas, PhD
John S. Young, MD

1989

Dorothea D. Glass, MD

1988

John L. Melvin, MD, FACRM

1987

Marcus J. Fuhrer, PhD

1986

Wilbert E. Fordyce, PhD

1985

James A. Cox Jr.
Paul Brent England
Gordon Martin, MD

1984

Henry B. Betts, MD, FACRM
June S. Rothberg, PhD, RN

1983

Creston C. Herold

1982

Ernst Gunther Marquardt, MD

1981

Herman J. Flax, MD

1980

Rene Cailliet, MD

1979

Richard E. Verville, LLB

1978

John W. Goldschmidt, MD

1977

John V. Basmajian, MD

1976

Representative John Brademas
Sir Ludwig Guttmann, MD
Senator Harrison A. Williams Jr.

1975

Harriet E. Gillette, MD
Mary Lasker
Mieczyslaw Peszczynski, MD

1974

Martha Taylor Sarno, MA

1973

Senator Hubert H. Humphrey
G. Keith Stillwell, MD, PhD

1972

William A. Spencer, MD

1971

Paul M. Ellwood Jr, MD
Justus F. Lehmann, MD

1970

Ernest W. Johnson, MD
Edward W. Lowman, MD

1969

Elizabeth Licht
Sidney Licht, MD

1968

Joseph G. Benton, MD, PhD
Edward E. Gordon

1967

Ernst Fischer, MD
W.T. Liberson, MD, PhD

1966

Arthur S. Abramson, MD
William J. Erdman II, MD

1965

Glenn Gullickson, Jr, MD
Paul A. Nelson, MD

1964

Thomas B. DeLorme, MD
Mary W. Switzer

1963

Louis B. Newman, MD
Eugene J. Taylor

1962

Donald A. Covalt, MD
A.B.C. Knudsen, MD

1961

Frederic J. Kottke, MD

1960

Philippe Bauwens, MD

1959

Fred B. Moor, MD

1958

Howard A. Rusk, MD
Arthur L. Watkins, MD

1957

Karl Harpuder, MD
William H. Schmidt, MD

1956

Miland E. Knapp, MD

1955

Robert L. Bennett, MD
Earl C. Elkins, MD
Walter M. Solomon, MD (posthumously)

1954

George Morris Piersol, MD

1953

George G. Deaver, MD
Henry H. Kessler, MD

1952

Basil O’Connor

1951

Howard A. Carter
Stafford L. Osborne
Winfred Overholser

1950

Svend Clemmesen, MD
Kristian G. Hansson, MD
Harry M. Hines, MD

1949

No award given this year

1948

Frank H. Ewerhardt, MD
Richard Kovacs, MD

1947

Lord Thomas J. Horder, MD
Andrew C. Ivy, MD
Maj. Gen. Norman T. Kirk

1946

Ralph Pemberton, MD

1945

No award given due to World War II

1944

Herman L. Kretschmer, MD
Frank H. Krusen, MD

1943

John S. Coulter, MD

1942

Sister Elizabeth Kenny

1941

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Bernard M. Baruch
W.S.C. Copeman, MD
William Bierman, MD

1940

George Washington Crile, MD
Abraham R. Hollender, MD
Charles F. Kettering
Disraeli Kobak, MD
Malcolm T. MacEachern, MD
William F. Petersen, MD
Horatio B. Williams

1939

Joseph A. Riviere, MD
Edward C. Titus, MD
A. Bern Hirsh, MD
James B. Mennell, MD

1938

Henry C. Bazett
Albert Bessemans
Harry E. Mock, MD

1937

Kurl Huldschinsky, MD
Louis Edouard Lapicque, MD

1936

Edwin Beer, MD
Sir Henry Gauvain, MD
Professor Stefan Jellinek
Professor Joseph Plotnikow

1935

Friedrich Dessauer, MD
Joel Ernest Goldthwait, MD
Stephan Leduc, MD
A. Rollier, MD
Joseph W. Schereschewsky, MD
Willis R. Whitney, MD

1934

Oscar Bernhard, MD
Henry Bordier, MD
W.W. Coblentz, MD
LeRoy Watkins Hubbard, MD
Franz Nagelschmidt, MD

1933

Gustavus M. Blech, MD
Gustav Bucky, MD
Harvey Cushing, MD
Claudius Regaud, MD
Walter John Turrell, MD

1932

Jacques Arsene D’Arsonval
William L. Clark
Frederick de Kraft
F. Howard Humphris
Howard Kelly
Gustav Kolischer
Albert F. Tyler