Gold Medalists
The Gold Medal is ASTRO's highest honor bestowed on revered members who have made outstanding contributions to the field of radiation oncology. This includes research, clinical care, teaching and service. Recipients are drawn from any of the scientific disciplines represented by the members of the Society.
Below is the list of Gold Medal recipients through the years. Select a name to view their tribute.
| Najeeb Mohideen | Northwest Community Hospital | 10/3/2023 |
| Simon Powell | Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center | 10/3/2023 |
| Randall Ten Haken | University of Michigan | 10/3/2023 |
| Tim R. Williams | South Florida Proton Therapy Institute | 10/25/2022 |
| Wendell R. Lutz | Emeritus | 10/25/2022 |
| Colleen A.F. Lawton | Medical College of Wisconsin | 10/26/2021 |
| Lori J. Pierce | University of Michigan | 10/26/2021 |
| Bruce Haffty | Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey | 10/27/2020 |
| Brian O'Sullivan | Princess Margaret Hospital | 10/27/2020 |
| Walter J. Curran | Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University | 9/17/2019 |
| Silvia Formenti Chiara | Weill Cornell Medical College | 9/17/2019 |
| Thomas Rockwell Mackie | University of Wisconsin | 9/17/2019 |
| Patricia Eifel | University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center | 10/23/2018 |
| David Jaffray | Princess Margaret Cancer Centre | 10/23/2018 |
| Ralph Weichselbaum | University of Chicago Medicine | 10/23/2018 |
| Søren M. Bentzen | University of Maryland School of Medicine | 9/26/2017 |
| Louis B. Harrison | H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute | 9/26/2017 |
| Michael L. Steinberg | UCLA | 9/26/2017 |
| Benedick A. Fraass | Cedars-Sinai Medical Center | 9/28/2016 |
| Christopher G. Willett | Duke University Medical Center | 9/28/2016 |
| Anthony L. Zietman | Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center | 9/28/2016 |
| Carl R. Bogardus Jr.* | University of Oklahoma Health Science Center | 10/20/2015 |
| Carl M. Mansfield* | University of Maryland | 10/20/2015 |
| James B. Mitchell | NCI/NIH | 10/20/2015 |
| Mary K. Gospodarowicz | Princess Margaret Cancer Centre | 9/16/2014 |
| Leonard L. Gunderson | Mayo Clinic | 9/16/2014 |
| Nancy J. Tarbell | Harvard Medical School | 9/16/2014 |
| Amato J. Giaccia | Stanford University | 9/24/2013 |
| Radhe Mohan | MD Anderson Cancer Center | 9/24/2013 |
| Prabhakar Tripuraneni | Scripps Clinic | 9/24/2013 |
| J. Robert Cassady | Lahey Clinic (Retired) | 10/30/2012 |
| George T.Y. Chen | Massachusetts General Hospital | 10/30/2012 |
| Mark W. Dewhirst | Duke University | 10/30/2012 |
| K. Kian Ang* | MD Anderson Cancer Center | 10/4/2011 |
| Bernard Cummings | Princess Margaret Hospital | 10/4/2011 |
| William McBride | David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA | 11/2/2010 |
| David Larson | University of California San Francisco | 11/2/2010 |
| William Shipley | Massachusetts General Hospital | 11/3/2009 |
| Theodore Lawrence | University of Michigan Radiation Oncology | 11/3/2009 |
| Joel Tepper | UNC- Chapel Hill | 9/23/2008 |
| Christopher Rose | Valley Radiotherapy Associates Medical Group | 9/23/2008 |
| Larry Kun* | St. Jude Children's Research Hospital | 10/30/2007 |
| Jay Harris | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute | 10/30/2007 |
| C. Clifton Ling | Memorial Sloan Kettering | 11/5/2006 |
| Richard Hoppe | Stanford University | 11/5/2006 |
| Allen Lichter | American Society of Clinical Oncology | 10/18/2005 |
| C. Norman Coleman | National Cancer Institute | 10/18/2005 |
| Paul Wallner | 21st Century Oncology | 10/5/2004 |
| Luka Milas | Emeritus, MD Anderson Cancer Center | 10/5/2004 |
| Eli Glatstein* | University of Pennsylvania Medical Center | 10/5/2004 |
| J. Frank Wilson | Medical College of WI | 10/21/2003 |
| Lester Peters | Emeritus | 10/21/2003 |
| Michael Goitein* | Emeritus | 10/21/2003 |
| Marvin Rotman | SUNY Downstate Medical Center | 10/8/2002 |
| Victor Marcial* | VAMB, PSC | 10/8/2002 |
| Steven Leibel* | 10/8/2002 | |
| Howard Thames | MD Anderson Cancer Center | 11/6/2001 |
| Karen Fu | Emeritus | 11/6/2001 |
| James Purdy | Emeritus | 10/24/2000 |
| Sarah Donaldson | Stanford University Medical Center | 10/24/2000 |
| Giulio D'Angio* | Emeritus, University of Pennsylvania | 10/1/1999 |
| Martin Brown | Stanford University | 10/1/1999 |
| William Dewey | Emeritus | 10/1/1998 |
| Theodore Brickner* | 10/1/1998 | |
| Chiu-Chen Wang* | Emeritus, Massachusetts General Hospital | 10/1/1997 |
| Luis Delclos* | Emeritus | 10/1/1997 |
| Robert Shalek* | Emeritus | 10/1/1996 |
| Zvi Fuks | Emeritus, Memorial Sloan Kettering | 10/1/1996 |
| John Fowler* | 10/1/1995 | |
| Rodney Million | Emeritus | 10/1/1995 |
| Gerald Hanks* | 10/1/1994 | |
| James Cox* | MD Anderson Cancer Center | 10/1/1994 |
| Theodore Phillips | University of Arizona | 10/1/1993 |
| John Laughlin* | 10/1/1993 | |
| Eric Hall | Emeritus, Columbia University Medical Center | 10/1/1993 |
| Carlos Perez | Emeritus, Washington University | 11/1/1992 |
| Eleanor Montague* | Emeritus | 11/1/1992 |
| H. Rodney Withers* | Emeritus, UCLA | 11/1/1991 |
| Seymour Levitt* | 11/1/1991 | |
| Herman Suit | Massachusetts General Hospital | 10/1/1990 |
| Samuel Hellman | Emeritus, University of Chicago | 10/1/1990 |
| Robert Parker* | 10/1/1989 | |
| William Powers* | 10/1/1988 | |
| Luther Brady* | Drexel University | 10/1/1987 |
| Walter Rider* | 11/1/1986 | |
| Malcolm Bagshaw* | 9/1/1985 | |
| Philip Rubin* | Emeritus | 10/1/1984 |
| Mortimer Elkind* | 10/1/1983 | |
| Morton Kligerman* | 10/1/1982 | |
| William Moss* | 10/1/1981 | |
| Simon Kramer* | 10/1/1980 | |
| Harold Johns* | 10/1/1980 | |
| Isadore Lampe* | 10/1/1979 | |
| M. Vera Peters* | 10/1/1979 | |
| Franz Buschke* | 10/1/1978 | |
| Edith Quimby* | 10/1/1978 | |
| Juan A Del Regato* | 11/1/1977 | |
| Gilbert Fletcher* | 11/1/1977 | |
| Henry Kaplan* | 11/1/1977 |
* Indicates Deceased
