ASTDA Awards
ASTDA Awards recognize individuals who epitomize the Association’s mission to foster scientific knowledge, develop leadership, and champion practice in the field of sexually transmitted infections. Individuals may be recognized for significant scholarship in medical, epidemiologic, laboratory, or behavioral research; for the development of high-impact programs in partnership with key communities; for exemplary teaching or mentorship of developing leaders; or for other distinctive service to the field.
We are pleased to announce that the CDC has asked ASTDA to henceforth manage the Jack N. Spencer Award. The Jack N. Spencer Award is given to honor individuals for a career of exceptional contributions to excellence in STD prevention characterized by outstanding commitment to science-based programs, continuous innovation, and profound commitment to helping people. This prestigious award is presented every other year at the STD Prevention Conference. Because the ASTDA Distinguished Career Award and the Jack N. Spencer Award both honor the entire careers of exceptional individuals, henceforth, individuals who receive either award will not be eligible to receive the other award. However, in the spirit of fairness, prior recipients of either award (i.e., prior to 2022) may be selected to receive the other award. The list of prior recipients of all ASTDA Awards including the Jack N. Spencer award can be found below.
Up to four (4) awards may be presented annually:
- The ASTDA Distinguished Career Award is presented to a person with a long and extraordinary career in the field of sexually transmitted diseases. Individuals whose career focus has primarily been program science should be nominated for the Jack N. Spencer Award.
- The Jack N. Spencer Award is presented to a person with a long and extraordinary career in sexually transmitted diseases prevention characterized primarily by outstanding commitment to program science (this award is presented every other year).
- The ASTDA Achievement Award is presented to a person at mid-career to acknowledge an outstanding body of work in sexually transmitted diseases or to an individual for a single major achievement in the field.
- The ASTDA Young Investigator Award is presented to a person engaged in outstanding work in the field of sexually transmitted diseases who is no more than seven years from completion of training.
List of ASTDA Award Winners
Year | Distinguished Career Award (formerly Thomas Parran Award) | Jack N. Spencer Award | Achievement Award | Young Investigator Award | Best STD Paper by an Early Career Investigator |
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2024 | Connie Celum, MD, MPH | Roxanne P. Kerani, PhD, MPH | Lorenzo Giacani, PhD | Lao-Tzu Allan-Blitz, MD | Diana M. Tordoff |
2023 | J. Dennis Fortenberry, MD, MS | Rebecca Brotman, PhD, MPH | Jenell Stewart, DO, MPH | Emily Rowlinson, PhD, MPH | |
2022 | Jeanne Marrazzo, MD | Julie Schillinger, MD, MSc. | Kyle Bernstein, PhD, ScM | Stacey Griner, PhD, MPH | Ling Kong, MD |
2021 | Cornelis “Kees” Rietmeijer, PhD, MD, MSPH | Bill Miller, MD, PhD, MPH | Anna Cope, PhD, MPH | Jennifer Sanderson Slutsker | |
2020 | Gail Bolan, MD | Steve Kowalewski* | Gina Ogilvie, MD, MSc, FCFP, DrPH | Claire Bristow, PhD, MPH, MSc | |
2019 | Charlotte Gaydos, DrPH, MPH | Patricia Kissinger, PhD, MPH | Yonatan Grad, MD, PhD | Jeb Jones | |
2018 | Max Chernesky, PhD | Susan Blank* | Stephanie Taylor, MD | Alexis Roth, PhD | Emily Learner |
2017 | Jo-Anne Dillon, PHD | Lisa Manhart, PHD | Christine Khosropour, PHD | ||
2016 | Anne Marie Rompalo, MD, ScM | Jeffrey Klausner* | Joan M. Chow, MPH, DrPH | Lindley A. Barbee, MD, MPH | |
2015 | Anna Wald, MD, MPH | Jeanne Marrazzo, MD, MPH | Robert Kircaldy, MD, MPH | ||
2014 | Franklyn Judson, MD | Dayne Collins* | Christina Marra, MD | Christina Muzny, MD | |
2013 | Jonathan Zenilman, MD | Jane Schwebke, MD | Jesse Clark, MD | ||
2012 | David Martin, MD | Cornelis “Kees” Rietmeijer* | Kim Workowski, MD | Ina Park, MD, MS | |
2011 | Thomas C. Quinn, MD, MSc | Connie Celum, MD, MPH | Rebecca M. Brotman, PhD, MPH | ||
2010 | H. Hunter Handsfield, MD | Gail Bolan and Charlie Rabins* | Harrell Chesson, PhD | Jared Baeten, MD, PhD | |
2009 | Sharon Hillier, PhD | J. Dennis Fortenberry, MD, MS | Khalil G. Ghanem, MD | ||
2008 | Edward W. Hook, MD | Dorothy Gunter* | Charlotte Gaydos, DrPH | Rachel L. Winer, PhD | |
2007 | Sheila A. Lukehart, PhD | Lauri Markowitz, MD | Jami Leichliter, PhD | ||
2006 | Sevgi Aral, PhD | Susan DeLisle* | David Martin, MD | Laura Bachmann, MD, MPH | |
2005 | Myron (Mike) S. Cohen, MD | Geoff Garnett, PhD | William Michael Geisler, MD, MPH | ||
2004 | Robert C. Brunham, MD | Martin Goldberg* | Anna Wald, MD, MPH | Matthew Golden, MD, MPH | |
2003 | Willard Cates Jr., MD | Laura Koutsky, PhD | Caroline Cameron, PhD | ||
2002 | Richard Rothenberg, MD, MPH | John J. Potterat* | David DuPuy Celentano, ScD, MHS | Jeffrey D. Klausner, MD | |
2001 | Harald zur Hausen, MD | Penelope J. Hitchcock, DVM | |||
2000 | Walter E. Stamm, MD | Jack N. Spencer* | Edward W. Hook III, MD | Arturo Centurion-Lara, MD | |
1999 | Robert B. Jones, MD, PhD | Thomas C. Quinn, MD | |||
1998 | Peter Piot, MD, PhD | Sevgi 0. Aral, PhD | |||
1997 | Lawrence Corey, MD | Judith N. Wasserheit, MD | |||
1996 | William M. McCormack, MD | Sharon L. Hillier, PhD | |||
1995 | David Taylor-Robinson, MD | Walter E. Stamm, MD | |||
1994 | William W. Darrow, PhD | Attila Lorincz, PhD | |||
1993 | Lars Westrom, MD | ||||
1992 | P. Frederick Sparling, MD | ||||
1991 | Allan R. Ronald, MD | Sheila A. Lukehart, PhD | |||
1990 | Julius Schachter, PhD | Willard Cates, Jr.,MD/Jack Kirby/Jack Spencer | |||
1989 | Paul J. Wiesner, MD | Frank Plummer, MD | |||
1988 | John C. Hume, MD | ||||
1987 | J.David Oriel, MD | Richard S. Stephens, PhD | |||
1986 | |||||
1985 | James N. Miller, PhD | Eric Sandstrom, MD | |||
1984 | E.Russell Alexander. MD | Lawrence Corey, MD | |||
1983 | King K. Holmes, MD, PhD | Steven Margolis, PhD | |||
1982 | R. Duncan Catterall, MD | Daniel C. William, MD | |||
1981 | James W. Curran, MD | ||||
1980 | Harry Pariser, MD | Franklyn N. Judson, MD | |||
1979 | Claude Nicol, CBE, FRCP | William M. McCormack, MD | |||
1978 | Thomas B. Turner, MD | ||||
1977 | Nicholas J. Fiumara, MD | ||||
1976 | Angelo F. “Jack” Marino | Thomas J. Fitzgerald, PhD | |||
1975 | Rudolph H. Kampmeier, MD | Paul J. Wiesner, MD | |||
1974 | Herman Beerman, MD | Thomas M. Buchanan, MD | |||
1973 | Genevieve Stout | ||||
1972 | William J. Brown, MD | Joseph Forish |
*Awarded by CDC