ASTDA Distinguished Career, Achievement and Young Investigator Awards
The ASTDA Achievement Award is presented annually for a single recent major achievement in the field of STD research and prevention, or to a member at mid-career to acknowledge an outstanding body of research in sexually transmitted diseases. The ASTDA Distinguished Career Award (formerly the Thomas Parran Award) is presented annually to a member for long and distinguished contributions in the field of STD research and prevention.The ASTDA Young Investigator Award is presented annually to an outstanding investigator in the field of STD who is no more than five years beyond fellowship training.
| Year | Distinguished Career Award (formerly Thomas Parran Award) | Achievement Award |
Young Investigator Award |
| 2018 | Max Chernesky, PhD | Stephanie Taylor, MD | Alexis Roth, PhD |
| 2017 | Jo-Anne Dillon, PHD | Lisa Manhart, PHD | Christine Khosropour, PHD |
| 2016 | Anne Marie Rompalo, MD, ScM | 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 | Christina Marra, MD | Christina Muzny, MD |
| 2013 | Jonathan Zenilman, MD | Jane Schwebke, MD | Jesse Clark, MD |
| 2012 | David Martin, MD | 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 | 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 | Charlotte Gaydos, DrPH | Rachel L. Winer, PhD |
| 2007 | Sheila A. Lukehart, PhD | Lauri Markowitz, MD | Jami Leichliter, PhD |
| 2006 | Sevgi Aral, PhD | 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 | Anna Wald, MD, MPH | Matthew Golden, MD, MPH |
| 2003 | Willard Cates Jr., MD | Laura Koutsky, PhD | Caroline Cameron, PhD |
| 2002 | Richard Rothenberg, MD, MPH | David DuPuy Celentano, ScD, MHS | Jeffrey D. Klausner, MD |
| 2001 | Harald zur Hausen, MD | Penelope J. Hitchcock, DVM | |
| 2000 | Walter E. Stamm, MD | 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 |