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Honor & Citation Awards

The Honor & Citation Awards are two of ACSM's most prestigious awards. Both awards recognize individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the fields of sports medicine and/or exercise science, and award winners are recognized at the ACSM Annual Meeting.

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Nomination Process

Nomination application information for 2025 is now open. The deadline to submit your nomination is July 18, 2024.

Nomination Form

The review process extends through the fall. Once selected, recipients and their nominators will be notified. Those whose nominee was not selected will also be notified at this time.

Please be advised that due to the volume of highly qualified professionals being considered, it is not uncommon for an individual to be nominated multiple times before being selected for one of these prestigious awards. We encourage those whose nominations are unsuccessful to continue to put forward their candidate in subsequent years.

Please reach out to Beth Reed with questions.

Honor Award

The Honor Award of the American College of Sports Medicine is granted to an individual with a distinguished career of outstanding scientific and scholarly contributions to sports medicine and/or the exercise sciences. The contributions may be in the basic, applied, and/or clinical sciences; allied health and/or education.

larry kenney acsm honor award winner 2022

1950s - 1970s

Joseph B. Wolffe, M.D., 1958
D. Bruce Dill, Ph.D., 1963
Percy M. Dawson, 1964
Arthur H. Steinhaus, Ph.D., 1965
Don O’Donoghue, M.D., 1966
Sid Robinson, Ph.D., 1967
Grover W. Mueller, M.S., M.A., 1968
Thomas K. Cureton, Ph.D., 1969
Albert S. Hyman, M.D., 1970
Peter V. Karpovich, M.D., 1971
Bruno Balke, M.D., 1972
Per-Olof Astrand, M.D., Ph.D., 1973
Ernst Simonson, 1974
Franklin Henry, Ph.D., 1975
Albert R. Behnke, M.D., 1976
D. Bruce Dill, Ph.D., 1977
Leonard A. Larson, Ph.D., FACSM, 1978
Erling Asmussen, 1979
1980s-1990s

Henry L. Taylor, 1980
Erik Hohwu-Christensen, 1981
L.G.C.E. Pugh, 1982
Robert A. Bruce, M.D., 1983
Elsworth R. Buskirk, Ph.D., FACSM, 1984
Jeremy Morris, M.D., 1985
Charles M. Tipton, Ph.D., FACSM, 1986
John O. Holloszy, M.D., FACSM, 1987
Jere H. Mitchell, M.D., FACSM, 1988
Philip D. Gollnick, Ph.D., 1989
Bengt Saltin, M.D., 1990
Martti J. Karvonen, Ph.D., 1991
John A. Faulkner, Ph.D., FACSM, 1992
David L. Costill, Ph.D., FACSM, 1993
Ralph S. Paffenbarger, M.D., DrPH, Dsc, FACSM, 1994
Carl V. Gisolfi, Ph.D., 1995
Barbara L. Drinkwater, Ph.D., FACSM, 1996
Loring B. Rowell, Ph.D., 1997
Russell F. Warren, M.D., 1998
Britton Chance, Ph.D., 1999
2000s-2010s

William L. Haskell, Ph.D., FACSM, 2000
Roy J. Shephard, Ph.D., FACSM, 2001
Claude Bouchard, Ph.D., FACSM, 2002
Steven N. Blair, P.E.D., FACSM, 2003
Jerome A. Dempsey, Ph.D., FACSM, 2004
Priscilla Clarkson, Ph.D., FACSM, 2005
Jack Wilmore, Ph.D., FACSM, 2006
George Brooks, Ph.D., FACSM, 2007
Henry Montoye, Ph.D., FACSM, 2008
Barry Franklin, Ph.D., FACSM, 2009
Frank Booth, Ph.D., FACSM, 2010
Kenneth Baldwin, Ph.D., FACSM, 2011
Russell R. Pate, Ph.D., FACSM, 2012
Robert Malina, Ph.D., FACSM, 2013
James Skinner, Ph.D., FACSM, 2014
William O. Roberts, M.D., FACSM, 2015
Arthur S. Leon, M.D., FACSM, 2016
Peter B. Raven, Ph.D., FACSM, 2017
Barbara Ainsworth, Ph.D., MPH, FACSM, 2018
Scott K. Powers, Ed.D., Ph.D., FACSM, 2019
2020s

Charlotte (Toby) Tate, Ph.D., FACSM, 2020
Lyle J. Micheli, M.D., FACSM, 2021
W. Larry Kenney, Ph.D., FACSM, 2022
Michael J. Joyner, M.D., FACSM, 2023
Carl Foster, Ph.D., FACSM, 2024

Citation Award

The Citation Award of the American College of Sports Medicine is granted to an individual or group who has made significant and important contributions to sports medicine and/or the exercise sciences. These contributions may include, but are not limited to, research and scholarship; clinical care; and/or administrative or educational services in sports medicine or exercise science.

cindy chang acsm citation award winner 2022

1950s-1960s

1958
Charles McCloy, Ph.D.
Seward Staley
1959
John Kelley, Sr.
Grover Mueller
1961
Warren Johnson
Augustus Thorndike, M.D.
1962
Louis Bishop, M.D.
Scott Carpenter
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S. Carpenter
G. Cooper
J. Glenn
V. Grissom
W. Schirra
A. Shepard
D. Slayton
1963
Bruno Balke, M.D.
Lucian Brouha, M.D.
Richard Schneider, M.D.
1964
Albert Hyman, M.D.
Ernst Simonson
1965
Arlie Bock
1966
Irving Baser
Frances Hellebrandt
1967
Samuel Bilik
Kenneth Rose, M.D.
1968
Jay Bender
William Newell
Alexius Rachun
Americo Savastano
1969
Fred Hein
Fred Lanoue
Thomas McDonough, Sc.D.
1970s

1970
Donald Slocum, M.D., FACSM
Merritt Stiles, M.D.
1971
Samuel Fox, III, M.D., FACSM
Steven Horvath, Ph.D., FACSM
Thomas Quigley
1972
Robert Clark
H. Harrison Clarke
Clifford Fagan
Harry Olree, Ed.D., FACSM
Russell Simmons
1973
Elsworth Buskirk, Ph.D., FACSM
Leonard Larson, Ph.D., FACSM
Henry Montoye, Ph.D., FACSM
1974
Victor Frankel
Ulrich Luft, M.D.
1975
Vojin Smodlaka, M.D.
Henry Taylor, M.D.
1976
Erling Asmussen
Darl Hall
Robert E. Johnson, M.D., FACSM
Josephine Rathbone, Ph.D.
1977
Carl Blyth, Ph.D.
David Moyer
Robert Murphy, M.D., FACSM
Timothy Nugent
1978
John Faulkner, Ph.D., FACSM
Philip Gollnick, Ph.D.
John Holloszy, M.D., FACSM
Karl Stoedefalke, Ph.D., FACSM
1979
David Costill, Ph.D., FACSM
Charles Tipton, Ph.D., FACSM
1980s

1980
Howard Knuttgen, Ph.D., FACSM
Bengt Saltin, M.D.
1981
G. Lawrence Rarick, Ph.D., FACSM
Karlman Wasserman, M.D.
1982
Fred Kasch, Ph.D., FACSM
Allan Ryan, M.D., FACSM
1983
Jack Hughston, M.D., FACSM
Jere Mitchell, M.D., FACSM
Loring Rowell, Ph.D.
1984
Barbara Drinkwater, Ph.D., FACSM
Edward Fox, Ph.D.
Jack Wilmore, Ph.D., FACSM
1985
V.Reggie Edgerton
Lars Hermansen
James Skinner Ph.D., FACSM
1986
Herman Hellerstein M.D.
Norman Jones M.B.B.S.
Wendell Stainsby Sc.D., FACSM
1987
David Amiel Ph.D., FACSM
C. Gunnar Blomqvist M.D.
Ralph Paffenbarger, M.D., DrPH,Dsc,FACSM
1988
William Haskell Ph.D., FACSM
Francis Nagle Ph.D., FACSM
Savio Lau-Yen Woo Ph.D.
1989
John Bergfeld M.D., FACSM
Jerome Dempsey Ph.D., FACSM
Carl Gisolfi Ph.D.
Richard Nelson Ph.D.
1990s

1990
Henry Miller, Jr., M.D., FACSM
William Morgan, Ed.D., FACSM
John Sutton, M.D.
Brian Whipp, Ph.D., D.Sc., FACSM
1991
Herbert deVries, Ph.D., FACSM
John Feagin, M.D.
Roy Jesse Shephard, Ph.D., FACSM
Peter Wood, DHSc, FACSM
1992
R. James Barnard, Ph.D., FACSM
Claude Bouchard, Ph.D., FACSM
1993
Kenneth Baldwin, Ph.D., FACSM
George Brooks, Ph.D., FACSM
David Lamb, Ph.D., FACSM
Lyle Micheli, M.D., FACSM
1994
Steven Blair, P.E.D., FACSM
Frank Booth, Ph.D., FACSM
Neil Oldridge, Ph.D., FACSM
Michael Pollock, Ph.D.
Nanette Wenger, M.D.
1995
Arthur Leon, M.D., FACSM
Peter Raven, Ph.D., FACSM
John Reeves, M.D.
Christine Wells, Ph.D., FACSM
1996
Robert Cantu, M.D., FACSM
Emily Haymes, Ph.D., FACSM
Timothy Noakes, M.D., FACSM
Russell Pate, Ph.D., FACSM
Ronald Terjung, Ph.D., FACSM
1997
Robert Armstrong, Ph.D.
Oded Bar-Or, M.D., FACSM
John Boyer, M.D., FACSM
Peter Cavanagh, Ph.D., FACSM
Priscilla Clarkson, Ph.D., FACSM
Robert Malina, Ph.D., FACSM
1998
G. Lynis Dohm, Ph.D.
W. Ben Kibler, M.D., FACSM
M. Harold Laughlin, Ph.D., FACSM
Ilkka Vuori, M.D., Ph.D., FACSM
Timothy White, Ph.D., FACSM
1999
Robert Fitts, Ph.D., FACSM
William Garrett,, Jr. M.D.,Ph.D., FACSM
John Edward Greenleaf, Ph.D.
Terence Kavanagh, M.D.
Paavo Komi, Ph.D., FACSM
Ethan Nadel, Ph.D.
2000s

2000
Peter Brukner, M.D., FACSM
Lawrence Golding, Ph.D., FACSM
John Naughton, M.D., FACSM
Charlotte Tate, Ph.D., FACSM
2001
Gaston Beunen, Ph.D., FACSM
Kenneth Cooper, M.D., FACSM
Henrik Galbo, M.D.
John Lombardo, M.D., FACSM
2002
Barry Franklin, Ph.D., FACSM
Howard Green, Ph.D.
Han Kemper, Ph.D., FACSM
James Puffer, M.D., FACSM
2003
Douglas McKeag, M.D., FACSM
Frederick Mueller, Ph.D., FACSM
Kent Pandolf, Ph.D., FACSM
Douglas Seals, Ph.D.
2004
Peter Farrell, Ph.D., FACSM
James Hagberg, Ph.D., FACSM
Stanley Herring, M.D., FACSM
Kenneth Powell, M.D., FACSM
2005
Warren Howe, M.D., FACSM
John Ivy, Ph.D., FACSM
Scott Powers, Ed.D., Ph.D., FACSM
Erik Richter, M.D.
2006
Barbara Ainsworth, Ph.D., M.P.H., FACSM
Victor Convertino, Ph.D., FACSM
Edward Coyle, Ph.D., FACSM
Robert J. Johnson, M.D., FACSM
James Sallis, Jr., Ph.D., FACSM
2007
Edward Howley, Ph.D., FACSM
Benjamin Levine, M.D., FACSM
Ronald Maughan, Ph.D., FACSM
James Peterson, Ph.D., FACSM
Angela Smith, M.D., FACSM
2008
W. Larry Kenney, Ph.D., FACSM
Anne Loucks, Ph.D., FACSM
William Roberts, M.D., FACSM
2009
Louise Burke, Ph.D., FACSM
Kirk Cureton, Ph.D., FACSM
Carl Foster, Ph.D., FACSM
Patty Freedson, Ph.D., FACSM
Michael Joyner, M.D., FACSM
2010s

2010
J. Larry Durstine, Ph.D., FACSM
Wendy Kohrt, Ph.D., FACSM
Constance Lebrun, M.D., FACSM
Michael Sawka, Ph.D., FACSM
Willem van Mechelen, M.D.,Ph.D., FACSM
2011
I-Min Lee, M.D., FACSM
Robert McMurray, Ph.D., FACSM
Linda Pescatello, Ph.D., FACSM
Robert Robertson, Ph.D., FACSM
Robert Sallis, M.D., FACSM
2012
Gregory Cartee, Ph.D., FACSM
Michael Hogan, Ph.D., FACSM
Anne McTiernan, M.D., Ph.D., FACSM
Melinda Millard-Stafford, Ph.D., FACSM
Rainer Rauramaa, M.D., Ph.D., MSc, FACSM
2013
J. Mark Davis, Ph.D., FACSM
Harold W. Kohl, Ph.D., FACSM
Timothy I. Musch, Ph.D., FACSM
Miriam Nelson, Ph.D., FACSM
David Nieman, Ph.D., FACSM
Andrew Young, Ph.D., FACSM
2014
Thomas Best, M.D., Ph.D., FACSM
Bente Kiens, Ph.D., Sc.D.
Sandra Mahecha Matsudo, M.D.
Victor Matsudo, M.D.
James Pivarnik, Ph.D., FACSM
Paul Thompson, M.D., FACSM
Antronette Yancey, M.D.
2015
L. Bruce Gladden, Ph.D., FACSM
Alan R. Hargens, Ph.D., FACSM
Mary Lloyd Ireland, M.D., FACSM
Richard G. Israel, Ed.D., FACSM
Bess Marcus, Ph.D.
Janice L. Thompson, Ph.D., FACSM
2016
Adrian Bauman, M.D., Ph.D.
Susan Bloomfield, Ph.D., FACSM
Rodney Dishman, Ph.D., FACSM
Melinda Manore, Ph.D., R.D., FACSM
Francis O'Connor, M.D., FACSM
Margot Putukian, M.D., FACSM
2017
Jack Berryman, Ph.D., FACSM
Loretta DiPietro, Ph.D., M.P.H., FACSM
Mark Hargreaves, Ph.D., FACSM
Michael Pratt, M.D., M.S.P.E., M.P.H., FACSM
Stephen Rice, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H., FACSM
Robert Ross, Ph.D., FACSM
2018
Lawrence Armstrong, Ph.D., FACSM
David Bassett, Jr., Ph.D., FACSM
Mary Jane DeSouza, Ph.D., FACSM
William Dexter, M.D., FACSM
Sandra Hoffmann, M.D., FACSM
J. Timothy Lightfoot, Ph.D., FACSM
Janet Walberg Rankin, Ph.D., FACSM
2019
Carol Ewing Garber, Ph.D., FACSM
John Jakicic, Ph.D., FACSM
David C. Poole, Ph.D., FACSM
Lawrence L. Spriet, Ph.D., FACSM
2020s

2020
Rosemary Agostini, M.D., FACSM
Ulf Ekelund, Ph.D., FACSM
Mark R. Hutchinson, M.D., FACSM
Andrew M. Jones, Ph.D., FACSM
Elizabeth A. Joy, M.D., MPH, FACSM
William J. Kraemer, Ph.D., FACSM
2021
Bo Fernhall, Ph.D., FACSM
Jonathan N. Myers, Ph.D., FACSM
Neville G. Owen, Ph.D.
Stuart Phillips, Ph.D., FACSM
Randall L. Wilber, Ph.D., FACSM
2022
Cindy J. Chang, M.D., FACSM
Peter T. Katzmarzyk, Ph.D., FACSM
Kathryn Schmitz, Ph.D., MPH, FACSM
Walter R. Thompson, Ph.D., FACSM
2023
Tony G. Babb, Ph.D., FACSM
Craig G. Crandall, Ph.D., FACSM
Jorge E. Franchella, M.D., FACSM
Li Li Ji, Ph.D., FACSM
Jill A. Kanaley, Ph.D., FACSM
Kathy H. Myburgh, Ph.D., FACSM
2024
Kathryn E. Ackerman, M.D., MPH, FACSM
Joseph E. Donnelly, Ed.D., FACSM
William G. Herbert, Ph.D., FACSM
William E. Kraus, M.D., FACSM
Andrea Kriska, Ph.D., FACSM
Deborah A. Riebe, Ph.D., FACSM

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Honor & Citation Awards

Nomination Process

Honor Award

Citation Award

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