The American College of Sports Medicine® (ACSM) recognized several distinguished award recipients at its annual meeting and world congresses held May 31-June 5 in San Diego, CA. The ACSM Awards and Tributes Committee presented the organization’s most prestigious awards, Honor and Citations Awards, to honorees for their contributions. Due to the pandemic, which did not allow for an in-person annual meeting since 2019, award winners were recognized for the following years: 2020, 2021 and 2022.
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. The following individuals were recognized:
2020 Award Winner
Charlotte (Toby) Tate, Ph.D., FACSM
University of Illinois-Chicago
Chicago, Illinois
2021 Award Winner
Lyle J. Micheli, M.D., FACSM
Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA
2022 Award Winner
W. Larry Kenney, Ph.D., FACSM
Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA
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. The following individuals were recognized:
2020 Citation Award Winners
Rosemary Agostini, M.D., FACSM
Kaiser Permanente Washington
Seattle, Washington
Ulf Ekelund, Ph.D., FACSM
Norwegian School of Sport Science
Oslo, Norway
Mark R. Hutchinson, M.D., FACSM
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, Illinois
Andrew M. Jones, Ph.D., FACSM
University of Exeter
Exeter, United Kingdom
William J. Kraemer, Ph.D., FACSM
The Ohio State University
Columbus, Ohio
Elizabeth A. Joy, M.D., M.P.H., FACSM
Intermountain Healthcare
Salt Lake City, Utah
2021 Citation Award Winners
Bo Fernhall, Ph.D., FACSM
University of Illinois
Chicago, IL
Jonathan N. Myers, Ph.D., FACSM
VA Palo Alto Health Care System
Palo Alto, CA
Neville G. Owen, Ph.D.
Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute
Melbourne, VI, Australia
Stuart Phillips, Ph.D., FACSM
McMaster University
Hamilton, ON, Canada
Randall L. Wilber, Ph.D., FACSM
US Olympic Committee
Colorado Springs, CO
2022 Citation Award Winners
Cindy J. Chang, M.D., FACSM
University of California-San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
Peter T. Katzmarzyk, Ph.D., FACSM
Pennington Biomedical Research Center
Baton Rouge, LA
Kathryn H. Schmitz, Ph.D., MPH, FACSM
Penn State Cancer Institute
Hershey, PA
Walter R. Thompson, Ph.D., FACSM
Georgia State University
Atlanta, GA
Click here for bios of these prestigious honorees. Individual images of honorees accepting their award are available upon request by contacting Sharon Smith at ssmith@acsm.org.