Award Recipients

ACVS Founders’ Award for Career Achievement Recipients

2005 – Wade O. Brinker, DVM, MS
2006 – C. Wayne McIlwraith, BVSc, PhD
2007 – Fred P. Sattler, DVM
2008 – William Lumb, DVM, PhD, DSc
2009 – Donald L. Piermattei, DVM, PhD
2011 – Steven P. Arnoczky, DVM
2012 – Stephen J. Withrow, DVM
2013 – A. Simon Turner, BVSc, MS
2014 – Susan M. Stover, DVM, PhD
2015 – Alan J. Nixon, BVSc
2016 – Michael M. Pavletic, DVM
2017 – Jörg A. Auer, DMV, MS
2018 – Larry R. Bramlage, DVM, MS
2019 – James L. Tomlinson, DVM, MVSc
2020 – Dean W. Richardson, DVM
2021 – Norm G. Ducharme, DMV, MSc
2022 – David E. Freeman, MVB, PhD
2023 – Steven Budsberg, DVM, MS, DACVS
2024 – Amy S. Kapatkin, DVM, MAS, DACVS

ACVS Merit Award Recipients

2003 – Steven F. Swaim, DVM, MS
2005 – Geoffrey Sumner-Smith, MSc, DVSc, FRCVS
2006 – Barclay Slocum, DVM, MS (posthumously)
2010 – Gretchen L. Flo, DVM, MS
2012 – Thomas M. Turner, DVM
2013 – Aldo Vezzoni, medvet, SCMPA, DECVS
2015 – Padraic M. Dixon, MVB, PhD, MRCVS, Dip EVDC (EQ)
2017 – James N. Moore, DVM, PhD
2019 – Gail K. Smith, VMD, PhD
2020 – John Schumacher, DVM, MS, DACVIM
2022 – Thomas P. Schaer, VMD
2023 – K. Jack Easley, DVM, MS, DABVP (Equine), DAVDC (Equine)

Distinguished Service Award Recipients

1985 – Richard L. Rudy, DVM, MSc
1985 – Benjamin F. Hoerlein, DVM, PhD
1985 – Alfred G. Schiller, DVM, MS, and Carolyn Schiller
1986 – Wade O. Brinker, DVM, MS
1986 – Vladimir Sokolovsky, MS, PhD
1987 – James Archibald, DVM
1987 – R. Bruce Hohn, DVM, MS (posthumously)
1988 – Robert P. Knowles, DVM (posthumously)
1989 – Fred P. Sattler, DVM

Al and Carolyn Schiller Distinguished Service Award Recipients

1992 – William J. Donawick, DVM
1994 – Ghery D. Pettit, DVM
1997 – John “Jack” F. Fessler, DVM, MS
2009 – Alan J. Lipowitz, DVM, MS
2011 – Robert A. Taylor, DVM, MS
2016 – Nathaniel A. White II, DVM, MS
2021 – Cheryl S. Hedlund, DVM, MS
2021 – Ann L. Johnson, DVM, MS 
2023 – P.O. Eric Mueller, DVM, PhD, DACVS
2024 – Karen K. Cornell, DVM, PhD, DACVS

ACVS Foundation Legends Award Recipients

2005 – George Wilson, VMD, MSc
2006 – Martin P. DeAngelis, DVM
2007 – Charles W. Raker, VMD
2008 – Marvin Olmstead, DVM, MS
2009 – George E. Eyster, VMD, MS
2010 – Larry R. Bramlage, DVM, MS
2011 – Robert L. Leighton, VMD
2012 – H. Phil Hobson, DVM, MS
2014 – Barrie D. Grant, DVM, MS
2015 – Donald L. Piermattei, DVM, PhD
2016 – Jon F. Dee, DVM, MS
2017 – Bruce L. Hull, DVM
2018 – Joseph J. Foerner Jr, DVM
2019 – C. Wayne McIlwraith, BVSc, PhD
2020 – Lloyd “Jock” P. Tate, Jr., VMD, DABLSM, MFH
2021 – Clarence A. Rawlings, DVM, PhD
2022 – David J. DeYoung, DVM, DACVS
2023 – Timothy C. McCarthy, DVM, PhD, DACVS

ACVS Foundation Lynn Wheaton Philanthropy Award

2023 – Dominic J. Marino, DVM, DACVS
2024 – Shannon K. Reed, DVM, MS, DACVS (Large Animal)