Recipients of the John P. McGovern Award

2010    Michael Bleich and Members of the Committee on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Initiative on the Future of Nursing, at the Institute of Medicine

2009    40th Anniversary Celebration (no award given)

2008    Susan Hassmiller, Senior Adviser, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

2007    Paul Farmer, Founding Director, Partners In Health

2006    Louis W.  Sullivan, Dean Emeritus, Morehouse School of Medicine

2005    Catherine Rick, Chief Nursing Officer, Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration , Washington, DC

2004    Linda H. Aiken, Director, Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research, University of Pennsylvania

2003    Donna Shalala, President, University of Miami and Former Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

2002    David Lawrence, Chairman and CEO, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc.

2001    Elizabeth Norman, Author, We Band of Angels, Professor, New York University School of Nursing

2000    Mary Wakefield, Director, Center for Health Policy and Research, George Mason University

1999    Faith Gabelnick, President, Pacific University

1998    Juliet Garcia, President, University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College

1997    Ruth Lubic, Maternity Center Association

1996    Shirley Chater, Commissioner of Social Security

1995    Roger Bulger, President, Association of Academic Health Centers