Cobb Lifetime Achievement Awardees



 

Each year The Cobb Institute awards the W. Montague Cobb Lifetime Achievement Award and the the Cato T. Laurencin M.D. Ph.D. Lifetime Research Award. Recipients of these awards are honored at the Opening and Awards Ceremony of the NMA Convention and Scientific Assembly and presented by the Executive Director and the Chair of the Steering and Oversight Committee for The Cobb Institute. A W. Montague Cobb Reception in their honor is also held on the evening of each W. Montague Cobb Scientific Symposium and Lectureship held at the Convention. 

W. Montague Cobb Lifetime Achievement Award 

About the Award

Cato T. Laurencin Lifetime Research Award

About the Award 

2023

W. Montague Cobb Lifetime Achievement Award

Wayne A. I. Frederick, M.D., M.B.A.

Cato T. Laurencin M.D., Ph.D., Lifetime Research Award

Neil Powe, M.D., M.P.H., M.B.A.

W. Montague Cobb Lecturer

Ruth J. Simmons, Ph.D. 


2022

W. Montague Cobb Lifetime Achievement Award

Cato T. Laurencin M.D., Ph.D., Lifetime Research Award

Ezra Griffith, M.D.
W. Montague Cobb Lecturer
Valerie Montgomery Rice, M.D., FACOG

2021

W. Montague Cobb Lifetime Achievement Award

Cato T. Laurencin M.D., Ph.D., Lifetime Research Award

Hannah Valantine, M.D.

W. Montague Cobb Lecturer

2020

W. Montague Cobb Lifetime Achievement Award

Cato T. Laurencin M.D., Ph.D., Lifetime Research Award

Mae C. Jemison, M.D.

W. Montague Cobb Lecturer 

2019

W. Montague Cobb Lifetime Achievement Award

Carolyn Barley-Britton, M.D.
Cato T. Laurencin M.D., Ph.D., Lifetime Research Award
 
Griffin P. Rodgers, M.D., MACP

 

2018

W. Montague Cobb Lifetime Achievement Award

Nelson Adams, M.D.
Cato T. Laurencin M.D., Ph.D., Lifetime Research Award 
 
Camara P. Jones, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D.

 

2017

W. Montague Cobb Lifetime Achievement Award

Edith Mitchell, M.D., FACP, FCPP

Cato T. Laurencin M.D., Ph.D., Lifetime Research Award 
Virginia Caine, M.D., M.P.H.

 

2016

W. Montague Cobb Lifetime Achievement Award

Reed V. Tuckson, M.D., FACP
Cato T. Laurencin M.D., Ph.D., Lifetime Research Award 
 
James R. Gavin III, M.D., Ph.D.

2015

W. Montague Cobb Lifetime Achievement Award

Cato T. Laurencin M.D., Ph.D., Lifetime Research Award 


2014

W. Montague Cobb Lifetime Achievement Award 
John Ruffin, Ph.D.
Retired Director of the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities

Cato T. Laurencin Lifetime Research Award
Alvin A. Poussaint M.D., Professor, Harvard University

2013 

W. Montague Cobb Lifetime Achievement Award
Roselyn Payne Epps, M.D., M.P.H., M.A.

Cato T. Laurencin M.D., Ph.D., Lifetime Research Award
Beny J. Primm, M.D.
 

2012

W. Montague Cobb Lifetime Achievement Award

Louis Sullivan, M.D.
Cato T. Laurencin M.D., Ph.D., Lifetime Research Award 
Kenneth Olden Ph.D., Sc.D, L.H.D.

2011

W. Montague Cobb Lifetime Achievement Award

LaSalle Leffall M.D.
Cato T. Laurencin M.D., Ph.D., Lifetime Research Award 
Jane Cooke Wright M.D.
 
 

2010

W. Montague Cobb Lifetime Achievement Award

John Nelson M.D., MPH
W. Montague Cobb Lecturer 
Robert Satcher, M.D., Ph.D.

 

2009

W. Montague Cobb Lifetime Achievement Award

Vivian W. Pinn, M.D.
W. Montague Cobb Lecturer 
Roderic I. Pettigrew, Ph.D., M.D.

 

2008

W. Montague Cobb Lifetime Achievement Award

David Satcher, M.D., Ph.D.

2007

W. Montague Cobb Lifetime Achievement Award

Edith Irby Jones M.D.
 

2006

W. Montague Cobb Lifetime Achievement Award

W. Michael Byrd, M.D, MPH