Created in 1989, the Distinguished Alumni Scholarship Program (DASP) grants four entering students per year a four-year, full-tuition scholarship, for a total of 16 DASP students at the school at one time. Institutional funds are blended with annual support to the Medical Teaching Fund to make these scholarships possible.

The Washington University Medical Center Alumni Association (WUMCAA) Executive Council is connected to DASP through both the funding of the scholarships and the honoring of alumni. Each year, the Executive Council selects four outstanding alumni to honor as namesakes of these scholarships. Each student’s scholarship bears the name of an alumnus or alumna who has served on the School of Medicine faculty, past or present, with particular distinction.

A faculty committee selects the students based on exceptional academic achievement and character. Students who continue to meet eligibility requirements will hold the scholarships until they graduate.

Each fall, the new student scholarship recipients and alumni honorees gather at a luncheon where the students have the opportunity to meet the outstanding alumni for whom their scholarships are named.

2018-2019 DASP Honorees and Student Recipients
2018-2019 DASP Honorees and Student Recipients

Alumni honorees

2024-2025

Seth Eisen, MD ’66
Joel Goebel, MD ’80
Julie Schwarz, MD ’04
Kwee Liu Lin Thio, MD ’92

2023-2024

Aaron Hamvas, MD ’81
Jessica Pittman, MD ’04
Amy Riek, MD ’05
Justin Sadhu, MD ’07

2022-2023

Robert Heuckeroth, MD/PhD ’90
Alison Snyder-Warwick, MD ’04
David Wilson, MD/PhD ’86

2021 – 2022

Amanda Cashen, MD ’99
Daniel Goldberg, MD/PhD ’85
Rachel Presti, MD/PhD ’01
Colleen Wallace, MD ’01

2020 – 2021

Ericka Hayes, MD ’98
Steven Lawrence, MD ’97
Kimberly Quayle, MD ’88
Cynthia Rogers, MD ’05

2019 – 2020

Nancy Bartlett, MD ’86
Sam Bhayani, MD ’96
Eva Hurst, MD ’02
Matthew Mutch, MD ’94

2018 – 2019

Rakhee Bhayani, MD ’99
Tessa Madden, MD ’01
Eugene Rubin, PhD ’77, MD ’78
Garry Tobin, MD ’85, HS ’90

2017 – 2018

Eric Lenze, MD ’94
Lynne Seacord, MD ’86
Peter Westervelt, MD ’92
Megan Wren, MD ’85

2016 – 2017

R. Mark Grady, MD ’89
Judith C. Lieu, MD ’92
Lisa M. Moscoso, MD/PhD ’98, HS ’02
Janice Wann Semenkovich, MD ’81

2015 – 2016

Thomas Bailey, MD ’84, HS ’87
Thomas Baranski, MD/PhD ’92
Robert Cloninger, MD ’70
David Hunstad, MD ’95

2014 – 2015

Angela Brown, MD ’92
Brian Dieckgraefe, MD/PhD ’88, HS ’92
James Forsen, MD ’88, HS ’94
Bradley Schlaggar, MD/PhD ’94, HS ’96, HS ’99

2013 – 2014

Carlos Daughaday, MD ’71
William Stenson, MD ’71
Leonard Bacharier, MD ’92
Linda Peterson, MD ’90

2012 – 2013

John N. Constantino, MD ’88
Harvey S. Glazer, MD ’76
Scot G. Hickman, MD ’70
M. Alan Permutt, MD ’65

2011 – 2012

Laura Bierut, MD ’87
Michael Crowder, MD/PhD ’89
Bradley Evanoff, MD ’86
Stanley Wald, MD ’46

2010 – 2011

George E. Murphy, MD ’52
Will R. Ross, MD ’84, MPH
Joseph F. Ruwitch Jr., MD ’66
Llewellyn Sale Jr., MD ’40

2009 – 2010

Jennifer Wray Cole, MD ’84
Paul R. Manske, MD ’64
William J. Ross, MD ’72
Robert A. Swarm, MD ’83

2008 – 2009

Ellen F. Binder, MD ’81
Keith H. Bridwell, MD ’77
Emily L. Smith, MD ’68
Alison J. Whelan, MD ’86

2007 – 2008

Louis P. Dehner, MD ’66
Jerome J. Gilden, MD ’52
Lawrence M. Kotner Jr., MD ’68
Mark J. Manary, MD ’82

2006 – 2007

Elmer B. Brown Jr., MD ’50
Lewis C. Fischbein, MD ’74
Richard W. Hudgens, MD ’56
Bernard L. Shore, MD ’77

2005 – 2006

Marc R. Hammerman, MD ’72
Timothy J. Ley, MD ’78
David G. Mutch, MD ’80
Bradley T. Thach, MD ’68

2004 – 2005

Sidney Goldring, MD ’47
Maurice J. Lonsway Jr., MD ’50
Donald G. Sessions, MD ’62
Larry J. Shapiro, MD ’71

2003 – 2004

Walter Benoist, MD ’72
James Fleshman, MD ’80
Alexis F. Hartmann Jr., MD ’51
Clay Semenkovich, MD ’81
Stuart Weiss, MD ’54

2002 – 2003

Deborah Gersell, MD ’75
Alan Lyss, MD ’76
Paul Mennes, MD ’70
Frederick Peterson, MD ’57

2001 – 2002

Stuart A. Kornfeld, MD ’62
Robert H. Lund, MD ’49
Stanley J. Birge Jr., MD ’63
Alan L. Pearlman, MD ’61

2000 – 2001

J. William Campbell, MD ’77
David B. Clifford, MD ’77
D. Michael Nelson, MD ’77
Arnold W. Strauss, MD ’70

1999 – 2000

Robert S. Karsh, MD ’52
Mary L. Parker, MD ’53
Gary A. Ratkin, MD ’67

1998 – 1999

John D. Davidson, MD ’52
Mark E. Frisse, MD ’78
Philip E. Majerus, MD ’61
Gustav Schonfeld, MD ’60
Gary D. Shackelford, MD ’68

1997 – 1998

Samuel B. Guze, MD ’45
William M. Landau, MD ’47
Barry A. Siegel, MD ’69
Steven L. Teitelbaum, MD ’64

1996 – 1997

Ronald G. Evens, MD ’64
Bernard T. Garfinkel, MD ’48
Benjamin Milder, MD ’39
Grace E. Bergner, MD ’43

1995 – 1996

Allan E. Kolker, MD ’57
Barbara Monsees, MD ’75
Robert C. Packman, MD ’56
Gordon W. Philpott, MD ’61

1994 – 1995

Ira J. Kodner, MD ’67
Nicholas Kouchoukos, MD ’61
Gerald Medoff, MD ’62
Penelope Shackelford, MD ’68

1993 – 1994

Leonard Berg, MD ’49
Robert C. Drews, MD ’55
John Kissane, MD ’52
J. Neal Middelkamp, MD ’48

1992 – 1993

David Goldring, MD ’40
I. Jerome Flance, MD ’35
Charles W. Parker, MD ’53
Jessie Ternberg, MD, PhD ’53

1991 – 1992

John C. Herweg, MD ’45
Virgil Loeb Jr., MD ’44
George Sato, MD ’47
Hyamn R. Senturia, MD ’33

1990 – 1991

Justin J. Cordonnier, MD ’28
Paul O. Hagemann, MD ’34
Edward H. Reinhard, MD ’39
Frederick C. Reynolds, MD ’34

1989 – 1990

Eugene Bricker, MD ’34
Alexis Hartmann Sr., MD ’21
Carl V. Moore, MD ’32
Mildred Trotter, PhD ’24