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.
Past alumni honorees
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