The Henry D. Chadwick Medal
The Henry D. Chadwick Medal is the highest honor awarded by the Massachusetts Thoracic Section of the American Lung Association of New England’s Medical & Scientific Branch for meritorious contributions in the study and treatment of tuberculosis and other thoracic diseases. The sole criteria for nominees is that they should be outstanding in some field of pulmonary disease. The candidates do not necessarily have to be physicians, but their major professional activities, whether of local or international acclaim, should have been in Massachusetts.
The first Chadwick medal was given to Doctor Chadwick in 1964, when he was 90 years old. Doctor Chadwick had always wanted to be a physician, but first worked in pharmacies while being tutored in order to enter medical school. He entered Harvard Medical School in 1891 and graduated cum laude. His major work focused on diagnosis and classification of juvenile tuberculosis.
Doctor Chadwick practiced medicine for 16 years and then he became ill with TB and spent some time at the Trudeau Hospital in Saranac Lake. Upon his return he became more active in public health by becoming a member of the Waltham Board of Health and being on the Board of the Channing Home for TB. He also lectured at Harvard Medical School and School of Public Health.
Doctor Chadwick was president of three local TB Associations in Massachusetts and of two state TB Associations – Massachusetts TB and Michigan. He became President Emeritus of the Massachusetts TB and Health League in 1945.
Doctor Chadwick’s belief that the use of the TB skin test was the most practical way of detecting tuberculosis is still in practice today. His work in the study and treatment of tuberculosis has done much to help us with the eradication of TB.
Massachusetts Thoracic Society Chadwick Medal Recipients 1964-2010
| 2011 | Dean R. Hess, PhD, RRT | |
| 2010 | Ronald C. Silvestri, M.D. | Clinician, teacher, role model for pulmonary trainees |
| 2009 | Raymond L.H. Murphy, Jr., M.D. | Clinician, Professor, Research in lung sounds, Co-founder International Lung Sounds Association |
| 2008 | David Michael Center | Clinician, Teacher, Research in Pulmonary Immunology |
| 2007 | Richard S. Irwin, MD | Clinician, Teacher, Researcher - Etiology and Management of Cough |
| 2006 | Edward A. Nardell, MD | Clinician, Teacher, Expert in TB Control |
| 2006 | John Bernardo, MD | Clinician, Researcher, Expert in TB Management, Including the Homeless Population |
| 2005 | Nicholas S. Hill, MD | Scientist, Teacher, Researcher - Pulmonary Vascular Biology, Clinical Pulmonary Hypertension, and Non-Invasive Mechanical Ventilation |
| 2004 | Jeffrey J. Fredberg, PhD | Teacher, Researcher - Airway Biology/ Physiology, Asthma |
| 2003 | Bartolome R. Celli, MD | Clinician, Teacher, Researcher, Physiologist, Pulmonary Rehab Specialist |
| 2002 | John F. Beamis, Jr., MD | Interventional Pulmonologist, Clinician, Teacher |
| Melvin W. First, Sc.D | Teacher, Researcher: Air Quality, Industrial Hygiene and Therapy | |
| 2001 | Barry L. Fanburg, MD | Teacher, Reseacher, Clinician; Sarcoidosis; Diagnosis and Therapy |
| 2000 | Jeffrey M. Drazen, MD | Clinician, Scientist, teacher; asthma genetics; treatment, physiology |
| 1999 | L. Jack Faling, MD | Clinician, Teacher, Administrator, Mentor and role model |
| 1997 | Frank E. Speizer, MD | Authority on the epidemiology of asthma and COPD: Researcher, Trainer |
| 1996 | Hermes C. Grillo, MD | Thoracic surgeon; new procedures for tracheal resection and reconstruction surgery, teacher and clinician |
| 1995 | Mary Ellen Wohl, MD | Pediatric Pulmonologist, physiology researcher in lung development, new therapies for cystic fibrosis, teacher and administrator |
| Blake Cady, MD | Anti-smoking Activist; Researcher & Surgeon In oncology | |
| 1994 | Jerome S. Brody, MD | Clinician-scientist in pulmonology; researcher in lung development and cell differentiation |
| 1992 | Joseph D. Brain, Sc.D | Teacher, researcher in pulmonary physiology and lung cell biology |
| 1991 | Dwight E. Harkin, MD | Cardiac & Thoracic Surgeon; TB Treatment Anti-Smoking Activist |
| 1990 | Earle B. Weiss, MD | Administrator, Teacher; Scientist Clinical & Laboratory |
| 1989 | Denise J. Strieder, MD | Pediatric Pulmonary Clinician; Researcher & Teacher |
| 1988 | Homayoun Kazemi, MD | Physiology Reseacher: Control of Breathing Pulmonary Clinician & Teacher |
| 1987 | Gustave A. Laurenzi, MD | Pulmonary Internist; Teacher & Raconteur |
| 1986 | Richard H. Overholt, MD | Thoracic Surgeon; Pioneer Crusader against cigarette smoking |
| Henning Pontoppidan, MD | Anesthesiologist; Pioneer in Respiratory Therapy and Chest Physical Therapy | |
| 1985 | Howard G. Turner, Jr., MD | Tuberculosis Specialist, Teacher |
| Lynne Reid, MD | Pathologist, Researcher: Bronchitis, Emphysema, and Pulmonary Hypertension | |
| 1983 | Mary K. Steinkrauss, RN | Massachusetts TB Program, Nurse Specialist (posthumously) |
| 1982 | Joan M. Tourigney, RN, RRT | Respiratory Therapist, Nurse Specialist (posthumously) |
| 1981 | Mary Ellen Avery, MD | Pediatric Intensivist, Researcher, Teacher & Administrator |
| 1980 | Gordon L. Snider, MD | Pulmonary Clinician, Teacher & Researcher: Respiratory Therapy, Emphysema |
| James L. Whittenberger, MD | Physiology Professor: Mechanics, Air Pollution | |
| 1979 | Harriet L. Hardy, MD | Occupational Disease Reseacher: berylliosis, "Black Lung" |
| 1978 | John H. Emerson, MD | Inventor: Iron Lung, 02 Tent, IPPB |
| 1976 | Harry Shwachman, MD | Pediatrics Professor, Cystic Fibrosis Pioneer |
| Donald A. Martin, MD | Phthisiotherapist & Sanatorium Administrator | |
| 1975 | Jeremiah Mead, MD | Phthisiotherapist & Sanatorium Administrator |
| 1974 | John W. Strieder, MD | Thoracic Surgeon, Teacher |
| 1972 | Theodore L. Badger, MD | Internist, Pulmonlogist, Tuberculosis Therapy, Teacher |
| Edward Welch, MD | Internist, Pulmonologist | |
| 1970 | Edward Gaensler, MD | Thoracic Surgeon, Physiologist Researcher Interstitial Lung Disease, Asbestosis |
| 1966 | Paul DeFault, MD | Phthisiotherapeutist & Sanatorium Administrator |
| 1965 | Cleaveland Floyd, MD | Phthisiologist: Therapeutic Pneumothorax |
| 1964 | Henry D. Chadwick, MD | Tuberculosis Specialist, Sanatorium Administrator, and Health Commissioner |
