Gold Medal Award

In Appreciation of Henry W. Lim, MD, FAAD

For your dedication and leadership in dermatology and in recognition of your many contributions to the American Academy of Dermatology, most notably as a former President and Vice President and as a champion of inclusivity within the specialty. You are a seventeen-time Presidential Citation awardee and recipient of the Academy’s Honorary Membership for a ‘lifetime’ of leadership, dedication, and distinguished service to dermatology and the goals of the Academy. For decades of service on numerous councils, committees, task forces, ad hoc task forces, and workgroups including the Council on Science & Research, Scientific Assembly Committee, and Ad Hoc Task Force on Burden of Skin Disease. You continue to serve the Academy as a member of the Sunscreens Workgroup and Skin Cancer and Skin of Color Workgroup.

With 50 years of prestigious service to dermatology as a world’s authority and leading international expert on photodermatology and vitiligo, both in academia and clinical research, you established a robust clinical and laboratory research program at Henry Ford Health and you advanced the understanding and treatment of pigmentary conditions, especially in people with skin of color.

You were recognized in 2022 as one of Newsweek’s Top 50 best medical dermatologists in the United States and you were listed in the top 20 authors in dermatology from 2010-2019 per the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, for publishing more than 700 articles and editing 11 textbooks with over 41,000 citations in Google Scholar and h-index of 103. And expertscape.com cited you as the world top-rated expert on sunscreens.

For your ongoing commitment to share your dermatologic knowledge as the president of the International League of Dermatological Societies, which consists of over 200 international societies from over 100 countries as members, representing over 180,000 dermatologists with a mission of championing dermatology and skin health to ensure its inclusion in global health policy. Accordingly, you were honored as a “Giant of Dermatology” by Dermatology Times.

For the many honors awarded to you by your peers including the Fred W. Whitehouse, MD, Distinguished Career Award of the Henry Ford Medical Group, the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology International Scientific Achievement Award, the Finsen Medal from the International Union of Photobiology, the Everett C. Fox Memorial Lectureship and the Clarence S. Livingood MD Memorial Lectureship from the AAD, and honorary membership in international dermatological societies including Austria, France, the Philippines, China, the Baltics, Spain, Taiwan, Peru, and CILAD.

In recognition of all these accomplishments and many more, the American Academy of Dermatology awards to you its highest honor — the Gold Medal — which represents the utmost respect and esteem in which you are held.

1962: Henry E. Michelson, MD
1963: Stephen Rothman, MD
1966: Donald M. Pillsbury, MD
1967: Marion B. Sulzberger, MD
1972: J. Lamar Callaway, MD
1975: Clarence S. Livingood, MD
1978: Rudolf L. Baer, MD
1984: Walter C. Lobitz Jr., MD
1986: Naomi M. Kanof, MD
1987: Rees B. Rees, MD
1989: Harvey Blank, MD
1990: Peyton E. Weary, MD
1991: Robert W. Goltz, MD
1992: Walter B. Shelley, MD
1993: Clayton E. Wheeler Jr., MD
1995: John S. Strauss, MD
1996: Edward A. Krull, MD
1997: G. Thomas Jansen, MD
1998: Harold O. Perry, MD
1999: E. William Rosenberg, MD
2000: Alfred W. Kopf, MD
2001: John A. Kenney Jr., MD
2002: Mark V. Dahl, MD
2003: Edgar B. Smith, MD
2004: Paul S. Russell, MD
2005: Rex A. Amonette, MD
2006: Coleman Jacobson, MD
2007: Stephen B. Webster, MD
2008: Frances J. Storrs, MD
2010: J. Graham Smith Jr., MD
2011: Richard B. Odom, MD
2012: C. William Hanke, MD, MPH
2013: Alan R. Shalita, MD
2014: William D. James, MD
2015: June K. Robinson, MD
2016: Darrell S. Rigel, MD
2017: David M. Pariser, MD
2018: Stephen I. Katz, MD, PhD
2019: Jean L. Bolognia, MD
2020: R. “Rox” Anderson, MD
2021: Dirk M. Elston, MD
2022: Mark Lebwohl, MD
2023: Daniel Mark Siegel, MD, MS
2024: Clifford Warren Lober, MD, JD, FAAD
2025: Boni E. Elewski, MD, FAAD
2026: Henry W. Lim, MD, FAAD