Gold Medal Award

In Appreciation Daniel Mark Siegel, MD, MS, FAAD

For your dedication to the pursuit of excellence and tireless mentorship of hundreds of dermatologists at all career levels, recognizing and inspiring new talent, and your continuing quest to single-handedly defend the values of dermatology procedure codes and serve as the largest influencer on dermatology reimbursement.

In recognition of your contributions to the American Academy of Dermatology, most notably as president of the Academy and IT editor of the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology. As chair of the Nominating Committee, Council on Community, Corporate & Philanthropic Relations, and Corporate Relations Committee — to name just a few — as well as a member of numerous other committees, task forces, ad hoc task forces, and workgroups.

For exemplary service at SUNY Stony Brook where you founded the division of dermatologic surgery, ran the division for 12 years, and established a fellowship training program from which many of the area’s practitioners graduated while actively teaching medical students and dermatology residents.

In honor of your many presidential citations; particularly for your more than 25 years of unstinting service representing the specialty and the American Academy of Dermatology Association on the American Medical Association Relative Value Update Committee, and as the 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 your ongoing commitment to share your dermatologic knowledge through teaching and landmark publications, most notably as editor of the textbook Surgery of the Skin: Procedural Dermatology, contributing Editor of Dermatologic Surgery journal, and author of more than 200 scientific papers, as well as over 600 lectures that have been presented at national and international congresses and owner of two patents.

For the many honors awarded to you by your peers including the President’s Volunteer Service Award from the President’s Council on Service and Civic Participation and the American College of Mohs Surgery Distinguished Service Award

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