Founders

The Founders’ Medal is presented in honour of the initiators of the International Skeletal Society and its former Presidents, Harold Jacobson, Ronald O Murray and Jack Edeiken, that they may be preserved in memory for future generations.

The medal is awarded annually to one person for those who have distinguished themselves through their outstanding dedication to the International Skeletal Society and by excellence in their field of science.

Persons Awarded by Meeting

  2024 – Julie Fanburg-Smith, MD – Montreal, Quebec
  2023 – Lawrence White, MD – London, England
  2022 – Mark Kransdorf, MD – Barcelona, Spain
  2021 – Not Awarded
  2020 – William Palmer, MD - Presented in 2022 - Barcelona, Spain
  2019 – Daniel Rosenthal, MD – Vancouver, Canada
  2018 – Lynne Steinbach, MD – Berlin, Germany
  2017 – Michael Klein, MD – New York, New York, USA
  2016 – A. Mark Davies, MD – Paris, France
  2015 – Javier Beltran, MD – Maui, Hawaii, USA
  2014 – Klaus Bohndorf, MD – Edinburgh, Scotland
  2013 – Murali Sundaram, MD, MBBS, FRCR – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
  2012 – Leonard Kahn, MD – Rome, Italy
  2011 – Daniel Vanel, MD; Herwig Imhof, MD – San Diego, California, USA
  2010 – Jeremy Kaye, MD – Athens, Greece
  2009 – Harry Genant, MD – Washington, D.C., USA
  2008 – Iain McCall, FRCR – New Delhi, India
  2007 – Michael Pitt, MD; Judith Adams, FRCR – Budapest, Hungary
  2006 – Jurgen Freyschmidt, MD – Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
  2005 – Peter Bullough, MD – Singapore
  2004 – Holger Petterson, MD – St. Julians, Malta
  2003 – Michael Kyriakos, MD – San Francisco, California, USA
  2002 – Don Resnick, MD – Geneva, Switzerland
  2001 – Alain Chevrot, MD – Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
  2000 – Frieda Feldman, MD – Barcelona, Spain
  1999 – Lee F Rogers, MD – Seattle, Washington, USA
  1998 – Murray K Dalinka, MD – Dublin, Ireland
  1997 – Andrew Poznanski, MD – Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
  1996 – Alex Norman, MD – Paris, France
  1995 – Friedrich H W Heuck, MD – New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
  1994 – Akbar Bonakdarpour, MD – Berlin, Germany
  1993 – William Martel, MD – Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  1992 – Mario Campanacci, MD – Stockholm, Sweden
  1991 – John A Kirkpatrick Jr, MD – San Diego, California, USA
  1990 – Gwilym S Lodwick, MD – Salzburg, Austria
  1989 – David C Dahlin, MD – New York, New York, USA