Laureate Award: Robert Shields Abernathy Award

The laureate award for Arkansas was named after Robert Shields Abernathy, MD, FACP for all his work and dedication to the internal medicine field.

2024Carroll Scroggin Jr, MD
2023Eric Del Giacco, MD, FACP
2022Richard A. Hinkle Jr, MD, FACP
2021Naveen Patil, MD, FACP
2020John Holston MD, FACP
2019Omar Atiq, MD, FACP
2018Michael G. Mackey, MD, FACP
2017C. Lindsey Miller, MD, FACP
2016Laura Hutchins, MD, FACP
2015Robert C. Lavender, MD, FACP
2014David C. Covey, MD, FACP
2013Sara Tariq MD, FACP
2012Stephen P. Johnson MD, FACP
2011Robert Hopkins, MD FACP
2010Clark Fincher, MD, FACP
2009Robert D. Taylor, MD, FACP
2008Karl Straub, MD, FACP
2007Stephen Woodruff, MD, FACP
2006Joseph Matthew Beck, II, MD, FACP
2005Joseph Knight Bissett, MD, FACP
2004Rebecca Edge Martin, MD, ACP Member
2003Jerry Stewart, MD, FACP
2002James Ross Phillips, MD, FACP
2001Ray H. Hall, Jr, MD, FACP
2000John C. Schultz, MD, FACP
1999Raymond P. Miller, Sr., MD, FACP
1998Taylor A. Prewitt, MD, FACP
1997Allan S. Pirnique, MD, FACP
1996Robert W. Bradsher, Jr., MD, FACP
1995Donald L. Miller, MD, ACP Member
1994Louis Lee Sanders, MD, FACP
1993H. Van Smith, MD, FACP
1992John William Nuckolls, MD, FACP
1991Eleanor A. Lipsmeyer, MD, FACP
1990Eugene J. Towbin, MD, FACP
1989Arthur Haut, MD, FACP
1988Marvin L. Murphy, MD, FACP
1987James S. Adamson, MD, FACP
1986Audrey J. Thompson, MD, ACP Member
1985James E. Doherty, MD, FACP
1984 Larkin M. Wilson, MD, ACP Member

Winners prior to 1984, according to 1984 Governors' Newsletter, specific dates unknown:

Robert S. Abernathy, FACP
Joe B. Hall, FACP
Joseph H. Bates, FACP
S. William Ross, FACP
George L. Ackerman, FACP
Richard V. Ebert, MACP
William W. Stead, FACP
Jerome S. Levy, FACP

Early Career Physician Award

2026 - Sheena Carllee, MD, FACP & Ishita Gupta, MD

2024 - Dinesh Edem, MD, DABOM & Sri Obulareddy, MD

2023 - Gilbert Roy Kamoga, MD, FACP

Lifetime Achievement Award

2026 - Robert W. Bradsher Jr., MD, MACP, FIDSA

Outstanding Women Physician Award

2026 - Anne Montgomery, MD, FACP

2024 - Alice P. Alexander, MD, FAAP, FACP

Teaching & Mentorship Award

2026 - John Mark P. Pabona, MD, FACP