Mellinkoff Award
2024 Recipient: Gerardo Moreno, MD, MSHS, FAAFP
Honoring the finest in doctor-patient relationships and medical education.
About the Award Recipient
Gerardo Moreno, MD, MSHS, FAAFP, was honored with the Sherman M. Mellinkoff Faculty Award. This award is granted to a physician in recognition of the skillful use of scientific knowledge to the benefit of patients, thereby promoting the beneficial exchange between doctors and their patients that sustains the science of medicine. This award is considered by the faculty to be the highest honor of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.
Dr. Gerardo Moreno is Professor and Chair of the Department of Family Medicine, and the Kaiser Permanente Endowed Professor of Community Medicine. He is also the Director of UCLA PRIME-LA (Program in Medical Education) which focuses on Leadership and Advocacy for underserved communities. Dr. Moreno is a clinician investigator and his current research focuses on studying effective healthcare delivery in communities for uninsured vulnerable populations including undocumented residents and older adults.
About the Sherman Mellinkoff Faculty Award
The Sherman Mellinkoff Faculty Award was established in 1979 to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the School of Medicine and to honor the man for whom it is named. Dr. Mellinkoff’s 24 years of leadership as Dean coincided with the growth and development of UCLA as a major institution of medical education and research.
The award honors the ideal of the finest in doctor-patient relationships and medical education. Because of the high esteem in which Dr. Mellinkoff is held by all who know him, this award is considered by the faculty to be the highest honor of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.
Mellinkoff Award Recipients
View recipients by decade.
- 2024 - Gerardo Moreno, MD, MSHS, FAAFP
- 2023 - Arthur G. Gomez, MD, FACP
- 2022 - O. Joe Hines, MD
- 2021 - Mark Litwin, MD, MPH
- 2020 - Tisha Wang, MD
- 2019 - Myke Federman, MD
- 2018 - Jamil Aboulhosn, MD
- 2017 - Neil Wenger, MD
- 2016 - Noah Federman, MD
- 2015 - Gabriel M. Danovitch, MD
- 2014 - Robert K. Oye, MD
- 2013 - Ronald W. Busuttil, MD, PhD
- 2012 - Robin P. Farias-Eisner, MD, PhD
- 2011 - Rick E. Harrison, MD
- 2010 - W. Donald Shields, MD
- 2009 - Christopher B. Cooper, MD
- 2008 - Susan Perlman, MD
- 2007 - Marshall T. Morgan, MD
- 2006 - Alan M. Fogelman, MD
- 2005 - Stephen D. Cederbaum, MD
- 2004 - Lawrence W. Bassett, MD, FACR + Jonathan S. Berek, MD
- 2003 - Jeffrey J. Eckardt, MD
- 2002 - Glenn Braunstein, MD + Dalila Corry, MD
- 2001 - Milton H. Miller, MD + Robert B. Smith, MD
- 2000 - Joseph K. Perloff, MD
- 1999 - Jo Ann Brasel, MD
- 1998 - Charles M. Haskell, MD + Ronald S. Swerdloff, MD
- 1997 - Josephine B. Isabel-Jones, MD
- 1996 - Allan E. Kreiger, MD
- 1995 - Phyllis A. Guze, MD
- 1994 - Dennis W. Cope, MD
- 1993 - Gildon N. Beall, MD
- 1992 - George W. Ellison, MD
- 1991 - Charles R. Kleeman, MD
- 1990 - David H. Solomon, MD + David State, MD, PhD
- 1989 - Ulrich Batzdorf, MD
- 1988 - Solomon A. Kaplan, MD
- 1987 - Christian Herrmann, Jr., MD
- 1986 - Kouichi R. Tanaka, MD
- 1984 - William J. Dignam, MD + Edward A. Langdon, MD
- 1983 - Arthur D. Schwabe, MD
- 1982 - George C. Emmanouilides, MD, MS
- 1981 - William P. Longmire, Jr., MD
- 1980 - William S. Adams, MD