Gold Medal Award

In Appreciation of Boni E. Elewski, MD, FAAD

For your dedication and leadership as an international leader in fungal and psoriasis research and dermatological clinical trials. Your research in the field of dermatology has made you world-renowned as you’ve delivered hundreds of medical lectures to dermatologists, physicians, residents, and non-physician providers around the world. Your expertise in training and educating dermatology residents is highly regarded across the country.

In recognition for your many contributions to the American Academy of Dermatology, most notably as a former President and Vice President, five-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. As a past member of the editorial board of the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology (JAAD). And as a current member of the Named Lectureship and Emerging Diseases Task Forces as well as having served on numerous other councils, committees, task forces, ad hoc task forces, and workgroups.

In honor of your outstanding service as a renowned dermatologist, particularly for your more than 47 years of unstinting service to the specialty, both in academia and clinical research. You dedicated your career to conducting over 200 clinical trials to pursue therapies for many dermatologic conditions including the diagnosis and treatment of acne, alopecia, atopic dermatitis, cutaneous fungal infections, hidradenitis suppurativa, nail disease, psoriasis, rosacea. And have been the principal investigator of numerous clinical research projects.

For your ongoing commitment to share your dermatologic knowledge as Chair, Director of Clinical Research at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), Department of Dermatology. As a Professor at UAB, you hold the James E. Elder M.D. Endowed Professorship for Graduate Education. Authored more than 400 publications, contributing significantly to the field of dermatology.

For the many honors awarded to you by your peers including the Women’s Dermatology Society’s (WDS), prestigious Rose Hirschler Award representing outstanding women in Dermatology.

Recipient of the WDS Legacy Award for lifetime achievement. Recipient of the President’s Award, American Society of Dermatologic Surgery for fostering Unity in Dermatology and the 2023 Outstanding Educator in Psoriatic Disease Award by the National Psoriasis Foundation and the Medical Professionals Awards Committee, recognizing your efforts and dedication to the Foundation’s mission to drive efforts to cure psoriatic disease and improve the lives of those affected.

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