"Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability" ~ William Osler

Bean Award Winners

Year Name Institution Topic AOS Presentation
1987  Lawrence B. Berk Pittsburgh Eary Research Into Infantile Paralysis 1988
1988 Cary David Albertstone Cornell Sickness and Sin: Elizabethian Melancholy and Reformation 1989
1989 David B. Moody Johns Hopkins Medical Miracles in Medieval Bavaria 1989
1990 William Craig Tomlinson Cornell  The Not-So-Strange Case of Paul Lindau's 'The Other'  
1991 Richard Gunderman U of Chicago - Pritzker Sir Thomas Browne: A Physician's Religion  
1992 Walton O. Schalick, III Johns Hopkins Medical Astrology at the Medieval French Court, 1180-1328  
1992 Christopher I. Wright Harvard An Observation of Euthanasia in the Netherlands  
1992 Christopher Fellenz U of Rochester The Biopsychosocial Approach of the Maya toawrd Respiratory Illness  
1994 Michael Lin Baylor Health Policy in Nazi Germany: The Corruption of a Health Care System  
1995 Michael Sanders Icahn/Mt. Sinai A Comparative History of Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Mt. Sinai School of Medicine  
1995 Miriam Korn Dallhousie Medical Ethics and Medical Etiquette: Maimonides and Hippocrates A Comparative Study  
1996 Rebecca Kornbluh U of Chicago - Pritzker At the Feet of Virchow: The Young William Osler
1997 Gretchen Green Brown Twilight Sleep: Women Physicians and Patients Search for Professional and Social Equality  
1997 Ari Blitz (Honorable Mention) Brown The History of The New Humanism and the Foundations of Modern Medical Humanism (1910-1979)  
1997 John Lopez (Honorable Mention) New Jersey Med Sch The Physician's Power in the Twentieth Century  
1998 Monica McGrann Texas A&M Health Sci A Comparative Study of Masaccio's and Michelangelo's The Expulsion of Adam and Eve  
1999 Shane Mull U of South Carolina James Woods Babcock and the Conquest of Pellagra  
1999 Zachary Rubin U of Arizona The Synthesis and Dissemination of Classical Medicine by Jewish Physicians of Medieval Spain  
1999 Mary Dickinson-Chamberlin (Honorable Mention) U of Vermont  The Life and Inspirations of Dickinson W. Richards  
2000 Jennifer Keam   The Portrait of the Renaissance Physician in Shakespeare's Plays  
2000 Beth Preminger      
2001 Christin McKenna      
2001 Christopher J. Pittinger      
2002 David Diaz      
2002 Lauren M. Kim      
2003 Lee Hampton      
2003 Andora Johnson      
2005 Simon Hanft      
2005 Claire Hoverman      
2005 Serena Tan      
2006 Makini Chisholm-Straker      
2007 Neil T. Jenkins   Inhalation Toxicology in the Bronze Age  
2007 Paul J. Krezanoski   The Contemporary Medical History of Tuberculosis in Boston  
2008 Jamie Fraser   Plastic Surgery in Postwar America, 1919-1941  
2008 Amit Sharma   Franz Weitlaner—The Greatest Spreader of Surgery  
2009 Christopher F. Dibble U of North Carolina Osler and Trudeau: Leaders in the North American Campaign against Tuberculosis  
2009 Courtney Pendleton Johns Hopkins Harvey Cushing’s Early Forays into the Field of Neurological Transplant Surgery  
2010 Nitin Ahuju U of Michigan Albert Kahn and the Design of Old Main, 1917­1925  
2010 Michael Brener Johns Hopkins The Story of the Baltimore City Almshouse in the Antebellum Era  
2010 Katherine (Sperle) Latimer Johns Hopkins    
2011 Frederick Flo U of Rochester    
2011 Margaret Olszewski U of Toronto  J.C.B. Grant and the Founding of an Anatomical Museum  
2011 John Stroh U of Kansas The English Reformation and the Birth of London’s Royal Hospitals  
2012 Kristen Huntoon NY Coll Osteopathic Med Dr. Lindau’s Quest to Understand a Syndrome  
2012 Ramya Tekkellepati UMDNJ - New Jersey Med School Georg Hohmann: An Orthopedist, Activist, and Inventor of His Namesake Retractor  
2012 Joshua Tompkins U Southern Cal - Keck    
2013 Colten Bracken Mayo Med School Collaboration of Civil War Surgeons  
2013 Krista Grande U of Rochester The Development of Child Psychiatry in Rochester, NY  
2013 Alexandra Istl U of Western Ontario - Schulich Response to Declaration of the First World War: Dr. Edwin Seaborn  
2014 Angela Castellanos Harvard  The Office of Negro Health Work from 1932-1951  
2014 Matthew Edwards U Texas Med Branch Nancy Caroline and Peter Safar’s Freedom House: Physicians as Agents of Change  
2015 Na'amah Razon U California - Berkeley Examining Medical Service to Negev/Naqab Bedouin 1948-1966  
2015 Natalie Stokes U Penn - Perelman Morgagni, Morgan and Contemporary Anatomy Curriculum  
2015 Judith Vick Johns Hopkins Women in Antebellum American Bedside Medicine  
2016 Anna O'Kelly Johns Hopkins The Role of Humility in Sir William Osler’s Thought and Practice of Medicine  
2016 Lee Eschenroeder U of Virginia Virchow and the Sewers of Berlin: The Debate Between Social and Biomedical Models of Medicine in 19th Century Berlin, with Implications for Today  
2016 Sydney Kraemer Johns Hopkins Harvard Stem Cell Science and Government Control During the Bush-Obama Era  
2017 Tiffany Brocke Johns Hopkins The Influence of the Johns Hopkins Hospital on Abortion Access in Baltimore, 1945-1973  
2017 Christopher Magoon U Penn - Perelman    
2017 Joshua Nifortos Cleveland Clinic - Lerner The Black Hospital Movement in Cleveland, 1920-1957  
2017 Brit Trogen New York University    
2018 Michael P.H. Stanley Tufts University Jeremiah Barker, Yesterday’s Everyday Physician, and His Understanding of Apoplexy & Palsy in “A History of Diseases in the District of Maine”  
2019 Priya Dave Mt. Sinai/Icahn Emanuel Libman: The Life and Legacy of New York City’s Legendary Turn of the Century Physician 2022
2019 Carly Sobol Ohio State Impact of Humanities Education on Medical School  
2019 Raoul Wadhwa Case Western USAID's PIEGO Program at WU Medical Center 2021
2020 Liam Butchart Stony Brook Using The Sound and the Fury to Compare Literary Psychoanalysis, the DSM-II and the DSM-5 2021
2020 Elizabeth Card U Penn - Perelman The Impact of a Novel Life Drawing Course on Medical Student Clinical Observational Skill and Functional Anatomic Knowledge 2021
2020 Brendan Ross McGill Norman Bethune in the Eyes of His Chinese Comrades 2021
2021 Moustafa Abdalla Harvard  Insights from Full Text Analyses of the Journal of the American Medical Association and the New England Journal of Medicine 2022
2021 Divyansh Agarwal U Penn - Perelman The Role of Academic Policies in Nurturing Surgeon-Scientists: Lessons from Dr. Debakey’s Historical Success 2022
2021 Drew Davis Drexel The Kitty Mac Clinic: Origins of Large-Scale Pelvic Cancer Screening and Ancestor of Today’s Annual Physical 2022
2021 Simon-Elise Hasselmo Yale A Graphic Family History of Medical Socialization and Desensitization in Nazi Germany and 2020 America 2022
2022 Saman Arfaie McGill Leonardo da Vinci's Medical Library: Mining the Secrets of Genius and Creativity 2024
2022 Christopher Bellaire Mt.Sinai/Icahn Edith Nourse Rogers: A Pioneer for Women, Veterans, and US Medical Education  
2022 Geoffry Bocobo SUNY/Jacobs The History of Surgical Drains and Fluid Management  
2022 Sophia Hu U Penn - Perelman Leaders in Gender Affirming Surgery Prior to 1952 2024
2022 Jasmine Jones U of Texas Medical Branch A Look into the State of Black Health During UTMB's Early Establishment  
2023 Neevya Balasubramaniam McGill The Central Nervous System in the 18th Century Japanese Dissection Scrolls 2024
2023 Alexandra Bartholomew Louisiana State Comics as a Therapeutic and Teaching Tool in Gynecologic Oncology Clinics  
2023 Joshua Zev Glahn Yale Constructing the Ideal Body in Early Twentieth-Century American Plastic Surgery
2023  David Gunderman Indiana University The History and Ethical Implications of Using Black-Box Mathematical Models in Medicine  
2023 Alexander Jacobs U of Minnesota The Evolution of Federally Qualified Health Centers  
2023 Ben Teasdale Stanford The Political Life of Dr. Morell Mackenzie  
2024 Noah Hoonhout NY Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine The Romantic Medicine of Joseph Henry Green
2024 Oscar Li Johns Hopkins Unveiling the Power of Animated Documentaries in Medical Narratives  
2024 Jacinta Lomba Howard University Sickle Cell Disease and the Fight for Inclusion in Biomedical Research  
2024 Ahmed Nahian Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine Evolving Paradigms of Addiction Treatment in American History  
2024 Katherine "Nikki" Sheffield U of Texas Medical Branch Health Care Burnout: Historical Lessons from the Lives of Notable Figures