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Previous Recipients of the 
Tanner-Vandeput-Boswick Burn Prize

Mehmet Haberal, MD

2022

Mehmet Haberal, MD

(1944 - ...) Ankara, Turkey

Dr. Haberal received his medical degree from Ankara University Medical School...

David Heimbach, MD

2010

David Heimbach, MD

(1938 - 2017) Seattle, WA, USA

Dr. Heimbach’s commitment to a career in burn care, research and education...

M. Gosta S. Arturson, MD

1998

M. Gosta S. Arturson, MD

(1927 - 2013) Uppsala, Sweden

Dr. Gösta Arturson’s career-long intrigue with burn injury and illness began...

Ian Alan Holder, PhD

1986

Ian Alan Holder, PhD

(1934 - ...) Cincinnati, OH, USA

Dr. Holder received this recognition for his work in the microbiology of burn infection, and...

Naoki Aikawa, MD

2018

Naoki Aikawa, MD

(1944 - ...) Tokyo, Japan

Dr. Naoki Aikawa has been involved in laboratory and clinical studies of burn injuries since 1973...

Basil Arthur Pruitt, Jr., MD

2006

Basil Arthur Pruitt, Jr., MD

(1930 - 2019) San Antonio, TX, USA

During the last four decades of the twentieth century, Dr. Pruitt...

John Francis Burke, MD

1994

John Francis Burke, MD

(1922 - 2011) Boston, MA, USA

Dr. Burke’s career has been one of remarkable productivity....

Nelson Piccolo, MD

1998

Special Humanitarian Award

Nelson Piccolo, MD

(1927 - 1988) Goiania, Goias, Brazil

This special award was given posthumously in recognition of...

David Newcomb Herndon, MD

2014

David Newcomb Herndon, MD

(1950 - ...) Galveston, TX, USA

Dr. Herndon, since completing his surgical residency at the New York Hospital in 1980...

Charles Rufus Baxter, MD

2002

Charles Rufus Baxter, MD

(1929 - 2004) Dallas, TX, USA

Dr. Baxter is best known as the author of the Parkland Formula...

Fortunato Benaim, MD

1990

Fortunato Benaim, MD

(1919 - 2023) Buenos Aires, Argentina

Dr. Benaim, a charismatic gentleman, influenced by caring for victims of a house fire...

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