Honors and Awards

Harry Long Multidisciplinary Award

Harry J. Long III, MD, FACP

Established in 2013, the Harry Long Multidisciplinary Award recognizes outstanding SGO Members for their contributions to multidisciplinary mentorship, collegiality or teaching in the field of gynecologic oncology.

The SGO Membership Committee conceived this award to honor the spirit of the late Harry J. Long III, MD, FACP, a soft-spoken but authoritative leader. As a medical oncologist member of SGO, Dr. Long’s common sense and wise guidance helped SGO evolve into a multidisciplinary “team-based” organization, and by 2010 the Society expanded its Full Member category to include medical and radiation oncologists and pathologists. The expansion also extends to international physicians and surgeons, allied health professionals and students.

Harry passed away unexpectedly in January 2013, right before he was about to be the first medical oncologist to serve as Vice Chair on the SGO Membership Committee. Harry’s spirit as an unshakeable voice of reason and his unimpeachable sense of fairness endeared him to all on the SGO Membership Committee, and SGO owes its recent incarnation as a multidisciplinary Society to his leadership.

Members in any spectrum of the multidisciplinary women’s cancer care team are eligible for this award. In the spirit of the SGO member expansion, the nomination of non-gynecologic oncologist members is encouraged.

President’s Award

Honors those underrepresented in healthcare and their outstanding accomplishments serving SGO and/or the gynecologic community.

Service Award

Recognized a member and/or non-member who has either gone above and beyond and/or provided a service to SGO.

Past Award Recipients

Distinguished Service Award

2013: John Lewis, MD, Philip DiSaia, MD, Robert Park, MD. Myroslaw Hreshchyshyn

2014: John Lewis, Jr., MD, George Lewis Jr, MD, J. George Moore, MD, James H. Nelson, Jr, MD, Felix Rutledge, MD

2015: Saul Gusberg, MD, David Gershenson, MD, Beth Karlan, MD

2016: James Tate Thigpen, MD

2017: David Gershenson, MD, John R. van Nagell, MD, Clarence Ehrlich, MD, Rodrique Mortel, MD

2018: Carolyn Runowiz, MD

2019: David Mutch, MD, Karl Podratz, MD , Wesley Fowler, MD

2020: William J. Hoskins, MD

2021: Robert Mannel, MD , Larry Copeland, MD

2022: Carol Brown, MD, Ronald Alvarez, MD, MBA

2023: Dave Alberts, MD, Annekathryn Goodman, MD, Kathleen Moore, MD

2024: Michael Frumovitz, MD,  Barbara Goff, MD

2025: David Cohn, MD, MBA

FWC Karen J. Carlson Public Service Award

2020: Wendy Ericsson, Wendy’s Warriors

2024: Susan Robben, St. Louis Ovarian Cancer Awareness

2025: Wesley “Butch” Fowler, MD

Gynecologic Oncology Innovation Award

2012: Harald Zur Hausen, Douglas Lowry, MD, Herbert Traut, George Papanicolaou

2013: C. Thomas Griffins

2014: Mary Claire King, Henry Lynch, MD

2015: Robert Bast, MD

2016: Susan Band Hrowitz, PhD, William Patrick McGuire, MD

2017: Nadeem Abu-Rustum, MD, Ate Van der Zee, MD, Charles Levanback, MD

2018: Ian Frazer

2019: Christopher Crum, MD

2020: Joan Walker, MD

2021: Gordon Mills, MD, Kunle Odusi, MD, Elizabeth Swisher, MD

2022: Rob Bristow, MD, Kemi Doll, MD

2023: Amanda Nickles Fader, MD, Victoria Bae-Jump, MD, Robet Coleman, MD

2024: Anil Sood, MD, Ronny Drapkin, MD, PhD

2025: Philip Castle, MPH, PhD