The Association of American Physicians (AAP) is an honorary medical society founded in 1885 by the Canadian physician Sir William Osler and six other distinguished physicians of his era for “the advancement of scientific and practical medicine.” Election to the AAP is an honor extended to physicians with outstanding credentials in basic or translational biomedical research and is limited to 70 persons per year. The AAP includes about 1200 active members and 700 emeritus and honorary members. The great majority are US citizens. However, other countries are also represented. The overarching goals of the AAP include the promotion of professional and social interaction among biomedical scientists, the dissemination of important information related to biomedical science and teaching, the recognition of outstanding, diverse physician-scientists through membership, and the establishment of role models to kindle new generations of high achievers in medicine and medical science. The AAP annually honors selected scientists with the George M. Kober medal for outstanding contributions to medicine or medical science. In addition, the George M. Kober Lectureship is given every third year by an outstanding physician-scientist selected by the AAP Council. The AAP held its first meeting in 1886. Some of the most important advances in biomedical science were first reported at annual AAP meetings. These included the discovery of insulin by Banting and Macleod in 1922, and the discovery, by Minot and Murphy in 1926, that pernicious anemia could be treated by feeding patients extracts of raw liver. Members of the AAP have included Nobel laureates, and members of the United States National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Medicine. Living members of the AAP who have also been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine include Michael S. Brown, Joseph L. Goldstein, William G. Kaelin, Jr, Robert J. Lefkowitz, Barry J. Marshall, Stanley B. Prusiner, Peter Ratcliffe, and Gregg L. Semenza. To be eligible for nomination, you have to be nominated by a member and seconded by a member. To view eligibility and what is required for the on-line application click here
2023 Nomination Schedule
- July 14, 2022 - Nominations Open
- October 14, 2022 - Nominations Deadline
- October 18, 2022 - Letters of Support Open
- November 09, 2022 - Letters of Support Deadline
- November 22, 2022 - Reviews Open for Council
- January 16, 2023 - Council Deadline
- February 01, 2023 - Council Meeting
- February 03, 2023 - Council Meeting Ends
- February 14, 2023 - Annual Ballot
- March 06, 2023 - Ballot Deadline
2022 AAP/ASCI/APSA Joint Meeting
April 8-10, 2022
The next AAP/ASCI/APSA Joint Meeting will be held from April 8-10, 2022. The 2022 Planning Committee is looking forward to another excellent program that includes outstanding scientific sessions and provides a forum for discussion of policy and career issues relevant to physician-scientists. For further information on the meeting visit: www.jointmeeting.org
Upcoming Meetings
April 21-23, 2023
Swissôtel Chicago
Chicago, Illinois
2022 Elected Members
- Adam Bass
Columbia University Irving Medical Center - Michael Beers
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania - Craig Blackstone
Massachusetts General Hospital - W. Henry Boom
School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University - Christoph Buettner
Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School - Esteban Burchard
University of California, San Francisco - Christopher Chute
Johns Hopkins University - Timothy Cloughesy
UCLA - Marcia Cruz-Correa
University of Puerto Rico Comprehensive Cancer Center - Judith Currier
UCLA - Wonder Drake
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine - Joseph Fins
Weill Cornell Medical College - Christopher Flowers
MD Anderson Cancer Center - Andrew Fontenot
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus - Jane Freedman
Vanderbilt University Medical Center - Rasheed Gbadegesin
Duke University - Christopher Gomez
The University of Chicago - Wayne Goodman
Baylor College of Medicine - Cary Gross
Yale School of Medicine - David Gutmann
Washington University School of Medicine - John He
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai - Geoffrey Hill
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center - Katharine Hsu
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center - Reshma Jagsi
University of Michigan
- Ashish Jha
Brown University - Elizabeth Jonas
Yale University - Stanley Jordan
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center - Rainu Kaushal
Weill Cornell Medicine - Alec Kimmelman
NYU Langone Health - Bruce Korf
University of Alabama at Birmingham - Donald Kufe
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute - Bonnie Ky
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania - Vibha Lama
University of Michigan - Patty J Lee
Duke University School of Medicine - Steven Libutti
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - Michail Lionakis
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health - Carol Mangione
David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Kenneth Margulies
Penn Medicine - Alexander Marson
Gladstone-UCSF Institute of Genomic Immunology - Jason Mills
Baylor College of Medicine - Kiran Musunuru
University of Pennsylvania - Peter Nigrovic
Boston Children's Hospital - Marcelo Nobrega
University of Chicago - Patrick O'Connor
Yale University School of Medicine - Mary-Elizabeth Patti
Joslin Diabetes Center - Ray Peebles
Vanderbilt University Medical Center - Shahin Rafii
Weill Cornell Medicine - Daniel Reich
National Institutes of Health
- Philip Rosenthal
University of California, San Francisco - Charles Rudin
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center - Edward Ryan
Massachusetts General Hospital - Jeffrey Samet
Boston University - Mark Sarnak
Tufts Medical Center - Catherine Schevon
Columbia University - Robert Schwabe
Columbia University - Elizabeth Seaquist
University of Minnesota - Sudha Seshadri
University of Texas Health Sciences Center, San Antonio - Anath Shalev
University of Alabama at Birmingham - Kalyanam Shivkumar
University of California, Los Angeles - Melissa Simon
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine - Elizabeth Speliotes
University of Michigan - Helen Su
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health - Elizabeth Swisher
University of Washington School of Medicine - Sohail Tavazoie
Rockefeller University - Bryan Traynor
National Institutes of Health - Matthias Tschöp
Helmholtz Munich and Technical University of Munich, Germany - Michael Wechsler
National Jewish Health - Xander Wehrens
Baylor College of Medicine - Olajide Williams
Columbia University - Brian Wolpin
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute - Prescott Woodruff
UCSF