Gorgas Medal

Surgeon General Gorgas appointed Colonel Charles Richard, Lieutenant Colonel Champe C. McCulloch, Jr., and Major Eugene R. Whitmore, Medical Corps, to form a review board and act as judge and jury for the writing competition.

The award was to be presented annually for ‘distinguished work in preventative medicine’.

The award was given to an individual for 'distinguished work in preventive medicine, clinical application, education or research'.

To be eligible for the award, nominees had to be veterinarians, environmental engineers or sanitation engineers, or from other discipline not from other individual professional award categories from any of the five health agencies represented by AMSUS.

The criteria for receiving the award required the individual to have demonstrated accomplishments in accordance with the following objectives: AMSUS.