Ogden Bruton

In 1946, Bruton went briefly into private practice in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, but he returned to Walter Reed that same year to serve as a consultant to the Army Surgeon General's Office.

[3] He received a regular Army commission and went to Europe on an assignment to improve the health conditions of immigrating war brides and their children.

[5] While at Walter Reed during his second tour, Bruton studied an 8-year-old boy, Joseph S. Holtoner, Jr., who had recurrent pneumonia infections and who lacked gamma globulin in his serum.

[3][6] Bruton wrote to medical schools in the United States of America that had a pediatric service to ask if they had any such patients with agammaglobulinemia.

[7] Bruton was also the first physician to provide specific immunotherapy for this X-linked disorder by administering intramuscular injections of IgG immunoglobulin.

This citation is an award given annually for the best paper submitted by a military pediatrician for either basic or applied research on the development, evaluation, or application of technology in pediatrics.

List of award recipients since 1969: [4] This lectureship is an honor bestowed on a speaker at the military section of the American Academy of Pediatrics Annual Meeting each year.