The Ashbel Smith Distinguished Alumni Award
This is the highest alumni honor bestowed to a medical school graduate by the university's John Sealy School of Medicine Alumni Association. This award, recognizing outstanding service to the medical profession and to humanity, honors the memory of Dr. Ashbel Smith. A prominent figure in Texas medicine, politics and education, Dr. Smith was considered the driving force behind establishing the University of Texas at Austin in 1881, and a medical department that would later be known as the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston in 1891.
(Left to Right)
- Dr. Andrew Chesson, Jr., Class of 1974
- Dr. E. Steve Woodle, Class of 1980
- Dr. Tom Purgason, Class of 1979
- Dr. Toni Funicella, Class of 1972
- Dr. Robert Jackson, Class of 1981
