Public Service Awardees
Public Service Award: recognizes contributions to public health related to improvement of indoor and outdoor air quality, eradication of tobacco usage, prevention of lung disease, improved management of communicable respiratory diseases, or improvement in the ethical delivery, and access to healthcare in areas related to lung diseases, sleep disorders, or critical care. There is a special emphasis on efforts that have the potential to eliminate gender, racial, ethnic or economic disparities.
| 2001 | A. Sonia Buist, MD |
| 2002 | No award presented |
| 2003 | ATS Public Advisory Roundtable |
| 2004 | Claude Lenfant, MD |
| 2005 | Dileep G. Bal, MD, MPH |
| 2006 | Jonathan M. Samet, MD, MS |
| 2007 | Carolyne Sue Byrnes |
| 2008 | John W. Walsh |
| 2009 | John L. Hankinson, PhD |
| 2010 | Stephen M. Winter, MD |
| 2011 | David J. Prezant, MD |
| 2012 | No award presented |
| 2013 | Kathleen Kreiss, MD |
| 2014 | Robert Hyzy, MD |
| 2015 | Floyd J. Malveaux, MD, PhD |
| 2016 | John R. Balmes, MD |
| 2017 | Michelle M. Cloutier, MD |
| 2018 | George D. Thurston, ScD |
