Edward Jenner Medal

Edward Jenner (1749–1823)

The Edward Jenner Medal is awarded occasionally by the Royal Society of Medicine to individuals who have undertaken distinguished work in epidemiological research.

The award was founded in 1896 by the Epidemiological Society of London (1850–1907) to commemorate the centenary of Edward Jenner’s discovery of a means of smallpox vaccination. The Epidemiological Society became a founder member of the Royal Society of Medicine in 1907.

The medal was designed in Bronze by Allan Wyon. It features Jenner’s face on one aspect and the symbol of the Epidemiological Society, the Earth, on the reverse. The medal was re-cast following the evolution of the Society into the Section of Epidemiology at the RSM in 1907. Photographs of the medal may be found in The History of the Royal Society of Medicine published in 2001.

It was first awarded to Sir William Henry Power who was the then Medical Officer for London and had formulated the theory of aerial conveyance of smallpox and chaired the Royal Commission on Tuberculosis.[1]

Recipients include:

  • William Henry Power (1st recipient-1898)
  • Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran (2nd-1902)[2] for his discovery of the malarial parasite
  • Patrick Manson (3rd-1912):[3][4]
  • Sir Shirley Forster Murphy (4th-1921) [5]
  • John Christie McVail (5th-1922) [6]
  • Sidney Monckton Copeman (?th-1925)[7]
  • Thomas Henry Craig Stevenson (before 1933, see ref)[8]
  • Sir George Seaton Buchanan (?th-1934)[9] for distinguished work in epidemiology.
  • Arthur Newsholme (?th-1938)[10][11]
  • Alexander Thomas Glenny (?th-1953) for contributions to diphtheria immunisation
  • Percy Stocks (?th-1956) [12]
  • Leonard Colebrook (?th-1962)[7][13]
  • Alexander D Langmuir (17th-1979)[14][15]
  • Richard Doll (18th-1981): for outstanding studies on the epidemiology of cancer
  • Karel Raška (19th-1984): for work towards worldwide eradication of smallpox[16]
  • Nicol Spence Galbraith (21st-before 1991)[17]
  • Donald Acheson (?th-1993): for the advancement of public health
  • Donald Henderson (?th-1996): for work towards worldwide eradication of smallpox [18]
  • Dame Rosemary Rue (?th-2001): first woman president of the Faculty of Community Medicine (now the Faculty of Public Health) and pioneer of women in medicine

See also

References

  1. ↑ "History of the section of Epidemiology & Public Health" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-09-15. Retrieved 2015-05-18.
  2. ↑ Alphonse Laveran, M. D. 1845–1922
  3. ↑ "Presentation of the Jenner Medal". Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine. 5 (Sect Epidemiol State Med): 149. 1912. doi:10.1177/003591571200501406. PMC 2005375. PMID 19976307.
  4. ↑ AIM25 text-only browsing: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine: MANSON, Sir Patrick (1844–1922). Aim25.ac.uk. Retrieved on 2011-06-12.
  5. ↑ "Murphy, Sir Shirley Forster (1848–1923)". Royal College of Surgeons. Retrieved 18 May 2015.
  6. ↑ "Jenner Centenary Celebrations" (PDF). British Medical Journal. 1 (3240): 203–206. 1923. doi:10.1136/bmj.1.3240.203. PMC 2315950. PMID 20771001. Retrieved 24 November 2015.
  7. 1 2 "Presentation of Jenner Medal". Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine. 55 (10): 850. 1962. doi:10.1177/003591576205501007. PMC 1896896. PMID 19994185.
  8. ↑ M.G. Obituary. Thomas Henry Craig Stevenson. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Vol. 96, No. 1 (1933), pp. 151–156
  9. ↑ "George Seaton (Sir) Buchanan". Royal College of Physicians. Retrieved 24 November 2015.
  10. ↑ "Announcements". Nature. 142 (3589): 287. 1938. Bibcode:1938Natur.142R.287.. doi:10.1038/142287b0.
  11. ↑ "News from the field" (PDF). American Journal of Public Health. 28 (10): 1260–1268. October 1938. doi:10.2105/AJPH.28.10.1260.
  12. ↑ "Percy Stocks". Royal College of Physicians. Retrieved 24 November 2015.
  13. ↑ Dunn PM (May 2008). "Dr Leonard Colebrook, FRS (1883–1967) and the chemotherapeutic conquest of puerperal infection". Arch. Dis. Child. Fetal Neonatal Ed. 93 (3): F246–8. doi:10.1136/adc.2006.104448. PMID 18426926.
  14. ↑ "Association News". International Journal of Epidemiology. 8 (3): 293. 1979. doi:10.1093/ije/8.3.293.
  15. ↑ Oakley CL (1971). "Leonard Colebrook. 1883–1967". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 17: 91–138. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1971.0004. PMID 11615432.
  16. ↑ Editorial Board (2007). "20th Death-day of a Prominent Czech Epidemiologist Karel Raška, MD, DrSc" (PDF). Cent Eur J Public Health. 15 (3): 127.
  17. ↑ Galbraith, N. S. (1991). "Quarterly Communicable Disease Review January to March 1991: From the PHLS Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre". Journal of Public Health. 13 (3): 219. doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.pubmed.a042622.
  18. ↑ Medicine, Institute of. Considerations for Viral Disease Eradication:: Lessons Learned and Future. p. 206.
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