Phi Beta Kappa
Omicron Delta Kappa
Alpha Omega Alpha
Society of the Sigma Xi
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Alabama Academy of Honor
Mayo Foundation Lecture, Mayo Clinic, May 13, 1963
Annual Lecturer in
Cardiology (chosen by election by the senior class),
University of Michigan
Medical Center, November 18, 1964 and 1965
Invited Lecturer, American Medical Association, June 20, 1963 and June 24, 1964
Awarded the 150-Year Medal
of the Swedish Medical Society
(Svenska
Lakaresallskapets), Stockholm, May 18, 1965
R. Hugh Wood Lecture, Emory University School of Medicine, May 8, 1967
Invited Lecturer, American Academy of Pediatrics, October 25, 1967
Invited Lecturer, 25th Anniversary Congress, Instituto Nacional de Cardiología, Mexico City, 1969
Annual Lecturer for Student Body, Auburn University School of Veterinary Medicine, January 22, 1970
Invited Lecturer, Sixth World Congress of Cardiology, London, September 9, 1970
Henry Jackson Lecture, New England Cardiovascular Society, Boston, April 5, 1971
Annual Lecturer, Galen’s
Honorary Medical Society, University of Michigan Medical Center,
Ann Arbor, April 12, 1971
Invited Lecturer, Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand, May 28, 1971
John Kent Lewis Lecture, Stanford University Medical Center, November 22, 1971
Irving B. Hexter Lecture, Mt. Sinai Hospital of Cleveland, March 1, 1972
Master Teacher, American College of Cardiology, 1972 and 1975
W.H.O. Lecturer, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, April 23-24, 1972
George C. Griffith Lecture, Los Angeles, October 11, 1972
Distinguished Lecturer,
Department of Anatomy, Tulane University School of Medicine,
April 16, 1973
Guest Lecturer for Health
Students Research Day, May 2, 1974, University of Alabama
in Birmingham
Honorary Member, Chilean Society of Cardiology, elected December 11, 1974
Theodore and Susan Cummings Humanitarian Award, American College of Cardiology, 1975
Foreign Lecturer for
Annual Meeting, Deutsches Gesellschaft für Kreislaufforschung,
Bad Nauheim, 1975
Foreign Lecturer for South American Congress of Cardiology, Annual Meeting, Bogotá, Colombia, 1975
George E. Brown Memorial Lecture, American Heart Association, November 18, 1975
Opening Plenary Address, American College of Cardiology, New Orleans, February 23, 1976
Benjamin A. Gouley Lecture, Albert Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, April 20, 1976
Keith Ford Memorial Lecture, University of Rochester School of Medicine, April 29, 1976
Joseph Welker Memorial Lecture, University of Kansas, May 6, 1976
The 25th Annual Louis Mark
Memorial Lecture, American College of Chest Physicians, Atlanta,
October 28, 1976
Distinguished Faculty Lecturer for 1977, University of Alabama Medical Center
Shaia Lecture for 1978, Medical College of Virginia, Richmond
Invited Lecturer, Eighth World Congress of Cardiology, Tokyo, Japan, September 19, 1978
Franklin D. Johnston Lecture for 1978, University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor
Member, Alabama Academy of Honor, elected 1980
Ashton Graybiel Lecturer, Pensacola, Florida, 1980
Citizen of the Year, Amory, Mississippi, 1981
Gold Heart Award of the American Heart Association, 1981
Tandy Lecturer, Southwestern Medical School at Dallas, 1981
Recognition by Institute
of Scientific Information as one of “The 1,000 Contemporary
Scientists
Most-Cited 1965-1978,”
announced 1981
Mikamo Lecturer for 1982, Japanese Circulation Society, Tokyo
First Annual Takatsu Lecture, Kyoto University in Japan, March 30, 1982
Distinguished Scientist
Award of the American College of Cardiology (inaugural award),
April 28, 1982
Campbell Orator and Medalist, Queen’s University of Belfast, May 13, 1982
Elected Corresponding Member of British Cardiac Society, 1982
D. S. Munroe Visiting Professor, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, June 1-3, 1982
Honorary Member, Argentine Society of Cardiology, elected December 9, 1982
Alpha Omega Alpha Visiting
Professor and Annual Lecturer, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan,
December 13-15, 1982
Master of the American College of Physicians, awarded April 11, 1983
Honorary member, Dominican Society of Cardiology, elected August 27, 1983
Sir Thomas Lewis Lecturer for 1983, British Cardiac Society, London, November 21, 1983
Alpha Omega Alpha Visiting
Professor, Tulane University School of Medicine,
March 12-14, 1984
Award of the President’s Cabinet’s Medallion, University of Detroit, May 19, 1984
William A. Lamb Memorial
Lecture, Holston Valley Hospital and Medical Center,
Kingsport, Tennessee, May
16, 1985
Recognition by Institute
of Scientific Information for being the author (Am. Heart J. 66:498-
508, 1963) of one of the
most cited publications in its field, as a “Citation Classic,”
announced 1985
The Bloomfield-Arnold Lecture, Case Western Reserve School of Medicine, May 23, 1986
Laureate Award, Alabama Chapter of American College of Physicians, May 1986
Principal Lecturer, German
Society of Clinical Hemorheology, Marburg an der Lahn, Germany,
November, 1986
Eighth Annual
Distinguished Lecturer, University of Alabama Medical Residency
Program in
Montgomery, March 26, 1987
Tenth Annual Arthur B. Richter Lectureship, St. Vincent Hospital, Indianapolis, October 7, 1987
Phi Chi Distinguished Alumnus Award, February 20, 1988
Honorary Co-President,
Symposium on Conduction System and Nerves of the Heart in Life and
Death, University of Milano, Italy, May 28-31, 1988
Honorary Citizen of Milano, Italy, May 31, 1988
Honorary Member, Texas Club of Internists, March 1989
Seventh Annual T. H.
Seldon Distinguished Lecture, International Anesthesia
Research Society,
Orlando, FL, March 6, 1989
ISFC Lecturer for the
Interamerican Society of Cardiology, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,
July 25, 1989
Invited Lecturer, Eleventh World Congress of Cardiology, Manila, February 13, 1990
Distinguished Service Award, Galveston County Medical Society, January 21, 1991
Special Invited Lecturer,
Emeritation Ceremony for Professor Chuichi Kawai,
University of Kyoto,
Japan, May 19, 1991
Nicholas and Katherine
Leone Award for Administrative Excellence, University of Texas
Medical
Branch, Galveston, May 25, 1991
Honorary Vice President, XIV Congress of the Interamerican Society of Cardiology, 1992
Citizen of the Year Award
(Galveston County, Texas) presented by the Galveston Daily News,
March 12, 1993
Citizen of the Year, Texas City, Texas, 1993
The Einthoven Lecture, University of Leiden, The Netherlands, September 7, 1993
Distinguished Alumnus Award, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, October 29, 1993
Howard O. Payne Award for
Economic Development in Galveston County, Texas City,
March 15, 1994
Invited Lecturer for the
50th Anniversary Congress, Instituto Nacional de Cardiología,
Mexico City, 1994 (the
only American invited to speak before both the 25th and 50th
Anniversary Congresses)
Tree of Life Award from The Jewish National Fund, Galveston, October 11, 1994
The Bailey K. Ashford
Lecture, University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine, San Juan,
March 15, 1995
The Gordon K. Moe Lecture,
Annual Meeting of the Cardiac Electrophysiological Society,
Anaheim,
November 12, 1995
Christie Mitchell Beachcomber Award for 1996, Galveston Chamber of Commerce
Economic Diversity Award
of the Baptist Ministers’ Association of Galveston,
February 13, 1997
Elected Fellow of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science, Seattle,
February 15, 1997
Awarded Sesquicentennial
Medal by Paul Tulane College of Tulane University in
New Orleans, September
13, 1997
Honour Lecture, University of Padua, Italy, June 26, 1998
Lifetime Achievement Award at the 50th
Reunion of the Tulane Medical Class of 1949,
New Orleans, May 16, 1999
American Heart
Association’s James B. Herrick Award and lecture, Council on
Clinical
Cardiology in Atlanta,
Georgia, November 9, 1999
Distinguished Achievement
Award for 2005 from the Society for Cardiovascular Pathology
presented at the annual
meeting in San Antonio, Texas, February 27, 2005