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Nominations for two of the awards for 2021 have opened

This year’s award winners will be announced at the AMA (WA) MEDCON21 Gala Ball on Saturday 19 June 2021 at the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre as part of MEDCON21.

Nominations for the 2021 AMA (WA) Junior Doctor of the Year (Dr Camille Michener Legacy Award) and the AMA (WA) Hippocrates Award are now open.

We have three awards that mark separate areas of achievement.

AMA (WA) | AMAM Awards

Also known as the Camille Michener Legacy Award, this award recognises the significant and outstanding contribution of a Western Australian junior doctor in the areas of teaching and education, leadership and advocacy, and doctors’ wellbeing and community service. Click here to submit your nomination.
AMA (WA) | AMAM Awards

This award honours doctors from any sector of the medical profession, who have made a significant contribution to medicine. The winner is presented with a fine bronze bust of Hippocrates, commonly referred to as “the Hippo”. Click here to submit your nomination.
AMA (WA) | AMAM Awards

Each year the AMA (WA) President selects a recipient from the wider community for this award. The award goes to a non-doctor who has made an outstanding contribution to health and deserves to be acknowledged.

Winners of the 2020 AMA (WA) Awards

Congratulations to Junior Doctor of the Year (Dr Camille Michener Legacy Award)

Dr Vaanitha Manickavasagar was named the 2020 AMA (WA) Junior Doctor of the Year (Dr Camille Michener Legacy Award). Dr Manickavasagar is a General Paediatric Fellow at Perth Children’s Hospital and was honoured for her work in doctor wellbeing and leadership during COVID-19.

 

 

 

Congratulations to the joint winners of the Hippocrates Award

GP Dr Olga Ward and fellow GP and Sports Medicine Physician Dr Rod Moore received prestigious AMA (WA) Hippocrates Awards. Both doctors were honoured for their unwavering commitment to the profession of medicine and their dedicated service to patients and the broader community.

 

 

 

Congratulations to the winner of the President’s Award

June Oscar AO, a proud Bunuba woman, received the AMA (WA) President’s award for her pioneering work in Indigenous health and wellbeing, and foetal alcohol spectrum disorder.

 

 

 

 

2019 Award Winners

  • Dr Katrina Calvert – AMA (WA) Junior Doctor of the Year (Dr Camille Michener Legacy Award)
  • Professor John Newnham AM – AMA (WA) Hippocrates Awards
  • Health advocate and famed sportsman John Inverarity – AMA (WA) President’s award

2018 Award Winners

  • Dr Alison Soerensen – AMA (WA) Junior Doctor of the Year (Dr Camille Michener Legacy Award)
  • Doug Bride – AMA (WA) Hippocrates Awards
  • Paul Boyatzis – AMA (WA) President’s award

2017 Award Winners

  • Dr Sarah Newman – AMA (WA) Junior Doctor of the Year (Dr Camille Michener Legacy Award)
  • Stephen Wilson – AMA (WA) Hippocrates Awards
  • Karl O’Callaghan – AMA (WA) President’s award

2016 Award Winners

  • Dr Melita Cirillo – AMA (WA) Junior Doctor of the Year (Dr Camille Michener Legacy Award)
  • Max Kamien – AMA (WA) Hippocrates Awards
  • Ted Wilkes – AMA (WA) President’s award

2015 Award Winners

  • Dr John Zorbas – AMA (WA) Junior Doctor of the Year (Dr Camille Michener Legacy Award)
  • Kingsley Faulkner– AMA (WA) Hippocrates Awards
  • Bryant Stokes – AMA (WA) President’s award

2014 Award Winners

  • Dr John Van Bockxmeer – AMA (WA) Junior Doctor of the Year (Dr Camille Michener Legacy Award)
  • Ian Constable – AMA (WA) Hippocrates Awards
  • Fred Chaney – AMA (WA) President’s award

2013 Award Winners

  • Dr Dror Maor – AMA (WA) Junior Doctor of the Year (Dr Camille Michener Legacy Award)
  • Alex Cohen & Michael McCall– AMA (WA) Hippocrates Awards
  • No winner announced for the AMA (WA) President’s award

2012 Award Winners

  • Dr Ruth Blackham – AMA (WA) Junior Doctor of the Year (Dr Camille Michener Legacy Award)
  • Tony House– AMA (WA) Hippocrates Awards
  • Andrew Forrest – AMA (WA) President’s award

2011 Award Winners

  • Dr Marcus Dabner – AMA (WA) Junior Doctor of the Year (Dr Camille Michener Legacy Award)
  • Marcus Atlas– AMA (WA) Hippocrates Awards
  • Malcolm McCusker– AMA (WA) President’s award

2010 Award Winners

  • Dr James Anderson – AMA (WA) Junior Doctor of the Year (Dr Camille Michener Legacy Award)
  • Bruce William Stanley Robinson &  Ian Valentine Lishman – AMA (WA) Hippocrates Awards
  • No winner announced for the AMA (WA) President’s award

2009 Award Winners

  • Dr James Anderson – AMA (WA) Junior Doctor of the Year (Dr Camille Michener Legacy Award)
  • No winner announced for the AMA (WA) Hippocrates Awards
  • No winner announced for the AMA (WA) President’s award

2008 Award Winners

  • Dr James Anderson – AMA (WA) Junior Doctor of the Year (Dr Camille Michener Legacy Award)
  • Bryant Stokes – AMA (WA) Hippocrates Awards
  • Peter Forbes – AMA (WA) President’s award

2007 Award Winners

  • Dr James Anderson – AMA (WA) Junior Doctor of the Year (Dr Camille Michener Legacy Award)
  • Anthony J McCartney & Timothy Keenan – AMA (WA) Hippocrates Awards
  • Jack Bendat – AMA (WA) President’s award

2006 Award Winners

  • Dr James Anderson – AMA (WA) Junior Doctor of the Year (Dr Camille Michener Legacy Award)
  • Lawrence Beilin, Michael Quinlan & Rosanna Capolingua – AMA (WA) Hippocrates Awards
  • Mike Daube – AMA (WA) President’s award

2005 Award Winners

  • Dr James Anderson – AMA (WA) Junior Doctor of the Year (Dr Camille Michener Legacy Award)
  • No winner announced for the AMA (WA) Hippocrates Awards
  • No winner announced for the AMA (WA) President’s award

2004 Award Winners

  • Dr James Anderson – AMA (WA) Junior Doctor of the Year (Dr Camille Michener Legacy Award)
  • Frank Burdon Webb &  John Gosilo Radunovich – AMA (WA) Hippocrates Awards
  • Peter Tannock – AMA (WA) President’s award

2003 Award Winners

  • Dr James Anderson – AMA (WA) Junior Doctor of the Year (Dr Camille Michener Legacy Award)
  • Fiona Melanie Wood – AMA (WA) Hippocrates Awards
  • Keith Wilson – AMA (WA) President’s award

2002 Award Winners

  • Dr James Anderson – AMA (WA) Junior Doctor of the Year (Dr Camille Michener Legacy Award)
  • Warwick Ruse – AMA (WA) Hippocrates Awards
  • Eric Heenan – AMA (WA) President’s award

2001 Award Winners

  • David Watson – AMA (WA) Hippocrates Awards

2000 Award Winners

  • Con Michael & Geoffrey Malcolm Clarke – AMA (WA) Hippocrates Awards

1999 Award Winners

  • Alexander George O’Neil – AMA (WA) Hippocrates Awards

1998 Award Winners

  • Peter John Graham & Turab Chakera – AMA (WA) Hippocrates Awards

1997 Award Winners

  • Michael Jones & Pam Quartermass – AMA (WA) Hippocrates Awards

1996 Award Winners

  • Ken Fitch &– AMA (WA) Hippocrates Awards

1995 Award Winners

  • Barry Marshall, Ken Collin & Robin Warren – AMA (WA) Hippocrates Awards

1994 Award Winners

  • Mick Tiller & Richard Joske – AMA (WA) Hippocrates Awards