Rose Hirschler Award

The Rose Hirschler Award is named in honor of Dr. Rose Hirschler, one of the first known female dermatologists in the United States. The WDS presents this award annually to physicians chosen for their significant contributions to medicine and dermatology, and who, by their achievement, have served to enhance the role of women in the dermatologic specialty. Congratulations to these deserving recipients!

The nomination period will reopen in August.

2025 Award Recipients

Valerie D. Callender, MD, FAAD


Molly Hinshaw, MD


Past Recipients

2025 - Valerie D. Callender, MD & Molly Hinshaw, MD
2024 - DeDee Murrell, MA BMBCh MD DSc
2023 - Amy McMichael, MD
2022 - Pearl E. Grimes, MD
2021 - Mary E. Maloney, MD
2020 - Suzanne Olbricht, MD
2019 - Victoria P. Werth, MD
2018 - Jane M. Grant-Kels, MD
2017 - Kathleen J. Hectorne, MD
2016 - Amy Paller, MS, MD
2015 - Suzanne Connolly, MD
2014 - Lynn A. Drake, MD
2013 - Marianne N. O'Donoghue, MD
2012 - Jean L. Bolognia, MD
2011 - Boni Elewski, MD
2010 - Susan Weinkle, MD
2009 - Ilona Frieden, MD
2008 - Janet G. Hickman, MD
           

2007 - E. Dorinda Shelley, MD
2006 - Lenore Kakita, MD
2005 - Patricia G. Engasser, MD
2004 - Richard Odom, MD
2003 - Elizabeth I. McBurney, MD
2002 - Nia K. Terezakis, MD
2001 - Ruth Freinkel, MD
2000 - Barbara A. Gilchrest, MD
1999 - Inga Silberberg-Sinakin, MD, Gloria Graham, MD & G. Jeanette Thorbecke, MD, PhD
1998 - Antoinette F. Hood, MD
1997 - Vera Price, MD
1996 - Wilma F. Bergfeld, MD
1995 - Ricky K. Schachter, MD
1993 - Marie-Louise Johnson, MD
1992 - Stephania Jablonska, MD
1991 - Frances J. Storrs, MD
1990 - Walter B. Shelley, MD
1989 - Nancy Burton Esterly, MD & Margaret Gray Wood, MD
1988 - Miriam Chancy Reed, MD