Alumni Awards

Distinguished Alumnus 2009

Arnold M. Moses, MD Arnold M. Moses, MD '54 is the Distinguished Service Professor of Medicine at SUNY Upstate Medical University.  He serves as Director of the Clinical Research Unit at the Institute for Human Performance and Director of the Metabolic Bone Disease Center.  Following his graduation cum laude in 1954 he was a resident in internal medicine at Montefiore and Mt. Sinai Hospitals in NYC and remained at Mt. Sinai for a year of endocrine fellowship.  He returned to Syracuse for an additional two years of endocrine fellowship under the mentorship of Dr. Charles Lloyd, and joined the Department of Medicine faculty in 1960. MORE >>


Outstanding Young Alumnus 2009

Willie Underwood, III, MD, MS, MPH '94Willie Underwood, III, MD, MS, MPH '94, is an Assistant Member, Department of Urology and the Office of Cancer Health Disparities Research, Cancer Prevention & Population Sciences at Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY. He earned his BS degree in Biology from Morehouse College in 1988, his MD and MSci degrees from the SUNY Upstate College of Medicine in 1994 and MPH from the University of Michigan, School of Public Health in 2004. He completed his urology residency at the University of Connecticut in 2000 and completed the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar Program at the University of Michigan in 2002. MORE >>


Humanitarian Award 2009

Charles Marshall, MDCharles B. Marshall, MD, a native of Binghamton, NY, has lived in the small industrial town of Martinsville, VA for 52 years with wife Doris, raising their four children.  He trained in Augusta, GA and Winston Salem, NC before entering US military service in Japan during the Korean War and completed his residency in Ob/Gyn in Syracuse, NY.  He practiced Ob/Gyn in a partnership from 1957-1977.  Doris served as Red Cross Volunteer Nursing Director, teaching community classes and giving time to special Health Department clinics and services. MORE >>

Previous Alumni Awards

Who Do You Admire?

Each year the Medical Alumni Association presents two awards during Reunion weekend. The litmus test is a simple question—Who do you admire? The Medical Alumni Association wants you to brag about your peers. Read more about the awards in the article "Who Do You Admire" PDF document text in the Winter 2007 Alumni Journal.


To nominate one of your peers, please download the appropriate form

and mail, fax or email your nominations to:


Upstate Medical Alumni Association
Setnor Academic Building, Suite 1510
750 East Adams St.
Syracuse, NY 13210

Fax: 315-464-4360

Email: medalum@upstate.edu


The Distinguished Alumna/us Award

The Distinguished Alumna/us Award was established in 1966 to recognize the extraordinary achievements and outstanding service of individual alumni. This award is presented to an Alumna/us who graduated more than twenty years ago. Past Candidates have been chosen for academic achievement, research initiatives, humanitarian efforts, outstanding service to their community, dedicated work for the Association/Foundation, distinguished teaching and/or outstanding work in industry and private practice.


The Outstanding Young Alumna/us Award

The selection committee recognized that most recipients were toward the end of their careers and in 1995 created the Outstanding Young Alumna/us Award, to recognize physicians doing great things earlier in their careers. This award is presented to an Alumna/us who has graduated within the last twenty years. Candidates should have demonstrated excellence in medical practice or research, service to the community, and/or commitment to the Medical Alumni Association/Foundation.


Humanitarian Award

The Medical Alumni Association announces the creation of a new award – The Humanitarian Award. Beginning at Reunion 2009, and in subsequent years in which there is a notable candidate, the Alumni Association will recognize alumni who exceed normal expectations in improving the lives of those in need with the Humanitarian Award.


Download a pdf of our 2010 Humanitarian Nomination Form PDF document text. The form will provide you with the criteria an alumnus/a must possess in order to be considered for this award.