to recognize those students who have demonstrated outstanding personal/interpersonal characteristics in their interactions with fellow students/teachers/staff and/or patients and their families. 

The selection of students for this honor is obtained from students within the class using a peer evaluation survey and from members of our faculty and staff.

Approximately fifteen percent of the rising fourth-year class will be inducted. Students are inducted at a dinner during the Honors Night banquet in May. Selection of GHHS students are announced to all students and faculty, indicated in the MSPE, and acknowledged at graduation. 

As our students have been highly involved in community service activities, it is particularly likely that those selected for membership in the GHHS will embrace the idea of establishing an ongoing project that will advance the ideals of the Society in our community.

• Previous Tow faculty awardees become eligible for selection 5 years after previous award.
• House staff and residents are not eligible for the award.
• Posthumous awards are not permitted.
• Self-nomination is not permitted.
• It is highly likely that the student Tow awardee will be a member of GHHS, since the Tow Award recognizes the premier exemplars of humanism in medicine. However, a fair and equitable nomination and selection process should draw from the entire body of graduating medical students, regardless of GHHS membership.
• Faculty Tow awardees are expected to be available to support local GHHS chapter activities.

• Heather A. Bradeen, MD (2024)
• Jeremiah E. Dickerson, MD (2023)
• Timothy Patrick Lahey, MD, MMSC (2022)
• Devika Singh, MD (2021)
• Anya S. Koutras, MD (2020)
• Lauren K. MacAfee, MD (2019)
• Anne Dougherty, MD (2018)
• Marvin Klikunas, MD (2017)
• Candace Fraser, MD (2016)
• Alicia Veit, MD, F.A.A.P. (2015)
• Evan Eyler, MD (2014)
• Ursula McVeigh, MD (2013)
• Christa Zehle, MD (2012)
• David Mooney, MD (2011)
• Peter Cataldo, MD (2010)
• Florian Foerg, MD (2009)
• Allan Ramsay, MD (2008)  
• Steven Grant, MD (2007)
• Robert Macauley, MD (2006)
• Richard Pinckney, MD (2005)
• Geoffrey Tabin, MD (2004)
• John Saia, MD (2003)
• Neil Hyman, MD (2002)
• Barbara Grant, MD (2001)
• Alan Rubin, MD (2000)
• Tania Bertsch, MD (1999)

• Nathaniel “Than” Peterson Moore, MD (2024), Emergency Medicine Resident, University of Vermont Medical Center
• Sean Muniz, MD (2023), Pediatric Medicine Resident, University of Utah Health, Salt Lake City, UT
• Noorin Ali Damji, MD (2022), Psychiatry Resident, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
• Christina Alexandria Dawson, MD (2021), Pediatrics Resident, University of North Carolina Hospitals, Chapel Hill, NC
• Eli Goldberg, MD (2020), Family Medicine Resident, University of Vermont Medical Center, Burlington, VT
• Caroline Krumholz Linehan, MD (2019), Family Medicine Resident, Kaiser Permanente Washington, Seattle, WA
• Kelley Collier, M.D. (2018), Family Medicine, U Colorado SOM-Denver, Aurora, CO
• Robin Leopold, MD (2017), Anesthesiology, U North Carolina Hospitals, Chapel Hill, NC
• Mutlay Sayan, MD (2016), Preliminary Medicine, University of Vermont Medical Center, Burlington, VT & Radiation Oncology, Rutgers-R W Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ
• Jessie Evangelista, MD (2015), Pediatrics, NYP Hospital-Weill Cornell Med Ctr, New York, NY
• Peter Cooch, MD (2014), Pediatrics – Primary, UC San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
• Idil Aktan, MD (2013), Internal Medicine, Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
• Melissa Marotta Houser, M.D. (2012)
• Casey B. Johnson (2011)
• Yana R. Wirengard (2010)
• Ginny Van Duyne, M.D. (2009)
• Whitney N. Casares (2008)
• Sahir Kalim (2007)
• Jason Heiner (2006)
• Deb Gargiulo (2005)
• Gelareh Abedi (2004)
• Omar A. Khan (2003)