Winners and Runners-Up of Hektoen Contests
2022 Glory of Lebanon Contest
Maryline Alhajj, Winner: The Great War and the other war
For second prize winners and more about the contest, see this article from the Lebanese American University
2021
Stephen Marcus Finn, Winner: C. Louis Leipoldt: the polymath physician and literary giant
Richard de Grijs, Runner-Up:
“Plague of the Sea, and the Spoyle of Mariners”—A brief history of fermented cabbage as antiscorbutic
2020 Blood Writing Contest
Stephen Cosnar, Winner: Humanitarian for all: the life of Henry Dunant
Rachel Fleishman, Runner-Up: Painting an honest image
2019
Carrie Barron, Winner: Character, genius, and a missing person in medicine
Liz Jones, Runner-Up: The promise of a perfect smile
Summer 2018 Contest
Putzer J. Hung, Grand Prize Winner: Pellagra: a medical whodunit
Sylvia Karasu, Runner-Up: The madness of hunger
Katrina Genuis, Honorable Mention: Food of the body
2018
Abigail Cline, Grand Prize Winner: Tales from the crypt: the mosaic symbolism of Louis Pasteur’s tomb
Jack Coulehan, Runner-Up: The Education of Doctor Chekhov
Alida Rol, Runner-Up: “Mississippi Appendectomy” and other stories: when silence is complicity
2017
Anika Khan,Winner: Locked-in syndrome: inside the cocoon
Adam Komrowski and Sang Ik Song, Winner – Brief:
The King’s -Evil and sensory experience in Richard Wiseman’s Severall Chirurgicall Treatises
2016
Lisa Mullenneaux, Winner: Outwitting ‘Typhoid Mary’
Robert Robeson, Winner: “Dust Off” and the Power of Perseverance
2015
Christopher Frank, Winner: You’re no fi’ Glasgow: memories of the Glasgow Royal Infirmary
Natalia Vieyra, Runner-Up: Illuminating addiction: morphinomania in fin-de-siècle visual culture
2014
Salvatore Mangione, Winner: Leonardo and the reinvention of anatomy
2013
Fergus Shanahan, Winner: “Waiting”
Daisy Fancourt, Runner-Up: Medicine musica