2022–23 Medical Student Essay Contest

Shannon Adams-Hartung, Winner: Soul power
Vidhi Naik, Runner-Up: From silks to science: The history of hematoxylin and eosin staining

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