Sherman M. Mellinkoff Faculty Award
2026 Recipient: Ka-Kit Hui, MD
Honoring the finest in doctor-patient relationships and medical education.
About the Award Recipient
Ka-Kit Hui, MD, FACP is the Wallis Annenberg Professor in Integrative East-West Medicine and Professor and Director of the UCLA Center for East-West Medicine at the Department of Medicine of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Dr. Hui, a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, is an internationally acclaimed educator and researcher and is board-certified in Internal Medicine and Clinical Pharmacology, with an expertise in Geriatrics.
About the Sherman Mellinkoff Faculty Award
The Sherman Mellinkoff Faculty Award was established in 1979 to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the School of Medicine and to honor the man for whom it is named. Dr. Mellinkoff’s 24 years of leadership as Dean coincided with the growth and development of UCLA as a major institution of medical education and research.
The award honors the ideal of the finest in doctor-patient relationships and medical education. Because of the high esteem in which Dr. Mellinkoff is held by all who know him, this award is considered by the faculty to be the highest honor of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.
Mellinkoff Award Recipients
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View previous recipients by decade.
2010s
- 2019 - Myke Federman, MD
- 2018 - Jamil Aboulhosn, MD
- 2017 - Neil Wenger, MD
- 2016 - Noah Federman, MD
- 2015 - Gabriel M. Danovitch, MD
- 2014 - Robert K. Oye, MD
- 2013 - Ronald W. Busuttil, MD, PhD
- 2012 - Robin P. Farias-Eisner, MD, PhD
- 2011 - Rick E. Harrison, MD
- 2010 - W. Donald Shields, MD
2000s
- 2009 - Christopher B. Cooper, MD
- 2008 - Susan Perlman, MD
- 2007 - Marshall T. Morgan, MD
- 2006 - Alan M. Fogelman, MD
- 2005 - Stephen D. Cederbaum, MD
- 2004 - Lawrence W. Bassett, MD, FACR + Jonathan S. Berek, MD
- 2003 - Jeffrey J. Eckardt, MD
- 2002 - Glenn Braunstein, MD + Dalila Corry, MD
- 2001 - Milton H. Miller, MD + Robert B. Smith, MD
- 2000 - Joseph K. Perloff, MD
1990s
- 1999 - Jo Ann Brasel, MD
- 1998 - Charles M. Haskell, MD + Ronald S. Swerdloff, MD
- 1997 - Josephine B. Isabel-Jones, MD
- 1996 - Allan E. Kreiger, MD
- 1995 - Phyllis A. Guze, MD
- 1994 - Dennis W. Cope, MD
- 1993 - Gildon N. Beall, MD
- 1992 - George W. Ellison, MD
- 1991 - Charles R. Kleeman, MD
- 1990 - David H. Solomon, MD + David State, MD, PhD
1980s
- 1989 - Ulrich Batzdorf, MD
- 1988 - Solomon A. Kaplan, MD
- 1987 - Christian Herrmann, Jr., MD
- 1986 - Kouichi R. Tanaka, MD
- 1984 - William J. Dignam, MD + Edward A. Langdon, MD
- 1983 - Arthur D. Schwabe, MD
- 1982 - George C. Emmanouilides, MD, MS
- 1981 - William P. Longmire, Jr., MD
- 1980 - William S. Adams, MD