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Honors and Awards

Below is a list of selected awards, honors, appointed and elected positions for Dr. Arthur C. Guyton:

1996

• Distinguished Service Award, Association of Chairs of Departments of Physiology
• Abraham Flexner Award for Distinguished Service to Medical Education, Association of American Medical Colleges

1995

• First Distinguished Investigator Award of the Consortium of Southeastern Hypertension Centers

1993

• Keynote speaker, 21st annual John C. Forbes Honors Colloquium, Medical College of Virginia

1992

• Foreign Member, Russian Academy of Natural Sciences
• Honorary Foreign Member, Argentine College of Venous and Lymphatic Surgery
• Mikamo Award, Makuhari, Japan
• Elected to Russian Academy of Natural Sciences
• The American College of Physicians Award for outstanding work in science related to medicine

1990

• Special Scientific Achievement Award of the American Medical Association

1989

• Member of the Harvard Medical School Alumni Council (three-year term)

1988

• Member of the Harvard Medical School Alumni Council (three-year term)

1985

• Advisory Committee to the Director of the National Institutes of Health (three-year term)

1984

• Bi-annual Merck, Sharp and Dohme International Award for Research in Hypertension, Interlaken, Switzerland

1981

• Mellon Award of the University of Pittsburgh
• Daggs Award for Contributions to Physiology and the Society by the American Physiological Society

1980

• CIBA Award for Research in Hypertension

1979

• Einthoven Medal, Einthoven Foundation, Holland

1978

• The Harvey Lecture, 400th Anniversary Symposium on the occasion of the birth of William Harvey, discoverer of the circulation, Royal College of Physicians, London

1975

• The Physiology Teaching Award of the Association of Chairmen of Departments of Physiology
• President, Federation of American Societies of Experimental Biology

1974

• President, American Physiological Society
• American Heart Association Research Achievement Award

1973

• Editor-in-chief, International Review of Physiology (10 years)
• Editor, Cardiovascular Volume of International Review of Physiology (10 years)

1972

• Wiggers Award of the Circulation Group of the American Physiological Society for Cardiovascular Research

1959

• Ida B. Gould Award for Cardiovascular Research by the American Association for the Advancement of Science

1956

• U.S. Presidential Citation for the Development of Aids for the Handicapped