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Ramon Guiteras Award

The Ramon Guiteras Award may be awarded annually to an individual who is deemed to have made outstanding contributions to the art and science of urology.

Recipients of the AUA Ramon Guiteras Award are:

2023 Award Winner
Peter R. Carroll, MD, MPH

For decades of innovative research and practice improving the lives of men with prostate cancer

2022 Award Winner
Glenn M. Preminger, MD

For outstanding service to the AUA and for pioneering and innovative work in the field of endourology

2021 Award Winner
Ian M. Thompson Jr., MD

For outstanding leadership and contributions in clinical trials and treatment of urologic cancers

2020 Award Winner
William J. Catalona, MD

For outstanding leadership in demonstrating the value of PSA testing and surgical management of prostate cancer

2019 Award Winner
Arthur D. Smith, MD

For establishing through innovation and disseminating through education a new paradigm for the minimally invasive management of nephrolithiasis.

2018 Award Winner
Edward M. Messing, MD

For over 35 years of outstanding contributions to the art and science of urology, specifically, urologic oncology.

2017 Award Winner
Robert C. Flanigan, MD

For outstanding contributions to the art and science of urology as a surgeon, educator, leader and investigator, most notably in the field of uro-oncology.

2016 Award Winner
William Marston Linehan, MD

For outstanding contributions to the art and science of urology, most notably in the identification of genes associated with different types of kidney cancers and developing new strategies for their management.

2015 Award Winner
John M. Barry, MD

For outstanding contributions to the art and science of urology, as an artist, an innovator, an educator, for leadership as President of the WSAUA, ABU and AUA, and as a surgical scientist in multiple urological modalities, most notably in renal transplantation.

2014 Award Winner
Peter T. Scardino, MD

For outstanding contributions to the art and science of urology, most notably in the early detection and treatment of prostate cancer, as well as excellence in education and fellowship training.

2013 Award Winner
Jean B. deKernion, MD

For pioneering and innovative research in urologic oncology, and excellence in education and fellowship training.

2012 Award Winner
Anthony Atala, MD

For pioneering research in regenerative medicine and outstanding contributions to the field of urology as a scholar and teacher.

2011 Award Winner
E. Darracott Vaughan Jr., MD

For outstanding contributions to the science of urology, most notably in the pathophysiology of renal obstruction, adrenal disease and benign prostatic hyperplasia.

2010 Award Winner
Ralph V. Clayman, MD

For pioneering work in minimally invasive urological surgery, especially laparoscopic nephrectomy, and advancements in the endourologic management of urinary disease.

2009 Award Winner
Jack W. McAninch, MD

For contributions to the field of reconstructive surgery and genitourinary trauma, especially in the diagnosis and treatment of renal lesions and urethral stricture disease.

2008 Award Winner
Andrew C Novick, MD

For seminal work in renovascular surgery of the kidney, renal transplantation and partial nephrectomy for renal cell carcinoma

2007 Award Winner
Donald G. Skinner, MD

For outstanding contributions to the art and science of urology, most notably for pre-operative radiation, lymph node dissection and continent urinary diversion in the treatment of patients with bladder cancer

2006 Award Winner
Alan B. Retik, MD

For outstanding contributions to the art and science of urology, most notably as a senior leader and mentor in advancing the stature of pediatric urology.

2005 Award Winner
John P. Donohue, MD

For outstanding contributions to the art and science of urology, most notably in the treatment of testis cancer, and for the extraordinary work in transforming the University of Indiana Department of Urology into one of the most renowned in the world.

2004 Award Winner
Patrick C. Walsh, MD

For world-renowned leadership and unsurpassed contributions to improving the evaluation and treatment of men with prostate cancer, and pioneering work in the development of “the anatomic approach to radical retro pubic prostatectomy.”

2003 Award Winner
Victor A. Politano, MD

For a lifetime of exemplary service to the American Urological Association and for outstanding contributions in pediatric urology that have had applications throughout the specialty.

2002 Award Winner
Earl F. Nation, MD

For a lifetime of exemplary service to the American Urological Association and for outstanding contributions to the art and science of urology

2001 Award Winner
H. Logan Holtgrewe, MD

For his outstanding contributions in the ares of Health Policy and dedicated years of service to the AUA Board of Directors.

2000 Award Winner
Emil A. Tanagho, MD

For his pioneering efforts in neurourology. His innovative ideas in basic research have contributed significantly toward the understanding of urologic disease and advances in patient care.

1999 Award Winner
Jay Y. Gillenwater, MD

For his outstanding contributions to the field of urology and his many years as Editor of the Journal of Urology.

1998 Award Winner
William H. Boyce, MD

For his contributions to urologic education, thestudy of urinary stone disease and the application of ultrasound to urologic diseases

1997 Award Winner
Charles J. Devine, Jr., MD

For his contributions to reconstructive urology, and, particularly, our understanding and management of Peyronie's Disease, hypospadias, and urethral stricture disease.