John J. Bonica Award

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The American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine John J. Bonica Award is presented annually at the Annual Pain Medicine Meeting to an individual for his or her outstanding contributions to the development, teaching, and practice of pain medicine in the tradition of John J. Bonica, MD, a champion of multidisciplinary collaboration in the evaluation and treatment of patients with pain.

2021 John J. Bonica Award recipient Dr. Oscar de Leon-Casasola.

Past Winners:

1988	Michael J. Cousins, MD, FANZCA
1989	Tony Yakish, PhD
1990	Daniel C. Moore, MD
1991	Kenneth L. Casey, MD
1992	Stephen E. Abram, MD
1993	Henrik Kehlet, MD
1994	Laurence E. Mather, PhD
1995	John D. Loeser, MD
1996	Robert A. Boas, MB
1997	David H. Chestnut, MD
1998	Allan I. Basbaum, PhD
1999	Robert Elde, PhD
2000	Geral Gebhardt, PhD
2001	Donna L. Hammond, PhD
2002	Maria Fitgerald, PhD
2003	Christopher M. Bernards, MD
2004	Daniel B. Carr, MD
2005	James C. Eisenach, MD
2006	Howard L. Fields, MD, PhD
2007	John C. Rowlingson, MD
2008	Fernando Cervero, MD, PhD, DSc
2009	P. Prithvi Raj, MD
2010	Srinivasa N. Raja, MD
2011	James P. Rathmell, MD
2012	Jianren Mao, MD, PhD
2013	Richard L. Rauck, MD
2014	Steven P. Cohen, MD
2015	Richard Rosenquist, MD
2016	Honorio Benzon, MD
2017	Michael Stanton-Hicks, MD
2018	Charles Berde, MD
2019	Nagy Mekhail, MD, PhD
2020	Philip Peng, MBBS, FRCPC, Founder (Pain Medicine)
2021	Oscar de Leon-Casasola, MD

Learn more about John J. Bonica: The amazing story of the man who gave us modern pain relief