For many years, the Chicago Lying-in Hospital Board of Directors traditionally selected a preeminent clinician or scientist to receive the Joseph Bolivar DeLee Humanitarian Award in honor of his or her significant contribution to health care for women and infants.

Recipients of the DeLee Humanitarian Award include the following:

  • 1976 Beatrice Tucker, M.D.
  • 1977 Edith L. Potter, M.D.
  • 1978 Louis Gluck, M.D.
  • 1979 William Pollack, Ph.D.
  • 1980 Hermogenes Alvarez, M.D.
  • 1981 Leon C. Chesley, Ph.D.
  • 1982 Albert Dorfman, M.D., Ph.D.
  • 1983 Roy Hertz, M.D., Ph.D.
  • 1984 Charles H. Hendricks, M.D.
  • 1985 Daniel R. Mishell, Jr., M.D.
  • 1986 Jack A. Prichard, M.D.
  • 1987 Robert E. Scully, M.D.
  • 1988 Frederick P. Zuspan, M.D.
  • 1989 John C. Hobbins, M.D.
  • 1990 Lula Lubchenco, M.D.
  • 1991 M. Jocelyn Elders, M.D.
  • 1992 Georgeanna Seegar Jones, M.D.& Howard W. Jones, M.D.
  • 1993 Edward J. Quilligan, M.D.
  • 1994 Etienne-Emile Baulieu, M.D., Ph.D.
  • 1995 Elwood V. Jensen, Ph.D.
  • 1996 Iain G. Chalmers, M.D.
  • 1997 Henry W. Foster, Jr., M.D.
  • 1998 Mary Ellen Avery, M.D.
  • 1999 Warren H. Pearse, M.D.
  • 2000 Arthur L. Herbst, M.D.
  • 2002 Steven Gabbe, M.D.
  • 2003 Atef H. Moawad, M.D.
  • 2004 Mary-Claire King, Ph.D.
  • 2005 Patricia A. Donahoe, M.D.
  • 2006 Robert G. Edwards, Ph.D.
  • 2007 Sheldon J. Segal, Ph.D.
  • 2008 Leon Speroff, M.D.
  • 2009 Marshall D. Lindheimer, M.D.