The Gold Medal
This is our highest award to a Fellow of the College in recognition of sustained work for the College at the highest level. Examples would include work over decades to support anaesthesia, critical care or pain medicine at a national or international level. (This does not include activity delivered as a senior officer of the College or where such activity has been commissioned or rewarded in other ways). This medal is rarely awarded.

Previous awardees
Name | Presentation year |
Tim Cook | 2022 |
Rob Sneyd | 2019 |
Julian Bion | 2017 |
David Rowbotham | 2017 |
Anna-Maria Rollin OBE | 2015 |
Steven Shafer | 2013 |
David Zideman LVO | 2013 |
Rajinder Mirakhur | 2011 |
Griselda Cooper OBE | 2011 |
Tony Wildsmith | 2008 |
David Saunders | 2006 |
Peter Hutton | 2006 |
Felicity Reynolds | 2005 |
Jennie Hunter | 2004 |
Graham Smith | 2003 |
David Hatch | 2003 |
Edmond Charlton | 2003 |
Nick Franks | 2003 |
Pierre Foëx | 2002 |
Rosemary Macdonald | 2002 |
Clive Hahn | 2001 |
Tony Rubin | 2001 |
Roger Dyson | 2000 |
Joseph Stoddart | 2000 |
Jerry Lambert | 2000 |
Michael Halsey | 2000 |
Morrell Lyons | 1997 |
Margaret Branthwaite | 1997 |
Ronald Samuel Jones | 1996 |
William Fitch | 1995 |
John Stanley M Zorab | 1994 |
Charles Suckling | 1992 |
Pradit Chareonthaitawee | 1992 |
Peter Wentworth Thompson | 1989 |
James Patrick Payne | 1989 |
Thomas Babington Boulton | unknown |
John Francis Nunn | unknown |
Sir Keith Sykes | unknown |
Barbara Mabel Weaver | unknown |
Cyril Frederick Scurr | unknown |
Teresa R Cramond (nee Brophie) | 1982 (TBC) |
William Wellesley Mapleson | unknown |
Leslie Wilfred Hall | unknown |
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