THE PAUL BEESON & LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS


WPSR’s Lifetime Achievement Award Recipients

2022: Dr. Bruce Amundson
2023: Dr. David C. Hall


Paul Beeson Award Recipients

Each year, WPSR confers The Annual Paul Beeson Award on an activist in the field of health care, or health advocacy, who has made a substantial contribution to peace, justice, and health in Washington state. Dr. Beeson served as Chair of Medicine at Yale, Oxford, and Emory Universities, and as distinguished Professor Emeritus at the Seattle Veterans Hospital. A member of WPSR, he was a prominent and outspoken advocate for nuclear disarmament.

  • Judith Lipton, MD

  • Governor Mike Lowry

  • Archbishop Raymond Hunthausen

  • Giovanni Costigan, PhD

  • Jim and Shelley Douglass

  • Kay Bullitt

  • Sonja Anderson

  • Mayor Norm Rice

  • Danaan Parry

  • Hazel Wolf

  • Linda Erwin, MD

  • Congressman Jim McDermott, MD

  • Todd Martin

  • Mam McMurray

  • Anci Koppel

  • Betty Tabbutt

  • Jim Russell

  • Governor Christine Gregoire

  • Mary-Wynne Ashford, MD

  • Gerald Pollett, JD

  • T.J. Johnson

  • Jackie Hudson

  • Dick Blakney, MPH

  • James Carter Trombold, MD

  • William 'Bix' Bichsel, SJ

  • Glen Milner

  • Tom Carpenter

  • Robert & Gerri Haynes

  • Congressman Adam Smith

  • Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal

  • Jean Walkinshaw

  • Howie Frumkin

  • Estell Williams, MD & Edwin Lindo

  • Sen. Joe Nguyen & Rep. My-Linh Thai

  • Dr. Bessie Young