TOA Distinguished Service Award Recipients 

Texas Ophthalmological Association’s Distinguished Service Award celebrates and honors those who have gone above and beyond to care for and advocate for ophthalmology patients. This peer recognition award is TOA’s highest honor. 

2025 - Keith A. Bourgeois, MD
2024 - Robert D. Gross, MBA, MD
2023 - Chevy Lee, MD
2022 - John Bishop, MD
2021 - Mr. Jay Propes
2020 - David L. McCartney, MD
2019 - Jerry Hunsaker, MD
2018 - Dawn C. Buckingham, MD
2017 - Jack Pierce, MD
2016 - James P. McCulley, MD, FRCOphth(UK), FACS
2015 - Michelle A. Berger, MD
2014  - Mr. Michael S. Duncan
2013  - James Merritt, MD
2012  - John R. Fish, MD
2011  - Bernard A. Milstein, MD
2010 -  Robert M. Tenery, MD
2009  - Sue Ellen Young, MD
2008  - Thomas E. Duncan, MD
2007  - Lyle S. Thorstenson, MD
2006  - John M. Haley, MD
2005  - Sam Stone, Jr., JD
2004  - Louis Daily, MD
2003  - Malcolm L. Mazow, MD
2002  - Lee S. Anderson, MD
2001  - Robert L. Rock, MD
2000  - Alan C. Baum, MD
1999  - John David Jones, MD
1998  - David G. Shulman, MD
1997  - Whitney G. Sampson, MD
1996  - Richard S. Ruiz, MD
1995  - Otto Lippmann, MD
1994  - R. Larry Brenner, MD