The Alma B. Sneeden award was established by Vinton D. Sneeden, MD, in memory of his wife after her death in 1975. It is presented each year by the Department of Pathology to a medical student demonstrating outstanding scholarship in pathology.

About Vinton D. Sneeden, MD

Vinton D. Sneeden graduated from the University of Oregon Medical School (UOMS, now OHSU School of Medicine) in 1936. Upon graduation, he took a rotating internship and received residency training in pathology and surgery at French Hospital in San Francisco.  In 1939 he joined the UOMS faculty.  During World War II he served as the Chief of Laboratories for the 46^th General Hospital in North Africa, and later in France.  In 1952 Dr. Sneeden became the Chief of Laboratories at Emanuel Hospital in Portland until 1971, when he returned to the OHSU faculty.  Dr. Sneeden’s service to OHSU Pathology spanned 20 years. Dr. Sneeden died in 1979.

Alma B. Sneeden Award Recipients

2025 - Ashley Tam 
2023 - Jenna Davidson
2024 - Ali Gunesch
2022 - Aubre Gilbert
2021 - Dale Davis
2020 - Phoebe Hammer
2019 - Danny Rodriguez
2018 - MC Bohnett
2017 - Karl Stuart Tjerandsen 
2016 - Mustafa Abdul-Rahman Mahmood 
2015 - Kaeley Kaplan
2014 - Rebecca Sauerwein 
2013 - Morgan Ballard 
2012 - Nicole Kearney 
2011 - Brian Jeppesen 
2010 - Jessica Davis 
2009 - Emily King
2008 - Caryn Avery
2007 - Fiona Garlich
2006 - Eric Goranson
2005 - Jonathan P. Yarris
2004 - Cristina Ann Smith, Rebecca L. Wilcox
2003 - Tracy J. Dyer
2002 - Misty Payne
2001 - Daniel Louis Toweill
2000 - Megan Jennifer Smith
1999 - Denis M. McCarthy
1998 - Amy K. Chaumeton
1997 - Mark Douglas Orton
1996 - Martha J. Burt
1995 - Ann Elizabeth Smith
1994 - Joseph D. Kronz
1993 - Katherine M. Scott
1991 - Carolyn Diana Jordan, Betty Ann Olivares
1990 - Mitchell Ryan
1989 - Allen Hershey, Clifford C. Nelson
1988 - Scott P. Otteson, Robert D. Law
1987 - John L. Holmes, Richard H. Edelson
1986 - Daniel R. Kocarnik, Edward L. Nelson 
1985 - John Gotchall , Ed Nelson 
1984 - Paul Swanson 
1983 - Michael Wyman 
1982 - Terrie Brooks 
1981 - Dennis Wickham 
1980 - Stephen Darling 
1979 - Steve Muelick