Bean Award Winners
| Year | Name | Institution | Topic | AOS Presentation |
| 1987 | Lawrence B. Berk | Pittsburgh | Eary Research Into Infantile Paralysis | 1988 |
| 1988 | Cary David Albertstone | Cornell | Sickness and Sin: Elizabethian Melancholy and Reformation | 1989 |
| 1989 | David B. Moody | Johns Hopkins | Medical Miracles in Medieval Bavaria | 1989 |
| 1990 | William Craig Tomlinson | Cornell | The Not-So-Strange Case of Paul Lindau's 'The Other' | |
| 1991 | Richard Gunderman | U of Chicago - Pritzker | Sir Thomas Browne: A Physician's Religion | |
| 1992 | Walton O. Schalick, III | Johns Hopkins | Medical Astrology at the Medieval French Court, 1180-1328 | |
| 1992 | Christopher I. Wright | Harvard | An Observation of Euthanasia in the Netherlands | |
| 1992 | Christopher Fellenz | U of Rochester | The Biopsychosocial Approach of the Maya toawrd Respiratory Illness | |
| 1994 | Michael Lin | Baylor | Health Policy in Nazi Germany: The Corruption of a Health Care System | |
| 1995 | Michael Sanders | Icahn/Mt. Sinai | A Comparative History of Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Mt. Sinai School of Medicine | |
| 1995 | Miriam Korn | Dallhousie | Medical Ethics and Medical Etiquette: Maimonides and Hippocrates A Comparative Study | |
| 1996 | Rebecca Kornbluh | U of Chicago - Pritzker | At the Feet of Virchow: The Young William Osler | |
| 1997 | Gretchen Green | Brown | Twilight Sleep: Women Physicians and Patients Search for Professional and Social Equality | |
| 1997 | Ari Blitz (Honorable Mention) | Brown | The History of The New Humanism and the Foundations of Modern Medical Humanism (1910-1979) | |
| 1997 | John Lopez (Honorable Mention) | New Jersey Med Sch | The Physician's Power in the Twentieth Century | |
| 1998 | Monica McGrann | Texas A&M Health Sci | A Comparative Study of Masaccio's and Michelangelo's The Expulsion of Adam and Eve | |
| 1999 | Shane Mull | U of South Carolina | James Woods Babcock and the Conquest of Pellagra | |
| 1999 | Zachary Rubin | U of Arizona | The Synthesis and Dissemination of Classical Medicine by Jewish Physicians of Medieval Spain | |
| 1999 | Mary Dickinson-Chamberlin (Honorable Mention) | U of Vermont | The Life and Inspirations of Dickinson W. Richards | |
| 2000 | Jennifer Keam | The Portrait of the Renaissance Physician in Shakespeare's Plays | ||
| 2000 | Beth Preminger | |||
| 2001 | Christin McKenna | |||
| 2001 | Christopher J. Pittinger | |||
| 2002 | David Diaz | |||
| 2002 | Lauren M. Kim | |||
| 2003 | Lee Hampton | |||
| 2003 | Andora Johnson | |||
| 2005 | Simon Hanft | |||
| 2005 | Claire Hoverman | |||
| 2005 | Serena Tan | |||
| 2006 | Makini Chisholm-Straker | |||
| 2007 | Neil T. Jenkins | Inhalation Toxicology in the Bronze Age | ||
| 2007 | Paul J. Krezanoski | The Contemporary Medical History of Tuberculosis in Boston | ||
| 2008 | Jamie Fraser | Plastic Surgery in Postwar America, 1919-1941 | ||
| 2008 | Amit Sharma | Franz Weitlaner—The Greatest Spreader of Surgery | ||
| 2009 | Christopher F. Dibble | U of North Carolina | Osler and Trudeau: Leaders in the North American Campaign against Tuberculosis | |
| 2009 | Courtney Pendleton | Johns Hopkins | Harvey Cushing’s Early Forays into the Field of Neurological Transplant Surgery | |
| 2010 | Nitin Ahuju | U of Michigan | Albert Kahn and the Design of Old Main, 19171925 | |
| 2010 | Michael Brener | Johns Hopkins | The Story of the Baltimore City Almshouse in the Antebellum Era | |
| 2010 | Katherine (Sperle) Latimer | Johns Hopkins | ||
| 2011 | Frederick Flo | U of Rochester | ||
| 2011 | Margaret Olszewski | U of Toronto | J.C.B. Grant and the Founding of an Anatomical Museum | |
| 2011 | John Stroh | U of Kansas | The English Reformation and the Birth of London’s Royal Hospitals | |
| 2012 | Kristen Huntoon | NY Coll Osteopathic Med | Dr. Lindau’s Quest to Understand a Syndrome | |
| 2012 | Ramya Tekkellepati | UMDNJ - New Jersey Med School | Georg Hohmann: An Orthopedist, Activist, and Inventor of His Namesake Retractor | |
| 2012 | Joshua Tompkins | U Southern Cal - Keck | ||
| 2013 | Colten Bracken | Mayo Med School | Collaboration of Civil War Surgeons | |
| 2013 | Krista Grande | U of Rochester | The Development of Child Psychiatry in Rochester, NY | |
| 2013 | Alexandra Istl | U of Western Ontario - Schulich | Response to Declaration of the First World War: Dr. Edwin Seaborn | |
| 2014 | Angela Castellanos | Harvard | The Office of Negro Health Work from 1932-1951 | |
| 2014 | Matthew Edwards | U Texas Med Branch | Nancy Caroline and Peter Safar’s Freedom House: Physicians as Agents of Change | |
| 2015 | Na'amah Razon | U California - Berkeley | Examining Medical Service to Negev/Naqab Bedouin 1948-1966 | |
| 2015 | Natalie Stokes | U Penn - Perelman | Morgagni, Morgan and Contemporary Anatomy Curriculum | |
| 2015 | Judith Vick | Johns Hopkins | Women in Antebellum American Bedside Medicine | |
| 2016 | Anna O'Kelly | Johns Hopkins | The Role of Humility in Sir William Osler’s Thought and Practice of Medicine | |
| 2016 | Lee Eschenroeder | U of Virginia | Virchow and the Sewers of Berlin: The Debate Between Social and Biomedical Models of Medicine in 19th Century Berlin, with Implications for Today | |
| 2016 | Sydney Kraemer | Johns Hopkins | Harvard Stem Cell Science and Government Control During the Bush-Obama Era | |
| 2017 | Tiffany Brocke | Johns Hopkins | The Influence of the Johns Hopkins Hospital on Abortion Access in Baltimore, 1945-1973 | |
| 2017 | Christopher Magoon | U Penn - Perelman | ||
| 2017 | Joshua Nifortos | Cleveland Clinic - Lerner | The Black Hospital Movement in Cleveland, 1920-1957 | |
| 2017 | Brit Trogen | New York University | ||
| 2018 | Michael P.H. Stanley | Tufts University | Jeremiah Barker, Yesterday’s Everyday Physician, and His Understanding of Apoplexy & Palsy in “A History of Diseases in the District of Maine” | |
| 2019 | Priya Dave | Mt. Sinai/Icahn | Emanuel Libman: The Life and Legacy of New York City’s Legendary Turn of the Century Physician | 2022 |
| 2019 | Carly Sobol | Ohio State | Impact of Humanities Education on Medical School | |
| 2019 | Raoul Wadhwa | Case Western | USAID's PIEGO Program at WU Medical Center | 2021 |
| 2020 | Liam Butchart | Stony Brook | Using The Sound and the Fury to Compare Literary Psychoanalysis, the DSM-II and the DSM-5 | 2021 |
| 2020 | Elizabeth Card | U Penn - Perelman | The Impact of a Novel Life Drawing Course on Medical Student Clinical Observational Skill and Functional Anatomic Knowledge | 2021 |
| 2020 | Brendan Ross | McGill | Norman Bethune in the Eyes of His Chinese Comrades | 2021 |
| 2021 | Moustafa Abdalla | Harvard | Insights from Full Text Analyses of the Journal of the American Medical Association and the New England Journal of Medicine | 2022 |
| 2021 | Divyansh Agarwal | U Penn - Perelman | The Role of Academic Policies in Nurturing Surgeon-Scientists: Lessons from Dr. Debakey’s Historical Success | 2022 |
| 2021 | Drew Davis | Drexel | The Kitty Mac Clinic: Origins of Large-Scale Pelvic Cancer Screening and Ancestor of Today’s Annual Physical | 2022 |
| 2021 | Simon-Elise Hasselmo | Yale | A Graphic Family History of Medical Socialization and Desensitization in Nazi Germany and 2020 America | 2022 |
| 2022 | Saman Arfaie | McGill | Leonardo da Vinci's Medical Library: Mining the Secrets of Genius and Creativity | 2024 |
| 2022 | Christopher Bellaire | Mt.Sinai/Icahn | Edith Nourse Rogers: A Pioneer for Women, Veterans, and US Medical Education | |
| 2022 | Geoffry Bocobo | SUNY/Jacobs | The History of Surgical Drains and Fluid Management | |
| 2022 | Sophia Hu | U Penn - Perelman | Leaders in Gender Affirming Surgery Prior to 1952 | 2024 |
| 2022 | Jasmine Jones | U of Texas Medical Branch | A Look into the State of Black Health During UTMB's Early Establishment | |
| 2023 | Neevya Balasubramaniam | McGill | The Central Nervous System in the 18th Century Japanese Dissection Scrolls | 2024 |
| 2023 | Alexandra Bartholomew | Louisiana State | Comics as a Therapeutic and Teaching Tool in Gynecologic Oncology Clinics | |
| 2023 | Joshua Zev Glahn | Yale | Constructing the Ideal Body in Early Twentieth-Century American Plastic Surgery | |
| 2023 | David Gunderman | Indiana University | The History and Ethical Implications of Using Black-Box Mathematical Models in Medicine | |
| 2023 | Alexander Jacobs | U of Minnesota | The Evolution of Federally Qualified Health Centers | |
| 2023 | Ben Teasdale | Stanford | The Political Life of Dr. Morell Mackenzie | |
| 2024 | Noah Hoonhout | NY Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine | The Romantic Medicine of Joseph Henry Green | |
| 2024 | Oscar Li | Johns Hopkins | Unveiling the Power of Animated Documentaries in Medical Narratives | |
| 2024 | Jacinta Lomba | Howard University | Sickle Cell Disease and the Fight for Inclusion in Biomedical Research | |
| 2024 | Ahmed Nahian | Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine | Evolving Paradigms of Addiction Treatment in American History | |
| 2024 | Katherine "Nikki" Sheffield | U of Texas Medical Branch |
Health Care Burnout: Historical Lessons from the Lives of Notable Figures |
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| 2025 | Delaney Ding | U of Florida College of Medicine |
Myths and Misconceptions About Sun Protection and Cancer of the Skin in Color |
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| 2025 | Jessica Matschek | McGill |
Establishment of the MNI |
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| 2025 | Rena Seeger | U of Ottawa |
Beyond the Scalpel: The Transformation of Patient Selection in Lung Cancer |