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Gold Medal Winners

The Gold Medal is the most prestigious individual honor

of the World Association for Sexual Health (WAS).

2023

Venkatraman Chandra-Mouli (India)
Cristina Tania Fridman (Argentina)
Debra Haffner (USA)

2017

Mona Kaidbey (United States of America)

Eleanor Maticka-Tyndale (Canada)

Rafael Mazin (United States of America)

Jeffrey Weeks (United Kingdom of Great Britain)

2011

Ricardo Cavalcanti (Brazil)

Chizuko Ikegami (Japan)

Bill Stayton (United States of America)

Alfons Vansteenwegen (Belgium)

Beverly Whipple (United States of America)

2005

William Masters & Virginia Johnson (United States of America)

Roy Levin (United Kingdom of Great Britain)

Igor Kon (Russia)

Walter Everaerd (Netherlands)

Lorraine Dennerstein (Australia)

1999

Ishiham (Japan)

Wu Jai-Ping (China)

Mahinder C. Watsa (India)

Cecilia Cardinal de Martin (Colombia)

Gorm Wagner (Denmark)

Harold Lief (United States of America)

2021

Esben Esther Pirelli Benestad (Norway)

Ganesan Adaikan (Singapore)

Chiara Simonell (Italy)

2015

Aminta Parra Colmenaréz (Venezuela)

Doortje Bracken (Netherlands)

Milton Diamond (United States of America)

Eusebio Rubio-Aurioles (Mexico)

2009

Thore Langfeldt (Norway)

Irwin Goldstein (United States of America)

Maria Helena Matarazzo (Brazil)

Julia R. Heiman (United States of America)

Catherine Hamlin (Australia)

2003

Prakash Kothari (India)

Maj Briht Bergström Walan (Sweden)

Fernando Jose Bianco Colmenares (Venezuela)

Celestino Alvarez (Cuba)

Esther Corona Vargas (Mexico)

1997

Man Lun Ng (Hong Kong)

Rubén Hernández-Serrano (Venezuela)

Preben Hertoft (Denmark)

John Bancroft (United Kingdom of Great Britain)

Richard Green (United States of America)

2019

Dennis Fortenberry (United States of America)

Maria Perez-Conchillo (Spain)

Mireille Bonierbale (France)

Reiko Ohkawa (Japan)

2013

Lars-Gösta Dahlöf (Sweden)

León Roberto Gindin (Argentina)

2007

Jole Baldaroverde (Italy)

Eli Coleman (United States of America)

Helene O´Connell (Australia)

Robert Porto (France)

D. Narayana Reddy (India)

2001

Suzanne Aurelius (Chile)

Gerard Valles (France)

Per Olov Lundberg (Sweden)

Erwin J. Haeberle (Germany)

Yoshiro Hatano (Japan)

1995

Helen Singer Kaplan (United States of America)

Sei’ichi Matsumoto (Japan)

John Money (United States of America)

Patricia Schiller (United States of America)

Gilbert Tordjman (France)

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