Albert H. Ketcham Memorial Award Past Winners
To commemorate Dr. Albert H. Ketcham’s achievements and serve as an inspiration to the advancement of orthodontics, The American Board of Orthodontics created the Albert H. Ketcham Memorial Award. The memorial is awarded annually to the orthodontist or some other person who, in the judgment of the award committee, has made a notable contribution to the science and art of orthodontics.
Created: September 2005
Updated: June 12, 2024
* Awarded posthumously
** 2020 and 2021 Annual Session was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 2020 award winner received his award at the 2022 Annual Session.
| YEAR | AWARD RECIPIENT(S) |
| 2024 | Peter M. Greco |
| 2023 | Lawrence Andrews |
| 2022 | 2020 Award Winner Received His Award** |
| 2021 | 2020 Award Winner to Receive Award at the next in person Annual Session** |
| 2020 | Rolf Behrents** |
| 2019 | Michael Riolo |
| 2018 | Birte Melsen |
| 2017 | Sheldon Peck |
| 2016 | W. Eugene Roberts, Jr. |
| 2015 | David L. Turpin |
| 2014 | John Casko |
| 2013 | Thomas J. Cangialosi |
| 2012 | Lee W. Graber |
| 2011 | Vincent G. Kokich |
| 2010 | James L. Vaden |
| 2009 | Katherine W.L. Vig |
| 2008 | James A. McNamara |
| 2007 | Bjorn Zachrisson |
| 2006 | Herbert A. Klontz |
| 2005 | William R. Proffit |
| 2004 | Anthony Gianelly |
| 2003 | Donald R. Joondeph |
| 2002 | Robert J. Isaacson and O.B. Vaughan |
| 2001 | Lysle E. Johnston Jr. and Paul L. Tessier |
| 2000 | Jack G. Dale |
| 1999 | Charles J. Burstone and * Dale B. Wade |
| 1998 | Fujio Miura and Lennart Wieslander |
| 1997 | Lloyd E. Pearson |
| 1996 | J. Daniel Subtelny and * Samuel Pruzansky |
| 1995 | Rolf Frankel |
| 1994 | Harry L. Dougherty and Arthur A. Dugoni |
| 1993 | Sten Linder-Aronson |
| 1992 | Wilbur J. Prezzano |
| 1991 | Robert E. Gaylord |
| 1990 | Donald G. Woodside |
| 1989 | L. Levern Merrifield |
| 1988 | Robert E. Moyers |
| 1987 | Brainerd F. Swain |
| 1986 | Paul D. Lewis and * James E. Brophy |
| 1985 | John R. Thompson |
| 1984 | Raymond C. Thurow |
| 1983 | Joseph R. Jarabak and Richard A. Reidel |
| 1982 | Fred F. Shudy and Frederick T. West |
| 1981 | Reed A. Holdaway |
| 1980 | Faustin N. Weber and Eugene E. West |
| 1979 | Earl E. Shepard |
| 1978 | Arthur B. Lewis |
| 1977 | P. Raymond Begg and Coenraad F.A. Moorrees |
| 1976 | Kaare Reitan |
| 1975 | T.M. Graber and Robert M. Ricketts |
| 1974 | Herbert I. Margolis |
| 1973 | Arne Bjork and Alton W. Moore |
| 1972 | B.F. Dewel |
| 1971 | Frank P. Bowyer, Jr. |
| 1970 | Herbert K. Cooper and Silas J. Kleohn |
| 1969 | W. M. Krogman and Lowrie J. Porter |
| 1968 | George W. Hahn and Cecil C. Steiner |
| 1967 | Harry Sicher |
| 1966 | William Roy Humphrey and J. A. Salzmann |
| 1965 | George M. Anderson and Wendell L. Wylie |
| 1964 | Philip E. Adams and * Andrew Francis Jackson |
| 1963 | Hays N. Nance |
| 1962 | Charles Bingham Bolton and C. Edward Martinek |
| 1961 | William B. Downs |
| 1960 | Sheldon Friel and Charles H. Tweed |
| 1959 | Allan G. Brodie and Robert H. W. Strang |
| 1958 | Joseph Davis Eby and H. C. Pollack, Sr. |
| 1957 | Oren A. Oliver |
| 1956 | Leuman M. Waugh |
| 1955 | Joseph E. Johnson |
| 1954 | Charles Reeder Baker |
| 1953 | Spencer B. Atkinson |
| 1952 | James David McCoy |
| 1951 | Benno E. Lischer |
| 1949 | William King Gregory |
| 1948 | Clinton C. Howard |
| 1946 | Raymond Clair Willett |
| 1944 | B. Holly Broadbent |
| 1942 | Harry E. Kelsey |
| 1941 | Frederick B. Noyes |
| 1940 | George W. Grieve |
| 1939 | Milo Hellman |
| 1938 | Alfred Paul Rogers |
| 1937 | John Valentine Mershon |