Laureate Award: Robert Shields Abernathy Award
The laureate award for Arkansas was named after Robert Shields Abernathy, MD, FACP for all his work and dedication to the internal medicine field.
| 2022 | Richard A. Hinkle Jr, MD, FACP |
| 2021 | Naveen Patil, MD, FACP |
| 2020 | John Holston MD, FACP |
| 2019 | Omar Atiq, MD, FACP |
| 2018 | Michael G. Mackey, MD, FACP |
| 2017 | C. Lindsey Miller, MD, FACP |
| 2016 | Laura Hutchins, MD, FACP |
| 2015 | Robert C. Lavender, MD, FACP |
| 2014 | David C. Covey, MD, FACP |
| 2013 | Sara Tariq MD, FACP |
| 2012 | Stephen P. Johnson MD, FACP |
| 2011 | Robert Hopkins, MD FACP |
| 2010 | Clark Fincher, MD, FACP |
| 2009 | Robert D. Taylor, MD, FACP |
| 2008 | Karl Straub, MD, FACP |
| 2007 | Stephen Woodruff, MD, FACP |
| 2006 | Joseph Matthew Beck, II, MD, FACP |
| 2005 | Joseph Knight Bissett, MD, FACP |
| 2004 | Rebecca Edge Martin, MD, ACP Member |
| 2003 | Jerry Stewart, MD, FACP |
| 2002 | James Ross Phillips, MD, FACP |
| 2001 | Ray H. Hall, Jr, MD, FACP |
| 2000 | John C. Schultz, MD, FACP |
| 1999 | Raymond P. Miller, Sr., MD, FACP |
| 1998 | Taylor A. Prewitt, MD, FACP |
| 1997 | Allan S. Pirnique, MD, FACP |
| 1996 | Robert W. Bradsher, Jr., MD, FACP |
| 1995 | Donald L. Miller, MD, ACP Member |
| 1994 | Louis Lee Sanders, MD, FACP |
| 1993 | H. Van Smith, MD, FACP |
| 1992 | John William Nuckolls, MD, FACP |
| 1991 | Eleanor A. Lipsmeyer, MD, FACP |
| 1990 | Eugene J. Towbin, MD, FACP |
| 1989 | Arthur Haut, MD, FACP |
| 1988 | Marvin L. Murphy, MD, FACP |
| 1987 | James S. Adamson, MD, FACP |
| 1986 | Audrey J. Thompson, MD, ACP Member |
| 1985 | James E. Doherty, MD, FACP |
| 1984 | Larkin M. Wilson, MD, ACP Member |
Winners prior to 1984, according to 1984 Governors' Newsletter, specific dates unknown:
Robert S. Abernathy, FACP
Joe B. Hall, FACP
Joseph H. Bates, FACP
S. William Ross, FACP
George L. Ackerman, FACP
Richard V. Ebert, MACP
William W. Stead, FACP
Jerome S. Levy, FACP