The Award of Special Merit commemorates the paramount contributions to the success and well being of the Society which in the judgment of the Society are above and beyond the expected and ordinary. The recipient need not be a member of the Society. This award was originally in the form of a document suitable for framing. In 1987, an engraved silver bowl was adopted as this award.

Award Recipients
2022 - Sue M. Dykema, CAE
2021 - Kevin Charles
2019 - Daniel C. Mills, II, MD & Richard J. Warren, MD
2016 - Barry Fernando, MD
2015 - Joan Kron
2014 - Dave Cherkis
2013 - Sue Dykema
2010 - Mary Lind Jewell, RPT & John O'Leary
2009 - D. Ralph Millard, MD & Debi M. Toombs
2008 - Robert Aicher Esq.
2003 - Elizabeth Sadati
2002 - Simon Fredricks, MD
1998 - Charles A. O'Brien, Esq.
1996 - Robert G. Stanton
1989 - Eugene H. Courtiss, MD
1987 - Christina Lewis
1978 - Charles A. O'Brien, Esq.
1978 - Mark Gorney, MD