| Year | Winner | Essay Title |
| 2007 | Laura Carlyle | Modern Medical Education and the Liberal Arts: Theoretical and Practical Dimensions of Integration |
| 2008 | Micheil Cannistra | To Bypass or Not to Bypass: An Examination of the History and Ethics of Gastric Bypass Surgery 2008 |
| 2008 | Stephanie Lichtor | Physicians and Complicity in Torture in America’s War on Terror |
| 2009 | Micheil Cannistra | Indian Giver: Lynch Syndrome, The Navajo, and the Genetic Revolution |
| 2009 | Stephanie Lichtor | A Physician’s Responsibility to Treat Pain |
| 2010 | Marie-Teresa Colbert | Making the Human Papillomavirus Vaccination Mandatory |
| 2010 | Kathleen Kennedy Miller | A Modern History of Ayahuasca |
| 2011 | Laura Fragodt | For the Sake of Others: Key Considerations in Medical Missions |
| 2011 | Michell Cannistra | The Rise of the Physician-Reporter: Responsibilities |
| 2011 | Honorable Mention: Andrew L. Fahlgren | The Seattle Experience: How “The Life and Death Committee” Determined Who Was Worthy of Dialysis |
| 2012 | Mary Becker Rysavy | Labor and Luck: The Birth of Modern Oxytocics |
| 2012 | Asitha Jayawardena, | Expedited ‘Diffusion of Innovation’: A reflection on the Ponseti Method in the current era of medicine |
| 2013 | Mary Becker Rysavy | Sadness and Support: A Short History of Postpartum Depression |
| 2014 | Christopher J De Boer | The Price of Pain: Examining Global Inequality in Palliative Care and a Human Rights Response |
| 2014 | Colin Buzza | A Life in the Community for All? The ongoing de-segregation of Iowans with mental illness |
| 2015 | Katherine Ryken | The Role of Physicians in Transitional Justice: Combatting the Aftermath of Mass Rape in Bosnia-Herzegovina |
| 2015 | Dylan Todd | The Collision of Concussion Prevention and Concussion Culture |
| 2016 | Mgbechi Erondu | Spinal: The Culture of Obstetric Anesthesiology at Gbagada General Hospital (Lagos, Nigeria) |
| 2016 | Alice Ye | Modern Vaccine Anxiety in America |
| 2017 | Avanthi Sai Ajjarapu | Dying a Good Death: A critique of the biomedical technology and its role in end-of-life care in the United States |
| 2017 | Kelsey P Hart | Fat in the Fire: A Personal Narrative on Disordered Eating in Competitive Distance Runners |
| 2018 | Pavane Gorrepati | What's Hormones Got To Do With It? The Medicalization of Menopause in Postwar America" |
| 2018 | Kaci McCleary | The White Coat as a Symbol |
| 2019 | Marcus Toral | A Lesson from the Serpent: Artificial Intelligence and the Healer's Art |
| 2020 | Richard Uhlenhopp | Emily's Story and the Expression of Pain |
| 2020 | Cheryl Wang | The Terrible PR of Electroconvulsive Therapy: Why Psychiatrys Most Effective Therapy for Depression is Also Its Most Controversial |
| 2021 | Cheryl Wang | The Problem of Pain: The Difficulty of Valuing Human Suffering in Medical Malpractice Law |
| 2021 | Sarah Ziegenhorn | Other People's Pain |
| 2022 | Alex Belzer | Socioeconomic perspectives on interactions with the health care system: A collection of three fictional short stories |
| 2022 | Liana Meffert | Metaphors in Medicine: The Body Speaks |
| 2023 | Sally Heaberlin | Shrinking |
| 2023 | Emma Clarke | America Needs Farmers, but the Farmer Needs a Physician |