The John P. McGovern Award

The late John P. McGovern, M.D. a member of the Cosmos Club, endowed the Foundation with a special fund for an annual series of lectures in science, literature, arts, and humanities. The Foundation Trustees select awardees whose endeavors have clearly distinguished them as leaders in their spheres of activity. The awardees deliver lectures open to the public at the Cosmos Club in their areas of recognition. A medal and an honorarium is presented to each awardee by the Cosmos Club Foundation, and a plaque placed in the Cosmos Clubhouse memorializes each award recipient.

John P. McGovern, a noted physician, educator, author, and medical historian, was a member of the Cosmos Club from 1953 until his death in 2007. He was the founder of the McGovern Allergy Clinic, Houston, Texas, the nation's largest private allergy clinic, and chairman of the boards of the McGovern Fund for Behavioral Sciences and the John P. McGovern Foundation.

The John P. McGovern Award Recipients