The Ulrich Henschke Award is the highest honor that the American Brachytherapy Society can bestow on a practitioner of brachytherapy, awarded for contributions to the field of brachytherapy, the radiation therapy community, and to the ABS. Dr. Henschke is considered the father of modern-day brachytherapy for his initial work in the 1950's, including his technology advancements are still in use today.
| 2017 | Juanita M. Crook, MD, FRCPC, FABS BC Cancer Agency |
| 2016 | Jeffrey Demanes, MD, FACRO, FACR, FASTRO UCLA |
| 2015 | Bruce R. Thomadsen, PhD University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| 2014 | Beth A. Erickson, MD, FACR, FASTRO Medical College of Wisconsin |
| 2013 | Frank A. Vicini, MD, FACR Michigan Healthcare Professionals / 21st Century Oncology |
| 2011 | W. Robert Lee, MD, MS, M.Ed. Duke University |
| 2010 | Patricia J. Eifel, MD MD Anderson |
| 2009 | Michael Zelefsky, MD Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center |
| 2008 | Kent Wallner, MD Puget Sound Health Care System |
| 2007 | Subir Nag, MD, FACR, FACRO Kaiser Permanente Radiation Oncology |
| 2006 | Jeffrey Williamson, PhD Virginia Commonwealth University Radiation Oncology |
| 2005 | Alvaro Martinez, MD William Beaumont Hospital |
| 2003 | Louis B. Harrison, MD Beth Israel Medical Center |
| 2002 | John Blasko, M.D. Prostate Brachytherapy: Past, Present, and Future |
| 1999 | Luis Delclos, M.D. Irradiation for Malignant Tumors of the Vagina |
| 1995 | Colin Orton, Ph.D. The Dose-Rate Effect in Brachytherapy: Friend or Foe? |
| 1994 | Ravinder Nath, Ph.D. New Radionuclide Sources for Brachytherapy |
| 1993 | Alain Gerbaulet, M.D, Brachytherapy for Pediatric Malignancies |
| 1992 | Willet Whitmore, M.D. The Memorial Sloan Kettering Experience with 125-I for Prostrate Cancer: 1970-1985 |
| 1991 | Carlos Perez, M.D., FACR A Historic Perspective and Challenges in Brachytherapy of the Uterine Cervix |
| 1990 | Jack Fowler, D.Sc. The Role of Radiation Biology in Brachytherapy |
| 1989 | Professor Daniel Chassagne Results of Oral Cancer Brachytherapy |
| 1989 | J. Frank Wilson, M.D. Combined Modality Treatment with Brachytherapy |
| 1988 | Charles A.F. Joslin, M.D. High Activity Source Afterloading in Gynecological Cancer and Its Future Prospects |
| 1986 | Theodore L. Phillips, M.D. Neurobrachytherapy, State of the Art |
| 1985 | Samuel Hellman, M.D. Preservative Management of Breast Cancer |
| 1984 | Eric Hall, D.Sc. The Biological Basis of Endocurietherapy |
| 1984 | Bernard Pierquin, M.D. Account of French Fellows |
| 1982 | Lowell Anderson, Ph.D |
| 1981 | Basil Hilaris, M.D. |
| 1981 | A.M. Nisar Syed, M.D. Primary Irradiation on the Management of Cancer of the Breast |