AABB Announces 2005 Award and Scholarship Recipients
Association honors individuals and organizations for outstanding contributions to the blood banking and transfusion medicine community

BETHESDA, MD AABB (formerly known as the American Association of Blood Banks) is pleased to announce the recipients of its prestigious 2005 Annual Awards and Scholarships. More than 28 individuals and organizations will be honored for their significant contributions to the advancement of transfusion medicine and cellular therapies.

Chosen from an outstanding pool of nominees, the recipients of the AABB Memorial Awards, Outstanding Achievement Awards, Awards of Merit, and AABB-Baxter Scholarship Awards will be recognized during the AABB Annual Meeting and TXPO,
Oct. 15-18, in Seattle, Wash.

AABB is proud to honor this notable group of individuals and organizations for their important and varied contributions to the field, said AABB President Paul D. Mintz, MD. Our award recipients bring a combination of leadership, vision and knowledge to the transfusion medicine and cellular therapies community.

The AABB Annual Meeting and TXPO will be held at the Washington State Convention and Trade Center. For detailed information about this years award recipients, visit: Call for AABB Award Nominations in the Pressroom section of the AABB Web site: www.aabb.org.

The recipients of the 2005 AABB Awards and Scholarships include:

MEMORIAL AWARDS

Bernard Fantus Lifetime Achievement Award Richard H. Aster, MD, senior investigator, BloodCenter of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wis.

Chapman-Franzmeier Memorial Award and Lectureship Maria Elena Geyer, vice president, Donor Services Group, Puget Sound Blood Center, Seattle, Wash.

Dale A. Smith Memorial Award Qui-Lim Choo, PhD, associate director, Research; Michael Houghton, PhD, vice president, Research and Chiron Fellow; George Kuo, PhD, director, Research and Chiron Fellow (retired), all of Chiron Corp., Emeryville, Calif.

David B. Pall Prize for Innovative Research in Transfusion Medicine Carl Goodyear, PhD, assistant research immunologist, Division of Rheumatology, Allergy, and Immunology School of Medicine, University of California-San Diego, San Diego, Calif.

Emily Cooley Memorial Award and Lectureship Michael P. Busch, MD, PhD, vice president, Research and Scientific Programs, blood systems director, Blood Systems Research Institute; professor of Laboratory Medicine, University of California,
San Francisco, Calif.

Hemphill-Jordan Leadership Award Harold Kaplan, MD, professor, Clinical Pathology, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University; director, Transfusion Medicine, New York Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, N.Y.

John Elliott Memorial Award Donald D. Doddridge, MA, MT(ASCP), president and chief executive officer, Florida Blood Bank Services, Inc., St. Petersburg, Fla.

Karl Landsteiner Memorial Award and Lectureship Peter Agre, MD, vice chancellor, Science and Technology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, N.C.

Tibor Greenwalt Scientific Memorial Award and Lectureship Robert Montgomery, MD, senior investigator, Hemostasis Research, BloodCenter of Wisconsin,
Milwaukee, Wis.

International Woman in Transfusion Award Marcela Contreras, MD, FRCP, FRCPath, professor, Transfusion Medicine, Royal Free Hospital Medical School and national director, Diagnostics Development and Research, National Blood Service, London, United Kingdom. (This award is presented in partnership with the British Blood Transfusion Society and the International Society of Blood Transfusion.)

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS

Individual Larry Sands, president and general manager, WLII/WSUR-TV, Univision Television Group, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Organization United States Military Academy at West Point, West Point, N.Y.

AWARDS OF MERIT

Business Category Johnson & Johnson, New Brunswick, N.J.

Education Category American Red Cross Pacific Northwest Regional Blood Services, Lane Memorial Blood Bank, Oregon State University Alumni Association, and the University of Oregon Alumni Association, Portland, Ore.

Individual Category Capt. Steven Schowalter, Wichita Fire Department, Wichita, Kan.

Group Category City of New York, Police Department, N.Y.

Newspaper Category The Wichita Eagle, Wichita, Kan.

Radio Category KSKS 93.7 KISS Country, Fresno, Calif.

Television Category WXIA-TV, 11Alive, Atlanta, Ga.

Other Media Category Vista Media, Los Angeles, Calif.

AABB-BAXTER SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS

Transfusion Medicine Fellows
Firoozeh Alvandi, MD
Wesley T. Stevens, MD

SBB Student Awards
Keli Renoud, MT(ASCP)SBB

SBB Student Honorable Mentions
Heather Grose, MT(ASCP)SBB
Lorraine Shaak, MT(ASCP)SBB


Nominations for 2006

The AABB Awards Committee is currently accepting nominations for AABB Memorial Awards, 2006 Outstanding Achievement Awards and 2006 Awards of Merit. All submissions are due by Friday, Jan. 27, 2006. For more information, visit the Pressroom section of AABBs Web site, www.aabb.org, and click on Call for AABB Award Nominations.


About AABB

Established in 1947, AABB (formerly known as the American Association of Blood Banks) is an international, not-for-profit association dedicated to the advancement of science and the practice of transfusion medicine and related biological therapies. The association is committed to improving health by developing and delivering standards, accreditation and educational programs and services that optimize patient and donor care and safety. AABB membership consists of approximately 1,800 institutions and 8,000 individuals, including physicians, scientists, administrators, medical technologists, nurses, researchers, blood donor recruiters and public relations personnel. Members are located in all 50 states and 80 foreign countries.

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