AABB Announces 2004 Award and Scholarship Recipients
Honors individuals and organizations for
outstanding contributions to transfusion medicine field

BETHESDA, MD – AABB (formerly known as the American Association of Blood Banks) is pleased to announce the recipients of its prestigious 2004 Annual Awards and Scholarships. Over 25 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, Awards of Merit, Outstanding Achievement Awards, and AABB-Baxter Scholarship Awards will be recognized at the AABB Annual Meeting and TXPO in Baltimore, Md., Oct. 23-26.

“AABB is proud to honor another remarkable group of individuals and organizations for their significant contributions to the field of transfusion medicine and cellular therapies,” said AABB President Kathleen Sazama, MD, JD. “Their passion for providing quality services and making advancements in sciences has helped us – as a community – continue to provide the best practices and treatments possible.”

The AABB Annual Meeting and TXPO will be held at the Baltimore Convention Center in

Baltimore, Md., Oct 23-26. For detailed information about this year’s award recipients, visit “AABB Awards Nominations” in the “Pressroom” section of the AABB Web site: www.aabb.org.

The recipients of the 2004 AABB Awards and Scholarships include:

MEMORIAL AWARDS

Chapman-Franzmeier Memorial Award and Lecture – Barbara Albiniak, vice president of donor services at LifeBlood Mid-South Regional Blood Center in Memphis, Tenn. Gambro BCT sponsors this award.

Dale A. Smith Memorial Award - Herbert Cullis, president of American Fluoroseal Corporation located in Gaithersburg, Md. Baxter Healthcare Corporation sponsors this award.

Emily Cooley Memorial Award and Lecture - Morris Blajchman, MD, FRCP(C), professor of pathology and molecular medicine at McMaster University, and medical director of Canadian Blood Services in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

Joel Solomon Memorial Award - Lucia M. Berte, MA, MT(ASCP)SBB, DLM; CQA (ASQ) CQMgr, quality systems consultant in Westminster, Colo.

John Elliott Memorial Award - W. John Judd, FIBMS, MIBiol, professor of immunohematology, and director of the Blood Bank Reference Laboratory Department of Pathology at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Mich.

Karl Landsteiner Memorial Award and Lecture - Tibor Greenwalt, MD, emeritus research director at the Hoxworth Blood Center in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Morten Grove-Rasmussen Memorial Award - Edward L. Snyder, MD, professor of laboratory medicine at Yale University Medical School; director of the Blood Bank/Apheresis Service for Yale-New Haven Hospital; and director of the Richard Frisbee Hematopoietic Cell Processing Laboratory at Yale Medical Center in New Haven, Conn.

Sally Frank Memorial Award and Lectureship - E. Ann Steiner, MT(ASCP)SBB, blood bank technical specialist at Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics in Raritan, N.J. The Sally Frank Memorial Fund sponsors this award.

W. Quinn Jordan Memorial Award and Lecture - Susan Zagame Reardon, JD, director of federal affairs at Johnson & Johnson in Washington, D.C. United Blood Services/Blood Systems sponsors this award.

AWARD OF RECOGNITION

President’s Award - Margot S. Kruskall, MD, director of the Division of Laboratory & Transfusion Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; professor of pathology and associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Mass.

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS

Individual – Charles Kurtzman, chair of the Carter BloodCare Foundation in Fort Worth, Texas, nominated by Carter BloodCare.

Organization – JPMorgan Chase in New York, N.Y., nominated by New York Blood Center.

AWARDS OF MERIT

Business Category - Georgia Power Company in Atlanta, Ga., nominated by the American Red Cross Blood Services, Southern Region.

Education Category – The University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill – Carolina Blood Drive Committee in Chapel Hill, N.C., nominated by the American Red Cross Blood Services, Carolinas Region.

Group Category - United States Army Field Artillery Center and Fort Sill in Fort Sill, Okla., nominated by Oklahoma Blood Institute.

Individual Category – Larry Ripley, chairman of the Morris Area Blood Program in Morris Plains, N.J., nominated by New Jersey Blood Services, a Division of New York Blood Center.

Radio Category – KRXQ-98 Rock in Sacramento, Calif., nominated by BloodSource.

Television Category - NBC 7/39 in San Diego, Calif., nominated by the San Diego Blood Bank.

AABB-BAXTER SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS

Transfusion Medicine Fellows
Ashok Nambiar, MD
Nicole Aqui, MD

SBB Student Awards
Wyenona Ann Hicks, MS, MT(ASCP)SBB
Faiqa M. Sadique, MS, MT(ASCP)SBB

SBB Student Honorable Mentions
Tuyetmai Le, MT(ASCP)SBB
Cynthia T. Tudisco, MT(ASCP)SBB
Shanasey L. Weber, MT(ASCP)SBB
Janet Monson, MT(ASCP)SBB

The AABB Awards Committee is currently accepting nominations for AABB Memorial Awards, 2005 Awards of Merit, and 2005 Outstanding Achievement Awards. All submissions are due by Friday, January 28, 2005. For more information, visit “AABB Awards Nominations” in the “Pressroom” section of the AABB Web site: www.aabb.org .

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 countries.