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President's Awards

This honor recognizes the extraordinary public service and contributions of an individual or an organization in the health care arena. The recipient’s work furthers AABB’s goals and missions.

2023 Recipients:

Graham D. Sher

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For facilitating and enabling an invaluable collaborative effort with AABB in the development of materials to assist American blood collection facilities in preparing for the implementation of individual donor assessments to determine blood donor eligibility.

Brian Custer, MPH, PhD on behalf of the Advance Study Team

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For successfully leading the ADVANCE study, which provided critical data that supported FDA’s decision that the US could safely and effectively implement individual donor assessment to determine blood donor eligibility.

John A. Hagins

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For successful leadership of the AABB Interorganizational Task Force on Domestic Disasters and Acts of Terrorism and for critical work to ensure the adequacy and stabilization of the U.S. blood supply during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.

Peter Marks, MD, PhD

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For continuous work supporting the U.S. blood community, for promoting public policies that support a safe and available blood supply, and for championing public messaging about the importance of blood donation.

Chris Hrouda

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For exceptional dedication and support of the AABB Foundation throughout the past decade and for leading work to ensure a successful and effective reimagining of the Foundation.

Jeanne Hendrickson, MD

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For critical work developing a nationwide antibody registry, which represents an important advancement to further optimize the safety of blood transfusion for patients throughout the United States.

Ronald George Hauser III, MD

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For critical work developing a nationwide antibody registry, which represents an important advancement to further optimize the safety of blood transfusion for patients throughout the United States.

Christopher A. Tormey, MD

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For critical work developing a nationwide antibody registry, which represents an important advancement to further optimize the safety of blood transfusion for patients throughout the United States.

Claudia S. Cohn, MD, PhD

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For critical work developing a nationwide antibody registry, which represents an important advancement to further optimize the safety of blood transfusion for patients throughout the United States.

Joseph Mulenga, MD, MBA, CTM on behalf of Zambia National Blood Transfusion Services (ZNBTS)

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For critical leadership in implementing new systems that help to advance transfusion medicine safety in Zambia.

Latha Jagannathan, MD

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For advancing blood and biotherapies safety in India and for championing the AABB Quality Certificate program.

Chris Miskel

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For critical leadership in expanding health care and career opportunities in transfusion medicine to underserved communities as well as for providing a model to help additional similar efforts succeed.

Gavin Evans on behalf of Global Blood Fund

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For extraordinary leadership in supporting transfusion medicine professionals in war-torn areas of Ukraine.

Iryna Slavinska on behalf of Donor.UA

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For invaluable work in helping to maintain the safety, adequacy and continuity of the blood supply in Ukraine amidst extraordinary challenges.

2022 Recipients:

Asawari Bapat, DPB, PGDHHM

Asawari Bapat, DPB, PGDHHM

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In recognition of your many contributions helping to advance AABB’s work in biotherapies, including service on AABB’s Cellular Therapy Section Coordinating Committee, leadership on the Cord Blood and Asia Pacific Group subsections, and outreach as an AABB international ambassador.

Wanxing Cui, MD, PhD

Wanxing Cui, MD, PhD

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In recognition of your many contributions helping to advance AABB’s work in biotherapies, including service on AABB’s Cellular Therapy Section Coordinating Committee, education initiatives and the mentoring program, and for your leadership of the Asia Pacific Group.

Mike Halpenny

Mike Halpenny

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In recognition of your service on AABB’s Cellular Therapies Section Coordinating Committee and the CT Current and Emerging Topics Subsection, and for your many contributions to the AABB Annual Meeting and education activities that support the mission of the Association.

Maria De Los Angeles Muñiz, MD

Maria De Los Angeles Muñiz, MD

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In recognition of your service translating AABB materials for a Spanish-speaking audience and for the outstanding success of this initiative, which has helped to bring critical education in transfusion medicine and biotherapies to Spanish-speaking professionals. In addition, this honor recognizes your unwavering dedication to AABB’s Cellular Therapy Section Coordinating Committee and the Spanish Language Subsection.

Federico Rodriguez Quezada SBB, MLSi(ASCP)CM

Federico Rodriguez Quezada SBB, MLSi(ASCP)CM

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In recognition of your service translating AABB materials for a Spanish-speaking audience and for the outstanding success of this initiative, which has helped to bring critical education in transfusion medicine and biotherapies to Spanish-speaking professionals. In addition, this honor recognizes your unwavering dedication to AABB’s Cellular Therapy Section Coordinating Committee and the Spanish Language Subsection.

Mary Townsend, MD

Mary Townsend, MD

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In recognition of your exceptional leadership and tireless commitment to AABB’s Donor History Task Force. Your work on the Task Force since its inception 22 years ago has helped to ensure safety and advance the field.

Dan A. Waxman, MD

Dan A. Waxman, MD

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In recognition of your unprecedented service to the blood and biotherapies community as a co-leader of AABB’s Thursday Forum since 2020. In addition to shouldering responsibilities at your own blood collection facility throughout the pandemic, your work on the Thursday Forum has helped to promote the sharing of scientific knowledge and provided a much-needed connection for the community.

Jed B. Gorlin, MD, MBA

Jed B. Gorlin, MD, MBA

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In recognition of your unprecedented service to the blood and biotherapies community as a co-leader of AABB’s Thursday Forum since 2020. In addition to shouldering responsibilities at your own blood collection facility throughout the pandemic, your work on the Thursday Forum has helped to promote the sharing of scientific knowledge and provided a much-needed connection for the community.

Gay Wehrli, MD, MBA, MSEd

Gay Wehrli, MD, MBA, MSEd

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In recognition of your tireless commitment to education for the blood and biotherapies field, and for your dedicated leadership of the AABB Annual Meeting Education Committee (2018-2021) and the AABB Annual Meeting Highlights in the Middle East conference (2018-2020). Your work helped to elevate the quality of education at AABB’s Annual Meetings and your leadership was instrumental in ensuring a successful transition to virtual meetings during the pandemic.

Aikaj Jindal, MD, MBA

Aikaj Jindal, MD, MBA

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In recognition of your critical work on AABB’s Transfusion Safety Office and Patient Blood Management Subsection. Your dedication has helped strengthen the subsection as it has expanded globally, helping to fulfill AABB’s mission of making transfusion medicine and biotherapies safe, available and effective worldwide.

Amit Tayal, MD

Amit Tayal, MD

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In recognition of your critical work on AABB’s Transfusion Safety Office and Patient Blood Management Subsection. Your dedication has helped strengthen the subsection as it has expanded globally, helping to fulfill AABB’s mission of making transfusion medicine and biotherapies safe, available and effective worldwide.

Sadhana Mangwana, MD, MBA

Sadhana Mangwana, MD, MBA

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In recognition of your critical work on AABB’s Transfusion Safety Office and Patient Blood Management Subsection. Your dedication has helped strengthen the subsection as it has expanded globally, helping to fulfill AABB’s mission of making transfusion medicine and biotherapies safe, available and effective worldwide.

Amita Radhakrishnan Nair, MD

Amita Radhakrishnan Nair, MD

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In recognition of your critical work on AABB’s Transfusion Safety Office and Patient Blood Management Subsection. Your dedication has helped strengthen the subsection as it has expanded globally, helping to fulfill AABB’s mission of making transfusion medicine and biotherapies safe, available and effective worldwide.