CLSI eNews - 2 April 2008 (Plain Text Version)Return to Graphical Version | Search back issues | Print all articles In this issue: To Your Good Health Workshop and Awards Celebration Dinner Highlight 2008 CLSI Leadership ConferenceThe CLSI To Your Good Health Workshop took place today in Baltimore, Maryland. The workshop offered exciting networking and learning opportunities for manufacturers, regulatory agencies, health care professionals, and educators and students. After an intensive day of learning, the workshop concluded with a special event—a 40th anniversary celebration dinner. CLSI thanked the outstanding and important contributions of members and volunteers, acknowledged the new executive leadership and directors, and recognized 2008 award recipients. Highlights of this year’s program included: Service Recognition, John V. Bergen Award, Honor Awards, and the Russell J. Eilers Memorial Award. Award recipients included: Service Recognition
Board of Directors
Honor Awards Excellence in Standards Development
Roger R. Calam, PhD, DABCC; and Paul J. Mountain, MSc, MT(ASCP) Excellence in Mentoring
Susan Blonshine, RRT, RPFT, FAARC Excellence in Global Leadership
Gary L. Myers, PhD Excellence in Member Organization Leadership
BD The John V. Bergen Award
James H. Jorgensen, PhD This year’s recipient, Dr. James Jorgensen, received his PhD from the University of Texas Medical Branch in 1973. He started his career as a Research Associate at Shriners Hospital for Crippled Children, Burn Institute, Galveston Unit, and is now Professor, Department of Pathology, Department of Medicine, Department of Microbiology, and the Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio as well as Director, Clinical Microbiology Laboratories at University Hospital. He has written and contributed to over 290 scientific publications and has also received numerous honors and awards. Dr. Jorgensen has been actively involved in CLSI for over 20 years, currently serving as the Chairholder for the Working Group on Fastidious or Infrequently Isolated Bacteria as well as Advisor to the Subcommittee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing of which he previously served as Vice-Chairholder and Chairholder. He served on the CLSI Chairholders Council and was Chairholder of the Area Committee on Microbiology. Russell J. Eilers Memorial Award
W. Harry Hannon, PhD This year’s recipient Dr. Hannon received his PhD (1972) from the University of Tennessee in Biochemistry and did postdoctoral training at the Oak Ridge National Laboratories. He has written over 225 scientific publications and served on over 20 national and international committees for a variety of laboratory standardization and quality assurance issues. Among his CLSI activities since 1978, he chaired CLSI committees for Blood Spot Collection on Filter Paper for Neonatal Screening Programs and the CLSI training video that won the first FREDDIE Award for CLSI. Dr. Hannon received many awards for his contributions, including the Robert Guthrie Award and two Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Charles C. Shepard Science Awards. Glen Fine, MS, MBA, Executive Vice President, CLSI, says, “The CLSI awards dinner was an opportunity to acknowledge all of the volunteers who commit their time and energy to the consensus process. Without the dedicated commitment of our volunteers, we simply would not exist.” Honoring volunteers demonstrates CLSI’s recognition of the essential role of medical professionals. Fine adds, “We want to show our volunteers, members, and customers that medical laboratory professionals are a critical part of our organization.” Fine continued, “It is timely to celebrate the health care professionals making a difference to CLSI at our conference, since National Medical Laboratory Professionals Week (NMLPW) will be held at the end of this month. NMLPW is a week dedicated to making the pubic aware of the rewarding medical laboratory profession and the hard work that goes into improving medical testing and saving lives.” Check out the May edition of CLSI eNews for 2008 CLSI Leadership Conference photos and exciting To Your Good Health Workshop details. NMLPW is a time of recognition for the approximately 265,000 medical laboratory professionals and 15,000 board-certified pathologists who play a vital role in every aspect of health care. Lab Week will be held 20-26 April 2008. The theme will be “Laboratory Professionals: Delivering Today’s Results for a Healthier Tomorrow.” For more information or to contact us directly, please visit www.clsi.org l ©2006 Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute |