Nominating
Committee Report
With the ballot complete and election results tallied, I
congratulate all of those who volunteered to run for office.
The newly elected officers of AMP are:
President–Elect:
Timothy J. O’Leary
Program Committee Chair-Elect:
Jennifer Hunt
Secretary-Treasurer:
Ted Schutzbank
Training and Education Committee Chair:
Karen Weck
Technical Topics Representative to the Program Committee:
Dawn Maghakian
Genetics Subdivision
Chair–Elect: D. Brian Dawson
Clinical Practice Committee Representative:
Christine A. Curtis
Nominating Committee Representative:
Thomas J. Monroe
Training and Education Committee Representative:
Caroline Astbury
Hematopathology Subdivision
Chair–Elect: Charles E. Hill
Clinical Practice Committee Representative:
Jane Gibson
Nominating Committee Representative:
Domnita Crisan
Training and Education Committee Representative:
Y. Lynn Wang
Infectious Diseases Subdivision
Chair–Elect: Randall T. Hayden
Clinical Practice Committee Representative:
Jeffrey D. Wisotzkey
Nominating Committee Representative:
Preeti Pancholi
Training and Education Committee Representative:
Janice M. Matthews-Greer
Solid Tumors Subdivision
Chair–Elect: George J. Netto
Clinical Practice Committee Representative:
Neal Lindeman
Nominating Committee Representative:
Catherine Dumur
Training and Education Committee Representative:
Tina Edmonston
AMP Leadership Award
As the Chair of the Nominating Committee, it is an honor and
pleasure to again highlight the selection of the 2009 AMP
Leadership Awardee. As you know this award is bestowed upon
an individual who has contributed tirelessly to AMP and the
profession. This year the award goes to Debra Leonard.
Debra is a Professor and Vice Chair of Laboratory Medicine
and Director of the Clinical Laboratories at the
Weill Cornell Medical Center. She is one of the founding
members of AMP and has been involved in most committees,
divisions and other professional activities of the
organization. Congratulations to Debra Leonard!
AMP Award for Excellence
It is also my distinct honor and pleasure to announce the recipient
of the 2010 Award for Excellence in Molecular Diagnostics.
AMP's highest award will be bestowed upon Dr. Patrick Brown
at the 2010 Annual Meeting. Dr. Brown is a Professor of
Biochemistry at the Stanford School of Medicine and is well
known for his pioneering work in the field of microarray
analysis which led the way for many of the microarray
platforms and assays we all use today. Dr. Brown's research
group uses diverse experimental and computational methods to
investigate the logic and mechanisms that control a genome's
expression program. The Brown laboratory is systematically
characterizing the genetic scripts that control the
expression of our genes, in normal development and
physiology and in diseases like cancer, with a particular
focus on post-transcriptional regulation. The Brown lab is
also developing strategies and assays for early detection
and diagnosis of cancer. Congratulations to Dr. Patrick
Brown for his outstanding accomplishments and his selection
for this prestigious award.
As the Nominating Committee duties are complete, I would like to
take this time to thank all of the committee members for a
job well done and continued support of AMP:
Siby Sebastian
(Genetics Subdivision Representative 2008-2009)
Min Fang
(Genetics Subdivision Representative 2009-2010)
Jane S. Gibson
(Hematopathology Subdivision Representative 2008-2009)
John W. Longshore
(Hematopathology Subdivision Representative 2009-2010)
Randall Hayden
(Infectious Diseases Subdivision Representative 2008-2009)
Jeanne Carr
(Infectious Diseases Subdivision Representative 2009-2010)
Marina N. Nikiforova
(Solid Tumors Subdivision Representative 2008-2009)
Deborah Dillon
(Solid Tumors Subdivision Representative 2009-2010) |
