Technologist Travel Award

Tasks for the technologist applicant to perform:

1. Prepare (3) supporting documents:
   1. Current CV or resume
   2. Statement of Interest that includes:
      1. Description of your commitment, experience, and interest in molecular diagnostics.
      2. Description of what you expect to gain from attending the AMP Annual Meeting. For example, how you believe the knowledge gained will expand your current understanding of molecular diagnostics, how it will benefit you in their current position, and / or how it will further your career.
   3. If you are an author on an abstract that is being submitted for the annual meeting, obtain a copy of the abstract in either MS Word or PDF format.
2. Complete and submit an online application at https://ampawards.secure-platform.com/a
3. Make sure that your director submits the required communication that your travel and registration for the annual meeting is not funded by your institution (see below).

Task for the technologist's lab director to perform:

Send an email to ampawards@amp.org with the following information:

• Applicant's name and position
• Description and amount of financial support provided by the institution:
  • Registration: full, partial (amount) or none
  • Airfare and/or ground transportation: full, partial (amount) or none
  • Hotel: full, partial (amount) or none
  • Meals: full, partial (amount) or none
• Include your name and contact information

Please direct questions to ampawards@amp.org

Ayah Abdulhamid, Children's Mercy Hospital

LaTara Brown, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Ashley Degner, Inova Health System

Lauren Frady, Q2 Solutions

Fatemeh Khanmohammadi, Brigham & Women's Hospital

Lia Mongado, Brigham & Women's Hospital

Srikrishna Narava, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research

Stephanie Walker, Barnes Jewish Hospital/Washington University in St. Louis

Alyssa Williams, Massachusetts General Hospital

Lara Bonomi, Baystate Health

Meghan Buldo, University of Rochester Medical Center

Lisa Haley, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine- Johns Hopkins Genomics

Lama Hamadeh, American University of Beirut Medical Center

Weijing He, MD, UT Health San Antonio

Grace Luk, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center

Briege Mahoney, University of Vermont Medical Center Genomic Medicine Laboratory

Nikitha Nair, Leidos Biomedical Research

Christine Nakad, American University of Beirut Medical Center (AUBMC)

Haibo Liu, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA

Prisca Mbonu, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD

Maria Saeed, NIH/NCI, Bethesda, MD

Jade Santiago, Veritas Genetics, Danvers, MA

None due to the global pandemic

Caitlin Dougherty, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA

Lama Hamadeh, American University of Beirut, Lebanon

Ashley Shean, Sentara Norfolk General Hospital, Norfolk, VA

Sahar Halabi, American University of Beirut, Lebanon

Hayley Robinson, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA

Poonam Santra, Tata Medical Center, Kolkata, India

Charles L. DiRienzo, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, MA

Todd Laughlin, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY

Elizabeth Lindsey, Children's Hospital Colorado, Denver, CO

Yan Bai, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX

Lizmery Suarez Ferguson, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX

Zarina Yelskaya, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY

Mark J. Bowser, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical, Boston, MA

Rebecca Stolarczyk, UMass Memorial Medical Center, Worcester, MA

Yigin Xiong, UMass Memorial Medical Center, Worcester, MA

Mary Beth Durso, University of Pittsburgh Medical Ctr, Pittsburgh, PA

Vijetha Kumar, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX

Aaron Stence, Univ of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA

Roger Faubel, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

Maureen Harazin, NorthShore University HealthSystem, Evanston, IL

Barbara Voss, NorthShore University HealthSystem, Evanston, IL

Jacqueline L. Bruce, Brigham and Women's Hospital Center for Advanced Molecular Diagnostics, Boston, MA

Ericka Hendrix, TTUHSC Laboratory for Molecular Diagnostics, Lubbock, TX

Erik Samayoa, UCSF Clinical Microbiology Laboratory, San Francisco, CA

Jamie Marola, National Jewish Health, Denver, CO

Vijaya K. Rajagopal, Covance Central Laboratory Services Inc., Indianapolis, IN

Lihui Yin, BloodCenter of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI

Ephrem Chim, Emory Genetics Laboratory, Atlanta, GA

Dulini Gamage, Univ of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

Charlotte Romain, Univ of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

Lorraine Dominguez, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

Debbie Nielson, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

Tong Zhang, The Ontario Cancer Institute, Toronto, Ontario