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This award was established in 1976 in memory of Dr. Morten Grove-Rasmussen who, as Blood Bank Director of the Transfusion Service at Massachusetts General Hospital, became known as a leader in the field. It is given to an individual (or group) who has made a significant contribution to the field of transfusion medicine.
2018 Morten Grove-Rasmussen Award Recipient:
Dr. Edward Leonard Snyder
Dr. Snyder has been a leader in teaching, research, patient advocacy, and public policy making in the field of Transfusion Medicine and Cellular Therapies. He has been the mentor of numerous Transfusion Medicine Fellows who have become prominent physicians in this field, has been an investigator of seminal studies of the use of pathogen-reduced blood components, and is a principal investigator in the REDS-III Studies. Dr. Snyder served as president of the AABB in 1997-1998.
This year, MABB is proud to present this award to Edward L. Snyder, MD, FACP, of the Yale University School of Medicine and Yale New Haven Hospital - Professor of Laboratory Medicine; Associate Chair, Clinical Affairs (Therapeutic); Director, Apheresis/Transfusion Service; Director, Blood Bank; Director of Membership, Yale Cancer Center; Editor, Lab News.
Past Recipients:
Past Recipients:
2016
Irwin Gross, MD
Senior Medical Director of Accumen LLC,
San Diego, CA
2011
David A. Williams, MD
Boston Children’s Hospital
Boston, MA
2010
Richard L. Haspel, MD, PhD
Stem Cell Processing Laboratory, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Boston, MA
2009
Leslie E. Silberstein, MB
Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School
Director of the Joint Program in Transfusion Medicine (Children's, Brigham and Women's, and DFCI)
Director, Center for Human Cell Therapy at the Immune Disease Institute
Boston, MA
2008
Chet Andrzejewski, Jr., PhD, MD, FCAP
Medical Director, Transfusion Medicine
Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, Massachusetts
2007
Christopher P. Stowell, MD
Director, Blood Transfusion Service, Massachusetts General Hospital
Assistant Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts
2006
Blood Group Serology Reference Laboratory
American Red Cross, New England Region
2005
Naomi L.C. Luban, MD
Instructor of Child Health and Development
George Washington University School of Medicine
Children’s National Medical Center
Washington, DC
2004
Delores Mallory, MT (ASCP), SBB
Director, Reference Laboratory
American Red Cross
2003
Joel Umlas, MD
Medical Director, Blood Bank
Mount Auburn Hospital
2002
Scott Murphy, MD
Chief Medical Officer
American Red Cross Blood Services
Penn-Jersey Region
2001
Edmond J. Yunis, MD
Department of Cancer Immunology and AIDS
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
2000
Maruditsa Y. Mitsiu, MS, MT (ASCP), SBB
Blood Bank Supervisor
SBB Program Director
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, West Campus
1999
Robert Weinstein, MD
Medical Director
St. Elizabeth’s Hospital
1998
James P. Aubuchon, MD
Medical Director
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center
1997
Edward L. Snyder, MD
Medical Director
Yale New Haven Hospital
1996
Mark Popovsky, MD
Chief Medical Director
American Red Cross Blood Services
Northeast region
1995
Sanford Kurtz, MD
Chairman, Department of Laboratory Medicine
Lahey Hitchcock Medical Center
1994
Ken Anderson, MD
Medical Director
Blood Component Laboratory
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
1993
Sunny Dzik, MD
Medical Director
Blood Bank and Tissue Typing Laboratory
New England Deaconess Hospital
1992
Carl W. Walter, MD
Founder, Chairman of the Board
Fenwal, Incorporated
1991
C. Robert Valeri, MD
Scientific Director
Naval Blood Research Laboratory
Boston, Massachusetts
1990
Peter L. Page, MD
Medical Director
American Red Cross Blood Services
Northeast Region
1989
Christine Pinnetti, RN
Senior Staff Nurse
New England Medical Center
1988
Margot S. Kruskall, MD
Medical Director, Blood Bank
Beth Israel Hospital
1987
Lawrence N. Button
Research Associate
The Children’s Hospital
1986
Irma O. Szymanski, MD
Director, Blood Services
University of Massachusetts
Medical Center
1985
Mary T. Burtis, MT (ASCP), SBB
Blood Bank Supervisor, Reference Laboratory
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
1984
Ronald A. Yankee, MD
Medical Director
Rhode Island Blood Center
1983
Mary F. Stinson
Supervisor, Blood Bank
Goddard Hospital
1982
Robert J. Tinch, Sr., MS
Research Associate
Biomedical Engineering
Blood Bank
New England Deaconess Hospital
1981
The Blood Grouping Laboratory
Boston, Massachusetts
1980
Angelyn Adele Konugres, PhD
Director, Blood Bank and Research
Boston Hospital for Women
1979
Mary Rota, RN
Nurse-Supervisor
Blood Transfusion Service
Massachusetts General Hospital
1978
Sherwin V. Kevy, MD
Director, Blood Transfusion Service
Children’s Hospital Medical Center
1977
Eugene M. Berkman, MD
Medical Director, Blood Bank
New England Medical Center
1976
Charles Huggins, MD
Director, Blood Transfusion Service
Massachusetts General Hospital
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