Recent Staff Awards

November 2007

Shale Dames was awarded the AMP Technologist Award for Outstanding Basic Applied Research at the Association for Molecular Pathology Annual Meeting in Los Angeles, CA.

OCTOBER 2007

Dr. Wayne Meikle received an award from the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) for "Outstanding Contribution to the Advancement of Knowledge" for his prize paper: "Effect of Weight Loss After Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass Surgery on the Male Reproductive Hormonal Profile" (Fertility and Sterility 88: S1-S2 Suppl. 1, Sep 2007).

March 2007

The following poster, authored by three ARUP Institute staff, won the "Papanicolaou Society of Cytopathology Pathologist in Training Award" at the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology's 96th Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA:

Detection of EGFR Gene Mutations in Archival Cytology Specimens by High Resolution Melting Analysis of PCR Amplicons. Chadwick B, Smith GD, Willmore-Payne C, Bentz JS. Lab Investigation; 65A(1):280, 2007

Dr. Josef Prchal won the Gedailo and Sonia Grinberg Endowed Award for "Leading Expert on Polycythemia Vera" to give Grand Rounds at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, NY

October 2006

Dr. Pinar Bayrak-Toydemir received the Dr. Robert I. White, Jr. Young Clinician award from International Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia Foundation.

September 2006

Sheryl Tripp won a "Special Recognition Award/First Place" for the National Society for Histotechnology Poster Session (Phoenix, Arizona) for her poster Gene Expression Profiling Reveals Intrinsic Differences Between T-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia and T-cell Lymphoblastic Lymphoma

June 2006

Leslie Rowe was awarded Best Platform Presentation Award at the 31st Annual Association of Genetic Technologists Meeting held in Baltimore, MD. for her platform Unusual Secondary Chromosomal Change in Pediatric Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia with Cryptic t(12;21); A Case Report (Sarah T South, Leslie R. Rowe, Emily Aston, Bo Hong, Mahmoud Issa, Elizabeth Drozd-Borysiuk, Anna Hooker, Jia Xu, Arthur R. Brothman, Zhong Chen).

February 2006

ARUP Medical Director Kojo Elenitoba-Johnson received the 2006 Ramzi Cotran Young Investigator Award from the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology (USCAP). This national award is granted to a member of USCAP, under the age of 45, in recognition of a productive scientific career that has contributed in a major way to the understanding of the pathogenesis of a human disease.

July 2005

ARUP Scientific Director Charles Hawker, PhD, MBA, FACB, recieved the Professor Alvin Dubin Award for Distinguished Contributions to the Discipline and Practice of Clinical Biochemistry from the National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry.