This award recognizes the individuals who have worked throughout their careers to advance the professional status of clinical chemists and the professional objectives of the Association for Diagnostics & Laboratory Medicine (ADLM, formerly AACC).
Congratulations to the 2025 Winner
Alison Woodworth, PhD, DABCC, FADLM
Dr. Alison Woodworth is the Clinical Director for Global Laboratory Services at CTI Clinical Trials & Consulting with over 20 years of experience in clinical laboratory medicine. She received her PhD in cell biology from Washington University in St. Louis where she also completed her clinical chemistry fellowship.
Dr. Woodworth is a diplomate of the American Board of Clinical Chemistry (DABCC) and a Fellow of the Academy of Diagnostics and Laboratory Medicine (FADLM). She has been an ADLM member since 2003, holding several key roles including Board of Directors and Academy President.
Dr. Woodworth is committed to leadership within the Lab Medicine Community as she actively participates in speaking engagements and contributes to key publications addressing topics surrounding laboratory stewardship and biomarker discovery in sepsis, pregnancy complications, and endocrinology. She has nearly 100 publications and has also held editorial board roles for the ADLM and Clinical Laboratory News.
Previous Winners
2024 - David G. Grenache, PhD, D(ABCC), FADLM
2023 - Patricia M. Jones, PhD
2022 - James D. Faix, MD
2021 - Salvador F. Sena, PhD, DABCC, FADLM
2020 - Martin Fleisher
2019 - Mario Plebani, MD
2018 - Fred S. Apple, PhD
2017 - Ian Young, MD
2016 - Larry A. Broussard, PhD
2015 - Graham H. Beastall, PhD
2014 - James C. Boyd, MD
2013 - D. Robert Dufour, MD
2012 - John E. Sherwin, PhD
2011 - Mary Lou Gantzer, PhD
2010 - Ann Gronowski, PhD
2009 - Donald S. Young, PhD
2008 - Susan A. Evans, PhD
2007 - Mathias Müller, MD
2006 - Gary L. Myers, PhD, FADLM
2005 - Roland Valdes, PhD
2004 - Karen L. Nickel, PhD
2003 - Frank A. Sedor, PhD
2002 - David Uddin, PhD
2001 - Stephen E. Kahn, PhD
2000 - Mary F. Burritt, PhD
1999 - Jean C. Joseph, PhD
1998 - Jacob B. Levine
1997 - Thomas P. Moyer, PhD
1996 - Lawrence M. Killingsworth, PhD
1995 - Roger Boeckx, PhD
1994 - K. Michael Parker, PhD
1993 - Gerald Gallwas
1992 - K. Owen Ash, PhD
1991 - Theodore Peters, PhD
1990 - Ronald H. Laessig, PhD
1989 - Morton K. Schwartz, PhD
1988 - Sylvan M. Sax, PhD
1987 - Henry Wishinsky, PhD
1986 - Sylvia Blatt
1985 - Raymond E. Vanderlinde, PhD
1984 - Jocelyn M. Hicks, PhD
1983 - Albert Dietz, PhD
1982 - Alfred H. Free, PhD
1981 - Samuel Meites, PhD
1980 - Willard Faulkner, PhD
1979 - Royden N. Rand, PhD
1978 - Joseph S. Annino
1977 - Joseph H. Boutwell, MD, PhD
1976 - Robert S. Melville, PhD
1975 - Gerald R. Cooper, PhD
1974 - Joseph Benotti
1973 - Kurt M. Dubowski, PhD
1972 - George T. Lewis, PhD
1971 - Miriam Reiner, PhD
1970 - William B. Mason, PhD
1969 - Robert L. Dryer, PhD
1968 - Harold D. Appleton, PhD
1967 - Max M. Friedman, PhD
1966 - Margret M. Kaser, PhD
