The Wallace H. Coulter Lectureship Award recognizes an outstanding individual who has demonstrated a lifetime commitment to, and made important contributions that have had a significant impact on education, practice and/or research in laboratory medicine or patient care.
This award honors Wallace H. Coulter, founder of Coulter Corporation and inventor of the Coulter Principle, a simple but elegant innovation that revolutionized hematology and the practice of laboratory medicine, pioneered the field of flow cytometry and defined particle characterization. The Association for Diagnostics & Laboratory Medicine’s (formerly AACC) most prestigious award—presented annually at the the ADLM Annual Meeting—commemorates Wallace Coulter's outstanding contributions to diagnostics and his championship of research and innovation. It is fitting that his legacy will be celebrated with lectures by renowned leaders in healthcare.
The Wallace H. Coulter Foundation generously supports The Wallace H. Coulter Lectureship Award.
Congratulations to the 2025 Winner
Heidi L. Rehm, PhD, FACMG
Dr. Heidi Rehm is an investigator in the Center for Genomic Medicine and Chief Genomics Officer at Massachusetts General Hospital, working to integrate genomics into medical practice. She is a board-certified laboratory geneticist and Chief Medical Officer of Broad Clinical Labs guiding genomic testing in medical practice. She is a principal investigator of ClinGen, providing free resources to support the interpretation of genes and variants. Dr. Rehm also co-leads the Broad Center for Mendelian Genomics focused on discovering novel rare disease genes. She is a strong advocate and pioneer of open science and data sharing, working to extend these approaches through her role as Chair of the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health. Dr. Rehm is also a principal investigator of the Broad-LMM-Color All of Us Genome Center supporting the sequencing and return of results to one million individuals in the US and co-leading gnomAD, the Genome Aggregation Database.
Previous Winners
2024 - Patrick M. Bossuyt, PhD
2023 - Jeffrey I. Gordon, MD
2022 - George Church, PhD
2021 - Regina Barzilay, PhD
2020 - Michael Laposata, MD, PhD
2019 - David R. Walt, PhD
2018 - Brian Druker, MD
2017 - Jennifer Doudna, PhD
2016 - John T. McDevitt, PhD
2015 - Yuk-Ming Dennis Lo, MD
2014 - Eric J. Topol, MD
2013 - C. Ronald Kahn, MD
2012 - Eric D. Green
2011 - Mary-Claire King, PhD
2010 - John Trojanowski
2009 - Jerome E. Groopman, MD
