Morten Grove-Rasmussen Award
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 Recipient
Dr. Edward Leonard Snyder
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.
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.
Past Receipients
| 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 |