2020 Awards and Recognitions
Members will be able to celebrate and honor their colleagues for their distinguished service to MLA and to health sciences librarianship.
- General recognition of volunteers
- New Academy of Health Information Professionals members
- Distinguished Members of the Association
- New MLA Fellows
- Teresa L. Knott, AHIP, FMLA
- Michelle Kraft, AHIP, FMLA
- Marcia C. Noyes Award
- Gerald J. Perry, AHIP, FMLA
- President’s Award
- Susan Lessick, AHIP, FMLA
- Gerald J. Perry, AHIP, FMLA
- Communities Transition
- Futures Task Force, 2013-2014: Nancy J. Allee, AHIP; Jane Blumenthal, AHIP, FMLA; Lori A. Bradshaw; Margaret H. Coletti; Tara Douglas-Williams, AHIP; Lisa Federer, AHIP; Heather N. Holmes, AHIP; Dixie A. Jones, AHIP; Steven L. MacCall; Meaghan Muir; Cristina Pope, AHIP; Anne K. Seymour; Chris Shaffer, AHIP; Howard Silver; Meredith I. Solomon; J. Tooey, AHIP, FMLA; Linda Walton, AHIP; Elizabeth C. Whipple, AHIP
- Strategic Priorities Task Force, 2015–2016: Ellen M. Aaronson, AHIP, Mark E. Funk, AHIP, FMLA, Sally Gore, Teresa L. Knott, AHIP, Alisha H. Miles, Jodi L. Philbrick, AHIP, Katherine R. Stemmer-Frumento, AHIP
- Rising Stars, 2016–2017: Phill Jo, AHIP; Rachel Charlotte Lerner, AHIP; Tony Nguyen, AHIP; Gregg A. Stevens, AHIP
- Rising Star Mentors, 2016–2017: Linné Girouard, AHIP; Karen L. Liljequist, AHIP; Michael R. Kronenfeld, AHIP, FMLA; April Joy Schweikhard, AHIP
- Communities Strategic Goal Task Force, 2016–2019: Ellen M. Aaronson, AHIP; Barbara A. Epstein, AHIP, FMLA; Teresa L. Knott, AHIP; Janna C. Lawrence, AHIP; Elizabeth R. Lorbeer, AHIP; Rikke Sarah Ogawa, AHIP; Katie Prentice, AHIP; Anne K. Seymour; Elizabeth C. Whipple, AHIP
- Communities Transition Team, 2019–2020: Keith W. Cogdill, AHIP; Julia Esparza, AHIP; Stephanie Fulton, AHIP; Shannon D. Jones, AHIP; Claire B. Joseph, AHIP; Teresa L. Knott, AHIP; Elizabeth R. Lorbeer, AHIP; Beverly Murphy, AHIP, FMLA; Rikke Sarah Ogawa, AHIP; Katie Prentice, AHIP; Lisa K. Traditi, AHIP; Elizabeth C. Whipple, AHIP
- Annual meeting travel grants * over 100 members received support for attending the 2020 vConference
- Ysabel Bertolucci MLA Annual Meeting Grant
- EBSCO/MLA Annual Meeting Grants
- 2020 MLA Annual Meeting Travel Grants
- Professional development grants
- Naomi C. Broering Latinx Heritage Grant
- Nora Franco
- Continuing Education Grant
- Marilia Y. Antunez, AHIP
- Hospital Libraries Professional Development Grant
- Danielle N. Linden, AHIP
- Louisa Verma, AHIP
- Medical Informatics Career Development Grant
- Suzanne Fricke, AHIP
- Advanced education
- MLA Doctoral Fellowship
- Christina Lee Wyles, AHIP
- MLA Scholarship
- Samantha Kennefick
- MLA Scholarship for Underrepresented Students
- Christiana Julsaint
- Rising Stars
- 2020–2021: Alyssa Kathryn Migdalski; Kathleen Elizabeth Phillips; JJ Pionke; Erin M. Smith
- 2019–2020: Kelsa Bartley; Kathryn Houk, AHIP; Jane Morgan-Daniel, AHIP; Elaina Vitale
- Written works
- Ida and George Eliot Prize
- Exploring PubMed as a Reliable Resource for Scholarly Communications Services
Peace Ossom Williamson, AHIP, and Christian Minter - Rittenhouse Award
- Data Sharing Barriers during Infectious Disease Outbreaks
Sarah Clarke, AHIP - International awards
- Cunningham Memorial International Fellowship
- Anar Kairatovna Dautova
- T. Mark Hodges International Service Award
- Laura Shane Godbolt (posthumous)
- MLA Librarians without Borders®/Elsevier Foundation/Research4Life Grants (Sponsored by the Elsevier Foundation)
- Training of Trainers Workshop in the Use of HINARI/GOALI and ARDI Research4Life Resources in Zambia
Francina Ngula Simataa Makondo - Continuing Education Course and Training for Nigerian Medical Librarians and Research4Life Workshop
Biliamin Oladele Popoola - Increasing and Promoting the Use of HINARI/Research4Life Resources among Health Care Professionals for Evidence-Based Practice and Systematic Reviews in Tanzania
Deodatus Sabas - Increasing Access and Use of Research4Life HINARI and AGORA Resources by Health and Agriculture Professionals and Students in the Volta Region of Ghana
Fred Kwaku Hayibor - HINARI/Internet Resources Workshop for Librarian and Researchers Improving Access to Research4Life Programmes to Establish Research Culture in Nepal
Chandra Bhushan Yadav - Achievement awards
- Virginia L. and William K. Beatty Volunteer Service Award
- Margaret A. Hoogland, AHIP
- Frank Bradway Rogers Information Advancement Award
- Gail Kouame
- Estelle Brodman Award for the Academic Medical Librarian of the Year
- Joey Nicholson
- Lois Ann Colaianni Award for Excellence and Achievement in Hospital Librarianship
- Barbara S. Reich, AHIP
- Consumer Health Librarian of the Year Award
- Antonio P. DeRosa, AHIP
- Louise Darling Medal for Distinguished Achievement in Collection Development in the Health Sciences
- AVSL Whitelist Working Group and AVSL Whitelist Reviewers**
Association of Vision Science Librarians (AVSL)–Vision Science Caucus of MLA - Lucretia W. McClure Excellence in Education Award
- Amy Blevins
- Research
- Eugene Garfield Research Fellowship
- Toluwase Victor Asubiaro
- David A. Kronick Traveling Fellowship
- Mark MacEachern
- Donald A. B. Lindberg Research Fellowship
- Antonio P. DeRosa, AHIP
- Research Advancement in Health Sciences Librarianship Award
- Tompkins-McCaw Library for the Health Sciences, Virginia Commonwealth University–Richmond
- Samuel J. Wood Library, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY
- MLA Research, Development, and Demonstration Project Grant
- Robin Champieux
- Community award
- MLA Chapter Project of the Year Award
- New logo pin design contest to grow member engagement and raise funds for student conference scholarships
Pacific Northwest Chapter of MLA (PNC) - Lectures
- Janet Doe Lecturer for 2020
- Chris Shaffer, AHIP
- John P. McGovern Award Lecturer
- Esther Choo
*2020 conference grants were re-formatted due the COVID pandemic and switch to a virtual conference. Given the hardship nature of the reformatted grants, recipient names are not shared.
**Aug. 2020: name changed to the "Vetted List of Vision Science Journals"