2021 Awards and Recognitions
MLA '21 Conference Opening Session and Awards Ceremony
Monday, May 10, 10:30 AM - NOON (CT)
Celebrate and honor your colleagues for their distinguished service to MLA and health sciences librarianship.
- General Recognition of Volunteers
- New Academy of Health Information Professionals Members
- Distinguished Members of the Association
- Marcia C. Noyes Award
- Beverly Murphy, AHIP, FMLA
- President’s Award
- Carolyn E. Lipscomb, AHIP, FMLA
- MLA COVID-19 Resources
COVID-19 Resource Page Authors
- Ellen M. Aaronson, AHIP
- Jess L. Callaway, AHIP
- Kristin LaLonde, AHIP
- Angela Spencer, AHIP
Spanish-language COVID-19 Resource Page Authors
- Naomi Bishop, AHIP
- Nora Franco
- Kathryn M. Houk, AHIP
- Brenda M. Linares, AHIP
- Ruby L. Nugent
- Mirian Ramirez Rojas
- Amy Reyes, AHIP
- Bredny Rodriguez
- Aidy Weeks, AHIP
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Task Force
- Sandra G. Franklin, AHIP, FMLA, Chair
- Kelly Akin
- Diana Almader-Douglas, AHIP
- Kelsa Bartley
- Xan Y. Goodman, AHIP
- Stephen Kiyoi, AHIP
- Jane Morgan-Daniel, AHIP
- Matthew Nicolas Noe
- JJ Pionke
- Neville D. Prendergast
- Jessica Sender, AHIP
- Amy Taylor
- Gurpreet Kaur Rana
- New MLA Fellows
- Kristine Alpi, AHIP, FMLA
- Janna C. Lawrence, AHIP, FMLA
- Linda Walton, AHIP, FMLA
- MLA Award for Distinguished Public Service
- Anthony S. Fauci, M.D.
- Annual Conference * (2021 conference travel grants were re-formatted due the COVID pandemic and switch to virtual conference support.)
- Ysabel Bertolucci MLA Annual Meeting Grant
- EBSCO/MLA Annual Meeting Grants
- MLA Annual Conference Support
- Professional Development
- Naomi C. Broering Latinx Heritage Grant
- Hanni Nabahe
- Continuing Education Grant
- Alessia Zanin-Yost, AHIP
- Alanna Campbell
- Continuing Education Passport *
- Advanced Education
- MLA Scholarship
- Claudio Garcia
- MLA Scholarship for Underrepresented Students
- Laurier Lynette Cress
- Rising Stars
- 2020–2021: Alyssa Kathryn Migdalski; Kathleen Elizabeth Phillips; JJ Pionke; Erin M. Smith
- 2021-2022: Jacqueline Freeman; Chelsea Misquith, Nancy Shin; Laura Wright, Rudolph
- Written Works
- Ida and George Eliot Prize
- Bethany S. McGowan, AHIP, Laureen P. Cantwell, Jamie L. Conklin, Rebecca Raszewski, AHIP, Julie Planchon Wolf, Maribeth Slebodnik, Sandra McCarthy, and Shannon Johnson
- Erich Meyerhoff Prize
- Aidy Weeks, AHIP
- Rittenhouse Award
- Robert Browder
- International Awards
- Cunningham Memorial International Fellowship
- 2021 - Mercy Wamunyima Monde
- 2022 - Kubra Zayum Gedik
- T. Mark Hodges International Service Award
- Bethany S. McGowan, AHIP
- MLA Librarians without Borders®/Elsevier Foundation/Research4Life Grants
- Alison Annet Kinengyere
- Susan Keller
- Neema Florence Mosha
- Felicitas ciabere Ratanya
- Daniel Jesugnon Setondji Bossikponnon
- Achievement Awards
- Virginia L. and William K. Beatty Volunteer Service Award
- Nancy Schaefer, AHIP
- Estelle Brodman Award for the Academic Medical Librarian of the Year
- Karen Gutzman
- Lois Ann Colaianni Award for Excellence and Achievement in Hospital Librarianship
- Nancy A. Clark
- Consumer Health Librarian of the Year Award
- Shari Clifton
- Louise Darling Medal for Distinguished Achievement in Collection Development in the Health Sciences
- Collection Development Caucus of MLA
- Carla J. Funk Governmental Relations Award
- Barbara A. Epstein, AHIP, FMLA
- Lucretia W. McClure Excellence in Education Award
- Jodi L. Philbrick, AHIP
- Research
- Donald A. B. Lindberg Research Fellowship
- Brandon Patterson and Kerri Shaffer
- Research Advancement in Health Sciences Librarianship Award
- The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Research Medical Library
- The Yale University Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
- MLA Research, Development, and Demonstration Project Grant
- Sarah Wade, AHIP, Sarah Abboud, Courtney Calhoun, A’Llyn Ettien, AHIP, Rebecca Hedreen, Layla Heimlich, Jean Hillyer, AHIP, Annie Nickum, AHIP, Emily N. Spinner, Eleanor Truex, Susan Vonderheid, and Grace Wolf
- Community Award
- MLA Chapter Project of the Year Award
- Northern California and Nevada Medical Library Group
- Lectures
- Janet Doe Lecture
- 2021 Sandra G. Franklin, AHIP, FMLA
- 2022 Michael R. Kronenfeld, AHIP, FMLA
- Joseph Leiter NLM/MLA Lecture
- Mitzi Baum
- John P. McGovern Award Lecture
- Damon Tweedy, MD
*Given the hardship nature of the grants, recipient names are not shared.