2019 Office of the Director (OD) | NIH Director's Awards

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The Alan S. Rabson Award for Clinical Care

Individual Awards

For scientific and medical excellence and the outstanding, compassionate care of patients and those who love them.

William Dahut, NCI

Ruth L. Kirschstein Mentoring Award

Individual Awards

For exemplary performance while demonstrating significant leadership, skill, and ability in serving as a mentor.

Lora Kutkat, OD

Administrative

Group Awards

NIH Central Utility Plant (Cup) Team

For extraordinary achievements in making the NIH central utility plant the most technologically advanced, reliable and cost-effective plant of its kind.

Taiyo Asano, OD
Donald Biser, OD
Yanzheng Guan, OD
Roberto Guasch, OD
Leo Angelo M. Gumapas, OD
Alex Huang, OD
Douglas E. Leas, OD
Donald Mayberry, OD
S. Farhad Memarzadeh, OD
David Meyer, OD
Daniel E. Moses, OD
Joseph Nieves, OD
Alamelu Ramesh, OD
Presley S. Rand, OD
Dax Sadler, OD
Kayvan Torkashvan, OD
Andres Vergara, OD
Brandon Wagner, OD
Scott Weibert, OD
Andrew Yang, OD

IRB Operations and Reorganization Team

For the extraordinary effort and persistence in supporting and establishing the office of IRB Operations and the reorganization of the NIH HRPP.

Ruth K. Baity, OD
Elizabeth Bartrum, NINDS
Heather M. Bridge, OD
Melissa B. Bryant, OD
Richard O. Cannon, NHLBI
Doreen G. Chaitt, NIAID
Julie Eiserman, OD
Nadine Fonrose, OD
Tiffany Gommel, OD
Nicole D. Grant, OD
Jonathan Green, OD
Virginia Guptill, CC
Sara Hull, NHGRI
Tara Mcdonough, NHGRI
Karen Nemes, OD
Shirley Rojas, OD
Margaret Sanders, OD
Chandan M. Sastry, OD
Tonia Shuler, OD
Richard G. Wyatt, OD

NIH Equity Committee

For establishing the NIH Equity Committee as a forum for identifying and disseminating best practices in intramural research resource allocation.

Susan G. Amara, NIMH
Indu Ambudkar, NIDCR
Trevor Archer, NIEHS
Marie A. Bernard, NIA
Juan S. Bonifacino, NICHD
Susan K. Buchanan, NIDDK
Robert A. Colbert, NIAMS
Mary Frances Cotch, NEI
Cynthia E. Dunbar, NHLBI
Tsanyang Liang, NIDDK
William Linehan, NCI
Michail Lionakis, NIAID
Pu Liu, NHGRI
David Lovinger, NIAAA
John Mcgowan, NIAID
Thomas A. Misteli, NCI
Elizabeth Murphy, NHLBI
Antonina I. Roll-Mecak, NINDS
Julia A. Segre, NHGRI
Gisela Storz, NICHD

The Anti-Harassment Program Team

In recognition of exceptional efforts in development and deployment of the NIH Anti-Harassment Program.

Naghmeh Afshar, OD
Joellen M. Austin, NIDA
Ana Awwad, OD
Karyl S. Barron, NIAID
Courtney Belmont, OD
Julie Broussard Berko, OD
Jon Bleichner, OD
John T. Burklow, OD
Beth Chandler, OD
Elizabeth Chavez, NIAID
Eva Chen, OD
Debra Chew, OD
Thomas Chiarizia, OD
Swati Choksi, NCI
Janet Clark, NIMH
Deborah Coelho, OD
Jeffrey I. Cohen, NIAID
Justin Cohen, CC
Lori M. Conlan, OD
Rahul Datta, OD
Wayne Dooley, OD
Christopher Farley, OD
Jasper Fathi, OD
Amanda Fine, OD
Nicole Garbarini, OD
Megan Goetz, OD
Jeffrey Grempler, OD
Amsatou Gueye, OD
Hyo-Jung Han, OD
Alice W. Hardy, OD
Carl Hashimoto, OD
Jessica E. Hawkins, OD
Thomas Holscher, OD
Camille Hoover, NIDDK
Treava Hopkins-Laboy, OD
Liana Juarez, CC
Donovan Kuehn, CC
Charlene Le Fauve, OD
Jaime J. Martinez-Borrero, OD
Patrick Mcgrady, OD
Sharon Milgram, OD
Janelle Moore, OD
Jenna A. Moran, OD
Renate Myles, OD
Aurangzeb Nisar, OD
Allison Nugent, NIMH
Roland Owens, OD
Susie Pham, OD
Deborah D. Philp, NIDCR
Kimberly Rivera, OD
Wendy San, OD
Lisa M. Schneider, OD
Michele Schwartzman, OD
Julia A. Segre, NHGRI
Megan Skidmore, OD
Kimlinh Steadman, OD
Hai-Qing Sun, OD
Kelly G. Ten Hagen, NIDCR
Hannah A. Valantine, OD
Terronn C. Verge, OD
Lisa Warner, OD
Jessica Watson, OD
Ashley White, OD
Carrie Wolinetz, OD

Chimpanzee Facility Program Oversight & Regulatory Reform Activities Team

For outstanding program oversight of chimpanzee facilities and exemplary execution of regulatory reform review activities.

Franziska B. Grieder, OD
Robin I. Kawazoe, OD
Stephanie Murphy, OD

The NIH Office of Extramural Research's Clinical Trial Implementation Group

In recognition of superior team resourcefulness in the implementation of clinical trials policies to enhance stewardship, rigor and transparency of NIH funded clinical trials.

Sally Amero, OD
Jodi B. Black, OD
Michelle G. Bulls, OD
Megan Columbus, OD
Dawn R. Corbett, OD
Sheri L. Cummins, OD
Alfred D'Amico, OD
Diane Dean, OD
Inna Faenson, OD
Richard Ikeda, OD
Cheryl A. Kitt, OD
Pauline Lund, OD
Elyse M. Sullivan, OD
Rebecca Williams, NLM

In recognition for efforts to help design and implement the NIH Anti-Harassment and Personal Relationships Policies and Workplace Climate and Harassment Survey.

Julia A. Segre, NHGRI
Kelly G. Ten Hagen, NIDCR

The National Institutes of Health Ebola Research Pharmacy Team in Liberia

For outstanding contributions toward global public health by implementing mission critical research pharmacy operations and local pharmacy staff training.

Dustin Abaonza, OD
Kristin Abaonza, OD
Steven Bird, OD
Benjamin Bishop, OD
Daniel Brum, OD
Fortin S. Georges, CC
Cedric Guyton, OD
Matthew Kirchoff, NIAID
Mary Mcgarry, OD
Mark S. Miller, OD
Mary P. Murphy, OD
Travis Ready, OD
Renee Robinson, OD
Hobart Rogers, OD
Harold Sano, OD
Greg Sarchet, OD
Holly Van Lew, OD
Rochelle B. Young, OD

Individual Awards

In recognition for decommissioning the antiquated telegraphic fire alarm reporting system with a modern fiber optic replacement with mass notification capability allowing instant campus-wide communication.

John Mccabe, OD

In recognition of her outstanding efforts to increase sensitivity and awareness to the needs of the SGM community to help foster workplace diversity and inclusion.

Nicole Perez, NCI

In recognition for her devoted efforts to ensure that all NIH employees regardless of physical ability have the welcoming, supportive, respectful environment necessary for success.

Kathleen Mann Koepke, NICHD

For an exceptional career long programmatic leadership and initiative in guiding the gastrointestinal, pancreas and liver research programs of NIDDK.

Jose Serrano, NIDDK

For elucidating the most common genetic cause of Parkinson disease, which is leading to needed new treatment strategies for this common disorder.

Ellen Sidransky, NHGRI

For exceptional administrative leadership and support of science policy and advancement.

Christine Hunter, OD

For outstanding guidance to the NCORP investigators which translates research into clinical cancer practice.

Bernard Parker, NCI

For continuous outstanding leadership in advancing the Public Health mission of the National, Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the NIH.

Michael Ahmadi, NHLBI

For his super critical contribution to revamping the operation during the Clinical Center's remediation after the FDA inspection on May 2015.

Haksong Jin, NCATS

For his accomplishments which contributed significantly to the program of the Division by advancing candidate therapeutics into clinical trails.

Haksong Jin, NCATS

For continuous outstanding leadership in nutrition research, management, nutrition education and training in support of NIH and USPHS missions.

Merel Kozlosky, CC

For exceptional leadership in preparing NIAID for the Association for Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care International Site Visit.

Temeri Wilder-Kofie, NIAID

In recognition of her continuous and outstanding leadership and accomplishments as the epidemiologist at the Oklahoma City Area (OCA) Indian Health Service (IHS).

Julie Erb-Alvarez, NHLBI

For strong and visionary leadership which guided and aligned the prodigious expansion of the Rocky Mountain Laboratories research program.

Donald Gardener, NIAID

Common Fund Leadership

Group Awards

Promotion and Enhancement Team for the Common Fund KOMP2 Project

For outstanding scientific leadership in coordinating program promotion and enhancement benefiting the Common Fund KOMP2 Project.

Colin F. Fletcher, NHGRI
Patricia Labosky, OD
Oleg Mirochnitchenko, OD

Scientific/Medical

Group Awards

Include Project Leadership Team

For extraordinary efforts to develop and launch a Trans-NIH initiative addressing the health and quality-of-life needs for individuals with Down syndrome and its co-occurring conditions.

Ebyan A. Addou, NHLBI
Houmam H. Araj, NEI
Sujata Bardhan, NICHD
Diana Bianchi, NICHD
Robin E. Boineau, NCCIH
John L. Bowers, CSR
Lawrence Brody, NHGRI
Emily Carifi, NINDS
Maribeth Champoux, CSR
Valerie Cotton, NICHD
James Coulombe, NICHD
Jyoti Dayal, NHGRI
Amanda Fine, OD
Gary H. Gibbons, NHLBI
Lisa Gilotty, NIMH
Charles Hackett, NIAID
Richard J. Hodes, NIA
Jonathan Hollander, NIEHS
Lisa Kaeser, NICHD
Kelly King, NIDCD
Katherine Klimczak, OD
Donna M. Krasnewich-Vostal, NIGMS
Ellen Leschek, NIDDK
Huiqing Li, NHLBI
Cara Long, NINDS
Marie Mancini, NIAMS
Anna Mazzucco, OD
Ana Murcia, OD
Aruna Natarajan, NHLBI
Concepcion R. Nierras, OD
Melissa Parisi, NICHD
Gail D. Pearson, NHLBI
Rachel Pollock, OD
Erin M. Ramos, NHGRI
Rebekah Rasooly, NINR
Elise Rice, NIDCR
Melissa W. Riddle, NIDCR
Robert D. Riddle, NINDS
Laurie M. Ryan, NIA
Nina Schor, NINDS
Charlene A. Schramm, NHLBI
Tara Schwetz, OD
Elka M. Scordalakes-Ferrante, NIDCD
Norman Sharpless, NCI
Lana O. Shekim, NIDCD
Malcolm A. Smith, NCI
Nathaniel Stinson, NIMHD
Ryan Talesnik, NICHD
Erika D. Tarver, NIA
Michael Twery, NHLBI
Frosso Voulgaropoulou, NIAID
Jason Wan, NIDCR
Sige Zou, OD

Woman Scientist Advisors Executive Committee

For leadership of the WSA in promoting recruitment, retention, and recognition of women scientists and fair treatment with respect to salary and work environment.

Susan K. Buchanan, NIDDK
Deborah E. Citrin, NCI
Deborah M. Hinton, NIDDK
Peggy Hsieh, NIDDK
Mary Kearney, NCI
Lindsay Morton, NCI
Elizabeth Murphy, NHLBI
Julia A. Segre, NHGRI
Kelly G. Ten Hagen, NIDCR
Judith R. Walters, NINDS

The NIH Helping to End Addiction Long-Term (HEAL) Team

In recognition of exceptional contributions in the publication of the research plan and FOAs for the NIH Helping to End Addiction Long-term (HEAL) initiative.

Jane Atkinson, NCATS
Rebecca Baker, OD
Carlos Blanco Jerez, NIDA
David Bochner, NIDA
Andrew Bremer, NICHD
Jeremy Brown, NINDS
Michelle G. Bulls, OD
Antoinette Caliman, OD
Alison Cernich, NICHD
Redonna K. Chandler, NIDA
Eugene Civillico, OD
David Clark, NCCIH
Megan Columbus, OD
Christine M. Colvis, NCATS
Sheri L. Cummins, OD
Ronald Dobbins, NIDA
Gayathri J. Dowling, NIDA
Emily Einstein, NIDA
Michael C. Freed, NIMH
Paula Goodwin, OD
Jennifer Hobin, NIDA
Katia Howlett, NIDA
Emily Jones, NIDA
Samantha Jonson, NCATS
Paul Kimmel, NIDDK
Elena V. Koustova, NIDA
Aaron D. Laposky, NHLBI
Jacqueline J. Lloyd, NIDA
Henry Masur, CC
Jessica N. Mazerik, OD
Amy Mistretta, OD
Ivan D. Montoya, NIDA
Frank Newman, OD
Michael Oshinsky, NINDS
Nancy Peck, OD
Mary Ann Pelleymounter, NINDS
Linda L. Porter, NINDS
Kurt Rasmussen, NIDA
Jose F. Ruiz, OD
Susana A. Serrate-Sztein, NIAMS
Sarah J. Shane, OD
Neil Shapiro, OD
Priyanka Sharma, OD
Cecile Shaya, OD
Caroline C. Signore, NICHD
Kentner Singleton, NIAID
Jack Stein, NIDA
Chung-Yui Tai, NIDA
Amir Tamiz, NINDS
Michael Twery, NHLBI
Jennifer N. Villani, NIDA
Tracy Waldeck, NIDA
Yan Wang, NIAMS
Jacqueline Ward, NINDS
Charles Washabaugh, NIAMS
Wendy Weber, NCCIH
Susan Weiss, NIDA
Tisha Wiley, NIDA
James P. Witter, NIAMS
Michael Wolfson, NIBIB
Clinton Wright, NINDS
Xincheng Zheng, NIAMS

NIH Workplace Climate and Harassment Survey Team

For extraordinary dedication and performance in coordinating the development, testing, and fielding of the NIH Workplace Climate and Harassment Survey.