ASTMH Newsletter: Volume 54 Number 1
March 2005
Society News
2004 Conference Highlights
Thanks to everyone involved in making the ASTMH 2004 Annual Meeting a huge success—the Program Committee, the speakers and presenters, the attendees and many more. A special thanks to the meeting's supporters:
- Acambis
- Bristol-Myers Squibb
- Burroughs Wellcome Fund
- Doctors Without Borders
- Gates Malaria Partnership
- GlaxoSmithKline
- HealthQuest Media Inc.
- International Association for Medical Assistance to Travelers
- National Institutes of Health/NIAID
- Romark Laboratories LC
- TechLab
- U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command
Society Awards 2004
The following highlight the awards session chaired by Peter Weller at the ASTMH 53rd Annual Meeting.
ASTMH Travel Awards
Presented by James LeDuc, Renee Larocque and Kim-Sung Lee
- Krystal Evans
- Vidal Felices
- Guido Jordan
- Renee Larocque
- Kim Sung Lee
- Jun Li
- Emily Mann
- Nicholas Midzi
- Sean Murphy
- Milagro Oviedo
- Chantima Porksakorn
- Eddy Segura
- Scott Shone
- Hastings Suba
- Katherine Swanson
- Andrew Walsh
- Adoke Yeka
- Carol Zavaleta
- Emukah Emmanuel (2003)
Reviewers: James LeDuc, chair, Gary Clark, Jamie Maguire, Terrie Taylor Eileen Villasante, and Joe Vinetz. Travel Awards were supported by funding from National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
American Committee of Medical Entomology (ACME) 2004 Travel Awards
Presented by Shirley Luckhart
- Vincent Payet, Centro de Investigaciones Regionales UADY, Yucatan, Mexico
- Rebecca Robich, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
Gorgas Memorial Institute Research Award
Presented by Rebecca Rico-Hesse
- Eric Dumonteil, Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan, Yucatan, Mexico
- Jean Hernandez, Ministry of Health and Selva Amazonica Research Clinic, Iquitos, Peru
The Ellison Medical Foundation—ASTMH Postdoctoral Fellowship in Tropical Infectious Diseases
Presented by Terri Taylor
- Anusha Gunasekera, Harvard School of Public Health, Home Mentor: Dyann Wirth
- Megan Reller, Children's Hospital Boston, Home Mentor: Donald Goldmann
Pfizer Centennial Travel Award in Basic Science Tropical Disease Research
Presented by Joe Vinetz
- Gnanasekar Munirathinam, University of Illinois College of Medicine
- Kristine Peterson, University of Virginia
- Lisa Steele, Centers for Disease Control
Benjamin H. Kean Traveling Fellowship in Tropical Medicine
Presented by Christopher Plowe
- Ben Andrews, Baylor College of Medicine
- Daniel Leung, Wake Forest University
- Kevin Lunney, University of Maryland School of Medicine
- Heidi Sandige, Washington University
- o Zongqi Xia, Case Western Reserve University
Harry Hoogstraal Medal
Presented by Walter Tabachnick
Richard M. Taylor Award
For outstanding contributions to arbovirology throughout career
Presented by Charles Calisher
- Frederick A. Murphey
- Charles Calisher
Ben Kean Medal
To recognize a clinician or educator whose dedication to clinical tropical medicine and impact on the training of students, fellows and/or practitioners of tropical medicine is in keeping with the tradition established by Dr. Kean
Introduced by Michele Barry
Bailey K. Ashford Medal
For distinguished work in tropical medicine
Introduced by Thomas Wellems
- Amy Klion, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
- Xinzhuan Su, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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