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Grants and Awards: AAAAI 2010 Honorary Awards
2010 Allied Health Professionals Recognition Award
"In recognition of service to the allergy/immunology allied health community as a leader, mentor and educator." Jan Tippett is an RN and certified asthma educator who has been involved with asthma education and management in the clinical setting for the past 32 years. She is currently clinical coordinator and certified asthma educator with Alpine Allergy and Asthma Associates in Auburn, California. She has been an active member of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology since 1984, having served on the Public Education Committee, Anaphylaxis Task Force, Allied Health Planning Committee, and the Health outcomes, Delivery, Education and Quality Interest Section. Ms. Tippett is one of the founding members of the Association of Asthma Educators (AAE), serving on their board of directors for eight years. During that time, she chaired AAE's Education Committee, which produced AAE's National Asthma Educator Certification Review Course. The purpose of this course is to prepare healthcare professionals to become certified asthma educators. In 2005, she was nationally recognized by AAE as their recipient of the Asthma Educator of the Year award. She has been a member of the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology since 1980, serving on their Allied Health Committee for 10 years. She also has served on an Asthma Task Force for "Breathe California," which is based in Sacramento, California. Ms. Tippett has written and developed asthma educational materials and published several articles pertaining to asthma disease management and education, allergic rhinitis, food allergy, immunotherapy, anaphylaxis and environmental control. She is a national speaker regarding her lifelong interest of mentoring and teaching healthcare professionals regarding the care of patients and their families who have asthma and allergic disease. She is married to Jim Tippett and they reside in Folsom, California. They have two children and four grandchildren. 2010 Distinguished Clinician Award
"In recognition of significant contributions to allergy/immunology research and patient care." N. Franklin Adkinson, Jr., MD, FAAAAI, is Professor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins Asthma and Allergy Center where he has been his entire academic career. After receiving an undergraduate degree with Highest Honors from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he came to Baltimore to attend medical school and the Osler residency in internal medicine at Johns Hopkins. After completing an immunology fellowship at the NIH, he joined the Johns Hopkins faculty. At Johns Hopkins, Dr. Adkinson has served as Co-Director of the Division of Allergy & Clinical Immunology, and its Clinical Director, as well as Vice-Dean for Research. He succeeded Dr. Philip Norman as Allergy/Immunology Training Program Director, a post he held for 18 years. Dr. Adkinson is still actively involved in the training program. As a Johns Hopkins medical student, Dr. Adkinson developed a life-long interest in drug allergy. He initiated as a medical intern the first inpatient study of penicillin skin testing, which was published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1971. Since then he has conducted numerous research studies and published more than 70 articles on drug hypersensitivity, lectured widely on the subject, and organized educational events at AAAAI and international meetings. He is known to freely share his expertise on drug allergy with allergy fellows and other clinicians who have trained with him, and with practitioners everywhere. In addition to drug allergy, Dr. Adkinson's research has contributed to our current understanding of the mechanisms of allergen immunotherapy and its utility in allergic asthma, and the quantitation of IgE and IgG antibodies in allergic disorders. He has served eight years on NIH study sections and numerous advisory panels, received continuous NIH research support throughout his career, and authored more than 320 publications. Less well known is that Dr. Adkinson is the founding Program Director of the Johns Hopkins Graduate Training Programs in Clinical Investigation. Since its inception in 1992, he has led this pioneering degree program which some say became the national model for similar programs now mandated under the NIH's new center awards for clinical and translational research. More than 110 academic clinical investigators have received masters and PhD degrees at Johns Hopkins under this program. Dr. Adkinson has served as Managing Editor for the last three editions of the preeminent allergy/immunology text, Middleton's Allergy: Principles and Practice, as well as contributing the chapter on "Drug Allergy." Dr. Adkinson continues his roles in mentoring and training allergy fellows and other clinical investigators at Johns Hopkins. His clinical practice is a respected training ground for those interested in drug hypersensitivity problems, and he continues his active leadership of the AAAAI's Workforce Committee and the training programs' Task Force on the match program for allergy/immunology training. 2010 Distinguished Layperson Award
"In recognition of service, dedication and leadership to the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology." Kay Whalen, MBA, CAE, has served as the Executive Director of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (AAAAI) since 2000. Prior to that, she served as the Associate Executive Vice President-Finance from 1993 to 2000 and as Director of Support Services of the AAAAI since 1988. During her tenure with the AAAAI, the organization has grown programmatically, increasing the budget from $5,000,000 to $12,000,000 annually. Ms. Whalen served on the Board of Directors of the Wisconsin Society of Association Executives from 2002 to 2003 and has served on the Association Management Company Section Council and Key Committee of the American Society of Association Executives since 2002. Ms. Whalen received her MBA from Cardinal Stritch University in 1991 and her Certified Association Executive (CAE) designation in 1999. 2010 Distinguished Service Award
"In recognition of leadership in development of programs to improve patient care, and efforts to the highlight the expertise of the allergist/immunologist." Michael Schatz, MD, MS, FAAAAI, received his MD from the Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, Illinois, where he also completed his internal medicine residency and his fellowship in allergy/immunology. Dr. Schatz has also received a Masters of Science degree in Epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Schatz is board certified in internal medicine and allergy/immunology. He has been a Staff Allergist at Kaiser-Permanente Medical Center in San Diego since 1977, where he currently serves as Chief of the Allergy Department. Dr. Schatz is also a Clinical Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine. Dr. Schatz is a Past President of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (AAAAI). He also currently serves as Chair of the AAAAI Vaccines and Medications in Pregnancy Surveillance System (VAMPSS) Task Force; Co-Chair of the AAAAI/ACAAI Joint Task Force on Quality Measures; Co-Chair of the AAAAI ASTHMA IQ project; Co-Editor of the updated Web site version of the AAAAI Consultation and Referral Guidelines Citing the Evidence; AAAAI representative to the National Asthma Education and Prevention Program (NAEPP) Coordinating Committee; and an AAAAI representative to the joint AAAAI/ATS/NHLBI Asthma Phenotypes Task Force. Dr. Schatz was a member of the 1993 and 2004 NAEPP Working Groups on Asthma and Pregnancy and was a member of the NAEPP 2007 Asthma Expert Panel 3. Dr. Schatz is a past member of and current consultant to the Pulmonary and Allergy Drugs Advisory Committee of the United States Food and Drug Administration. He has published more than 200 articles and edited three books in the field of allergy/immunology. His main current research interests are patient-centered asthma outcomes, risk stratification for asthma population management, the burden of rhinitis, and the interrelationships of asthma and pregnancy. 2010 Honorary Fellow Award
"In recognition of a career devoted to understanding the mechanisms and treatment of asthma; with particular reference to the role of environmental allergens and the mechanisms by which these cause airway inflammation." Paul M. O'Byrne, MD, FAAAAI, obtained his Medical Degree at University College, Dublin, and his training in internal medicine and respiratory medicine at McMaster University. He undertook research training under the supervision of Dr. Freddy Hargreave at McMaster University and then Dr. Jay A. Nadel at the Cardiovascular Research Institute in San Francisco. Dr. O'Byrne is currently the E.J. Moran Campbell Professor of Medicine and Chair of the Department of Medicine at the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine at McMaster University. He is also the Executive Director of the Firestone Institute for Respiratory Health at St. Joseph's Healthcare. He has published more than 320 peer reviewed papers, including papers in the New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet, Nature Medicine, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine and Journal of Immunology. He has authored 90 book chapters, and edited 12 books. In 2008, he received the James H. Graham Award of Merit from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, and was the Distinguished Lecturer in Respiratory Sciences for the Institute of Circulatory and Respiratory Health of the Canadian Institutes for Health Research. Dr. O'Byrne is the Past-Chair of the Executive Committee of the Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA), Associate Editor of Chest and is on the Editorial Boards of the American Journal of Medicine and the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 2010 Outstanding Volunteer Clinical Faculty Award
"In recognition of service to the allergy/immunology training program at the University of South Florida as a teacher and mentor; with a special focus on asthma and the elderly patient." Monroe James (Jim) King, DO, FAAAAI, was born in Moorhead, Minnesota, in 1935. He attended the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, and Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, prior to entering the Chicago College of Osteopathy. He received his Doctor of Osteopathy (DO) in 1963. He has been married to the former Barbara Howe for 47 years, and they have three children and three grandchildren. He completed a rotating internship at Garden City Osteopathic Hospital and a pediatric residency at Pontiac Osteopathic Hospital, both in Michigan. He is certified in pediatrics and allergy/immunology and was in practice in the Detroit suburbs until 1977. In 1977, he entered the U.S. Navy, with assignments including Key West Naval Hospital from 1977 to 1979; U.S.S. Emory S. Land from 1979 to 1980; Allergy Division Head, Department of Internal Medicine at Portsmouth, Virginia, Naval Hospital from 1980 to 1990; Group Surgeon Amphibious Group 2 from 1990 to 1992; allergist at the Naval Medical Clinic, Annapolis, Maryland; and as a consultant in allergy/immunology at National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland from 1992 to 1995. Upon retiring from the Navy in 1995, he entered private practice in Largo, Florida, and joined the volunteer faculty at the University of South Florida (USF). He helped develop a focus group on Asthma in the Elderly within the steering committee of the Asthma Clinical Research Centers of the American Lung Association; chaired the planning committee for a National Institute on Aging Workshop on Asthma in the Elderly held in September 2008; and was the first chairman of the AAAAI Task Force on Asthma in the Elderly. Dr. King continues to teach and participate in research projects in the Division of Allergy and Immunology at USF and is a consultant to the National Institute on Aging. 2010 RSLAAIS Leadership Award
"In recognition of more than four decades of service to allergy/immunology regional and national communities as a leader, mentor, advocate and educator." Since receiving his MD from the Virginia Commonwealth University, Louis M. Mendelson, MD FAAAAI, dedicated his professional life to quality patient care in the allergy/immunology specialty. In 1985, he was one of the original organizers and Governors of the Regional, State and Local Allergy, Asthma and Immunology Societies. He has always felt strongly in the recognition of the importance of the practicing allergist in the AAAAI, in making sure that their concerns are heard at both the local and national level and that they had the opportunity for leadership positions in the AAAAI. Dr. Mendelson served his pediatric internship and residency at the Bronx Municipal Hospital Center at Albert Einstein School of Medicine in New York. Upon completing his residency, he served two years in the U.S. Air Force and later completed his fellowship in allergy/immunology at the University of California at San Diego in 1972. Dr. Mendelson then moved to Hartford, Connecticut, where he remains in full-time practice. He is the senior member of Connecticut Asthma and Allergy Center LLC, a seven-person group of allergists. Dr. Mendelson is committed to teaching the allergy/immunology specialty to medical students, pediatric interns and residents at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Hartford Hospital and the Connecticut Children's Medical Center (CCMC). He is presently a Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Connecticut and a Senior Attending in the Department of Pediatrics at CCMC, where he serves as Head of the Allergy Division and Co-Director of the Food Allergy Clinic. He has also served as President of the Connecticut Allergy Society and the New England Society of Allergy. From 2001 to 2003, he served on the AAAAI Board of Directors representing the RSLAAIS Assembly. During his tenure, he was either fully or partially responsible for obtaining the Board's approval for a one day course on allergy skin testing and immunotherapy, standardizing skin test reporting and allergy immunotherapy, and setting up the practice management committee and course. He has served as chairs of several committees of the AAAAI, including the Adverse Reactions to Drugs and Biological Committee, the Ethics/Conflict of Interest Committee, and the Seminars Committee. From 2006 to 2009, he served as chair of ART and is now vice-chair, an organization whose main job is to help secure the future of the allergy specialty for the clinician and academician. He was one of the founders and is President of AllerQuest LLC, the company responsible for making and obtaining FDA approval for PrePenŽ in September of 2009. Dr. Mendelson is still actively pursuing his clinical research interests in drug and food allergy. He has published many articles in professional journals. He was the 1999 recipient of the Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Network's "Mariel C. Furlong Award for Making a Difference," and the recipient of the 2000 AAAAI Distinguished Clinician Award. He has been selected to Best Doctors in America from 1986 to 2009. Besides his work with the AAAAI, ART, and AllerQuest, Dr. Mendelson still gets his greatest satisfaction from taking care of his patients, and helping to influence many of the residents he introduced to allergy and to becoming an allergist. 2010 Special Recognition Award
"In recognition of an exemplary career devoted to allergy/immunology training and professional development." John W. Yunginger, MD FAAAAI, is Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine at the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine. He received his BS degree from Franklin & Marshall College and his MD degree from Jefferson Medical College. He was an intern and pediatric resident at Geisinger Medical Center and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. After serving as a pediatrician in the U.S. Air Force, he completed a fellowship in pediatric allergy at Mayo under Dr. George B. Logan and Dr. Gerald J. Gleich. Dr. Yunginger began his academic career at Mayo in 1973, and remained there for 28 years. For several years, he served as the co-director of the pediatric allergy/immunology training program. He divided his time between the Allergic Diseases Research Laboratory and clinical activities. Dr. Yunginger's applied research interests included quantitation of specific IgE antibodies and the measurement of allergens in crude extracts. He utilized the research laboratory to prepare custom diagnostic reagents for patients with rare or unusual environmental or occupational allergies. For twenty years, he conducted insect sting challenges in the Mayo Clinical Research Unit, initially to document the therapeutic success of venom immunotherapy, and subsequently to assess optimal duration of immunotherapy and the risk of recurrent sting allergy after immunotherapy was discontinued. His later publications included epidemiologic studies of asthma in residents of Rochester, Minnesota, and the measurement of natural rubber latex allergens in hospital work environments and in medical and consumer rubber products. In 1982, Dr. Yunginger was elected to the American Board of Allergy & Immunology (ABAI) Board of Directors, where he served terms as liaison representative to the American Board of Pediatrics, appointee to the Allergy & Immunology Residency Review Committee, and finally as ABAI Chair in 1990. He returned to the ABAI in 1993, serving initially as Executive Secretary and subsequently as President, until his retirement in 2009. Dr. Yunginger is the author of over 200 articles, chapters, and books, and he was a co-editor for four editions of Middleton's Allergy: Principles and Practice. He has received the Bret Ratner Award from the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Distinguished Service Award from the American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology, and the Distinguished Clinician Award from the AAAAI. |
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