Honoring Significant Contributions in Tissue Banking
The past winners of the annual AATB Achievement Awards have all made significant contributions to the tissue banking community. Award winners have impacted the association and the field of tissue banking through their efforts in areas such as research, education and service.
Interested in nominating someone for an Achievement Award? Learn more about the awards and how to submit your nomination.
2017 Winners
Jeanne Mowe Distinguished Service Award
Tom Cycyota
AlloSource
Centennial, Colorado
About Mr. Cycyota
Tom Cycyota has more than 30 years of experience in the medical device industry. As President and CEO of AlloSource, Tom develops and implements strategies that align with the company's mission to honor the gift of tissue donation by maximizing its impact to the medical community and patient recipients. Under Tom's leadership, AlloSource has become one of the largest and most respected tissue banks in the country. Prior to joining AlloSource, Tom was the Vice President of Alternate Care Business with Johnson & Johnson Medical (JJM). In this Board-level role, he led the company's movement into the alternate healthcare market. Previous positions also include serving as Worldwide Director of Marketing, Wound Management, for JJM and Vice President of Marketing and Materials Management with New Dimensions in Medicine. He also spent ten years at Kendall Healthcare Products Company. Tom is inspired by the act of donation because this incredibly selfless gift allows AlloSource to do great things to help heal patients. His inspirations are the miracles that are accomplished because of the act of donation.
George Hyatt Memorial Award
Melissa Greenwald, M.D.
Rockville, Maryland
About Dr. Greenwald
Melissa Greenwald is a physician that has developed both research and research-driven policy to advance the clinical safety in the use of tissue, cells and blood products. Since 2001 her work has largely been concentrated on cell and tissue donor screening and testing policy, in addition to regulatory review of infectious disease donor screening tests. Dr. Greenwald was formerly the Director of the Division of Transplantation at the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA).
Kenneth W. Sell Memorial Award
Scott Brubaker, CTBS
FDA CBER - Food and Drug Administration
Silver Spring, Maryland
About Mr. Brubaker
Scott Brubaker has a tissue banking career that spans 31 years. During that time, he participated in the development and deployment of every single edition of the AATB Standards for Tissue Banking, led the effort to develop and launch the Universal Donor Risk Assessment Interview (DRAI), led the revamping of the Tissue Bank Accreditation process, as well as liaising with tissue banking leaders around the world on AATB's behalf. Scott is currently Director of the Division of Human Tissues (DHT) at FDA/CBER/OTAT. He was formerly the Senior Vice President of Policy at AATB and the Director of Technical Training & Education at LifeNet Health.
Jeanne C. Mowe Distinguished Service Award
Past Winners: 2003-2016
2016
Martell K. Winters, RM/SM (NRCM)
2015
George McCann, M.D., CTBS
Life Alaska Donor Services, Inc.
Anchorage, Alaska
2014
Martha Anderson
Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation, MTF
Edison, New Jersey
2013
Russell Bierbaum, MS. CRCS
ReproTech, Ltd. - MN
St Paul, Minnesota
2012
David Gocke, M.D.
MTF
Edison, New Jersey
2011
James Forsell, Ph.D., CTBS
San Rafael, California
2010
Perry Lange, CTBS
LifeNet Health
Virginia Beach, Virginia
2009
Glenn Greenleaf, CTBS
LifeCell
Branchburg, New Jersey
2008
Ronald T. Plessinger (posthumously)
AlloSource
2007
Margery Moogk, M.S.
Northwest Tissue Center
2006
Richard J. Kagan, M.D.
Shriners Hospitals for Children
Cincinnati, Ohio
2005
Michael J. Joyce, M.D.
The Cleveland Clinic Ohio
2004
Helen Leslie-Bottenfield
Consultant
Virginia Beach, Virginia
2004
Scott Bottenfield
LifeCell, Corporation
Virginia Beach, Virginia
2003
Jeanne C. Mowe (posthumously)
Past Executive Director
AATB
Distinguished Service Award
Past Winners: 1987-2002
2002
Bill Anderson (posthumously)
LifeNet
Virginia Beach, Virginia
2001
John F. Burke, M.D. (posthumously)
2001
Conrado C. Bondoc, M.D. (posthumously)
2000
Emmanuel K. Tayo, Ph.D. (posthumously)
Past Accreditation Program Manager
AATB
1999
John R. Kateley, Ph.D.
MEDx
Lansing, Michigan
1998
Donald J. Prolo, M.D.
Clinical Professor
Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University
San Jose, California
1997
Samuel H. Doppelt, M.D.
Cambridge Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston
1996
Gary Friedlaender, M.D.
Yale University School of Medicine, Dept. of Orthopaedics & Rehabilitation
New Haven, Connecticut
1995
Mary St. J. Douglas Center for Transfusion and Transplantation Medicine
Naval Medical Research Center
Silver Spring, Maryland
1994
Jerome K. Sherman, Ph.D.
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Dept. of Anatomy
Little Rock
1993
Peter Mazur, Ph.D.
Group Leader Theoretical and Applied Cryobiology
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Tennessee
1992
Henry J. Mankin M.D.
Chief of Orthopaedic Surgery
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston
1991
Charles R. Baxter, M.D.
University of Texas Health Science Center
Dallas
1990
Kenneth W. Sell, M.D., Ph.D. (posthumously)
Professor & Chairman
Dept. of Pathology, Emory University School of Medicine
Atlanta, Georgia
1989
C. Everett Koop, M.D.
Surgeon General of the United States
Washington, D.C.
1988
Marshall R. Urist, M.D.
Orthopaedic Surgeon/Researcher
Bone Research Laboratory, UCLA School of Medicine
1987
George W. Hyatt, M.D.
Professor Emeritus Department of Orthopaedics
Georgetown University School of Medicine
Washington, D.C.
George W. Hyatt Memorial Award
Past Winners: 1995 - 2016
2016
Helen Newman, Ph.D., CTBS
Veterinary Transplant Services, Inc.
Kent, Washington
2015
Alyce Linthurst Jones, Ph.D.
LifeNet Health
Virginia Beach, Virginia
2014
Shawn Hunter
Ph.D. Community Tissue Services - CTS Dayton
Kettering, Ohio
2013
Gregory Ray, M.D.
Kennesaw, Georgia
2012
Lennox Archibald, M.D., Ph.D.
Veterans Hospital
New Berry, Florida
2011
Matthew Kuehnert, M.D.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Atlanta, Georgia
2010
Simon Bogdansky, Ph.D.
Bogdansky and Associates
Littleton, Colorado
2009
Kelvin G.M. Brockbank, Ph.D.
FACA Cell & Tissue Systems, Inc.
Charleston, South Carolina
2008
C. Randal Mills, Ph.D.
Osiris Therapeutics, Inc.
Baltimore, Maryland
2007
Stephen Livesey, M.D., Ph.D.
Australian Stem Cell Centre
Victoria, Australia
2006
William F. Enneking, M.D.
Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation
Edison, New Jersey
2005
Lloyd Wolfinbarger, Ph.D.
LifeNet
Virginia Beach, Virginia
2004
Robert E. Stevenson, Ph.D.
AATB
McLean, Virginia
2003
D. Michael Strong, Ph.D.
Northwest Tissue Center
Seattle, Washington
2002
John F. Hansbrough, M.D.
University of California, San Diego Medical Center
2001
Julie Glowacki, Ph.D.
Director of Skeletal Biology
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts
2000
Hans Burchardt, Ph.D.
Executive Director
Pennsylvania Regional Tissue Bank
Jessup
1999
Ross Wilkins, M.D.
Medical Director
Donor Alliance
Denver, Colorado
1998
Theodore I. Malinin, M.D.
Professor and Director
University of Miami Tissue Bank
Florida
1997
Kenneth W. Sell, M.D, Ph.D.(posthumously)
Professor & Chairman
Department of Pathology, Emory University School of Medicine
Atlanta, Georgia
1996
William W. Tomford, M.D.
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston
1995
Harold T. Meryman, M.D.
Center for Transfusion & Transplant Medicine
Naval Research Institute
Bethesda, Maryland
Kenneth W. Sell Memorial Award
Past Winners: 2004 - 2016
2016
Murray L. Anderson, CTBS, CST, CQA, (ASQ)
Inspector
AATB
2015
Ralph Powers, DDS, CTBS
LifeNet Health
Virginia Beach, VA
2014
Helen Bottenfield, RN
Virginia Beach, Virginia
2013
Ruth Solomon, M.D.
Orlando, Florida
2012
Charles Sims, M.D.
Medical Director
California Cryobank, Inc.-Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California
2011
Duke Kasprisin, M.D.
American Donor Services
Bozeman, Vermont
2010
Nancy Dock
Sr. Director Tissue Acquisition
Lonza Walkersville, Inc.
Jamesville, New York
2009
Joel Osborne, CTBS
Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation
Edison, New Jersey
2008
Kathy Pearson
LifeNet Health
Virginia Beach, Virginia
2007
Judith E. Woll, M.D.
Community Blood Center/Community Tissue Services
Dayton, Ohio
2006
Jeanne Linden, M.D., M.P.H.
New York State Department of Health
Albany, New York
2005
Diane Wilson, RN, CTBS
Community Tissue Services
Dayton, Ohio
2004
D. Ted Eastlund, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Minnesota Medical School
Minneapolis, Minnesota
