Scientific and research excellence by students and trainees in laboratory medicine and diagnostics is recognized through the Grannis award. The late George Grannis was the second President of the Academy. A man of great curiosity, profound thinking, and creativity, Dr. Grannis’ interests and published research included findings in the areas of protein biochemistry in health and disease, normal and abnormal blood coagulation, proficiency evaluation of clinical laboratories, biochemistry of aging, and quality control of enzyme analyses.
This award includes a guest lectureship at an Ohio Valley Local Section meeting during the year of the award. All current and past students in undergraduate, graduate, or postdoctoral training programs in laboratory medicine and diagnostics who were enrolled sometime during the three-year period prior to the year of the award will be considered candidates for this award. The student must have published a paper indexed in Medline during this same time period. Names of students from ComACC-accredited programs may be submitted by the program director. Names of students from non-ComACC-accredited programs may be submitted by their mentors. The nomination should include a letter of nomination, a list of papers authored by the student, and a copy of the trainee's curriculum vitae. Literature references should include sufficient information to locate the papers; links to PubMed abstracts are suitable.
Sponsored by the Academy of Diagnostics & Laboratory Medicine and the Ohio Valley Local Section.
Dr. Vahid Azimi is Laboratory Director at Alameda Health System in Alameda County, California. He earned his MD from Oregon Health & Science University and completed his residency in Clinical Pathology at Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine. Dr. Azimi’s work focuses on enhancing the quality and equity of diagnostic testing across the laboratory continuum. His research contributions to the field of laboratory medicine span topics such as leveraging urine drug screen data for epidemiologic surveillance, equity in reference intervals for serum free light chains, and addressing racial disparities in perinatal drug testing, with publications in journals including Clinical Chemistry and JAMA Network Open.
His work has been recognized with research and presentation awards from the Academy of Clinical Laboratory Physicians and Scientists (ACLPS), the Association for Pathology Informatics (API), and the Association for Diagnostics & Laboratory Medicine (formerly AACC). He is active in national efforts to advance DEIA through roles with CAP and the Association of Pathology Chairs.
2024 - Mary Kathryn Bohn, PhD
2023 - Nadia Ayala-Lopez, PhD
2022 - Ruben Y. Luo, PhD
2021 - Christopher Farnsworth, PhD
2020 - Xander van Wijk, PhD
2019 - Gabrielle Winston-McPherson, PhD
2018 - Phedias Diamandis, MD, PhD
2017 - Roy Peake, PhD
2016 - Joe El-Khoury, PhD
2015 - Mark A. Marzinke, PhD
2014 - Andrei Drabovich, PhD
Fellows of the Academy use the designation of FADLM. This designation is equivalent to FACB and FAACC, the previous designations used by fellows of the National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry and AACC Academy. Those groups were rebranded as Academy of Diagnostics & Laboratory Medicine in 2023.
