This award recognizes an individual who has devoted a major portion of his/her professional life to enhancing the practice and profession of clinical chemistry through education. The educator selected for this award has made significant, innovative, and/or cumulatively outstanding contributions to education in clinical laboratory science. These contributions should include excellence in education beyond the local level, with widespread recognition of the recipient's excellence which may include teaching, directing, mentoring, writing, and speaking abilities, ideally to multiple levels of audiences.
Congratulations to the 2025 Winner
David Anderson, PhD
Dr. David Anderson is Professor and Director of Clinical Chemistry in the Chemistry Department at Cleveland State University (CSU). He received a B.S. in Chemistry from Bucknell University, a Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry from Iowa State University and completed a Clinical Chemistry Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the Mayo Clinic. He began his faculty position at CSU in 1988. He is board certified in Clinical Chemistry by the American Board of Clinical Chemistry. Dr. Anderson has been Director/Co-Director of the Ph.D. Clinical Chemistry Program at CSU since 1991, bringing the program to national prominence as the premier doctoral program in the laboratory medicine field. The doctoral program in Clinical Chemistry at CSU, being a joint program with the Cleveland Clinic, is also affiliated with several other Cleveland/Akron medical facilities. The program is accredited by The Commission on Accreditation in Clinical Chemistry (ComACC), the only ComACC-accredited Ph.D. program worldwide. There have been 68 clinical chemistry doctoral graduates in the 34-year period of Dr. Anderson’s directorship. They presently hold significant positions in the clinical laboratory and related fields throughout the United States and the world. Forty percent have directorship positions in clinical labs at major medical institutions or reference labs. Other careers include positions in the diagnostics and pharmaceutical industry sectors or positions as primary faculty at universities. Dr. Anderson’s research areas are HPLC and mass spectrometry of proteins, peptide hormones, gangliosides and pharmacokinetic studies. Dr. Anderson has publications in prominent journals such as Clinical Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry, Journal of Chromatography A, Journal of Chromatography B, Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry, and Journal of Liquid Chromatography & Related Technologies. He is an author of several book chapters on chromatography in clinical chemistry and bioanalysis. He has served in officer roles in the Northeast Ohio AACC/ADLM throughout the years.
Previous Winners
2024 - James H. Nichols, PhD, DABCC, FADLM
2023 - Gary L. Horowitz, MD
2022 - David S. Hage, PhD
2021 - Elizabeth L. Frank, PhD, DABCC, FADLM
2020 - Roger Bertholf, PhD
2019 - William A. Clarke, PhD
2018 - Thomas Annesley, PhD
2017 - Eleftherios P. Diamandis, MD, PhD
2016 - Ann M. Gronowski, PhD
2015 - Nader Rifai, PhD
2014 - Michael L. Astion, PhD
2013 - David E. Bruns, MD
2012 - David B. Sacks, MD
2011 - Edward R. Ashwood, MD
2010 - Amitava Dasgupta, PhD
2009 - Michael Laposata, MD
2008 - William E. Winter, MD
2007 - Craig A. Lehmann, PhD
2006 - Catherine A. Hammett-Stabler, PhD
2005 - Robert H. Christenson, PhD
2004 - Larry Broussard, PhD
2003 - Paul Wolf, MD
2002 - Alan Wu, PhD
2001 - Lawrence M. Silverman, PhD
2000 - Mitchell Scott, PhD
1999 - D. Robert Dufour, MD
1998 - Christopher P. Price, PhD
1997 - Christopher S. Frings, PhD
1996 - Oren Zinder, PhD
1995 - Peter Jatlow, MD
1994 - Jiro J. Kaneko, DVM, PhD
1993 - Richard B. Passey, PhD
1992 - Herbert A. Fritsche, PhD
1991 - Marge A. Brewster, PhD
1990 - H. Peter Lehmann, PhD
1989 - Jack H. Ladenson, PhD
1988 - Julius Kerkay, PhD
1987 - John Al Lott, PhD
1986 - Edward C. Knoblock
1985 - Richard H. Gadsden, Sr., PhD
1984 - Allan G. Gornall, PhD
1983 - Edward W. Bermes, PhD
1982 - Harry F. Weisberg, MD
1981 - F. William Sunderman, Sr., MD, PhD
1980 - Roger J. Thibert, PhD
1979 - Paige K. Besch, PhD
1978 - Hanns-Dieter Gruemer, MD
1977 - Hugh J. McDonald, DSc
1976 - Norbet W. Tietz, PhD
1975 - Max E. Chilcote, PhD
1974 - Morton K. Schwartz, PhD
1973 - Joseph I Routh, PhD
1972 - Martin Rubin, PhD
1971 - Alex Kaplan, PhD
