The Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award in Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine is the premier award of the Association for Diagnostics & Laboratory Medicine (ADLM). This distinguished honor recognizes extraordinary, sustained contributions to the field of clinical chemistry over the course of a career.
Recipients of this lifetime achievement award have made significant and lasting contributions across all aspects of clinical chemistry, with particular distinction in service, education, and research. Awardees are internationally recognized leaders who have achieved exceptional stature and reputation through their scientific, professional, and educational accomplishments. In addition, honorees have demonstrated long‑standing service and commitment to ADLM at the grassroots, national, and/or international levels, reflecting a career dedicated not only to advancing the field but also to strengthening the professional community.
Congratulations to the 2026 winner
Alan Wu, PhD, DABCC
Alan Wu, PhD, DABCC, is co-core lab director at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and professor of lab medicine, University of California, San Francisco.
Dr. Wu received B.S. degrees from Purdue University in chemistry and biology, and a PhD in analytical chemistry from the University of Illinois. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Hartford Hospital. Formerly he was at the University of Texas and Hermann Hospital, Houston, and Hartford Hospital and the University of Connecticut. While holding these positions, he has trained hundreds of pathology and lab medicine residents, visiting scientists from around the world, clinical laboratory science students, and over 40 postdoctoral fellows in clinical chemistry in various COMACC-accredited programs.
Dr. Wu’s research interests include clinical toxicology, cardiac biomarkers, pharmacogenomics, traumatic brain injury, sepsis, and point-of-care testing. Dr. Wu has over 800 publications in peer- and non-peer reviewed journals. Through Amazon, he has written 8 paperback books consisting of short stories that promote the value of the clinical laboratory to the lay public. He has launched a social media campaign (TikTok #labtales) to further expose lab medicine to students. He is currently working with screenwriters to author a movie script entitled “Mind Portal” and a television series entitled, “Labs.”
Previous Winners
2025 - Larry J Kricka DPhil, FACB, CSci, CChem, FRSC, FRCPath
2024 - Thomas Annesley, PhD, DABCC
2023 - Robert H. Christenson, PhD, DABCC, FADLM, FACC
2022 - Michael J. Bennett, PhD, FRCPath, DABCC, FADLM
2021 - Marilyn Huestis, PhD
2020 - Nader Rifai, PhD
2019 - Mitchell Scott, PhD
2018 - D. Robert Dufour, MD
2017 - Susan Evans, PhD
2016 - Edward R. Ashwood, MD
2015 - Gary L. Myers, PhD
2014 - Charles D. Hawker, PhD
2013 - Leslie M. Shaw, PhD
2012 - Thomas P. Moyer, PhD
2011 - Stephen E. Kahn, PhD
2010 - Jay M. McDonald, MD
2009 - Christopher P. Price, PhD
2008 - Mary F. Burritt, PhD
2007 - Greg Miller, PhD
2006 - Helen M. Free, DSc
2005 - Edward W. Bermes, PhD
2004 - Matthew McQueen, PhD
2003 - Morton K. Schwartz, PhD
2002 - Theodore Peters, PhD
2001 - Peter Wilding, PhD
2000 - Nathan Gochman, PhD
1999 - Lemuel J. Bowie, Phd
1998 - David E. Bruns, MD
1997 - Gerard M. Siest, PhD
1996 - Kurt M. Dubowski, PhD
1995 - Basil T. Doumas, PhD
1994 - Jack H. Ladenson, PhD
1993 - Jocelyn M. Hicks, PhD
1992 - Gerald R. Cooper, PhD
1991 - Carl A. Burtis, PhD
1990 - Samuel Meites, PhD
1989 - Norbet W. Tietz, PhD
1988 - George N. Bowers, MD
1987 - Martin Fleisher, PhD
1986 - Laurence M. Demers, PhD
1984 - William C. Purdy, PhD
1983 - John Savory, PhD
1982 - James O. Westgard, PhD
1981 - Robert F. Labbe, PhD
1980 - David Glick, PhD
1979 - Abraham Saifer, PhD
1978 - F. William Sunderman, MD
1977 - Donald S. Young, PhD
1976 - Norman G. Anderson, PhD
1975 - Bernard Klein, PhD
1974 - Bennie Zak, PhD
1973 - Irving Sunshine, PhD
1972 - Ralph E. Thiers, PhD
1971 - David Seligson, MD, ScD
1970 - Wendell T. Caraway, PhD
1969 - Sidney Udenfriend, PhD
1968 - Julius Sendroy, PhD
1967 - Richard J. Henry, PhD
1966 - Leonard T. Skeggs, PhD
1965 - Samuel Natelson, PhD
1964 - Donald D. Van Slyke, PhD
1963 - C.P. Stewart
1962 - Harry Sobotka, PhD
1961 - Warren Sperry
1960 - Albert E. Sobel, PhD
1959 - Oliver Gaebler
1958 - Marschelle Power, PhD
1957 - Joseph Gast, PhD
1956 - Joesph Roe, PhD
1955 - M.X. Sullivan, PhD
1954 - John G. Reinhold, PhD
1953 - Michael Somogyi, PhD
1952 - Jos Kahn, PhD
