AAMI Honors MedTech Contributors

AAMI Foundation/Laufman—Greatbach Prize—Forrest M. Bird, MD, for his efforts to combat cardiopulmonary problems.

AAMI Clinical/Biomedical Engineering Achievement Award—Carol Davis-Smith, a director at Premier Consulting Solutions and chair of AAMI's Technology Management Council, for her efforts to promote the biomed profession to clinical and biomedical communities.

AAMI/BD Professional Achievement Award—Guruprasad Madhavan, a research fellow and consultant at the State University of New York at Binghamton, for his pursuit of an innovative medical device concept that could result in a noninvasive, portable, neuromuscular stimulation therapy to enhance lower-limb circulation.

AAMI/GE Healthcare BMET of the Year Award—Dave Scott, biomedical technician in the equipment management program at the Children's Hospital in Aurora, CO, for his leadership with the Colorado Association of Biomedical Equipment Technicians.

AAMI Foundation/ACCE Robert L. Morris Humanitarian Award—J. Tobey Clark, director of the Instrumentation and Technical Services Department for the University of Vermont, for his efforts to bring clinical engineering to developing countries.

AAMI Foundation/Institute for Technology in Health Care Clinical Application Award—Julian M. Goldman, MD, an anesthesiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and director of interoperability for the Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology, for his work toward medical device interoperability.

Standards Developer Award—Trabue D. Bryans, vice president and general manager of the research and development company WuXi AppTec's Atlanta division, for her commitment to the development of numerous standards.

Standards Developer Award—Harry F. Bushar, a recently retired math statistician for FDA, for his contributions to standards committees and working groups.

Standards Developer Award—Jim Gibson, who is being honored posthumously for the development of several sterilization standards.

Standards Developer Award—Veronica Ivans, standards manager for the Cardiac Rhythm Disease Management Division of Medtronic, for her leadership on AAMI working groups and subcommittees.