The Chicago Section Senior Investigator Award is named in honor of Samuel R. Natelson, Ph.D. Dr. Natelson was one of the real GIANTS in clinical chemistry was one of the founding members of the American Association of Clinical Chemistry, a founder of the National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry and also founded the Chicago Section of the Association for Diagnostics & Laboratory Medicine (formerly AACC). Samuel Natelson received his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry by New York University in 1932 and spent the next 15 years involved with a variety of industry and research related positions in which he spent some of that time working the synthesis of steroids and developed a method for the analysis of cholesterol. It was shortly after he joined the research staff at the Jewish Hospitals of Brooklyn that he discovered a passion for clinical chemistry. In 1949 he accepted a position at Rockford (IL) Memorial Hospital as the clinical chemist that his service career really blossomed. Samuel returned to New York in 1958 at St. Vincent's Hospital as head of the Department of Biochemistry. Finally, in 1965 he accepted the position as senior research biochemist and director of the Department of Biochemistry at Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago. His contributions to the field of clinical chemistry are too numerous that to provide a brief synopsis would not do justice to his accomplishments. Instead I direct you to new complimentary articles published in Clinical Chemistry that details his love of clinical chemistry. Among a large part of his legacy to clinical chemistry included chemists he trained. These include Drs. Norbert Tietz, Amedeo Pesce, John Sherwin and Robert Murray among many other notable scientists. The Samuel R. Natelson Award is the oldest award given by the Chicago Section of the Association for Diagnostics & Laboratory Medicine (ADLM).
2016 Shannon Haymond, PhD
Assistant Professor of Pathology
Director, Clinical Chemistry and Mass Spectrometry
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Chicago, IL
2014
Dr. Kenneth D. Beaman
Professor and Director
Clinical Immunology Lab
Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science
North Chicago, IL
2013
KT Jerry Yeo
2012
Jeanine Walenga
2011
Stanley Lo
2010
Robert Habig
2009
David Kelso
2008
John Sherwin
2005
Donald A. Weibe
2002
Michael J. Pugia
2001
Donald R. Parker
2000
David D. Koch
1999
Edward Sasse
1998
Robert Murray
1997
S.H.Y Wong
1996
Sharon Ehrmeyer
1995
Steven Kahn
1994
A. Scanu
1991
Ed Berman
1990
James Westgard
1989
Ron Laessig
1988
J. Fareed
1986
R. Matalon
1985
Lemuel J. Bowie
1984
M. Epstein
1983
M. Evenson
1982
Harry Pardue
1981
N. Anderson
1980
J. Katchmar
1979
Basil Doumas
1978
H. Shepherd
1977
Albert A. Dietz
1976
Edward Bermes
1975
N. Ressler
1974
Donald Forman
1973
H. Weisberg
1972
Samuel Natelson
1971
Norbert Tietz
1970
M. Kaser
1969
Alfred Free
1968
M. Hanke
1967
Alfred Dubin