This award is made annually at the spring meeting of the section to a person 35 years of age or younger who has presented the best paper given at the meeting. The recipient may be either a member or non-member of the section in this age group. An ad hoc committee of members, set up by the section chair, makes the recommendation. The award consists of a check for $(US) 250 and a letter of congratulations from the section chair.
2023: Samantha Logan
2022: Annie Ren
2021: Victoria Higgins
2020: Not Awarded
2019: Alexander Chesover
2018: Lauren Moore
2017: Michelle Parker
2016: Michael Knauer
2015: Lori Beach
2014: Tracy Teodoro-Morrison
2013: Saranya Kittanakom
2012: Angela Rutledge
2011: John Sievenpiper
2010: Robert Klees
2009: Frederick Strathmann
2008: Yanping Gong
2007: Richard Cleve
2006: Curtis Oleschuk
2005: Richard Cleve
2003: Christine Obiezu
2002: Ralf Labugger
2001: George M. Yousef
1999: George M. Yousef
1998: Margot Black
1997: Manoj Rajadhyaksha
1996: Mehrdad Yazdanpenah
1995: Abdel Rahmon
1994: Michael Levesque
1993: He Yu
1990: Tracy Wong
1990: Samuel C. K. Yiu
Max E. Chilcote, PhD (1917-1994)
Max Chilcote was born on September 1, 1917, in Bemidji, MN; he received his BS and MS from the University of Minnesota and his PhD in biological chemistry from the University of Michigan in 1944. He had short-term positions at Loyola University School of Medicine and Pennsylvania State College before moving to Buffalo, NY where he spent the remainder of his career. Most notably, he worked at the Erie County Laboratories, which he directed from 1971 until his retirement in the mid-1980s. He was an early pioneer in the postdoctoral education of clinical chemists and received the 1975 the Association for Diagnostics & Laboratory Medicine (formerly AACC) award for Outstanding Contributions to Education.
He was a doer of the highest level, one of the few giants of our field. He is the only person ever who was elected twice to be president of the Academy of Clinical Laboratory Physicians and Scientists. He developed and operated the Public Health Laboratories and Medical Examiner System of Erie County and tended to a professional faculty of 17. In times of fiscal restraint in the 1970s he still got the New York legislature to build a first-rate laboratory with a strong academic base.
His opinion was always valuable and sought out by many. His influence extended to almost anyone with whom he came in contact, and he was always available to people in training. He served the Upstate New York Section of the Association for Diagnostics & Laboratory Medicine (ADLM) in many capacities since its founding. Because of his commitment to education and training of young laboratorians, the Section named its Young Investigator Award in memory of Dr. Chilcote in 2002.