The President’s Award
The President’s Award is given to an MLA member who has been selected by the association’s officers and Board of Directors for a notable or important contribution made during the past association year. The contribution must have enhanced the profession of health sciences librarianship or furthered the objectives of the association.
Applications are currently closed. Check back later.
Past Recipients
- 2024
- Mary Langman
- Ariel Pomputius
- Kate Saylor
- Shannon Jones
- Kelsa Bartley
- Karen Grigg
- Lorin Jackson
- Irene "Rena" Lubker
- Dasha Maye
- Tamara Nelson
- Ryan Harris
- Melissa DeSantis
- Don Jason
- Virginia Pannabecker
- Deidre (Dede) Rios
- 2023
- Stephanie Roth
- Kristine Alpi
- Emily Brennan
- Heather Holmes
- Aidy Weeks
- Jamia Williams
- 2022
- Ellen Aaronson
- Heidi Sue Adams
- Brian Baker
- Helen-Ann Brown Epstein
- Julia Esparza
- Michelle Kraft
- Elizabeth Laera
- Heather Martin
- Jill Tarabula
- Angela Spencer
- Jill M. Tarabula, AHIP
- 2021
- Carolyn Lipscomb
- Ellen Aaronson
- Jess Callaway
- Kristin LaLonde
- Angela Spencer
- Naomi Bishop
- Nora Franco
- Kathryn Houk
- Amy Reyes
- Bredny Rodriguez
- Aidy Weeks
- Sandra Franklin
- Kelly Akin
- Diana Almader-Douglas
- Kelsa Bartley
- Brenda Linares
- Ruby Nugent
- Mirian Ramirez
- Xan Goodman
- Stephen Kiyoi
- Jane Morgan-Daniel
- Matthew Noe
- JJ Pionke
- Neville Prendergast
- Jessica Sender
- Amy Taylor
- Gurpreet K. Rana
- 2020
- Susan Lessick
- Jane Blumenthal
- Lori Bradshaw
- Margaret Coletti
- Tara Douglas-Williams
- Lisa Federer
- Heather Holmes
- Dixie Jones
- Steven MacCall
- Gerald Perry
- Nancy Allee
- Meaghan Muir
- Cristina Pope
- Chris Shaffer
- Howard Silver
- Meredith Solomon
- M.J. Tooey
- Linda Walton
- Sally Gore
- Alisha Miles
- Jodi Philbrick
- Katherine Stemmer-Frumento
- Phill Jo
- Rachel Lerner
- Tony Nguyen
- Gregg Stevens
- Mark Funk
- Ellen Aaronson
- Linné Girouard
- Michael Kronenfeld
- Karen L. Liljequist, AHIP
- April Schweikhard
- Barbara Epstein
- Janna Lawrence
- Teresa Knott
- Elizabeth Lorbeer
- Keith Cogdill
- Julia Esparza
- Stephanie Fulton
- Shannon Jones
- Claire Joseph
- Anne Seymour
- Elizabeth Whipple
- Rikke Ogawa
- Katie Prentice
- Beverly Murphy
- Lisa Traditi
- 2019
- Elizabeth Laera
- Merinda McLure
- Beth Hill
- Kristin Hitchcock
- Carrie Iwema
- Keith Mages
- Peace Ossom
- Stephanie Swanberg
- Stephanie Fulton
- Latrina Keith
- Elizabeth Hinton
- Erika Sevetson
- Melissa De Santis
- Donna Berryman
- Julia Esparza
- 2018
- Martha Earl
- Kate Kelly
- Elizabeth Laera
- Susan Lessick
- Terri Ottosen
- Jodi Philbrick
- Caitlin Pike
- Gale Hannigan
- Paula Raimondo
- Chris Childs
- 2017
- Jodi Philbrick
- Ellen Brassil
- Mary Helms
- Andrea Kepsel
- Suzanne Ferimer
- Patricia Thibodeau
- Chris Shaffer
- 2016
- Amy Chatfield
- Melissa Ratajeski
- Brenda Seago
- Carrie Iwema
- 2014
- J. Michael Homan
- Heather Todd
- 2013
- Nancy Allee
- 2012
- Connie Schardt
- 2011
- Susan S. Starr
- 2009
- Clinton (Marty) Thompson, Jr.
- 2007
- Beth Wescott
- 2006
- Renee Bougard
- Janice Kelly
- 2005
- Patricia Thibodeau
- Linda Watson
- Carla Funk
- 2004
- Martha Earl
- Betsy Humphreys
- 2003
- Rosalind Dudden
- 2000
- Fred Roper
- 1999
- June Fulton
- 1998
- C. Everett Koop, MD, ScDÂ *
- 1997
- Donald A. B. Lindberg*
- Kent Smith
- 1996
- Christiane J. Jones
- 1995
- Lucretia W. McClure*
- 1992
- Susan Crawford
- 1989
- Louise Darling*
- Lois Colaianni
- David Bishop*
- 1988
- Alison Bunting
- 1987
- Erika Love*
- 1986
- Irwin H. Pizer*
- 1983
- Nina Matheson
- 1982
- Scott Adams*