Established in 2006, the Olympus Partnership Awards program provides support to charitable organizations. This support gives organization(s) in the field of clinical chemistry the opportunity to, among other things, recruit and train minority and other students as physicians, biomedical scientists, and public healthcare professionals, as well as encourage and support deserving clinical laboratory scientists and students throughout the world. The awards are sponsored by Olympus America Inc., whose Life Science Group offers the broadest line of chemistry and immunoassay systems for hospital and reference laboratory testing, as well as microscopes and imaging systems for the clinical laboratory. The Olympus Partnership Awards program is part of Olympus’ commitment to education, scholarship and development for the healthcare professionals of tomorrow.
The Fourth Annual
Olympus Partnership Awards Presentation
At the 2009 AACC Annual Meeting
Monday July 20, 2009 1:00 – 2:00 pm
Grand Ballroom, Chicago’s McCormick Place Convention Center
Dr. Oliver Sacks
World-renowned neurologist and author
Dr. Oliver Sacks, dubbed “the poet laureate of medicine” by The New York Times, is one of the great medical writers and storytellers of our time, transforming our understanding of the human mind and restoring narrative to a central place in the practice of medicine. With profound compassion and ceaseless curiosity, he transports audiences into the uncanny worlds of his patients. Dr. Sacks’s bestselling books including Awakenings (inspiration for the Oscar-nominated film), The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood, entertain, enlighten, and inspire his many fans around the world. His latest book is Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain. In his stories of individual patients surviving and adapting to various neurological conditions, and his brilliant explorations of the nature of perception, memory, consciousness and creativity, Sacks will enlarge our understanding of the complexities of the human mind. Dr. Sacks is a professor of neurology and psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center and has been appointed as Columbia University Artist, a new designation at the university.
2006
The Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, GA received the first Olympus Partnership Award at the annual American Association of Clinical Chemistry (AACC) membership meeting in Chicago, July 24, 2006. Accepting the Olympus Partnership Award for Morehouse School of Medicine was the former Speaker of the House and Congressman from Georgia, the Honorable Newt Gingrich, who delivered a speech on healthcare entitled " Global Health and the Importance of Medical Research and Scientific Discovery" to an audience of three thousand plus.
Additionally, The Olympus Partnership Awards recognized the AACC’s Van Slyke Foundation with a special travel grant. The Van Slyke Foundation is a philanthropic organization created to support deserving clinical laboratory scientists and science students worldwide. It helps enable laboratorians and corporate participants like Olympus America to partner together to give back to the profession.
2007
The University of Michigan Medical School’s Julian T. Hoff Lectureship received the 2007 Olympus Partnership Award. Dr. Sanjay Gupta, the chief medical correspondent for the health and medical unit at CNN, accepted the award on the University’s behalf. Dr Gupta addressed the AACC membership at the annual meeting in San Diego on the topic of Medicine and The Media.
The Olympus Partnership Award again recognized the AACC’s philanthropic organization, the Van Slyke Foundation, with a special travel grant. Dr. Laurence Demers, Distinguished Professor of Pathology and Medicine at the Penn State Hershey Medical Center, and Chairman of the Van Slyke Foundation, accepted the second annual Olympus Partnership Award.
2008
The St. Thomas Community Health Center of New Orleans received the 2008 Olympus Partnership Award. Ms. Cokie Roberts, political analyst for ABC News, accepted the award on the Health Center’s behalf. Ms. Roberts addressed the AACC membership at the annual meeting in Washington D.C. on the topic of How Healthy is the Healthcare Debate on the Campaign Trail and in the Halls of Congress. The Olympus Partnership Award again recognized the AACC’s philanthropic organization, the Van Slyke Foundation, with a special travel grant. Dr. John Sherman, Chairman of the Van Slyke Foundation, accepted the third annual Olympus Partnership Award.
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