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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 Third Annual
Olympus Partnership Awards Presentation
At the 2008 AACC Annual Meeting
Monday July 28, 2008 1:30pm- 2:30pm
Ballroom ABC, Washington DC Convention Center
How Healthy is the Healthcare Debate,
On the Campaign Trail and in the Halls of Congress?
Cokie Roberts
Political Analyst for ABC News
Former C-Anchor, This Week with Sam Donaldson & Cokie Roberts
National Public Radio Senior News Analyst
Cokie Roberts is a political commentator for ABC News where for 15 years she has covered Congress, politics and public policy. She also serves as a Senior News Analyst for National Public Radio. From 1996 to 2002, she and Sam Donaldson co-anchored the weekly ABC interview program This Week. In her more than 40 years in broadcasting, Roberts has won countless awards, including three Emmys. She has been inducted into the Broadcasting and Cable Hall of fame and was cited by the American Women in Radio and Television as one of the fifty greatest women in the history of broadcasting.
Underwritten by a grant from
http://www.olympusamerica.com/partnershipaward
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.
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