The EFCC-Roche Scientific Award for Laboratory Medicine
The EFCC-Labs Are Vital Award for Excellence in Laboratory Medicine
The EFCC-Roche Scientific Award for Laboratory Medicine
EFCC awards the Roche Award every two years. This award has been created to honour an individual from an EFCC member country who has made unique contributions to the promotion and understanding of clinical chemistry throughout Europe or who has made one or more contributions that have had a major impact on clinical chemistry.
EFCC-Roche Scientific Award 2011 goes to Dr. Mike Hallworth
The 2011 EFCC-Roche Award has been conferred to: Dr. Mike Hallworth, Consultant Clinical Biochemist, Royal Shrewsbury Hospital NHS Trus, Shrewsbury, UK.
Congratulations to Dr. Hallworth!
Dr. Mike Hallworth was the outstanding leader who helped negotiate the emergence in 2007 of the European Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (EFCC) from EC4 and the Forum for European Societies of Clinical Chemistry. He has promoted EFCC’s objectives to provide European leadership in clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine to national professional societies, to the diagnostic industry and to governmental and non-governmental organizations. He has been a strong contributor in the negotiations with the European Union relating to the Directive on Recognition of Professional Qualifications and the recognition of the EFCC Register as an instrument of self-regulation. Dr. Hallworth has been chair from 2000- 2003 of the Association for Clinical Biochemistry (ACB). As chair of the Lab Tests on Line project, he saw the web site achieve its millionth “hit” in 2009. He is a recognized expert in therapeutic drug monitoring and has lectured widely across the world on its application and value. In 2009 the UK’s Department of Health awarded him the title ‘Healthcare Scientist of the Year’. He chaired the organizing committee of the annual meeting of the American Association of Clinical Chemistry’s in 2010.
Previous winners
2009 Dr. R T P Jansen (NL)
2007 Prof. Matthias Muller (AU)
2005 Dr. Graham Beastall (UK)
2003 Dr. Gerard Sanders (NL)
2001 Prof. Dr. Hermann Wisser (DE)
The EFCC-Labs Are Vital Award for Excellence in Laboratory Medicine
EFCC and Labs are VitalTM are pleased to announce the EFCC- Labs are Vital Award for Excellence in Outcomes Research in Laboratory Medicine, sponsored by Abbott. The Award will be given to the best published paper, as judged by an independent panel of experts, which demonstrates improved outcomes (clinical and/or economic) arising out of the application or improved utilisation of an in vitro diagnostic test. The award was presented for the first time at IFCC- Worldlab 2011 in Berlin, and it will be awarded every two years thereafter. The Award consists of a certificate and 15,000 Euro. Applications should be submitted to the EFCC/IFCC Office.
EFCC-Labs Are Vital Award 2011 goes to Prof. Steve W. Goodacre
Congratulations to Prof. Goodacre!
The 2011 EFCC-Labs Are Vital Award has been conferred to:
Prof. Steve W. Goodacre, Medical Care Research Unit, University of Sheffield, UK
for the article
The Randomised Assessment of Treatment using Panel Assay of Cardiac Markers (RATPAC) trial: a randomised controlled trial of point-of-care cardiac markers in the emergency department
Steve W Goodacre1, Mike Bradburn1, Elizabeth Cross1, Paul Collinson2, Alasdair Gray3, Alistair S Hall4
on behalf of the RATPAC Research Team
1 School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield, UK
2 Dept of Clin Blood Sciences and Cardiology, St George Hospital, London, UK
3 Emergency Dept, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
4 Inst of Genetics, Health and Therapeutics, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
