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Innovations
in Goverment Award, 1999 |
| In May of 1998, PulseNet
was inaugurated by the Vice President of the United
States at the White House. The Innovations in American
Government Program is a significant force in identifying
and promoting excellence and creativity in the public
sector. PulseNet was issued the Innovations in American
Government Award in 1999.
For more information regarding the Innovations in
American Government Award Program visit www.innovations.harvard.edu.
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Innovations
in Government Award, 2002 |
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 In
2002, PulseNet was recognized as one of the fifteen
most significant government initiative programs to
have won the Innovations in American Government Award.
The Innovations in American Government Program had
received over 23,000 applications by 2002. The award
places the PulseNet program among the top 0.0007%
of all the programs that have applied to the Innovations
in American Government Program. Also in 2002, PulseNet
was recognized as runner up for the Highest Public
Health Impact Program Award. |
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PulseStar
Award |
| The PulseStar
award was introduced in 1998 by The Foodborne and
Diarrheal Diseases Laboratory Section (FDDLS) of the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and
the Association
of Public Health Laboratories (APHL)*. The award
serves to recognize those individuals for their outstanding
contributions to PulseNet, resulting in significant
improvements to the procedures or communications involved
with PulseNet activities during the previous year.
As many as three awards are presented at the annual
PulseNet
update meeting each year by FDDLS/CDC. The award
itself consists of a plaque and a check for $500 provided
by the Association of Public Health Laboratories.
Previous PulseStar Award winners
include: |
| 1998 |
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L. Victor Cook, Microbiologist, Special Projects
and Outbreak Support Laboratory (SPOSL), Food
Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), USDA, Athens,
GA, Dr. Charles P. Lattuada, Chief, Special Projects
and Outbreak Support Laboratory, Food Safety and
Inspection Service (FSIS), USDA, Athens, GA, Dr
James Beebe and Dave Heltzel Colorado Department
of Health and Environment LARS Division Molecular
Typing Laboratory |
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| 1999 |
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David J. Boxrud, Minnesota Department of Health
Public Health Laboratory Division, Deborah A.
Shea, Massachusetts Department of Health State
Laboratory Institute. Denise M. Toney, PhD Commonwealth
of Virginia Division of Consolidated Laboratory
Services |
| 2000 |
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Dr. Clifford Clark, Head, Molecular Typing and
Toxin Detection National Laboratory for Enteric
Pathogens, LCDC, Health Canada. Eleanor Lehnkering
and Lori Yasuda, Los Angeles County Public Health
Laboratory Molecular Epidemiology Unit |
| 2001 |
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Stephen Dietrich, Laboratory Scientist Michigan
Department of Community Health, Stacey Kinney,
Microbiologist II, Connecticut Department of Health
Laboratories, Laura Kornstein, Chief, Environmental
Microbiology, New York City Dept of Health Communicable
Disease Program |
| 2002 |
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Wayne Chmielecki, Chemist II, Pennsylvania State
Public Health Laboratory, Terry Kurzynski, M.
S., Advanced Microbiologist, Wisconsin State Laboratory
of Hygiene, Leslie Wolf, Ph.D., North Carolina
State Laboratory of Public Health. |
| 2003 |
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Dianna Schoonmaker-Bopp, New York State Department
of Health Wadsworth Center, Dr. Paul Fiorella,
Florida Department of Health Bureau of Laboratories,
Wanda Manley, Wyoming State Public Health Laboratory |
| 2004 |
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Ravi Pallipamu, Washington State Department
of Health Chris Carlson, South Dakota Department
of Health, Donna Wrigley, State of Maine Health
and Environmental Testing Laboratory |
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2005 |
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Carissa Pursell, Kansas Health and Environmental
Laboratory, Lee Wotherspoon, Massachusetts Department
of Health, Mike McDermott, Oklahoma State Department
of Health |
| 2006 |
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Cathy Adams, San Diego County Public Health
Laboratory; Alison Houston, University of Iowa
Hygienic Laboratory; Ann Woo-Ming, Colorado
Department of Public Health and Environment |
| 2007 |
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Timothy Monson and the Wisconsin PFGE Team, Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene; Jan O’Connell, California Department of Public Health; Carol Sandt, Pennsylvania Department of Health |
| 2008 |
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Elise Smith, Virginia Division of Consolidated Laboratories Services; Tracy Stiles, Massachusetts Department of Public Health; Jason Herstein, Missouri State Public Health Laboratory |
| 2009 |
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Eric Brandt, Ohio Department of Health; Eric Casey, Texas Department of State Health Services; Jeannette Dill, Tennessee Department of Health Laboratory Services |
| 2010 |
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Pamela Honda, Hawaii Department of Health; Julia Wolfe, Orange County Public Health Laboratory; Valarie Devlin, Vermont Department of Health Laboratory |
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