Recognitions, Honors & AwardsMichael Laposata, MD, PhD

Michael Laposata - Recognitions Honors Awards

  • Awards
    Year Award/Honnor
    1973 Phi Beta Kappa, Bucknell University
    1974 Magna Cum Laude, Bucknell University
    1974 Bucknell University
    1986 Faculty Honor Roll for Excellence in Teaching, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
    1986-87 Louis R. Dinon Award for Excellence in Teaching,University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
    1987-88 Sheryl N. Hirsch Award of the Lupus Foundation of Philadelphia
    (included $10,000 for research support)
    1987-88 Medical Student Government Basic Science Teaching Award, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine (vote of graduating senior class selecting one basic science instructor)
    1988-89 Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Distinguished Teaching Award, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine (two medical school faculty selected annually)
    1989 University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
    Commencement Speaker (One faculty member selected by vote of graduating class of 1989)
    1992 Distinguished Service Award in Clinical Pathology bestowed by the Hungarian Society of Clinical Pathology
    1996 Harvard Medical School Faculty Award for Distinguished Teaching to First Year Medical Students (typically one awardee for each of the four years of medical school)
    1996 Award for Distinguished Teaching to Pathology Residents, Massachusetts General Hospital
    1997 The Stanley Wyman Award for Excellence in Teaching, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
    1998 Award for Distinguished Teaching to Pathology Residents, Massachusetts General Hospital
    1998 A. Clifford Barger Excellence in Mentoring Award, Harvard Medical School (Four awardees selected among hundreds of nominated faculty members)
    1999 Award for Most Distinguished Teacher in the Preclinical Years, Harvard Medical School (One awardee by the vote of the graduating class)
    1999 Award for Distinguished Teaching to Second Year Medical Students, Harvard Medical School
    2000 “Mover and Shaker” Award (Five to seven leaders in the Laboratory Industry selected annual by a leading publication in the field)
    2000 Award for Distinguished Teaching in the Preclinical Years, Harvard Medical School (Four awardees by vote of the graduate class)
    2000 Advocacy Award from the College of American Pathologists for Advocating Issues Beneficial to Patients, Clinicians and Pathologists
    2001 Quest Distinguished Visiting Professorship of Pathology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
    2002 Emma Sadler Moss Lectureship, Louisiana State Medical Center
    2002 The John Figgs Jewett, MD, Memorial Lectureship, Massachusetts Medical Society for Maternal & Perinatal Welfare
    2002 The Fourth Annual Frank M. Townsend MD Lecture, University of Texas, San Antonio
    2002 - 2004 Invited by the Nobel Committee of the Karolinska Institute to nominate 2003, and candidates for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
    2003 Award for Teaching in Pathology to Second Year Medical Students, Harvard Medical School
    2004 Harry J. Sacks, MD Lectureship, Cedars-Sinai Hospital, Los Angeles, CA
    2004 Abraham J. Gitlitz Memorial Lecture at 124th Annual Meeting of Association of Clinical Scientists, Houston, TX.
    2004 Gerald T. Evans Award from the Academy of Clinical Laboratory Physical & Scientists (ACLPS) for distinguished service in the field of Laboratory Medicine, Presented at the 39th meeting of the society in Denver, CO.
    2004 The Dr. R.E. Bell Memorial Lectureship, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. 
    2004 Recognition by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as Founding Partner for Institute for Quality in Laboratory Medicine
    2004 Nominee, Prize for Excellence in Teaching (Years 1 & 2), Harvard Medical School
    2004 Award for Excellence in Teaching to Second Year Medical and Dental Students, Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Dental Medicine
    2005 Award from the Institute for Quality in Laboratory Medicine (IQLM) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for “Improved Clinical Integration” of Laboratory Medicine Services.  One of 10 major awards in 2005 by the IQLM.
    2005 Semi-finalist award for Massachusetts Institute of Technology 50K Entrepreneurship Competition (innovation team name is Med Packs).
    2005 The Ward Burdick Award from the American Society of Clinical Pathology (ASCP) for Distinguished Service to Clinical Pathology.
    2005 Award for Distinguished Teaching in the Preclinical Years (1 of 2 awardees selected by the graduating class), Harvard Medical School.
    2005 J. Heinrich Joist First Memorial Lecture, St. Louis University Coagulation Consultants Symposium.2005 - 2006
    2006 Elected to Best Doctors for expertise in coagulation disorders (Physicians identify fellow physician experts for Best Doctors, Inc.)
    2006 - 2007 Boston Magazine’s Best of Boston Doctors (Top 100-200 local physicians among 5000 licensed doctors)
    2006 Laboratory Public Service National Leadership Award from the Lab Institute at the 24th Annual Meeting of the Washington G2 Reports
    2007 The Israel Michaelson Distinguished Lectureship, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN
    2009 American Association of Clinical Chemistry, National Award for Outstanding Contributions in Education
    2009 The Norman P. Kubasik Lectureship Award, American Association of Clinical Chemistry Upstate New York section.
    2012 National Award for Outstanding Contributions to Management Sciences and Patient Safety, American Association for Clinical Chemistry
    2012 College of American Pathologists National Award for Teaching
    2012 American Society for Clinical Pathology National Teaching Award
    2014 Best Doctor in America (recognized in the Nashville Business Journal
    2014 American Association of Clinical Chemistry’s Outstanding Speaker Award
    2014-2015 Best Clinical Pathology Faculty, University of Texas Medical Branch, Department of Pathology
    2015 Senior Fellow of the Sealy Center on Aging
    2015 The Pathologist’s 2015 Pathologist Power List (The Pathologists Issue 13, 2015) (Voted by peers as #1 Most Influential Pathology in the US; #3 in the world)
    2015-2016 American Association for Clinical Chemistry Outstanding Speaker Award
    2016 Canadian Royal College McLaughlin Gallie Visiting Professorship
    2016 Terplan Lecturer, University of Buffalo
    2017 Benjamin Highman Lecturer, University of California, Davis
    2017 Milka M. Montiel Lecturer, University of Texas-San Antonio
    2018 The Pathologist’s 2018 Power List (recognized as one of the most 100 influential pathologist among > 40k international pathologists)
    2018-2019 Best Clinical Pathology Faculty, University of Texas Medical Branch, Department of Pathology
    2019 Raul A. Marcial Rojas Memorial Lecturer, Academy of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine of Puerto Rico
    2020 Wallace H. Coulter Lectureship Award, American Association for Clinical Chemistry
  • Society Leadership & Membership
    Year Membership/Leadership in Scientific Societies/Professional Organizations
    1992 - College of American Pathologists
    1995 – 2001 Coagulation Resource Committee
    1999 - 2001 Vice-Chair
    1993 - Massachusetts Society of Pathologists
    2001– 2003 President
    1986 - Academy of Clinical Laboratory Physicians and Scientists
    1997 - 1998 President
    1993 - 1999 Executive Council
    1998 - Organizer and Host of the National Meeting in Boston, MA
    1990 - American Society of Clinical Pathologists
    1995 – 1999 Chairman, Council on Resident Education
    1990- 2000 Mid-Atlantic Lipid Research Annual Symposium, Program Committee
    1993 - International Society for the Study of Fatty Acids and Lipids
    1998 Organizer and Host of the Fourth International Roundtable Conference on Fatty Acids in Cell Signaling, Chatham, MA
    1996 - 2009 Research Society on Alcoholism
    1996 - American Board of Pathology
    1996 - 2002 Clinical Pathology Test Committee
    2002 - American Society of Hematology
    2002 - 2004 Laboratory Hematology Committee
    2002 - International Society on Thrombosis & Hemostasis
    2003 – 2008 Co-Chairman, Subcommittee on Control of Anticoagulation Therapy
    2002 - American Association for Clinical Chemistry
    2003 Evidence-Based Medicine Planning Group
    2004 Task Force on Laboratory Consulting
    2014 - 2015 Institute of Medicine
    Diagnostic Error in Health Care Committee
    2014 - Association of Pathology Chairs
    2015 - Texas Society of Pathologists
    2016 - Ad hoc Chair, Committee on Direct Patient Outreach
    2016 - Best Doctors Medical Advisory Board
    2017 - Association of Clinical Scientists (Fellow)

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