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.

Innovations in Goverment Award, 2002

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.

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		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
1999		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		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		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		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		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		Ravi Pallipamu, Washington State Department of Health Chris Carlson, South Dakota Department of Health, Donna Wrigley, State of Maine Health and Environmental Testing Laboratory
2005		Carissa Pursell, Kansas Health and Environmental Laboratory, Lee Wotherspoon, Massachusetts Department of Health, Mike McDermott, Oklahoma State Department of Health
2006		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		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
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