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AACA Awards
Honored Member Each year, the Association selects an individual
whose activities in the field of anatomy have contributed significantly
and bestows on them the AACA Honored Member Award. Below is the list of
these recipients to date. Those that have a photo and short description
of their contributions to the field of clinically-relevant anatomy are
indicated as an active link.
* deceased The membership of the Association is asked to refer names of suggested individuals for suitable future Honored Member status to any member of the Executive Council prior to September of any given year. The decision for each subsequent year is made at the Interim Executive Council meeting in October annually. R. Benton Adkins, Jr. Distinguished Service Award Initiated in 2003 by Executive Council, the R. Benton Adkins Jr. Distinguished Service Award was created to honor the memory of R. Benton Adkins, Jr. M.D. Benton was one of the founding members of the AACA and worked tirelessly to promote the Association and it's aims both while serving on and off Council. This award is not meant to necessarily be given out annually unless there is an individual the Council and/or general membership via nomination (see above) feel is deserving of the award. The following list indicates the individuals to date to have been awarded this honor:
2006 - Daniel O. Graney, Ph.D. 2007 - Ralph Ger, MD, FRCCS, FACS Predoctoral Student Presentation Awards Each year, the Association selects at least two student presenters that receive a check for $600. U.S. (meant to help defray their travel expenses to the meeting but can ne used for whatever the winner deems appropriate). Predoctoral students are defined as doctoral candidate (Ph.D.) students or residents/interns/medical students. This year's award winners can be found on the News page. Beginning with the 4th Joint Meeting of the AACA/BACA held in New York City in July of 2005, these awards were named for two of our past Honored members who worked hard to attract student members to the Association: The Ralph Ger Student Platform Presentation Award will be given to that student with the best platform presentation at an AACA Annual Meeting. The Sandy C. Marks, Jr. Student Poster Presentation Award will be given to that student with the best poster presentation at an AACA Annual Meeting. All predoctoral presenters entered into the annual competition will have their platform and/or poster presentation judged by a panel set up by the Program Secretary. In years when there may be no student platform presenter, and/or more than one excellent poster, the number of these awards may increase to three, or all be awarded as Sandy C. Marks Jr. Student Poster Presentation Awards. In 2002, AACA Council initiated the Presidential Travel Award. This award was designed to increase the number and caliber of papers being submitted to our journal - Clinical Anatomy. To be eligible for inclusion in the competition for this award, the presenter (either platform or poster) must pre-submit a manuscript to Clinical Anatomy and forward a copy of the electronic receipt issued by Manuscript Central upon submission of the paper, to the Program Secretary prior to the advertised deadline date for the year concerned. The best of these presentations are judged by a panel set up by the Program Secretary and the winner is entitled to up to $1500. (U.S.) in re-imbursable travel to the AACA meeting the following year. The winner will submit their travel receipts after return from the subsequent meeting and the Treasurer will mail the individual a check for up to $1500. A newly added (2006) feature of the Presidential Travel Award is a free color plate in the author's published paper, plus a free color cover, either of the award-winning article, or a future article that includes a suitable graphic. These color features are generously supplied by Wiley (publisher of Clinical Anatomy), at no cost to either the author or the AACA. This year's Presidential Travel Award winner can be found on the News page of his site.
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