Cooper Award

Billy H. Cooper Award Call for Nominations reply by March 30, 2007 Billy H. Cooper Award We are soliciting nominations for the Billy H. Cooper Award to be given by the MMSA at the upcoming 2007 meeting in Toronto, Canada. Billy Cooper was an outstanding clinical mycologist and was the first recipient of the award in 1983 which was renamed in his honor after his untimely death. Each year we continue the tradition and recognize an outstanding contributor to the practice of diagnostic clinical mycology. Please refer to the list of previous recipients below when considering nominees. Eligibility is restricted to members of MMSA and nominations must be accompanied by a letter describing the contributions of the individual, a current CV, and a minimum of 3 and a maximum of 5 letters of support (in addition to the person making the nomination). Materials must be submitted by March 30, 2007 and should be sent via email (preferred) or regular mail at the address listed below. Respectfully submitted by the Selection Committee, Stephen A. Moser Mike Saubolle Wiley A. Schell _____________________________________________ Stephen A. Moser, Ph.D. Division of Laboratory Medicine Department of Pathology, WP230 University of Alabama at Birmingham 619 19th St. South Birmingham, AL 35249-7331 Email: moser@uab.edu Voice: 205-934-6421 FAX: 205-975-4468 Previous Recipients 1983 Billy H Cooper 1984 Leo Kaufman 1985 No award given 1986 Smith Shadomy  1987 Michael R. McGinnis 1988 Demosthenes Pappagianis 1989 Glenn D. Roberts 1990 Norman L. Goodman 1991 Ira F. Salkin 1992 Geoffry A. Land 1993 William G. Merz 1994 Michael A. Pfaller 1995 Michael G. Rinaldi 1996 Thomas J. Walsh  1997 No award given  1998 Leslie Hall  19997 No award given  2000 Donald L. Greer 2001 Lynne Sigler 2002 Arvind A. Padhye 2003 Ana V. Espinel-Ingroff 2004 Tom Mitchell 2005 Davise Larone 2006 Wiley A. Schell 2007 Gary Procop 2008 Deanna Sutton