Membership

The Meritorious Achievement Award is given to members of ACGIH^® who have made outstanding, long-term contributions to the field of occupational health and industrial hygiene. The recipient of this year's Meritorious Achievement Award is Jimmy L. Perkins, PhD, CIH.

Dr. Perkins earned an MS degree in Environmental Health from the University of Texas, School of Public Health (UT SPH) in Houston, Texas. He spent three years in the U.S. Public Health Service of NIOSH and then returned to UT SPH to earn a PhD in Environmental Health/Industrial Hygiene in 1981.

Dr. Perkins began his academic career at the University of Alabama at Birmingham where he spent 15 years in part as IH Program Director and Department Chair. In 1986, he joined the UT SPH San Antonio Regional Campus as Regional Dean, Professor, and member of the IH faculty. Dr. Perkins was certified in the comprehensive practice of industrial hygiene by ABIH in 1982. He has worked in the petroleum industry and with a wide range of industries including foundries, specialty metals, poultry, printing, telecommunications, mining and petrochemicals. He has presented short courses in Kenya, Australia, Colombia, South Africa, and Mexico.

Dr. Perkins has served the profession as a member of the NIOSH Safety and Occupational Health Study Section, and peer reviewer and site visitor for NIOSH, EPA, and DOD. He was a member of ASTM F23 on protective clothing (1986) for 25 years and received the Outstanding Service Award in 1990. He was Chair of the American Board of Industrial Hygiene, and held various officer positions in the Alamo and Alabama AIHA local sections. He has served as a member of the Long Range Planning Task Force on Continuing Education and as Chair of the Protective Clothing Committee for AIHA. He was also a member of the Institute of Medicine Committee on Personal Protective Equipment for Workplace Safety and Health.

Dr. Perkins has been a member of ACGIH^® since 1985. He was a member of the Board of Directors from 2007 through 2010 and served as Chair in 2009. He has served on the AIHce Strategic Planning Committee and the Editorial Review Board of Applied Occupational and Environmental Hygiene, and as a member of the Permanent Conference Committee and the Scientific Symposium Task Force for AIHce. In 2003 he received the Advocacy Award from TRUST for Smoke Free Texas.

Dr. Perkins' publications span a wide range of topics including environmental exposure assessment, dermal exposure risk management, air and water quality, and hazardous waste. His most recent research used modeled air pollution levels, including speciated particulate matter, and effect estimates from dozens of epidemiological studies to examine health risks associated with coal-fired power plants. He also authors the Modern Industrial Hygiene series in ACGIH^®'s Signature Publications.

Dr. Perkins' dedication and service to the occupational health and industrial hygiene profession, and his commitment to ACGIH^®'s mission render him a worthy recipient of the Meritorious Achievement Award. The Meritorious Achievement Award will be presented at the ACGIH^® Membership Reception and Annual Meeting of the Membership on Sunday, May 15, 2011.

Previous Award Recipients

• 1957 — Members of the Industrial Ventilation Committee
  (past and present)
• 1958 — Members of the Committee on Threshold Limits
  (past and present)
• 1959 — Lester M. Petrie, MD
• 1960 — Thomas F. Mancuso, MD
• 1961 — Hervey B. Elkins, PhD, CIH
• 1962 — No award presented
• 1963 — George Hama
• 1964 — Victoria Trasko
• 1965 — Herbert E. Stokinger, PhD
• 1966 — John C. Soet
• 1967 — Andrew D. Hosey, CIH
• 1968 — William G. Fredrick, ScD
• 1969 — John J. Bloomfield
• 1970 — Catherine Chambers, RN
• 1971 — E. Lynn Schall
• 1972 — Marcus M. Key, MD
• 1973 — Warren A. Cook
• 1974 — U.S. Army Environmental Hygiene Agency
• 1975 — Edward Baier, CIH
• 1976 — Henry N. Doyle, CIH
• 1977 — Members of the Threshold Limit Values for Physical Agents (TLV^®-PA) Committee (past and present)
• 1978 — James C. Barrett
• 1979 — Charles D. "Pete" Yaffe, CIH
• 1980 — Duncan A. Holaday, CIH
• 1981 — Christine Einert, MD
• 1982 — Dohrman H. Byers, CIH
• 1983 — Mary Louise Brown
• 1984 — Irving H. Davis, CIH
• 1985 — Harry J. Ettinger, CIH
• 1986 — Herbert H. Jones, CIH
• 1987 — William D. Wagner
• 1988 — William D. Kelley
• 1989 — Vera Fiserova-Bergerova Thomas, PhD
• 1990 — Vernon E. Rose, DrPH, CIH
• 1991 — Robert L. Harris, PhD
• 1992 — Charles E. Adkins, CIH
• 1993 — Jeffrey S. Lee, PhD, CIH
• 1994 — R. Jerry Sherwood, SM, CIH, CEng (UK)
• 1995 — Howard E. Ayer, CIH
• 1996 — John Doull, PhD, MD
• 1997 — William D. Wagner
• 1998 — Sidney Case Soderholm, PhD, and
  James H. Vincent, PhD, DSc
• 1999 — Dave K. Verma, PhD, CIH, ROH
• 2000 — William Burgess
• 2001 — Morton Corn, Ph.D., CSP
• 2002 — Threshold Limit Values for Chemical Substances (TLV^®-CS) Committee (past and present members) and the Industrial Hygiene Section of the Hazard Evaluations and Technical Assistance Branch (HETAB) of NIOSH (past and present members)
• 2003 — Scott E. Merkle, CIH
• 2004 — Morton Lippmann, PhD, CIH
• 2005 — Robert T. Hughes, MSME, PE
• 2006 — Patrick N. Breysse, PhD, CIH
• 2007 — Lisa M. Brosseau, ScD, CIH
• 2008 — Michael S. Morgan, ScD, CIH
• 2009 — Gyan S. Rajhans, ROH, CIH, PE
• 2010 — Patricia Stewart, PhD, CIH