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ACGIH is committed to providing its members and other occupational and environmental health professionals with the training and education they need to excel in their profession.
The Meritorious Achievement Award is given to members of ACGIH® who have made outstanding, long-term contributions to the field of occupational health and environmental hygiene. The recipient of this year’s Meritorious Achievement Award is Lynn C. O’Donnell, CIH.
Ms. O’Donnell served as Executive Director of the American Board of Industrial Hygiene (ABIH) from 1991 until her retirement in 2014. Notably during her tenure, ABIH achieved American National Standards Institute/International Organization for Standardization (ANSI/ISO) and other accreditations, transitioned to a computer-based examination that is offered internationally, streamlined application and certification maintenance processes, and increased the number of CIHs from under 3900 to 6700. In 2016, Ms. O’Donnell was appointed as a Director of the Occupational Hygiene Training Association (OHTA) and Chair of the Awards and Qualifications Committee. Ms. O’Donnell joined ACGIH in 1978 and presented the distinguished Jeffrey S. Lee Lecture at AIHce in 2014. She also served as a member of the ABIH Board of Directors from 1983–1989 and as a Councilor for the Academy of Industrial Hygiene (AIH). She was certified in the Comprehensive Practice of Industrial Hygiene by ABIH in 1981.
Among her many accomplishments, Ms. O’Donnell is an AIHA Fellow, recipient of the ACGIH John J. Bloomfield and AIHA Alice Hamilton Awards, and the first recipient of the ABIH Lynn C. O’Donnell Lifetime Achievement Award.
Ms. O’Donnell’s dedication and service to the occupational health and industrial hygiene profession, her commitment to ACGIH’s mission and support for our profession render her a worthy recipient of the Meritorious Achievement Award.
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)
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