NLA Awards
The NLA Honorary Lifetime Membership Award
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About the Honorary Lifetime Membership Award
The Honorary Lifetime Member Award is one of the National Lipid Association’s highest honors. This distinction recognizes individuals who have made exceptional and lasting contributions to the science, education, and practice of lipidology while advancing the mission of the NLA. Honorary Lifetime Membership acknowledges a career of leadership, service, and dedication to improving cardiovascular health.
Award Information
Criteria
Nominees for this award shall be clinicians and/or educators who:
- retain membership in the NLA for a minimum of 2 years (IF nominee is a clinician);
- participate actively in NLA activities (IF nominee is a clinician);
- make outstanding contributions to patient care and/or lipid-focused education
Selection
The Foundation of the NLA Clinician/Educator Award recipient is nominated and selected annually by a selection committee comprised of Foundation of the NLA leaders.
Award Detail
The recipient will be recognized with a plaque and monetary award of $1,000 at the Honors and Awards Ceremony held in conjunction with the NLA’s annual Scientific Sessions. The awardee’s travel to the Honors and Awards Ceremony shall be covered by the Foundation. Awardees not able to attend the award ceremony are still eligible to receive the “Clinician/Educator Award” designation but are ineligible to receive the monetary award.
Please Note: Self-nominations are not permitted. All candidates must be nominated by an Eligible Nominator.
Past Recipients of the Honorary Lifetime Membership Award
2009 Darwin LaBarthe, MD
2010 John A. Glomset, MD
2011 B. Greg Brown, MD, PhD,FNLA; Rodolfo Paoletti, MD, PhD
2012 William Boden, MD
2013 Peter Libby, MD; Gerald M. Reaven; Nanette K. Wenger, MD
2014 Alan J. Garber, MD, PHD; Daniel J. Rader, MD, FNLA
2015 Akira Endo, PhD
2016 Edward Fisher, MD, PhD, FNLA; Jonathan C. Cohen, PHD; Helen H. Hobbs, MD
2017 Ira J. Goldberg, MD, FNLA; Gerald Salen, MD
2018 Christopher Cannon, MD; Alice C. Lichtenstein, DSc, MS;
Donald Lloyd-Jones, MD, ScM; Raul Santos, MD, MSc, PhD
2019 Robert Superko, MD; Jan L. Breslow, MD; Allan D. Sniderman, MD
2020 Barbara V. Howard, PhD; Kim A. Williams, MD; Mary Malloy, MD;
John Kane, MD
2021 Deepak Bhatt, MD, MPH; Borge G. Nordestgaard, MD; Rosanne
Crooke, PhD; Anne Tybaerg-Hansen, MD, DMSc; JoAnn E. Manson,
MD, MPH, DrPH
2022 Lars F. Berglund, MD, PhD; Alan Chait, MD; Frederick J. Raal,
MBBCh, MMED, PhD;
Professor Kausik Ray; Frank Sacks, MD, FNLA
2023 James M. Falko, FNLA; Ernst J. Schaefer. MD, FNLA;
Paul M. Ridker, MD, MPH
2024 Florian Kronenberg, MD; Samia Mora, MD; Laurence Sperling, MD
2025 Lynne T. Braun, PhD, CNP, CLS, FNLA