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PIUG Service Awards

PIUG Service Awards were established in 1998. The PIUG Service Award is presented at the PIUG Annual Meeting to individuals who have made a major or sustained contribution to the organization. Any Active Member of PIUG who is not a current member of the Board of Director is eligible for a PIUG Service Award. Candidates for Service Awards can be suggested by any member of PIUG, and the recipients are selected by the Board of Directors. See PIUG Service Award Presentations at PIUG Annual Conferences for additional information on each award since 2008.

Pat Dorler	In Recognition of Pat's 10 years of service to the PIUG as Treasurer from the founding of the PIUG in 1988 through May 1998	June 1998
Nancy Lambert	In Recognition of Nancy's 6 years of service to the PIUG as Secretary from the founding of the PIUG in 1988 through May 1994	June 1998
Barbara Burg	In Recognition of Barbara's 3 years of service to the PIUG organizing the PIUG Northeast Workshops in 1996, 1997 and 1998	April 1999
Adrienne Shanler	In Recognition of Adrienne's 3 years of service to the PIUG organizing the PIUG Northeast Workshops in 1996, 1997 and 1998	April 1999
Elyse Turner	In Recognition of Elyse's 12 years of service to the PIUG in championing & facilitating Electronic Communications (PIUG Bulletin Board, Electronic Communications Chair, PIUG Web Mistress)	May 2000
Bill Murray	In Recognition of Bill's 2 years of service to the PIUG as Email Sysop	May 2000
Suzanne Elsoffer	In Recognition of Suzanne's 13 years of Service to the PIUG: Founding Member of PIUG in 1988 PIUG Chair 1994-1996 PIUG Newsletter Editor 1997-1999 PIUG Newsletter Advisor 2000-2001	April 2001
Melissa Dicker	In Recognition of Melissa's Service to the PIUG: Organizing the 1st West Coast Workshop (2000, San Francisco) Preliminary Planning and Site Selection for the 1st West Coast PIUG Annual Meeting (2002, San Francisco)	April 2001
Dr. Sandra S. Unger	Special Recognition Award in appreciation of her superb leadership and countless contributions above and beyond the call of duty, which have done so much to make the PlUG a preeminent force in the world of Patent Information: Director 2000-2002 Chairperson 1998-2000 Vice Chairperson 1996-1998 Discussion List Sysop 1995-1998	April 2001
Elaine Campbell	PIUG Treasurer and Membership Chair 1998 to 2000 Redesigned the PIUG Webpages to add graphics 1998 Designed the PIUG Logo 1998 Participated in the Incorporation of PIUG Co-signed on PIUG's first Credit Cards	April 2002
Tom Stanton	In Recognition of Tom's Service to the PIUG as Chairman of the PIUG Annual Conference Registration and Associated Workshop Registrations from 2001 to 2003	May 2003
Ruth Umfleet	In Recognition of Ruth's Service to the PIUG championing the capture of PIUG Annual Meetings on videotape and managing the distribution of the videotapes to PIUG Members from 2000 to 2003	May 2003
Elvin Hoel	In Recognition of Elvin's Service to the PIUG managing of the PIUG Email Archives, Monitoring Performance, and Troubleshooting Problems from 1998 to 2003	May 2003
Tommy Ebe	In Recognition of Tommy's Service to PIUG in maintaining and updating PIUG's Webpages, 1996 to 2003	May 2004
Ken Koubek	In Recognition of Ken's Service to PIUG as Membership Chairman during a period of extraordinary growth in our membership from 2001 to 2004	May 2004
Nancy Lambert	In Recognition of Nancy's Service to PIUG as Director and Producer of the IFFI Players from 1999 to 2005	May 2005
Rodney Cruise	In Recognition of Rodney's Service to PIUG as Webmaster Extraordinaire from 2002 to 2005	May 2005
Lucy Akers	Special Recognition Award in appreciation of Lucy's Tireless Service to PIUG during a time of extraordinary growth and international expansion as Chairperson	May 2005
Richard Kurt	In Recognition of Richard's Service to PIUG: Analyzing and Evaluating the PIUG Salary Survey, 1999, 2001, 2004 Chairing a Session at the PIUG Annual Meeting, 2006 Chairing the Derwent Committee, 2003--2006	May 2006
Marty Goffman	In Recognition of Marty's Service to PIUG: Chairing the PIUG NE workshop, 2005 Championing Membership Benefits Chairing the PIUG email list	May 2006
Helen Yun	In Recognition of Helen's Service to PIUG: Co-Championing the Membership Directory, 2003 Co-Chairing the Membership Labels Team, 2003-2005	May 2006
Cynthia Yang	In Recognition of Cynthia's Service to PIUG: Co-Championing the Membership Directory, 2003 Co-Chairing the Membership Labels Team, 2003-2005	May 2006
Doreen Alberts	In Recognition of Doreen's Service to PIUG as: Annual Conference Sponsorship Committee Chair, 2005-2006 Strategic Planning Committee Chair, 2006-2007	May 2007
Kartar Singh Arora	In Recognition of Kartar's Service to PIUG as: Annual Conference Exhibits Committee Chair, 2004-2006 Annual Conference Program Committee Co-Chair, 2007	May 2007
Ric Snead	In Recognition of Ric's Service to PIUG for creating webpages for PIUG NE Workshop, 2002-2006 and PIUG Annual Conference, 2003-2007	May 2007
Stephen Adams	Special Recognition Award in appreciation of Stephen's Tireless Service to PIUG Ten Years of Excellent Patent Searching Workshops PIUG Board of Directors 2002 to 2006 Voted Favorite Speaker Countless Times	May 2008
Donna Cooper	In Recognition of Donna's Service to PIUG as Newsletter Editor from 2003 to 2004, Annual Meeting Brochure Editor 2002 to 2008	May 2008
Mark Hutcherson	In Recognition of Mark's Service to PIUG as Newsletter Editor Extraordinaire 2004 to 2008	May 2008
Denise Fobare-Deponio	In Recognition of Denise's Service to PIUG as Annual Conference Sponsorship Committee Member, 2005-2007 Annual Conference Sponsorship Committee Chair, 2008-2009	May 2009
Qin Meng	In Recognition of Qin's Service to PIUG as PIUG Boston Biotechnology Meeting Founder and Planning Committee Chair, 2007-2009	May 2009
Tom Wolff	In Recognition of Tom's Service to PIUG as Webmaster, 2006-2009 Discussion List Moderator, 2006-2008 Wikimaster, 2008-2009 Electronic Communications Committee Chair, 2008-2009	May 2009
Robert Austin	In Recognition of Rob's Service to PIUG as Popular Workshop Presenter and Speaker at PIUG Meetings Since 1999 Advisor for the First Boston Biotechnology Meeting, 2007 Boston Biotechnology Meeting Program Committee Member, 2007-2009	May 2010
Terri Dockter	In Recognition of Terri's Service to PIUG as Annual Conference Program Committee Member, 2000 Annual Conference Session Chair, 2002-2003 Annual Conference Program Committee Co-Chair, 2004-2006	May 2010
Martha Yates	In Recognition of Martha's Service to PIUG as Annual Conference Gifts Committee Co-Chair, 2005-2007 Annual Conference Workshop Committee Chair, 2008-2010	May 2010
Susanne Hantos	In recognition of Susanne's service to PIUG as Education and Training Task Force - Certification Working Group Chair, 2008-2011	May 2011
Kristine Atkinson	In recognition of Kris' service to PIUG as Education and Training Task Force - Training Working Group Co-Chair, 2008-2011	May 2011
John Zabilski	In recognition of John's service to PIUG as Education and Training Task Force - Training Working Group Co-Chair, 2008-2011	May 2011
Zhifu Shu	In recognition of Zhifu's service to PIUG for his contributions to the PIUG Northeast Conference including as member of the Program Committee (2005 - 2007), Planning Committee Co-chair (2008 - 2009) and Planning Committee Chair (2010 - 2011)	May 2012
Jane Thompson	In recognition of Jane's service to PIUG for her contributions to the PIUG Annual Conference including at the Registration Desk and participation in the Sponsorship Committee as a member (2008 - 2009), Co-chair (2010) and Chair (2011)	May 2012
Rick Williams	In recognition of Rick's service to PIUG for his contributions to the PIUG Biotech Meeting Program Committee, by taking responsibility for web pages (2008 - 2012) and funding and workshops (2012) and organizing of dinners for PIUG members in the Boston area	May 2012
Christine Geluk	In recognition of Christine's service to PIUG for her contributions as founding member of the PIUG Biotechnology Meeting Planning Committee responsible for registration, sponsorship, workshops and public relations for all of the PIUG Biotechnology Meetings since their inception and for evaluations for PIUG 2013 Biotechnology Meeting	April 2013
Monica Weiss-Nolen	In recognition of Monica's service to PIUG for her contributions to the PIUG Biotechnology Meeting as Program Committee Chair (2011-2012), Workshop Committee Chair (2013), and Planning Committee Co-Chair (2014)	April 2013
Suzanne Robins	In recognition of Suzanne’s dedicated service to PIUG as PIUG Treasurer (2000-2004), Vice-Chair (2004-2006), Chair (2006-2008), Immediate-Past-Chair (2008-2010), Member of the Biotechnology (2007-2008) and Northeast (2011-2012) Conference Program Committees, Strategic Planning Committee Member (2011-2012), and PIUG Member Relations Committee Chair (2012-present)	April 2013
Ron Kaminecki	In recognition of Ron’s service to PIUG for his contributions to the Annual Meeting as Program Committee Member (2009), Program Co-Chair (2011-2012), Closing Speaker (2010-2013), and to the future of PIUG as a Strategic Planning Committee Member (2011-2012).	April 2014
Shelley Pavlek	In recognition of Shelley’s service to PIUG for her contributions to the Northeast Conference as Planning Committee Co-Chair (2011-2013), Workshop Chair (2011-2013), Registration Chair (2013), and local PIUG representative for site visits.	April 2014
Heidi Stone	In recognition of Heidi’s service to PIUG for her contributions to the Annual Conference as Hospitality Chair (2003), Registration Co-Chair (2004), Planning Committee Co-Chair (2005-2008), Planning Committee Co-Mentor/Advisor (2009-2011); PIUG Board Vice Chair (2006-2008); PIUG Board Director-at-Large (2008-2012); and the PIUG Member Relations Committee (2013-to-date).	April 2014
Jim Brown	In recognition of Jim’s service to PIUG for his contributions to the Annual Conference as Annual Planning Co-Chair (2013-2014); PIUG Board Secretary (2010-2012); PIUG Board Vice Chair (2012-2014), and PIUG Board Liaison to the Biotech Conference Planning Committee (2013-2014).	May 2015
Andrea Davis	In recognition of Andrea’s service to PIUG for her contributions to the Annual Conference as Program Committee Co-Chair (2013-2014).	May 2015
Ruben Diaz	In recognition of Ruben’s contributions to the PIUG Biotechnology Conference since 2009 as member of the Program and Planning Committees, panel discussion participant, and organizer and gracious site host for the two conferences held at Genentech in South San Francisco, California, in 2011 and 2015.	May 2015
John Arenivar	In recognition of John’s work with the Member Relations Committee on multiple PIUG Salary Surveys, his Chairmanship of the PIUG Bylaws Committee, his presentations at PIUG conferences, and his exceptional talent as thespian extraordinaire in PIUG’s IFFI Player productions for so many years.	May 2016
Dominic DeMarco	In recognition of Dominic's service on the PIUG Board as a Director-at-Large from 2011 to 2014 and for his efforts and service as a key faculty member of both the PIUG Freedom to Operate and the PIUG Fundamentals courses.	May 2016
Alison Taylor	In recognition of Alison's 10 years of dedication to PIUG Biotechnology Conference for which she has co-chaired the Program Committee, has been a speaker and panelist, and has provided Meeting Book support for 8 years.	May 2016
A.J. D'Ambra	In recognition of AJ's many contributions to PIUG including service as Webmaster (membership matters) and Wiki Co-administrator (2008-2017); member of the Electronic Communications Committee (2008-2017) and Member Relations Committee (2012-2017); PIUG Annual Conference Presentation Logistics Coordinator (2008-2013) and Hospitality Chair (2009-2010); and PIUG NE Conference Program Chair (2006-2007).	May 2017
Diane Webb	In recognition of Diane’s 13 years of preparing the meeting books for all PIUG Annual, Biotech, and Northeast Conferences.	May 2017
Tom Wolff	As the first two-time PIUG Service Award winner, in recognition of Tom's continuing contribution to PIUG as Webmaster (2006-2017), Wikimaster (2008-2017), Electronic Communications Committee Chair (2008-2017).	May 2017
Greg Roland	In recognition of Greg’s service to the PIUG Biotech Conference since 2012. He hosted the conference at Merck in 2013 and has been on the program committee from 2014-2018.	May 2018
Edlyn Simmons	In recognition of Edlyn’s long service to PIUG. She has been on the board twice from 1990-1992 and then from 2000-2010. She has been chair of the Brian Stockdale Memorial Award since 2002.	May 2018
Donald Walter	In recognition of Don’s service to PIUG as part of the Northeast Conference organizing commitees since at least 2006, including chairing the Program Committee from 2014-2016.	May 2018
John Zheng-Wu	In recognition of Zheng’s advocacy of PIUG in China since 2009. He has been instrumental in our relationship with IPPH/CPAC.	May 2018
Christopher S. Baldwin	In recognition of Chris's service to PIUG as a behind-the scenes support of operational activities since 2017.	May 2019
Cynthia Gallagher	In recognition of Cynthia's contributions to the PIUG Partnerships and Patent Offices Committee	May 2019
Yun Yun Yang	In recognition of Yun Yun's many contributions to PIUG Conferences.	May 2019
Tony Trippe	In recognition of Tony's many contributions to PIUG in leadership, speaking and education roles during his long association with PIUG	October 2020
Leah Sandvoss	In recognition of Leah's contributions since 2010 to the Biotech and Northeast conferences	October 2020
Kim Miller	In recognition of Kim's contributions since 2007 to the Northeast and Annual conferences, as well as her service on the PIUG Board of Directors	October 2020
Barbara Hampton	In recognition of Barbara’s contributions to the Member Relations Committee, and her assistance with advertising and promoting PIUG events and conferences	2021
Yateen Pargaonkar	In recognition of Yateen’s contributions to the Northeast & Annual Conference Program Committees, and his willingness to contribute presentations to support the conferences	2021
Jane Thompson	In recognition of Jane’s contributions to the Annual Conference Planning Committee and the Sponsorship Committee	2021

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