The Leonard Heise Award is presented to non-medical eye bankers in recognition of their outstanding devotion to the Eye Bank Association of America’s development and for exemplifying the precepts of Leonard Heise, a major contributor to the fight against blindness and one of the EBAA’s founders. This award is given annually during the Annual Meeting.
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Criteria
Nominees for the award must meet the following requirements:
- Nominee must have been associated with an EBAA accredited eye bank for at least 10 years.
- Nominee must have made significant contributions to eye banking at a national and/or international level, as well as at a local level.
- The nomination must be supported with a letter from at least one of the following from the nominee’s eye bank: Board President, Executive Director and/or Medical Director.
- Individual’s local, national and international contributions to the EBAA and eye banking must be noted in the nomination.
Nomination Deadline: September 6, 2024
Congratulations to the 2024 Recipient:
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Charles Pivoney, CEBT
The Eye Bank of Kentucky
Past Heise Awardees
2023: Chis Stoeger
2022: Eric Meinecke
2021: Brian Philippy
2020: Donna Drury
2019: Mark Callahan Soper
2018: Beth Binnion
2017: Dave Korroch
2016: Bernie Iliakis
2015: Jackie Malling
2014: Doyce Williams
2013: Bradley Tennant
2012: Jason Woody
2011: Bruce Varnum
2010: Dean Vavra
2007: Brenda Horn
2006: Linda Fraser
2005: Barbara Crow
2004: Florence Johnston
2003: Gerald J. Cole
2002: Mary Beth Danneffel-Mandelkorn
2001: Ginger Miller
2000: Patricia Dahl
1999: Marilyn Lindenauer
1998: John Requard, III
1997: Mary Jane O’Neill
1996: Frances Hughes
1995: Ellen Heck
1993: Fredrick Griffith
1992: PID Gene Polgar
1991: Donna Oiland
1990: Margaret Kelm
1989: C. W. Temples
1988: Emile J. Farge, PhD
1986: Jake Watson
1985: Y. T. Abernathy
1984: A. Howard Snyder
1983: W. M. Goldfinch
1982: Orville Gauthier
1981: R. Kenneth Hudgins
1980: Geraldine & Leroy Skouby