Congratulations to Dr. Alan H. DeCherney, M.D. for winning the 2011 ASRM Suheil J. Muasher, M.D. Distinguished Service Award.

		Each year ASRM honors individuals or organizations that have provided distinguished service toASRM. Recipients are selected based on their scientific, leadership, organizational, political orsocietal service contributions to ASRM, reproductive medicine and/or reproductive medicinepatients. In 2011 ASRM honors Alan H. DeCherney, M.D., a member of the Society whoseleadership has advanced the mission of the Society to discover, educate and advocate.
Dr. DeCherney is a reproductive endocrinologist who heads the Reproductive Biology and Medicine Branch of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. He has been a memberof the faculties at Yale, Tufts and UCLA, and has been a member of the Institute of Medicine ofthe National Academies since 2004. He is recognized with the 2011 Distinguished Service Award for his many years of dedicated service to the Society as Editor-in-Chief of Fertility and Sterility (1997 – 2011), as President (1994 – 1995), and as a teacher, scholar and mentor.

Nominations are being sought for the 2012 Suheil J. Muasher Distinguished Service Award.

This award is intended to recognize and honor individuals or organizations that have provided distinguished service to the ASRM. Nominees may be either ASRM members or non-ASRM members. The recipient or recipients will be selected based on scientific, leadership, organizational, political or societal service contributions to the ASRM, reproductive medicine and/or reproductive medicine patients.

Nominations may be submitted to Andrew R. La Barbera, Ph.D., ASRM Scientific Director, by members of the Society before June 1, 2012. Nominations must include a summary of the nominee’s contributions to the field of reproductive medicine and the Society. The recipient will be selected by the Executive Committee and notified by September 1, 2012. Previous nominees will be considered.

The recipient will be recognized as the Suheil J. Muasher Distinguished Service Awardee by presentation of a plaque at the Annual Meeting of the Society. In addition, the recipient will be provided with free registration for the ASRM 2011 Annual Meeting, airfare/travel expenses up to $500.00, two days hotel accommodations in the ASRM hotel room block, and meals and ground transportation up to a maximum of $800.00.

Previous recipients of the ASRM Distinguished Service Award:

2000 Ronald Linhardt, M.D., Donna Vogel, M.D., Ph.D.
2001 George A. Hill, M.D.
2002 Richard D. Amelar, M.D., Lawrence Dubin, M.D.
2003 Andrew E. Good, M.D., Florence P. Haseltine, Ph.D., M.D.
2004 Stuart S. Howards, M.D.
2005 Lee Lee Doyle, Ph.D., Marguerite K. Shepard, M.D.,
2006 Jacob M. Mayer, Jr, Ph.D., David I. Hoffman, M.D.
2007 John A. Robertson, J.D., Duane Alexander, M.D.
2008 Paul G. McDonough, M.D., Miriam B. Rosenthal, M.D.
2009 Roger Kempers, M.D., M.S., Kamran Moghissi, M.D.
2010 David N. Curole, M.D., John T. Queenan, M.D.
2011 Alan H. DeCherney, M.D.