{"id":10063,"date":"2022-09-07T05:55:51","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T05:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marylanddailygazette.com\/association-of-immunization-managers-announces-the-2022-aim-award-winners\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T05:55:51","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T05:55:51","slug":"association-of-immunization-managers-announces-the-2022-aim-award-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marylanddailygazette.com\/association-of-immunization-managers-announces-the-2022-aim-award-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"Association of Immunization Managers Announces the 2022 AIM Award Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitaljournal.com\/pr\/association-of-immunization-managers-announces-the-2022-aim-award-winners\">Association of Immunization Managers Announces the 2022 AIM Award Winners<\/a><\/p>\n<p><p>Congratulations to the recipients of the 2022 AIM Awards!<br \/>Visit the awards webpage on the AIM website for additional information regarding the awards, and to learn more about the inspiring work of this year\u2019s recipients.\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"88.992537313433\">\n<p>The Association of Immunization Managers (AIM), representing the 64 federally funded state, territorial and urban area immunization programs, announces the winners of its annual AIM Awards:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The <strong>Natalie J. Smith, MD Award for Excellence in Program Management<\/strong> recognizes the contributions of an immunization program manager who has demonstrated the high ideals, innovation, and commitment to excellence in immunization practices that characterized Dr. Smith\u2019s career. The award recognizes accomplishments and visionary leadership that have had a significant impact on achieving city, state, territory, and\/or national vaccine-preventable disease goals and is the highest form of recognition for immunization program managers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This year\u2019s award recipient has over 19 years of work in the field of immunization and is an active member of AIM. Her efforts to increase HPV rates in rural North Dakota have resulted in male\/female up-to-date rates of 70.3% while the national average vaccination rate is only 58.6%. Under her leadership the North Dakota Immunization Information System (NDIIS) has become one of the top registries for provider and public participation, with 100% of North Dakota\u2019s adult population (19+ years of age) documented in the IIS.<\/p>\n<p><em>Winner: <strong>Molly Howell<\/strong>, Immunization Director, North Dakota Immunization Program<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The <strong>AIM Partnership Award<\/strong> recognizes an AIM partner who has worked with AIM to address an issue important to AIM members. This year\u2019s recipient worked together with AIM to keep its members and program staff informed and up-to-speed on the constantly changing information about the COVID-19 vaccine program.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Winner: <strong>Chris Duggar<\/strong>, Senior Public Health Advisor and COVID Unit Lead, Immunization Services Division, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The <strong>AIM Rising Star Award<\/strong> recognizes a new program manager who demonstrates effective leadership and potential for growth within AIM. This year\u2019s recipient is a program manager who is an active AIM member and is always willing to lend a hand and volunteer when needed. This program manager started in March of 2020 and jumped right in.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Winner: <strong>Emily Messerli<\/strong><\/em> <em>DNP, APRN, FNP-C, State Immunization Branch Manager, Kentucky Department for Public Health<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The <strong>AIM Impact Award<\/strong> recognizes a program manager who has dedicated significant time, expertise, and experience toward achieving AIM\u2019s organizational goals\u2014such as fostering member connection and contributing to sound immunization policy. This individual is unwavering in her support; she is always willing to help and is usually one of the first people to volunteer. She has been very involved with her AIM region, served on multiple AIM committees, has served as an AIM mentor, and is someone to turn to for programmatic advice.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Winner: <strong>Michele Roberts<\/strong> MPH, MCHES, Assistant Secretary, Prevention and Community Health Division, Washington State Department of Health<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>AIM\u2019s new<strong> Hall of Fame Award<\/strong> recognizes an individual\u2019s leadership, commitment, and outstanding contributions to the immunization program manager community and the vision of a nation free of vaccine-preventable disease. This individual served with CDC for 34 years and throughout his career always sought solutions and worked to implement visionary change in collaboration with immunization programs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Inductee: <strong>Brock Lamont<\/strong>, Retired CDC Chief, Immunization Services Division, Program Operations Branch <\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The <strong>AIM Leading Through Adversity Award<\/strong> recognizes program managers who have shown fearlessness and perseverance under pressure and have risen to the challenge of managing an immunization program through difficult circumstances. This year, AIM awarded all the immunization program managers that worked during the COVID-19 pandemic and thanks these program managers for their extraordinary efforts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Winner: All AIM Members<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Congratulations to the recipients of the 2022 AIM Awards! <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.immunizationmanagers.org\/about-aim\/awards\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">awards webpage<\/a> on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.immunizationmanagers.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">AIM website<\/a> for additional information regarding the awards, and to learn more about the inspiring work of this year\u2019s recipients.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About Association of Immunization Managers:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Association of Immunization Managers (AIM) is a non-profit membership association comprised of representatives from 64 federally funded state, territorial and local National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases awardees. AIM is dedicated to working with its partners nationwide to reduce, eliminate, or eradicate vaccine-preventable diseases. AIM also works to ensure the success of its members by providing support in their programming interests. Since 1999, AIM has enabled collaboration among immunization managers to effectively control vaccine-preventable diseases and improve immunization coverage in the United States. For more information on AIM, please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.immunizationmanagers.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.immunizationmanagers.org\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Published Tue, 06 Sep 2022 23:42:46 -0500<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Association of Immunization Managers Announces the 2022 AIM Award Winners Congratulations to the recipients of the 2022 AIM Awards!Visit the awards webpage on the AIM website for additional information regarding the awards, and to learn more about the inspiring work of this year\u2019s recipients. 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