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Lifetime Achievement Award
On the occasion of the 20th Annual Meeting, NASTAD began giving a Lifetime Achievement Award, given to the person who has dedicated their career to addressing the HIV/AIDS and/or viral hepatitis epidemics in state government and shown exemplary leadership in the fight against HIV/AIDS and viral hepatitis through their work in state government and with NASTAD.
Previous Award Winners
- 2022: Susan Jones, RN, MN, HIV/STD Program Manager, Alaska Department of Health and Social Services
- 2018: Peter Whiticar, Chief, STD/AIDS Prevention Branch, Hawaii Department of Health
- 2017: Paul Loberti, Administrator Medical Services, Executive Office of Health and Human
- Services (Rhode Island)
- 2016: Pat Young, HIV & Hepatitis Prevention Program Manager, Iowa Department of Public Health
- 2015: Wendy Craytor, former Alaska AIDS Director and founding NASTAD member (posthumously)
- 2013: John Auerbach, former Massachusetts AIDS Director and founding NASTAD member, Director of Institute on Urban Health Research, Northwestern University
- 2012: Jim Vergeront, MD, Director of the Wisconsin AIDS/HIV Program
- 2011: Humberto Cruz, Director of the New York State AIDS Institute