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Awards

Each year at our Annual Meeting, the South Central Association recognizes the contributions and achievements of its members and those dedicated to the blood banking profession through its Awards Program. These Awards highlight the accomplishments of individuals working in donor recruitment, blood collections, immunohematology, education and research, etc. Collectively, they recognize excellence in the field of blood banking.
Below is a description of each award. Any SCABB member is welcome to nominate an individual whom they believe best fits the award criteria. Nominations will be open at the following form until February 15, 2026.
Submit Award Nominations Here

President's Award of Merit

The President's Award of Merit consists of two awards: one for Oustanding Individual and the other for Oustanding Contribution for the promotion of blood banking, public understanding, or commitment to blood banking.

Outstanding Individual:

This award is presented to an individual who has made a significant contribution to the blood resources of a blood collection facility, either by coordinating blood drives, donating large quantities of blood, or recruitingi large numbers of blood donors over a long period of time.

Outstanding Contribution:

This award is presented to a group or financial contributor to the blood banking profession, which has shown spectacular long- or short-term results.

Cornerstone Award

The Cornerstone Award is presented to an individual or institutional member of the association who has contributed in an extraordinary way to the success of the South Central Association of Blood Banks. Recipients of this award are recognized for a contribution, landmark event, or new endeavor that helps sustain the association or promotes its growth and prosperity.

Larry L. Trow Memorial Educational Award

The Larry L. Trow Memorial Educational Award is presented to an individual within the South Central Association of Blood Banks who has significantly contributed to the promotion of education with relation to immunohematology.

Dr. Matthew Gottlieb Rising Star Award

Named in honor of Dr. Matthew Gottlieb, the Rising Star Award services to recognize the contributions of an association member of less than five years that has contributed to the South Central Association of Blood Banks, either by serving on a committee, presenting, or writing an article for the PULSE brief.

Lemuel L. Diggs Award

Lemuel Diggs attended Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine where he received his medical degree in 1925. He became a University of Tennessee in Memphis faculty member in 1929 then became Director of Medical Laboratories. Diggs helped create the first blood bank in the South—in Memphis—in 1938. This was only the fourth blood bank in the U.S. He also helped Danny Thomas create the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in 1962 in Memphis.

Prior to merging with SCABB, the Tennessee Association of Blood Banks honored a person for rendering a significant and lasting contribution to blood banking in the state of Tennessee. SCABB continues to present the award annually to an association member from Tennessee (Region V).