Dear AOTA Members:

This is AOTA’s First Announcement inviting nominations for the Nagataki-Fujifilm Prize to be given at the Bali Congress in October 2012.  This Prize is conferred on an outstanding thyroidologist practicing in the Asia & Oceania Region. 

It will be recalled that, traditionally, two (2) Prizes were given during AOTA Congresses:  the Fujifilm Prize (previously the Daiichi Prize) for a Japanese, and the Nagataki Prize for a non-Japanese.  However, in the last International Thyroid Congress in Paris in 2010, it was decided that henceforth these two prizes will be fused into one:  the Nagataki-Fujifilm Prize to be conferred on the worthy recipient regardless of nationality. 

Any AOTA Member can actually nominate the person from within the Asia & Oceania Region who he or she thinks deserves the Prize.  The nominee can be a physician dealing with clinical work in thyroidology, or a scientist involved in basic & translational research on the thyroid.  There are no restrictions on age, gender or membership in professional organizations.

If you have nominees for the Prize in mind, you can send his or her curriculum vitae with a concise bibliography (approximately 10 outstanding/representative publications) by the end of February 2012 to the AOTA Secretariat (e-mail: aota.sec@gmail.com).

After receiving nominations, the Secretariat shall furnish the AOTA Council Members pertinent information on all nominees for their initial evaluation and selection of their top two (2) choices.  The AOTA Executive Committee will render the final decision on the recipient of the Nagataki-Fujifilm Prize.  This will be announced in time for the Bali Congress.

If you have any question about the nomination process, please do not hesitate to ask me.

Teofilo O.L. San Luis, Jr., MD

AOTA Secretary-Treasurer

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