The Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs Section announces the recipients of its 2007 ATOD Section awards.

This year, the Lifetime Achievement Award goes to Dr. Norman Giesbrecht, a professor at the University of Toronto Centre for Addiction and Mental Health.

The Section Leadership Award, which recognizes a Section member who makes significant contributions to the ATOD Section and field, goes to Diana Conti, executive director of Parca, a private, nonprofit organization serving people with developmental disabilities and their families based in Burlingame, Calif.

The Community-Based Advocacy Award acknowledges leadership in community-based ATOD programs that affect the community environment.  This award goes to Leonard Lamkin, executive director of the Chicago Patient Safety Forum.

Dr. Dan Beauchamp, a Professor at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill School of Public Health, is the winner of the Slade Memorial Advocacy Award.  The award is named for one of the pioneers in the ATOD field, the late Dr. John D. Slade.

The Best Student Abstract Award goes to Nabarun Dasgupta, a graduate student at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill School of Public Health.

The awards will be presented at the ATOD Awards Ceremony scheduled for Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2007 at the Renaissance Hotel across the street from the Washington Convention Center beginning at 6:30 p.m.  Please join us in honoring these distinguished members of our field!