Anatomical Services Award
The Anatomical Services Award will be awarded to the best platform or poster presentation given at an AACA annual meeting for scientific studies or case reports in the areas of donor preparation and management to include storage, tracking and special preparations, etc.; administration of donor programs; and other areas related to type and quality of donor preparation and management. The award will be $600 to be used to defray travel costs to the AACA annual or regional meeting immediately following, an award certificate and a waiver of association membership fees in the subsequent year.
To be eligible for the award, the presentation must be made by the principal author of the abstract who must be a technical or administrative staff member in an academic whole body donation program or at an academic institution where donors are used for anatomical and clinical education. Students are not eligible for this award.
Award eligible submissions, will be judged by technical peers within the association.
2026 Anatomical Services Award Recipients:
2026 Anatomical Services Award Recipient:
Title: “Records Retention Policies for Anatomical Donation Programs”
Previous Anatomical Services Award Recipients:
2025 Anatomical Services Award Recipient:
Title: "Impact of Different Moisture Retention Strategies on Cadaver Tendon Desiccation.”
2024 Anatomical Services Award Recipient:
Title: "Preparation of a Consented Donor for Educational Use as a Skeleton in the Anatomy Lab.”
2023 Anatomical Services Award Recipient:
Title: "Continued Validation of a Scale for Assessing Soft Embalming Solutions for Surgical Skills Training.”
2022 Anatomical Services Award Recipient:
Title: "Sharing the University of California Anatomical Donation Program Experience with a Fulbright Scholar”
2022 Anatomical Services Award Recipient:
Title: "Memorializing Anatomical Donors During a Pandemic”
2020 Anatomical Services Award Recipient:
Title: "Veteran Body Donation Trends at UMASS Medical School.”
2019 Anatomical Services Award Recipient:
Title: "Collaboration with Non-Profit to Increase Anatomical Donation within Korean-American Community.”
2018 Anatomical Services Award Winner
Title: "Tissue Solidification in Heart, Lung, and Brain in Soft-Embalmed Cadavers."
