RESOLVE Award History

The Barbara Eck Menning Founders Award
This national award is presented annually to an individual or group who has demonstrated leadership in the field of infertility or infertility resolution.

Past recipients:

• 2011 Alan Hersh DeCherney, MD
• 2010 Howard W. Jones, Jr., MD, Professor Emeritus, EVMS
• 2009 National Institute for Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) at NIH
• 2008 Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute (CCAI)
• 2006 Alice Domar, PhD (award given at 2007 Night of Hope)
• 2005 Vicki Baldwin
• 2004  Michelle Fryatt
• 2003 Benjamin Younger, former ASRM Executive Director
• 2002 Mark Hughes, MD, PhD
• 2001 Florence Haseltine, PhD MD
• 2000 Diane Aronson

2011 Hope Awards

• Hope Award for Achivement: Self Magazine, for their article: "This Woman Has a Secret"
• Hope Award for Advocacy: EMD Serono, Office of Government Affairs
• Hope Award for Service: The Dunau/Davis Family
• Hope Award for Best Blog: from IF to when by Katie Schaber
• Hope Award for Best Book: So Close: Infertile and Addicted to Hope by Tertia Loebenberg Albertyn

2010 Hope Awards

• Hope Award for Achievement: Guiliana & Bill Rancic
• Hope Award for Achievement: The View
• Hope Award for Service: J. Benjamin Younger Office of Public Affairs at the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM)
• Hope Award for Innovation: The Research and Development team at Church & Dwight, Co., Inc.
• Hope Award for Advocacy: Shady Grove Fertility Reproductive Science Center, Rockville, MD
• Hope Award for Advocacy: Lee Rubin Collins
• Hope Award for Advocacy: Risa A. Levine
• Hope Award for Advocacy: Renee Whitley
• Hope Award for Nursing: Sylvia T. Parrett, RN, MSW
• Hope Award for Best Blog: A Little Pregnant by Julie Robichaux
• Hope Award for Best Book: Silent Sorority by Pamela Mahoney Tsigdinos
• Hope Award for Best Viral Video: Keiko Zoll
• Family Building Employer of the Year: Robins & Morton
• Family Building Champion Hope Award: Baker & McKenzie
• Family Building Champion Hope Award: PricewaterhouseCoopers

2009 Hope Awards

• Hope Award for Advocacy:  Amendment 48 Coalition; Andrew Toledo, MD
• Hope Award for Achievement: Discovery Health Networks
• Hope Award for Service: Joann Libraro, RN, and Carol Lesser, RN
• Family Building Employer of the Year: Citizens Financial Group
• Family Building Champion: Barilla Pasta and Harvard University

2008 Hope Awards

• Hope Award for Advocacy: Mark Hornstein, MD and Meredith Vieira, Today Show
• Hope Award for Service: Kellie Coffey, Singer, and Ropes and Gray, LLP
• Family Building Employer of the Year: Citizens Financial Group
• Family Building Champion: Deutsche Bank and Boston Consulting Group