Diggs Award

Dawn Berry Moreau

2020 Recipient

Dawn has worked tirelessly for TABB for many years. She has served on TABB board as well as acting as TABB President. She has continued to help others plan TABB spring meeting and has been a sounding board for others offering suggestions and advice when needed. Dawn represents what an active TABB member should be and promotes blood banking in Tennessee.

~ Chattanooga TN

Below is a lists of previous Recipients.

Nominations due prior to

annual Spring Meeting.

DEADLINE: February 16

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A Portrait of Dr. L. W. Diggs

by Ann Bell

The outstanding medical career of Dr. Lemuel Whitley Diggs began in 1929 in Memphis, Tennessee, when he joined the faculty of the University of Tennessee as Assistant Professor of Pathology. His main duties consisted of supervising the clinical laboratories,

including the transfusion.

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The most prestigious award given by the Tennessee Association of Blood Banks

is the Diggs Award, named for the late

Lemuel W. Diggs, M.D.

The award is given annually at the

spring meeting of the Association.

Dr. Diggs filtering blood

through gauze into a Kelly flask held by

Ms. Alice Jean Keith. 1938.

The needle was inserted from above downward in order to “meet the blood head on.” The first ten bloods that were collected and refrigerated were grossly contaminated with bacteria and could not be used.

This experience immediately led to the adoption of a closed system of collection.

To remove fibrin clots the blood was filtered through multiple layers of cotton gauze, spread over a funnel, into a Kelly flask.

1974 - 1989 Recipients

2006 - Current Recipients

1974 Eunice Vance
1975 Dean Birdwell
1976 Clifford I. Argall, PhD
1978 Jeanette Spann
1977 Jack Smythe
1979 Jack C. Duggin
1980 Elsie Argall
1981 Monica Willis
1982 James R. Cundall
1983 Dianne P. McAfee
1984 Francis S. Jones, MD
1985 Grace Neitzer
1986 Richard H. Walker, MD
1987 Sherry Jane Aycock
1988 Jean Wright
1989 Lois Marsh

1990 - 2005 Recipients

2006 - Current Recipients

1990 E. Eric Muirhead, MD
1991 Basil Welch
1992 Carl A. Nelson, MD
1993 Laura Lee Woods
1994 Charles Wallas, MD
1995 Doris B. Presley
1996 Joan G. Freeman
1997 Patricia Callicoat
1998 Edwin A. Steane
1999 Susan Steane
2000 Patricia Tanley
2001 Sandra Bonds
2002 Mary Johnson
2003 Christopher Stowell, MD
2004 Eva D. Quinley
2005 Lynn Blake, MD

2006 - Current Recipients

2006 Marilyn K. Moulds
2007 Jerry Rysticken
2008 Anne T. Neff, MD
2009 Jocelynne McCall
2010 Mona Dilbeck
2011 Nancy Cornwell
2012 Diane McFarland
2013 Joseph V. Schifano
2014 John Hilsenbeck, MD
2015 Edward P. Scott, MD
2016 Elizabeth Culler, MD
2017 Garrett S. Booth, MD
2018 Terrance Geiger, MD
2019 John Germ
2020 Dawn Berry Moreau