Lane Captures ‘Sammies’ Career Achievement Honor

NIAID director Dr. Anthony Fauci, Sammies Federal Employee of the Year in 2020, congratulates Dr. H. Clifford Lane for receiving the organization’s 2022 Paul A. Volcker Career Achievement Medal. The presentation ceremony and reception were held at the Kennedy Center.

Photo:  JOSHUA ROBERTS/PARTNERSHIP FOR PUBLIC SERVICE

For the third straight year, NIH brought home hardware from the annual Sammies awards ceremony, considered the “Oscars” of public service. 

Dr. H. Clifford Lane, clinical director at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, won the 2022 Paul A. Volcker Career Achievement Medal given by the nonpartisan, nonprofit Partnership for Public Service in its annual Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medals (Sammies) gala.

Awardees were saluted last month at a Kennedy Center ceremony and reception.

“During four decades at [NIH], Lane has conducted lifesaving research for people with HIV/AIDS, had an enormous impact combating and treating infectious diseases overseas such as Ebola and helped establish national treatment guidelines for Covid-19 amid the deadly pandemic,” the partnership said on its website in announcing this year’s awards.

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This year’s winners of the Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medals

Photo:  JOSHUA ROBERTS/PARTNERSHIP FOR PUBLIC SERVICE

The Career Achievement Medal is named for the late Volcker in recognition of his nearly three decades of distinguished federal service. The honor recognizes career federal employees who have led significant and sustained achievements during 20 or more years of service in government.

A virtual look at this year’s Sammies and the winners’ work will be shown on Wednesday, Nov. 23 on Bloomberg TV. For more information, and to view the broadcast, click here.