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The Golden Apple Award is presented to a member of AMWA 

to honor consistent, outstanding workshop leadership.

This year’s Golden Apple  

recipient is Brian Bass, 
MWC. The Member Awards 

Committee was impressed with 

Brian’s long-term commit-

ment to leading workshops for 

AMWA and ability to keep his 

workshops engaging and his 

material timely and relevant.

 Brian has a long history 

of supporting AMWA’s edu-

cational mission. He founded the AMWA-Delaware Valley 

Chapter Princeton Conference in 1997, bringing a combina-

tion of educational workshops and sessions to AMWA mem-

bers throughout and beyond the Delaware Valley region. He 

continued to chair The Princeton Conference for 16 years. 

In 1997, Brian also taught his first workshop, The Creative 

Process in Pharmaceutical Advertising & Promotion. Since 

then, Brian has developed 3 new workshops to help par-

ticipants develop, launch, and build successful freelance 

careers. Over the years he has presented these 4 workshops 

a total of 21 times, with an overall evaluation score of 4.63 

out of 5. Brian has also developed and presented 36 open 

sessions and panel discussions, 16 roundtable presenta-

tions, and 10 webinars.

Please join AMWA in congratulating Brian. He will be  
acknowledged at the 2022 Medical Writing & Communi-
cation Conference to be held in Denver, CO from  
November 2–5, 2022.

The Member Awards Committee members were Melissa L.  
Bogen, Elizabeth Brown, Sarah Dobney (chair), Mary 
Knatterud, Susan Krug (ex officio), Abbie Roth, and Michael 
Schneir. Diane Noland from AMWA HQ provided excellent 

support.

Sarah Dobney / 2021–2022 Director-At-Large and Chair, Member Awards Committee

The Golden Apple Award

AMWA NEWS

Back row (L to R): Susan Krug, Kim Korwek, Loretta Bohn, Brian Bass, Sarah Dobney, Gail Flores.  Middle row (L to R): 
Jennifer Minarcik, Laura Sheppard, Elise Eller, Ann Winter-Vann, Shawn Watson. Front: Katrina Burton. Not pictured 
(attended virtually): Joan Affleck, Michelle Sauer Gehring, Lynne Munno, JoAnna Pendergrass, Julie Phelan.

The AMWA Board of Directors met July 21-22, 2022 at the AMWA headquarters office in Rockville, MD. 
The hybrid meeting allowed all BOD to attend, either in person or online.

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