Mary Sipes
Occupation: Hyatt Regency Baltimore senior sales manager
Home: Arbutus
Achievement: Sipes was named hospitality and tourism professional of the year by the Baltimore-based National Academy Foundation. Sipes began her career at the Hyatt Regency Baltimore in 1986 as the executive assistant to the director of sales and marketing.
“When I return home from sales calls at the end of the day, it’s gratifying to know that I’m helping to create a better Baltimore.”
“It is an honor to be recognized by my professional organization in this way, and I hope I can continue to live up to the faith and confidence expressed in the bestowing of this award.”
Name: Carlton E. Munson, Ph.D., LCSW-C
Occupation: Professor, University of Maryland School of Social Work
Home: Baltimore
Achievement: Munson received the 2008 Knee/Wittman Outstanding Achievement in Health and Mental Health Policy Award from the National Association of Social Workers Foundation. The award recognizes individuals who are models of excellence and who have made significant contributions to the field of health and mental health.
Name: Terri L. Meekins
Occupation: Director of philanthropy, College of Notre Dame of Maryland School of Pharmacy
Home: Parkville
Achievement: Meekins comes to the College of Notre Dame from the mid-Atlantic affiliate of the American Heart Association, where she was director of gala and individual giving. She has also served as associate director of development and senior development coordinator at The Wilmer Eye Institute at The Johns Hopkins University.
“Building on Notre Dame’s strengths, the new School of Pharmacy will provide a distinctive focus on leadership development and women’s health care across the life span,” Meekins said. “I am excited to begin my career with a firm whose practices and people are held in the highest regard amongst their peers and clients.”
Name: Andrew Genova
Occupation: Sales and leasing associate, Manekin LLC
Home: Silver Spring
Achievement: Genova was recently hired at the firm’s Columbia headquarters, where he focuses on commercial transactions in Howard and Anne Arundel counties. Genova is the first graduate of the firm’s new training program, which focuses on the nationally acclaimed “Top Dogs” program for the commercial real estate industry.
Name: Dr. Jeffrey Palmer
Occupation: Professor and director of the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore
Home: Pikesville
Achievement: Palmer was the recipient of the Fellow of the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine Award of Distinction. He was recognized for his outstanding clinical, research and educational contributions to rehabilitation medicine.
“I have devoted my career to research, teaching and patient care in physical medicine and rehabilitation, and this award represents wonderful recognition from the foremost organization devoted to rehabilitation research.”
