Phyllis B Acosta Lifetime Achievement Award
Dianne Frazier, PhD, MPH, RD

• Professor emeritus of pediatrics in the Division of Genetics and Metabolism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
• UNC’s Department of Biochemistry
• MPH in the UNC School of Public Health’s Department of Nutrition.
• Metabolic RD at UNC
• North Carolina’s Newborn Screening Advisory Board for 33 years.
• Authored nine book chapters, published and presented scores of articles on inborn errors of metabolism. 
• GMDI founding member, Research Committee Chair, Secretary, President of GMDI
• Chair of the first nutrition management guidelines for MSUD

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Emerging Leader Award
Suzanne Hollander, MS, RD

• BS - University of Virginia
• DI- NYU Montefiore Medical Center
• MS-NY University
• UCLA Medical Genetics 2013
  • Lead Metabolic RD
  • Research Coordinator
  • Educator
• Boston Children’s, Feb 2020
• GMDI Editorial Chair, 2016
• PROP Toolkit
• VLCAD Nominal Group/Toolkit
• Presenter at GMDI/SIMD/Abbott

Pacesetter Award
Chanel Suares, RD

• BS-California State University, Long Beach
• CSP Certification
• RD since 2014
• UCLA Metabolism, since Sept 2016
• GMDI Education Co-Chair April 2018
• Poster GMDI 2018: “You “Breast” Believe It: A Clinic’s Experience Implementing Breastfeeding in Rare Metabolic Disorders”