Vicente and Guadalupe Anido Laboratory Medicine

WVU Department of Pathology established this award to honor a second year medical student who has achieved general academic excellence and promise in pathology. A monetary award is made along with a congratulatory letter from the Department of Pathology.

Dr. Vicente Anido was Clinical Laboratory Director of West Virginia University Hospital from 1967 – 1976. His wife Guadalupe established this award upon his retirement from WVU in honor of his devotion to our school and our medical students.

Dr. Anido was born in Spain and moved with his family to Havana Cuba as a child. He received his entire medical education and specialty training in Cuba. After the Castro takeover in Cuba, he immigrated to Miami, Florida in 1960. He came to WVU n 1963 as Assistant Professor of Pathology. He became Associate Director of the Clinical Laboratories at WVU in 1967 and Director in 1968. He held that position until 1976 when he retired from WVU and became Director of the Clinical Laboratories at the VA Hospital in Clarksburg, WV. He remained as Director there until 1984. After a brief illness, he died in 1985 at WVU Hospital.

Dr. Anido is remembered as a warm, welcoming, bright and very disciplined physician and educator. He was very interested in medical education and devoted to teaching medical students. He enjoyed his adopted country and West Virginia University. At the time of his retirement, WVU had a mandatory retirement policy, or he would have stayed as Director of the Laboratories. He was a devoted husband and father. The Anido Award carries the name of a devoted teacher and excellent clinician.

Award Recipients

From the Class of ...

2025

Austin Goncz

2024

Saim Rana

2023

Megan Cavrak

2022

Eric Bonar
Ashton Cross

2021

Noelle Lemons

2020

Pranav Jain

2019

Jessica Patterson

2018

Frank Lacy

2017

Sarah Bowen

2016

Hayley Leight

2015

Benjamin Biddix

2014

Jonathan Amoroso

2013

Rakesh Patel

2012

Tara Melgary

2011

Brittany K. Ninness

2010

Joseph Donahue

2009

Melissa Alleman

2008

Jeffrey K. Mullins

2007

Tiffani D. Lemen

2006

Anthony Capito

2005

Brian Bond

2004

Julie McWhorter

2003

Rebecca Burbridge

2002

Jennifer Daugherty

2000

Michael Albert

1999

Amy Beasley

1998

Daniel Church

1997

Elizabeth Harrison Hess

1996

Loreen Pettit

1992

Cheryl Parra

1991

Michael Oliverio

1989

Edward Birdsong

1988

Carolyn Revercomb

1987

Gregory Thompson

1986

Michelle Maroon and Luann Minich

1985

W. Sue Casadorph

1984

Sal Parascandola

1983

R. David Allara

1982

Barbara A. Clark

1981

Susan C. Davis and Thomas W. Croghan

1980

Donald R. Lilly

1979

Linda S. Yazvac

1978

Sheila J. Walkup