Established 1983
The Robert A. Bageant Award of merit may be presented to someone who has contributed the most to the Society during the year. Initially established to recognize only a physician, in 2008, the standing rules were revised to allow the recipient to be any affiliate contributor. From 1983-2007 the current Society President in conjunction with past presidents, determined who the recipient should be. In 2008, the VSRC standing rules were revised so selection is made by an Executive Board majority vote.
Robert A. “Bob” Bageant, RRT first served as a volunteer in the late 1950s at the old Garfield Hospital in Washington, DC. Three DC hospitals, Garfield being one, closed and opened the Washington Hospital Center in 1958. Bob’s father was Chief of Anesthesiology and there being no official Volunteer Program, Dr. Bageant directed some of Bob’s volunteer activities. Starting in 1960, for several years Bob served as a hospital employee at Washington Hospital Center, but not in Oxygen Therapy where Easton Smith was department director. During the early 1960s Bob acquired a BS and MS in Biology and after leaving the US Army and Texas in 1970, he attended Inhalation Therapy (IT) School at Washington Hospital. The program there was taught through the Anesthesiology Dept. After IT school, he worked for Pulmonary Medicine and then as Director of Inhalation Therapy. The IT school was transferred from Washington to Piedmont Virginia Community College and Bob served as Program Head and Clinical Coordinator along with University of Virginia hospital responsibilities for several years. He served the Virginia Society for Respiratory Therapy as President and in other positions for more than 25 years. Bob served as Assistant Editor to Phillip Kittredge for RC, as an Oral Examiner and Item Writer for National Board for Respiratory Care.
Recipients
1983 Charles Robertson, MD
1984 Charles Robertson, MD
1985 Walter J. O’Donohue, Jr. MD
1986 Terring W. Heironimus, MD
1987 William B. Hunt, MD
1988 Charles Durbin, MD
1989 Phillip Fuller, MD
1990 Charles Durbin, MD
1991 Ignacio Ripoll, MD
1992 Joseph Smiddy, MD
1993 Phillip Fuller, MD
1994 Phillip Fuller, MD
1995 James Baker, MD
1996 Frank Fusco, MD
1997 Paul Suratt, MD
1998 Emory Robinette, MD
1999 Emory Robinette, MD
2000 Charles Durbin, MD
2001 – 2007 none awarded
2008 Retha Robinette, Pharm D
2009 – 2010 none awarded
2011 Bruce K. Rubin, MD