Don Chalmers Passion for Excellence Award
Don Chalmers Ford’s Team received the 2005 NM Zia Award for Performance Excellence
The “Don Chalmers Passion for Excellence Award” is an annual award recognizing an individual who exemplifies outstanding leadership in the pursuit of performance excellence and has furthered performance improvement beyond the boundaries of their organization.
The 2018 Award will be presented at the annual Quality New Mexico Learning Summit and New Mexico Performance Excellence Awards Ceremony to be held 0n April 30, 2019.
2016 - The recipient of the first Don Chalmers Passion for Excellence Award was Dr. Mike Sather, Center Director Emeritus, VA Cooperative Studies Program Clinical Research Pharmacy Coordinating Center in Albuquerque (center). The Award was presented by Greg Chalmers, brother of the late Don Chalmers (left) and Steve Keene (right), Managing Partner of Moss Adams, LLP and 2015-16 Board Chair.
2017 - The second recipient of the Don Chalmers Passion for Excellence was Dr. Bill Wadt with the Los Alamos National Laboratory Foundation. Bill has served in many roles at QNM including as a member of the Board of Directors, as Lead Judge of the New Mexico Quality Awards, and as the "Founding Father" for the New Mexico Excellence in Learning Committee. Bill's involvement with and passion for Quality New Mexico is unsurpassed and we greatly appreciate his continual support of our organization and its mission.