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ACCE 2025 Professional Achievement in Management/Managerial Excellence AwardThe award is given to an individual for his/her contributions to the CE profession of a managerial nature, such as a paper of significance, solving of a problem or issue for the profession, or the application of new techniques to CE with measurable positive results.  Michael Brilling, CCE, CHTMThe award winner this year is Michael Brilling, CCE, CHTM, for his ongoing support and successfully led efforts that have transformed the Clinical Engineering Department at Dartmouth Health into a model of efficiency, collaboration, and growth. Starting his career with DH as a BMET in 2013, he carries the experience he later gained as the system's first Clinical Engineer and then as Manager of Clinical Engineering with him into his new role as the System Director of Biomedical Services & Clinical Engineering.
With a focus on fostering stability and cohesion during a challenging period of staffing transitions, Mike came out the other side growing technical expertise, centralized engineering and expanded system support teams. His efforts have led to higher employee retention, a revamped growth structure for BMETs, and consistent year-over-year improvements in engagement. Mike and teams have developed several standardized process improvements and catalyzed system improvement efforts. ACCE 2025 Patient Safety AwardThis award is bestowed on a single individual or team who has excelled in the "safety" area related to the CE field. Potential awardees could be a national investigator of accidents, an inventor of a safety device, or an author of books on medical device hazards, etc.  Phillip Jakubowitz, MS, PMPThis year's award recipient is Phillip Jakubowitz, MS, PMP, recognized for his ongoing contributions to patient safety.
Phillip Jakubowitz holds a Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Cincinnati and a Master of Engineering from Case Western Reserve University. Upon completing his degrees, he immediately launched his career as a Clinical Engineer at Brown University Health (formerly Lifespan) in Providence, Rhode Island. He later transitioned to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and continues to serve as a Clinical Engineer within the Beth Israel Lahey Health (BILH) system in the Boston, Massachusetts metro area.
Throughout his career, Phillip has been a steadfast advocate for patient care and clinical safety. His commitment and expertise in patient safety and incident investigation have made him an indispensable resource for the Healthcare Quality, Patient Safety, and Risk Management Departments in assessing medical equipment safety concerns. He also serves on multiple patient safety committees, representing the BILH HTM and Clinical Engineering Department. Phillip has personally followed up on hundreds of incidents and conducted numerous investigations.
Recently, Phillip was recognized by the FDA for his contributions to multiple nationwide recalls. Additionally, his efforts contributed to a National DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses in Patient Safety, which honored the BIDMC Critical Care Team for identifying a critical device software issue. Last year, Phillip earned his Project Management Professional (PMP) certification, further expanding his expertise and applying his knowledge to the Clinical Engineering field.
ACCE 2025 Lifetime Achievement AwardThis award is the highest award given by ACCE. It is presented annually to a single individual based on lifelong accomplishments and contributions to the clinical engineering (CE) profession.
 Carol Davis-Smith, MS, CCE, FACCE, AAMIFThis year's Lifetime Achievement Award is presented to Carol Davis-Smith, a Clinical Engineer, Leader, Mentor, Educator.
Carol is a proven leader in the development and maintenance of safe, reliable, cost effective, and efficient patient care delivery systems through technology and process management. She has 30 years' experience in academic and not-for-profit medical centers, group purchasing, consulting, and executive leadership. Through collaborative leadership and technical engagement, she continues to build successful teams that engage with her consulting firm – Carol Davis-Smith & Associates, LLC.
In addition to her private consulting work, Carol serves as the Director of the University of Connecticut Clinical Engineering Internship Program within the university's Biomedical Engineering Department.
The breadth and depth of Carol's professional experience sets a solid foundation from which to build meaningful client relationships. As the vice president of Clinical Technology for Kaiser Permanente, Carol developed and implemented corporate strategies and initiatives related to the clinical technology lifecycle. Prior to Kaiser Permanente, she was responsible for the development, marketing, and delivery of clinical capital lifecycle consulting services for Premier, Inc. Carol began her clinical engineering career at Barnes Hospital (St. Louis, MO), which subsequently became BJC HealthCare, where she managed medical device evaluation, procurement, and deployment projects along with personnel management of an IT desktop support team.
She also served as the vice chair of clinical engineering for the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI) Board of Directors and is a former (founding) member of the AAMI Technology Management Council. Additionally, she is a member of the American College of Clinical Engineering (ACCE) and former member of the United States Board of Examiners for Clinical Engineering Certification.
Throughout her career, Carol has provided support in all areas of the healthcare technology lifecycle and has presented and published numerous papers on a variety of clinical engineering, capital contracting, risk management, and leadership topics.
Carol holds a Master of Science degree in electrical and computer engineering – clinical engineering – from the University of Arizona and a Bachelor of Science in bioengineering technology from the University of Dayton. She is a certified clinical engineer and a Fellow in the American College of Clinical Engineering (FACCE) and the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMIF).
ACCE 2025 Antonio Hernandez International Clinical Engineering AwardThis award is conferred to one CE Professional or a group of CE professionals from a country in which CE is an emerging field in recognition of that person's or group of persons' extraordinary contributions to the advancement of CE in his/her/their own country or, to an individual or a group of professionals from other country/countries for his/her/their extraordinary efforts in supporting this advance.
 Umberto Nocco, MSEThe award recipient this year is Umberto Nocco, for his vast and enduring contribution to the advancement of the profession in Italy and other EU countries. Umberto has been working in the field of clinical engineering for well over 20 years in a variety of roles, including university instructor, consultant to the Italian Ministry of Health, R&D researcher for a medical device manufacturer and, for most of his career, CE Director in a major Italian hospital.
Umberto Nocco graduated in Biomedical Engineering in 1999. After a two-year experience in R&D department, in 2002 joined the Clinical Engineering family. Since 2002 he is member of the Italian Association of Clinical Engineers (AIIC) and helped in many ways both to the growth of the association and to the recognition and the broadening of the presence of CEs in the Italian Healthcare System.
More effectively, he helped this process as member of the Board of the Association (in which he served as Vice President) from 2013 to 2020 and then as President, from 2020 on-going.
Under Umberto Nocco and other Italian CE leaders, AIIC grew from a few hundred professionals to almost 2,000 members. In the same years the annual conference held by AIIC grew from a “small session meeting” to one of the largest CE events not only in Italy but also in the entire European Union (EU). The conference is attended annually by >2,000 participants and >100 exhibitors and during the conference CE-specific topics are analyzed and discussed together with general health policy matters, thus attracting other scientific/engineering societies, as well as many healthcare decision makers, including authorities from the health ministry and EU officials.
In the recent years, Umberto Nocco focused his attention (and that of the Italian Association) on deepening the connection among Italian CE professionals through knowledge and information sharing and on strengthening regional and national networks.
As part of the same process (fostered by what happened during the Covid-19 Pandemic) he sustained the issue of moving towards other European CE associations (e.g., France and Spain) to make CE better known among European healthcare institutions and government authorities.
As part of a profession-enhancing process, through AIIC Umberto Nocco focused the attention of the Italian CE community continuous training for CE professionals. Many courses and classes, both online and in-person, have been organized and additional ones are planned. A great achievement is a Summer School for young CEs taught by senior AIIC members. This is a one-week, full immersion training camp where the trainees not only have classes but also share outdoors moments, thus creating a very effective interactive environment for both students and teachers.
He is member of many committees within the Ministry of Health as Representative of the CE profession on different subjects such as Health Technology evaluation, HT age analysis, health care system modeling. On top of giving a professional contribution, each participation is a way to show how the CE profession is important to the health of citizens through the Health Care System and the correct utilization of Medical Technology.
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