About the 2025 Catalyst Award

Merriam-Webster defines a catalyst as: “an agent that provokes or speeds significant change or action.”

The inaugural 2023 WORLDSymposium “Be The Catalyst” encouraged all attendees to be catalysts and spark change. In 2024, WORLDSymposium presented the first “Catalyst” award to Zachary Thomas, who was nominated in recognition of his efforts to instigate and expedite changes to newborn screening in Alabama.

Award Nominations Deadline: September 3, 2024.

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Please join WORLDSymposium at the 2025 Be The Catalyst at 18:00 PST on Monday, February 3, 2025, at the Manchester Grand Hyatt in San Diego, California, where the 2025 WORLDSymposium Catalyst Award will be presented. Then make plans to stay and join in the group photos!