Mr. Rick Wallace, a masters student in the department of biostatistics and epidemiology at East Tennessee State University College of Public Health and the assistant director of the Medical Library at East Tennessee State University’s James H. Quillen College of Medicine, is the recipient of the 2013 Michael DeBakey Library Services Outreach Award, an honor regarded as one of the most prestigious in the profession. Presented by the Friends of the National Library of Medicine (FNLA), the DeBakey Award recognizes outstanding service to rural or underserved communities.