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The HPSS Long-Term Excellence Award recognizes significant contributions to the profession through mentoring and service. Candidates must be 15 or more years from their terminal degree on January 1, 2019. Tom met the eligibility criteria for the 2020 award as he earned his Ph.D. from the Harvard Department of Statistics in 1991. Having spent most of his career at UCLA, he serves as a Professor in the UCLA Department of Biostatistics and UCLA Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences. Along the way Dr. Belin served for a year as Acting Chair of the Department of Biostatistics and currently serves as the departmental Vice Chair. In research, Dr. Belin is internationally known for contributions to address practical problems in incomplete data. His methodological developments have often drawn onmodels incorporating latent structures and Bayesian estimation strategies, and in addition to health-related applications he has made lasting contributions to the literature on record linkage. He has secured grant funding from a wide range of government agencies and private foundations, and his 165 peer-reviewed publications, which include numerous contributions to top-tier journals, have garnered more than 15,000 citations. In leadership and service, after being a member of several organizing committees for the flagship conference of HPSS, he co-chaired (with Arlene Ash) the 2005 installment of the ICHPS series, and he has subsequently been a member of ICHPS advisory boards. Through his many other service contributions in academia and professional societies, he is known as a bridge builder across institutions, communities, and individuals. Within the ASA, he has held