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The Distinguished Community Service Award
PREVIOUS HONOREES
Zachary Iscol (2023),
for co-founding The Headstrong Project
to provide confidential, barrier-free, and
stigma-free PTSD treatment to veterans,
service members, and family connected
to their care
Jennie L. DeScherer and
Richard K. DeScherer (2014),
for their outstanding leadership of the
SLE Lupus Foundation and the Lupus
Research Institute
Olajide Williams, MD (2022),
for improving health literacy through
the transformative power of music, art,
and science
Tracy Reese (2013),
for her work, with the Council of Fashion
Designers of America and the New York City
AIDS Fund, in the continuing battle against
HIV/AIDS
Karen Washington (2021),
for her work as a champion of food
sustainability and community organizer
for food justice
Elizabeth J. McCormack (2012),
for her efforts to ensure that all those in need
of palliative care will receive the comfort and
dignity it can provide
Neil Blumenthal and Dave Gilboa (2020),
for Warby Parker’s project to provide
underserved New York City school children
with free vision screenings and glasses
Edgar Mandeville, MD (2011),
for his energy, skill, and commitment to
his pivotal role in shaping the Arthur Ashe
Institute for Urban Health’s work to alleviate
health disparities
Lynne Holden, MD (2019),
For inspiring and equipping disadvantaged
and low-income students to become health
care professionals
Debra G. Perelman (2018),
for co-founding the Child Mind Institute to
improve treatment for childhood mental
health disorders
Robert Gore, MD (2017),
for his role as founder and executive director
of Kings Against Violence Initiative (KAVI),
a hospital-, school-, and community-based
intervention
Scott B. Salmirs (2016),
for his bold and decisive action to increase
organ donation awareness and registration in
the greater New York area, as a founder
of Donate Eight
Arnold P. Gold, MD (2015),
for advancing humanism in medicine by
fostering a culture of respect, dignity, and
compassion for patients in medical education
and practice
Paula L. Root and Leon Root, MD (2010),
for her work with the Visiting Nurse Service of
New York and his founding of the Hospital for
Special Surgery’s Pediatric Outreach Program
J. Ira Harris (2009),
for creating a lifeline for countless children
and adolescents through the Harris Obesity
Prevention Effort (HOPE) at NYU Langone
Medical Center
Rear Admiral Robert A. Rosen, NYNM (Ret.)
(2008),
for his extraordinary commitment to serving
law enforcement and military personnel and
their families through the creation of the
Florence and Robert A. Rosen Family Wellness
Center at Northwell Health
Charles R. Bronfman (2007),
for his commitment to revolutionizing health
care in the 21st century through the creation
of the Charles R. Bronfman Institute for
Personalized Medicine
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