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The Health Care Leadership Award
PREVIOUS HONOREES
Roger W. Ferguson, Jr. (2020)
for his personal leadership and TIAA’s special
commitment to the health care workforce
James S. and Merryl H. Tisch (2009)
for their commitment to clinical science and
access to high-quality care
Steven R. Swartz (2019)
for his leadership and Hearst’s work to improve
health care through information and technology
Anthony L. Watson (2008)
for his powerful voice for health care, and
longtime role in health insurance
Stanley Brezenoff (2018)
for his decades of commitment to New York as a
public official and hospital CEO
Andrea Jung (2007)
for assisting underserved women in their fight
against breast cancer
James H. Simons, PhD (2017)
for his visionary philanthropy to advance basic
scientific research
Martin D. Payson (2006)
for his wisdom and clear vision for strengthening
health care
Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, MD (2016)
for extraordinary work to build a health care
system that serves us all
John K. Castle (2005)
for his efforts, over 30 years, to ensure the best
health care for New Yorkers
Howard P. Milstein (2015)
for advancing clinical breakthroughs and
improvements in care delivery
Mathilde Krim, PhD (2004)
for mobilizing support for research and landmark
policies on AIDS
Michael A. Stocker, MD (2014)
for transformative work in insurance and with
municipal hospitals
John J. Mack (2003)
for his distinguished service to health care
Peter W. May (2013)
for his transformative leadership of The Mount
Sinai Medical Center
Karen Davis (2012)
for leading public and private efforts to ensure
high-quality care for all
Frank A. Bennack, Jr. (2011)
for his visionary leadership and philanthropy to
improve health care
Kenneth E. Raske (2010)
for his skill, dedication, and impressive
achievements
Morton P. Hyman (2002)
for his long-standing contributions to improving
health care in New York
William C. Steere, Jr. (2001)
for his extraordinary contributions to health care
Sanford I. Weill (2000)
for advancing biomedical research and medical
education in New York City
Jack and Lewis Rudin (1999)
for their far-reaching contributions to improving
health and health care
Maurice R. Greenberg (1998)
for outstanding contributions to health care
The Distinguished Community Service Award
PREVIOUS HONOREES
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
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
Jennie L. DeScherer and
Richard K. DeScherer (2014)
for their outstanding leadership of the SLE Lupus
Foundation and the Lupus Research Institute
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
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
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
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
Henry “Hank” Carter (2006)
for founding Wheelchair Charities, Inc., to fulfill
his mission of improving the quality of life of
physically challenged individuals
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