Palmaz Award Tribute
Highlights BioMed SA Annual Meeting
(Photo by Joel Spring)
BioMed SA Chair Henry Cisneros, left, presents the 2007 Julio Palmaz Award to Dr. Karen Davis, President of
The Commonwealth Fund, at the BioMed SA Annual Meeting in San Antonio. With them is Dr. Fernando Guerra, Director of the San Antonio Metropolitan Health District, who nominated Dr. Davis for the honor.
BioMed SA Presents the Julio Palmaz Award for Innovation in Healthcare and the Biosciences to Karen Davis, Ph. D.
Some 300 San Antonio industry and community leaders joined BioMed SA in celebrating innovation in healthcare and the biosciences with presentation of the Julio Palmaz Award to Dr. Karen Davis, President of
The Commonwealth Fund. Dr. Davis, of New York City, was recognized December 13, 2007 for her influence and leadership on healthcare issues we all face and the movement toward significant healthcare system reform. Dr. Davis is the first healthcare research and policy leader to receive the award, now in its second year. While in San Antonio, Dr. Davis also met with hospital CEOs, a community advisory board, and medical school faculty and students from The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.
FOR FULL STORY. (Press release, November 19, 2007)
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Palmaz award winner chosen
By Travis E. Poling
Express-News Business Writer
Karen Davis, president of the New York City-based
Commonwealth Fund and a former Carter administration official, was selected as the second person to receive the Palmaz Award for Innovation in Healthcare and the Biosciences from BioMed SA.
The award — named for its first recipient, cardiovascular stent inventor Dr. Julio Palmaz — honors a person who has demonstrated innovation in the biosciences and health-care arena.
Davis, a former deputy assistant secretary for health policy in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, will be in San Antonio on Dec. 13 to receive the award.
While serving as a government official, she created the Child Health Assessment Program, the forerunner of the State Children's Health Insurance Program now being debated between Congress and the White House.
"Her involvement in CHIP just leapt off the page," BioMed SA President Ann Stevens said. "She's known as a real visionary.
FOR FULL STORY. (San Antonio Express-News, November 19, 2007)
