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JeffHOPE, the student-run organization that provides health services and advocacy for homeless people, was one of 10 Philadelphia area healthcare programs or organizations honored “for their exceptional work in the delivery of community health care” in the second annual SmithKline Beecham IMPACT awards program. The 1998-99 Community Health IMPACT Award brings a $40,000 grant to JeffHOPE. Displaying the award are the Jefferson Medical College (JMC) faculty adviser to JeffHOPE, James D. Plumb, MD, Clinical Associate Professor of Family Medicine, and Associate Vice President, Community Service and Public Health, Jefferson Health System and, next to him, three JMC student participants in JeffHOPE, from left, Jennifer Rainey, JMC ’99; Julie Prosseda, JMC ’99 and Marc Oswald, JMC ’00, JeffHOPE public relations director. Representing SmithKline Beecham (SB) are, at far left, David Stout, President, SB Pharamaceuticals, North America and, at far right, Diane Jorkasky, Vice President of Clinical Pharmacology, SB Pharmaceuticals. JeffHOPE, or the Urban Health Initiative, is a volunteer program providing dignified, accessible and appropriate health care for a diversified population of underserved and compromised people and has more than 1,800 encounters per year. JMC students have run the program since 1991. More than 800 medical, physical therapy, occupational therapy and nursing students participate, as well as more than 100 faculty members, physicians, residents and nurse practitioners. Robert Neroni Photography

Three Psychiatry faculty members of Jefferson Medical College (JMC) were honored at the Benjamin Rush Ball sponsored by the Philadelphia Psychiatric Society. From left are: Howard Field, MD, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, JMC, recipient of the Psychiatric Educator of Physicians Award; Michael J. Vergare, MD, Professor and Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, JMC, recipient of the Daniel Blain Award for dedication and service to the profession of psychiatry; Stephen L. Schwartz, MD, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, JMC, recipient of the Edward Lawlor Award for public service and political action; and Lawrence A. Real, MD, Medical Director, Belmont Center for Comprehensive Care, recipient of the Robert E. Jones Award for commitment and service to the chronic mentally ill.Robert Neroni Photography

Ferid Murad, MD, PhD, 1998 Nobel Laureate, and Jefferson’s Scott A. Waldman, MD, PhD, at Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden.

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