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UT Medical Mission Hall of Fame to induct new class |
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Matt Lockwood |
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Apr 4, 2008 |
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The University of Toledo College of Medicine’s Medical Mission Hall of Fame will induct its fifth class of honorees Saturday, April 5, from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. in the atrium of the Center for Creative Education on the Health Science Campus.
This year’s inductees are Dr. Nathan Barlow (posthumous), Dr. Peter Hotez, Dr. Editha Canete-Miguel and Dr. Victor C. Rambo (posthumous).
Also to be recognized that evening will be John Bul Dau, who will receive the Lawrence V. Conway Distinguished Service Award, and Rep. Marcy Kaptur, who will receive the Lawrence V. Conway Lifetime Distinguished Service Award.
Conway, of Toledo, founded the Medical Mission Hall of Fame in 2004 to honor those individuals and/or organizations that have made significant and substantial contributions to advancing the medical well-being of people throughout the world. The Medical Mission Hall of Fame became an affiliate of UT’s College of Medicine in 2006. A permanent home for the Medical Mission Hall of Fame was established last year in the atrium of the Center for Creative Education.
Barlow spent most of his medical career ministering to the poor in Africa, mainly in Ethiopia where he started the Mossy Foot Project, resulting in some 15 clinics across the country, treating tens of thousands of needy patients. Mossy foot is a debilitating condition that is found primarily in rural districts where people work in soil of volcanic origin. The condition causes repeated swelling and ulcers, deformity and secondary foot and lower-leg infections
An internationally recognized medical parasitologist, vaccinologist and tropical disease expert, Hotez of Washington, D.C., is breaking new ground in the control of neglected tropical diseases caused by parasitic helminths, or worm parasites, and the development of vaccines that combat them. He is the Walter G. Ross Professor and Chair of Microbiology, Immunology and Tropical Medicine at George Washington University and president of the Sabin Vaccine Institute.
Miguel of Palawan, Philippines, founded Agape Rural Health Program to help needy and underserved Filipinos improve their quality of life by training individuals and communities to become self-reliant while providing compassionate health services.
In mission work for 50 years, Rambo gave sight to myriads of India’s curable blind, pioneering mobile units for superb eye care in villages, and, as professor, inspiring students to do likewise.
This class joins 17 prior recipients in receiving the honor.
Bul Dau is known as one of the “Lost Boys of Sudan,” who at age 13 in 1987, fled his home to begin a perilous journey spanning more than 1,000 miles and 14 years. His story is traced in the award-winning documentary, “God Grew Tired of Us.” At the 2006 Sundance Film Festival, the work won both the Grand Jury Prize: Documentary and the Audience Award in the Independent Film Competition: Documentary category.
Kaptur of Toledo is being honored for her career-long support of medical missions and the improving of the lives of others throughout the world in her role as a member of Congress.
All of the living awardees will be in attendance during the ceremony, and the posthumous inductees will be represented by their children.
For more information, contact Dan Saevig, associate vice president of alumni relations, at 419.530.4008.
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