Stanley J. Sarnoff Spirit Award |
The Stanley J. Sarnoff Spirit Award is given annually to honor a member of the Sarnoff community for commitment and dedication to the Sarnoff Fellowship Program, Society of Alumni or in furtherance of the overall mission of the Foundation.
2015 Stanley J. Sarnoff Spirit Award
ANN MARIE SCHMIDT, MD Dr. Ann Marie Schmidt is a Professor at New York, University School of Medicine and has been a member of the Sarnoff community for nearly twenty years. She began as a preceptor to Drs. Gotham Makker and Kenneth Lee during her years at Columbia. She also sponsored Eun Soo Kwak for a 2005-06 Fellowship
2014 Stanley J. Sarnoff Spirit Award Dr. Charlie Lowenstein has served as a mentor to a long list of medical students, physicians and investigators throughout the course of his career. Dr. Lowenstein began his affiliation with Sarnoff more than twenty years ago when he was affiliated with Johns Hopkins.
He then moved on to the University of Rochester. He has served as a Preceptor to two Sarnoff Fellows. Dr. Lowenstein also served as a Sponsor to ten Sarnoff Fellows. Dr. Lowenstein served on the Scientific Committee from 1998 through 2007, the Board of Directors from 2007 through 2014, the Governance Committee from 2008 through 2014, and the Development Committee from 2009 to 2010. He served as Chair and Secretary of the Board of Directors, Chair of the Governance Committee, and Chair of the Scientific Committee. The Sarnoff Foundation is grateful to Dr. Lowenstein for his continued leadership and support.
GALEN WAGNER, MD Dr. Galen Wagner was a close friend and colleague of Dr. Sarnoff through the years. He was instrumental in the formation of the Sarnoff Fellowship Program. For over thirty years, Dr. Wagner has been a strong supporter of the Sarnoff Foundation. He sponsored 21 Sarnoff Fellows from Duke.Dr. Wagner served on the Board of Directors from 1982 through 1992. He keeps in touch with many former Sarnoff Fellows and is an outstanding example of continued dedication, leadership and vision to our Fellows.
2013 Stanley J. Sarnoff Spirit Award
CARLIN LONG, MD In the spirit of Dr. Sarnoff, who championed "life-long mentoring,” Dr. Carlin Long has served as a mentor to a long list of medical students, physicians and investigators throughout the course of his career.
Carlin began his affiliation with Sarnoff more than 20 years ago when he was affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco. He then moved on to the University of Colorado. He has served as a Preceptor to six Sarnoff Fellows and to one Sarnoff Scholar. Five of his Fellows continued on in leadership positions with the Sarnoff Foundation Scientific and Alumni Committees. Dr. Long’s involvement increased by his service on the Scientific Committee from 1999 through 2004. He eventually became its Chair. Dr. Long consistently has championed the interests of Sarnoff Fellows in the lab. JERE MITCHELL, MD
Dr. Jere Mitchell was a close friend and colleague of Dr. Sarnoff through the years. He was instrumental in the formation of the Sarnoff Fellowship program. During the first twenty years of the Foundation, Jere sponsored eleven Sarnoff Fellows from the University of Texas, Southwestern.
Dr. Mitchell served on the first Board of Directors from 1981 through 1991, and then again from 2000 through 2005. In between those times, he was a member and then Chair of the Scientific Committee (1993-96 and 1999-2000). Dr. Mitchell has helped the Sarnoff Foundation in its period of transition and growing pains and is an outstanding example of continued dedication, leadership and vision to our Fellows and volunteers.
2012 Stanley J. Sarnoff Spirit Award
MICHAEL CAIN, MD (pictured with Debra Schwinn, MD) When the Sarnoff Foundation was doing some outreach in the late 1990s it contacted Washington University in St. Louis to see who might have an interest in attending Dr. Cain has helped the Foundation in its period of transition and is an example of dedication, leadership and vision to our fellows and volunteers.
HAROLD
STRAUSS, MD (pictured
center with Rich Guerra, MD, & Jon Lomasney, MD) As stated in the letter nominating Dr. Harold Strauss (now at the University at Buffalo), for the Stanley J. Sarnoff Spirit Award, "Dr. Strauss has a longstanding commitment to, and affection for, the Sarnoff Foundation and all that it does for young trainees in cardiovascular medicine.” Fittingly, in the spirit of Dr. Sarnoff, who championed "life-long mentoring,” Dr. Strauss has served as a mentor to a long list of physicians and investigators throughout the course of his career. Dr. Strauss, then at Duke Medical School, began his affiliation with Sarnoff 20 years ago. He sponsored seven students for Sarnoff Fellowships: Most of his Fellows went on to leadership positions in Dr.
Strauss’s involvement increased by his service on the Scientific Committee from
1994 through 1998. He served as the
Committee’s elected chair. It was during
this time that the Foundation found itself in the midst of several challenges
to its programs and funding. Dr. Strauss guided the Committee with a steady
hand, providing mature leadership during those rough days. He set the stage for
a period of tremendous growth and program success that followed.
When Dr. Strauss "retired” from Sarnoff, the Foundation lost a fantastic resource, so it was with the greatest pleasure and gratitude to welcome him back and honor him with this prestigious award.
2011 Stanley J. Sarnoff Spirit Award
MYRON WEISFELDT, MD was honored as the first recipient of the Stanley J. with his role as the "prototype" inspiration to Dr. Sarnoff to create the Sarnoff
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