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44th DIRECTING COUNCIL

PAHEF Gives 2003 Awards


Martin R. Eichelberger won the Abraham Horwitz Award for his work in prevention and treatment of childhood injuries. ©Armando Waak/PAHO

The Pan American Health and Education Foundation (PAHEF), the U.S.-based nonprofit partner of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), announced the winners of its 2003 international awards for service in public health during the PAHO 44th Directing Council meeting in Washington, D.C., in late September.


Rosa Angelina Pace won the Manuel Velasco-Suárez bioethics award for her work on distributive justice in organ transplants.

PAHEF named Martin R. Eichelberger as winner of the 2003 Abraham Horwitz Award for Leadership in Inter-American Health. A U.S. citizen born in Brazil, Eichelberger was honored for his work in prevention of childhood injuries and his development of lifesaving advances in child trauma treatment. He is currently director of Emergency Trauma and Burn Services at Children's National Medical Center in Washington, D.C., and professor of Surgery and Pediatrics at the George Washington University Medical Center.

PAHEF also named Rosa Angelina Pace as winner of the 2003 Manuel Velasco-Suárez Award in Bioethics for her work on distributive justice in organ transplant systems in Latin America. An Argentine national, Pace is currently a surgeon at the Pedro de Elizalde Hospital for children as well as coordinator of the bioethics committee and professor in the medical school of the Italian Hospital in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Pace and Eichelberger were both honored at an awards ceremony on Sept. 22 at PAHO headquarters in Washington, D.C.