Women's Heart Advocate Awards
Each year, the Women's Heart Foundation is pleased
to honor leading women's heart health advocates who have taken the mission to heart and
led the way for entire communities to share in the life-saving task
of awareness or contributing to the excellence of care of women.
2005 Honorees
Pictured left to right:
Volunteer of the Year Award - Kathleen Ashton, PhD, RN, for her role as Principal Investigator of the WHF Teen Esteem research project
Executive Leadership Award - Peri Nearon, Director, New Jersey Office on Women's Health whose office provided funding for the Take New Jersey Women to Heart initiative
Civic Leadership Award - Ruthann Bailey, for her health advocacy at Trenton Central High School
2004 Honorees
Pictured left to right, the First Lady of New Jersey Mrs. Dina Matos McGreevey delivers
awards to honorees at the Take New Jersey Women to Heart Reception that took place at the Governors Mansion October 1:
Corporate Leadership Award - Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield-NJ, accepted by Laura Ahern, Marketing Department.
Distinguished Medicine Award - Nieca Goldberg, MD, for authoring an outstanding health advocacy book for women - Women are Not Small Men
Volunteer of the Year Award - Dolores Daly, for raising over $35,000 for the women and heart disease awareness campaign
Women's Health Care Provider Award - Marianne Balay, for her role as VP of Women's Health Services at RWJUH
Past Honorees
1999 Volunteer of the Year Award- Elizabeth Sweetser, Esq
1999 Corporate Leadership Award - Pellettieri and Rabstein
for mobilizing the community and raising $16,000 in silent auction contributions
from staff, colleagues, clients, family and friends.
1998 Volunteer of the Year Award- Patricia Moran
1995 Volunteer of the Year Award- Jane Hartsough
1992 Distinguished Medicine Award - Marianne J. Legato, MD for leading the country in
the movement towards gender-specific medicine and
for authoring an award-winning book for women:
The Female Heart - The Truth About Women and Coronary Artery Disease
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