Chancellor Sue Desmond-Hellmann, MD, MPH, joined members of the UCSF community to honor outstanding service to the public, patients and the university during the 2010 Founders Day Luncheon on May 21.
Dixie Horning, executive director of the UCSF National Center for Excellence (CoE) in Women’s Health, who received a public service award, brought the crowd to its feet in one spirited moment when she asked everyone to join hands in celebration.
“I think you have a future career as a preacher,” Desmond-Hellmann told Horning.
During the annual feel-good event, the following members of the UCSF community thanked their families, friends and colleagues for their support as they received these awards in Millberry Union Gymnasium:
Rochelle Ami Dicker, MD, assistant professor of surgery and trauma surgeon, was honored in the faculty category for her work as director and founder of the Wraparound Project, a violence prevention program at San Francisco General Hospital (SFGH).
The project, which uses case managers to address the root causes of violence and find resources to address these factors, is a successful hospital-based model that is stopping the cycle of violence, a problem that primarily affects African Americans and Latinos, Dicker noted. It is being replicated elsewhere, including UC Davis.
The Wraparound Project is an example of how the University is fulfilling its strategic goals of reducing and eliminating health disparities, Dicker said.
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