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American Legacy Foundation® to Recognize Dr. Mehmet Oz and Other Public Health Visionaries at Annual Gala

3/11/2009

NEW YORK -- The sixth annual American Legacy Foundation^® Honors event will take place March 11, 2009, at The Pierre Hotel. In addition to paying tribute to leaders in business, entertainment, government, media and public health that are helping Legacy make the dream of a tobacco-free world a reality, the event also marks the tenth anniversary of the foundation’s existence.

The Honors gala benefits the Foundation’s many valuable programs and campaigns that educate the public about the deadly toll of tobacco, help youth never to start smoking and provide resources and tools for adults who need help quitting smoking. This year’s honorees include:

Mehmet C. Oz, M.D, Professor of Surgery, Vice Chairman, Cardiovascular Surgery, Columbia University, New York City. Dr. Oz will receive the Humanitarian in Medicine and Public Health Award.

Ronald M. Davis, M.D., Former Director, Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Henry Ford Health System and Immediate Past President, American Medical Association. Nadine Davis, Dr. Davis’s widow, will be presented with his posthumous Lifetime Achievement Award.

Leslie Snoke, MPA, Director, Youth and Adult Services, Foundation for California Community Colleges, Sacramento, Calif. Ms. Snoke will receive the Community Activist Award.

Harold P. Freeman, M.D., President and Founder, The Ralph Lauren Center for Cancer Care and Prevention and Founder of Harold P. Freeman Patient Navigation Institute, New York City. Dr. Freeman will receive the Public Service Award.

Susan Desmond-Hellmann, M.D., M.PH., President, Product Development, Genentech, South San Francisco, Calif. Dr. Desmond-Hellmann will receive the Innovation in Healthcare Award.

WHERE:           The Pierre Hotel, 2 East 61st Street at Fifth Ave., New York City

WHEN:             Wednesday, March 11, 2009 

                        6:30 p.m. cocktails / 7:30 p.m. awards ceremony and dinner

Founded in 1999, the American Legacy Foundation’s mission is to build a world where young people reject tobacco and anyone can quit. The foundation has two goals:  to arm all young people with the tools and knowledge to reject tobacco and to eliminate disparities in access to tobacco prevention and cessation services. Currently, 43 million Americans smoke. 70% of smokers report that they want to quit. The American Legacy Foundation seeks to provide them with the necessary tools and support to do so successfully. During the past decade, this work, combined with other effective tobacco control programs at the national, state and local levels, have together influenced a sea change in social norms surrounding the issue of tobacco use in the U.S. 

For Gala information contact theAmerican Legacy Foundation Benefit Office at (212) 843-1718, fax to (212) 843-1730 or e-mail at americanlegacy@hgnyc.com.

The American Legacy Foundation^® is dedicated to building a world where young people reject tobacco and anyone can quit. Located in Washington, D.C., the foundation develops programs that address the health effects of tobacco use, especially among vulnerable populations disproportionately affected by the toll of tobacco, through grants, technical assistance and training, partnerships, youth activism, and counter-marketing and grassroots marketing campaigns. The foundation’s programs include truth^®, a national youth smoking prevention campaign that has been cited as contributing to significant declines in youth smoking; EX^®, an innovative public health program designed to speak to smokers in their own language and change the way they approach quitting; research initiatives exploring the causes, consequences and approaches to reducing tobacco use; and a nationally-renowned program of outreach to priority populations. The American Legacy Foundation was created as a result of the November 1998 Master Settlement Agreement (MSA) reached between attorneys general from 46 states, five U.S. territories and the tobacco industry. Visit http://www.americanlegacy.org/.

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Contact: Julia Cartwright, 202-454-5596, jcartwright@americanlegacy.org