All Entries Tagged With: "Gala Dinner Honoree"
Her Majesty Queen Noor
Her Majesty Queen Noor is an international public servant and an outspoken voice on issues of world peace and justice, and PSR-LA is proud to honor her with the 2009 Healing the Planet Award. She plays an active role in promoting international exchange and understanding of Arab and Muslim culture and politics, Arab-Western relations, and [...]
Jose Quiroga, M.D.
PSR-LA is proud to honor Dr. Jose Quiroga with our 2009 Socially Responsible Medicine Award. He is a cardiologist, co-founder and director of medical services at the Program for Torture Victims (PTV), and serves as a vice-president of the International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims (IRCT). He also serves on the boards of PSR National [...]
Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas
PSR-LA is pleased to present Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas with the Founders Award for championing preventive policies to protect public health throughout California. As a state senator, Ridley-Thomas’ leadership was critical in helping PSR-LA pass legislation condemning medical professionals’ participation in torture. He has also authored legislation to help prevent childhood lead poisoning and advocates for [...]
Sandra Steingraber, Ph.D.
PSR-LA is proud to honor Sandra Steingraber with our 2009 Environmental Health Champion award. Ecologist, author, and cancer survivor, Sandra Steingraber, Ph.D. is an internationally recognized expert on the environmental links to cancer and human health. Steingraber’s highly acclaimed book, Living Downstream: An Ecologist Looks at Cancer and the Environment presents cancer as a human [...]
Hans Blix
Dr. Hans Blix is the recipient of PSR-LA’s 2008 Peacemaker Award for his enduring efforts to rid the world of weapons of mass destruction. The award was presented to him on April 3 by Tova Fuller, a PSR-LA Board Member and dual M.D./Ph.D. UCLA student, and Dr. Bennett Ramberg, a former State Department policy analyst [...]
Joseph Cirincione
Joseph Cirincione is the recipient of PSR-LA’s 2008 Founders Award. He is the president of the Ploughshares Fund, a global security foundation, the author of Bomb Scare: The History and Future of Nuclear Weapons (Columbia University Press, Spring 2007) and served previously as senior vice president for national security and international policy at the Center [...]
Lawrence Bender
PSR-LA is proud to honor Lawrence Bender with our 2008 Socially Responsible Media Award for using his innovative filmmaking talents to create social change. Bender’s award-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth has inspired the public to take unprecedented political and personal action to stop climate change. His accomplishments in film are extensive; his movies have been [...]
Dr. James Yamazaki
Dr. James Yamazaki will receive PSR-LA’s 2008 Socially Responsible Medicine Award for his lifelong work on the effects of radiation on public health. While his parents were interned in an American concentration camp, Dr. Yamazaki served as a World War II combat surgeon in the Battle of the Bulge, where he was captured by the [...]
Shirley Magidson
PSR-LA is proud to award Shirley Magidson our 2007 Healing the Planet Award. Shirley is one of the founding members of Physicians for Social Responsibility-Los Angeles and serves on the board today. Her active lobbying against nuclear weapons helped PSR win the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985. In addition to her service at PSR-LA, Shirley [...]
Law and Order Special Victims Unit
PSR-LA is proud to honor Law and Order SVU with our Socially Responsible Media Award for taking on the most challenging social issues of our times, including the recent episode, “Loophole,” which powerfully addresses the toxic effects of pesticides. Emmy-award winning actress Mariska Hargitay and Executive Producer Neal Baer M.D. will accept the award. This [...]
Joseph Wilson and Valerie Plame Wilson
PSR-LA is proud to honor former Ambassador Joseph Wilson and former CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson with our 2007 Peacemaker Award for their courageous efforts to protect Americans from weapons of mass destruction and their steadfast commitment to the truth in the face of great adversity. Valerie Plame Wilson is the former CIA covert operations [...]