Stephanopoulos to Serve as Awards Gala Master of Ceremonies
George Stephanopoulos, chief Washington correspondent
for ABC News and anchor of ABC's "This Week," will serve as master of
ceremonies for Research!America's 2007 Advocacy Awards gala. The event will be
March 20 at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium in Washington, DC.
As the gala master of ceremonies, he will help honor another news journalist, Mike Wallace, CBS correspondent emeritus, who has written of his depression issues. Former Surgeon General David Satcher, MD, PhD, is another award recipient being recognized in part for his advocacy to advance mental health research.
The other 2007 Research!America Advocacy Award winners are Utah Senator Orrin G. Hatch; Susan Axelrod, president, Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy; the Coalition for the Advancement of Medical Research; and University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas' Nobel Laureates Michael S. Brown, MD, and Joseph L. Goldstein, MD, regental professors, and Donald W. Seldin, MD, internal medicine professor and chair emeritus.
Gala co-chairs are Christopher A. Viehbacher, president, U.S. Pharmaceuticals, GlaxoSmithKline, and Mary J.C. Hendrix, PhD, president and scientific director, Children's Memorial Research Center, Chicago. Randy Siegel, publisher of PARADE magazine, is the media host.
Originally published 3/2007
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