Center announces community action awards at leadership breakfast

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Dr. Harold P. Freeman Photo by Todd McNaught

The Hutchinson Center announced the recipients of its second-annual Community Action Award during last Friday's Community Leadership Breakfast. The annual breakfast featured guest speaker Dr. Harold P. Freeman, president and founder of the Ralph Lauren Center for Cancer Care and Prevention in New York, and a leading authority on the interrelationships between race, poverty and cancer. More than 100 community leaders attended the event, which was sponsored by the Hutchinson Center's Community Advisory Council.

Honorees were the Northwest Asian Weekly Foundation for its sponsorship of the Women of Color Empowered luncheon series; Dr. John Choe, a general internist physician at Harborview Medical Center and an affiliate investigator in the Public Health Sciences Division; Carmen the Public Health Sciences Division; Carmen Mitchell, a local colon-cancer survivor and community advocate for early detection and screening; and Giselle Zapata-Garcia, program manager for the Washington Health Foundation's Community Health Access Program.

The Community Action Award was established to honor individuals and community organizations who go above and beyond the scope of their normal duties to improve health-care access and education, and to reduce health-care disparities.

For more information about the award winners and the upcoming Community Leadership Breakfast series, please contact Winona Hauge, Community Outreach manager, at (206) 667-1246.

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