Dr. Isadore Rosenfeld, the Ida and Theo Rossi Distinguished Professor of Clinical Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College and attending physician at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, will be awarded the prestigious Maurice R. Greenberg Distinguished Service Award at a gala ceremony to be held Thursday, May 4, 2006, at the Pierre Hotel in New York City.
The Greenberg Award is the highest honor NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell bestows upon a physician and includes a $50,000 grant to be used by the recipient in connection with his or her research.
Dr. Rosenfeld is the bestselling author of 14 books for the lay public and is currently the health editor for Parade magazine, a position he has held since 1998. Additionally, every Sunday morning he hosts "Housecall" on the Fox Cable News Network in a worldwide telecast.
Dr. Rosenfeld is a member of numerous academic and medical societies, including serving as an overseer of Weill Cornell Medical College; a member of the Board of Visitors at U.C. Davis School of Medicine; a governor of Tel Aviv University; and Honorary Fellow of the Cornell Graduate Society. He was President of the New York County Medical Society and a member of The Practicing Physicians Advisory Council for the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Dr. Rosenfeld also served as a consultant to the National Institute of Health on such task forces as arteriosclerosis, sudden death and hypertension and, in 2005, he received a presidential appointment as a member of the Advisory Council to the White House Conference on Aging. He is the recipient of the first award for achievement in cardiovascular medicine and science by the New York affiliate of the American Heart Association. In 1999, he was presented with the United Nation's Citizen of the World Award.
Dr. Rosenfeld earned his M.D. degree as well as an Honorary Doctor of Science from McGill University, Quebec, Canada, and today maintains a consulting practice specializing in cardiovascular diseases in New York City.
The Greenberg Award was established in 1980 by one of the Medical Center's most generous benefactors, Maurice R. Greenberg, chairman emeritus of the Board of Trustees of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and a member of Weill Medical College of Cornell University's Board of Overseers, and by Dr. Peter Guida, associate professor of surgery and associate attending surgeon, as a way to identify and celebrate in perpetuity those individuals who make NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and Weill Cornell Medical College cornerstones of academic medicine in New York City and beyond.