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NEW YORK<\/span>, Nov. 28, 2018<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ —\u00a0On Thursday, November 29<\/span>th<\/sup>, the National Hispanic Health Foundation will honor outstanding health professional students as well as award key leaders, who have made outstanding contributions towards improving the health of Hispanic communities.<\/p>\n EVENT DETAILS<\/u><\/b><\/p>\n WHAT:<\/u><\/b>\u00a0The Gala ceremony will award scholarships to health professional students from the Eastern United States<\/span> for their exceptional academic performance, leadership, and commitment to caring for Hispanics. The Gala will also honor Hispanic Health Leaders whose achievements showcase their dedication to improving the health of Hispanic communities.<\/p>\n WHEN:<\/u><\/b>\u00a0Thursday, November 29th<\/sup>, 2018 WHERE: 2018 HISPANIC HEALTH LEADERHSIP AWARDEES: 2018 SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENTS: PAST NEW YORK<\/span> GALA AWARDEES INCLUDE:<\/u><\/b><\/p>\n Herminia Palacio<\/span>, MD, MPH \u2013 <\/b>Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services, New York City<\/span>, 2017 Awardee 2018 KEY GALA SPONSORS: <\/u><\/b><\/p>\n United Health Foundation, Alta Med Health Services Inc., DaVita Inc., Novo Nordisk Inc., & Weill Cornell Medical College, New York Institute of Technology<\/span>, Latino Commission on Aids, New York Presbyterian Hospital, Greater New York Hospital Association\/GNYHA Venture, RWJF Special Contributions Fund of the Princeton Area Community Foundation, Northwell Health, The Healthcare Association of New York State<\/span>, & the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene<\/p>\n Media Partners: <\/b>UNIVISION, <\/b>Impacto Latino, <\/b>&\u00a0Latino Leaders Magazine<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n SOURCE National Hispanic Health Foundation<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" NEW YORK<\/span>, Nov. 28, 2018<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ —\u00a0On Thursday, November 29<\/span>th<\/sup>, the National Hispanic Health Foundation will honor outstanding health professional students as well as award key leaders, who have made outstanding contributions towards improving the health of Hispanic communities.<\/p>\n EVENT DETAILS<\/u><\/b><\/p>\n WHAT:<\/u><\/b>\u00a0The Gala ceremony will award scholarships to health professional students from the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-salud"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
6:30 PM<\/span> \u2013 Reception
7:30 PM<\/span> \u2013 Dinner and Awards Ceremony
9:30 PM<\/span> \u2013 Dance<\/p>\n
<\/u><\/b>Sheraton NY Times Square Hotel
811 7th Avenue, W 53rd St
New York, NY<\/span> 10019<\/p>\n
<\/u><\/b>Oxiris Barbot, \u00a0M.D.<\/u><\/b>\u00a0\u2013 <\/b>The Acting Commissioner of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
Mitchell H. Katz<\/span>, M.D.<\/u><\/b>\u00a0– <\/b>President and Chief Executive Officer of New York City Health + Hospitals
Susana Morales<\/span>, M.D.<\/u><\/b>\u00a0– <\/b>Vice Chair for Diversity for the Department of Medicine at Weill-Cornell.
Carlos F. Orta<\/span><\/u><\/b>\u00a0\u2013 <\/b>Carnival Corporation Vice President of Corporate Affairs<\/p>\n
<\/u><\/b>Ana Saavedra<\/span><\/b> – Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing<\/span>
Ariadna Capasso<\/span><\/b> – New York University<\/span>, College of Global Public Health
Christina Nu\u00f1ez<\/b> – Columbia University<\/span> College of Dental Medicine and Mailman School of Public Health
Dennis Dacarett-Galeano<\/span><\/b> – Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai<\/span>\/Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health
Juan Caceres<\/span><\/b> – University of Michigan<\/span> Medical School\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
Julio Ramos<\/span><\/b> – Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai<\/span>
Noe Cabello<\/b> – Drexel University<\/span> College of Medicine
Octavio Viramontes<\/span><\/b> – Harvard Medical School<\/span>
Olivia Buonanno<\/span><\/b> – Wilkes University<\/span> Nesbitt School of Pharmacy, Pennsylvania<\/span>
Veronica Ortiz<\/span><\/b> – Albert Einstein College<\/span> of Medicine\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n
Luis Miranda<\/span> \u2013 <\/b>Founding Partner, MirRam Group, 2016 Awardee
The Honorable Melissa Mark-Viverito <\/b>\u2013<\/b> Speaker of the New York City Council, 2015 Awardee
Chelsea Clinton<\/span><\/b> \u2013 Vice Chair, The Clinton Foundation, 2013 Awardee
Maria Hinojosa<\/span><\/b> \u2013 President, The Futuro Media Group, 2012 Awardee
Robert I. Grossman<\/span>, MD <\/b>\u2013<\/b> Dean, New York University<\/span> School of Medicine, 2008 Awardee<\/p>\n