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Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS launched its 2008 Dining by Design National Tour. |
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| On Tuesday, DIFFA: Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS launched its 2008 Dining by Design National Tour at Skylight on 275 Hudson Street. This is the 11th National Tour of Dining By Design. Architectural Digest, Gourmet, and Domino have joined the 2008 tour as national media partner. DIFFA brings together a talented and intriguing cast of designers, artists and personalities to put a spotlight on stylish and outlandish trends in design. Following New York, Dining By Design will tour seven cities nationwide including Kansas City, Los Angeles, Dallas, Atlanta, San Francisco, Chicago, Boston. |
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| Also on Tuesday night at Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, The Academy of American Poets held a Gala event launching National Poetry Month. Several stars and artists of the stage, screen, and page read favorite poems in an evening supporting poets and poetry. Among the readers: Meryl Streep, Liz Smith, Dianne Reeves, John Guare, Jonathan Demme, Philippe de Montebello, Katie Couric, Graydon Carter, Robert Caro and Candace Bushnell. |
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| Over at Le Cirque in their new wine lounge (this past Tuesday once again), there was a kick-off for the upcoming Lenox Hill Neighborhood House’s Spring Gala “Once Upon a Time,” its annual gala preview which will be held on April 24th at The Park Avenue Armory (Park Avenue at 67th Street). The evening, underwritten by Rolex USA will begin with cocktails from 6:30 to 8:30pm to preview. The decorative night will continue with dinner at tables decorated by New York’s top designers to reflect the evening’s theme. The Honorary Chairs are Sydney Roberts Shuman and Elizabeth Rohatyn. The Gala Chair is Diana Ronan Quasha. The Gala Chairs will be wearing dresses by Angel Sanchez. The Honorary Design Chairs are Bunny Williams and John Rosselli. The Design Co-Chairs are Albert Hadley and Harry Heissmann. The Designer Tables Showcase will debut the decorated designer tables for the public during the day of the event from 1pm-4pm. The Design Committee is led by Oscar de la Renta Home, Linda Fargo of Bergdorf Goodman, Roric Tobin for Geoffrey Bradfield Inc., Scott Snyder Inc., Potter Spitzmiller | Claire Potter & Christopher Spitzmiller, Drake Design Associates, Eric Cohler Design, David Kleinberg Design Associates and Marco Maccioni for Le Cirque. During the Designer Tables Showcase, the ebullient Bunny Williams will talk about interior design decisions and sign her new book, Point of View. |
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| The third annual Castle Connolly Medical Ltd. National Physician of the Year Awards took place on March 18th at The Manhattan Center in New York City. Keynote Speaker for the evening was the Hon.Louis W. Sullivan, M.D., former U.S. Secretary of Health & Human Services, founding Dean and first President of Morehouse School of Medicine, Chairman of the Board of the National Health Museum in Washington, D.C. and Chairman of the Sullivan Alliance on Diversity in Healthcare Workforce. Arthur Hull Hayes M.D., former president of E.M. Pharmaceuticals, a division of E. Merck of Germany and former FDA Commissioner,was the Awards Presenter for the evening. Ronald, J. Pion, M.D., Principal of The Pion Group, Chairman and CEO of Medical Telecommunications Associates, and Founder of Hospital Satellite Network, was the Master of Ceremonies.
Robert W. Carlson M.D., Stanford University Medical Center - Stanford Cancer Center; Stanley Chang, M.D., Columbia University Medical Center and New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Edward S. Harkness Eye Institute; and L. Dade Lunsford, M.D., The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center – Presbyterian each received the Clinical Excellence Award, designed to recognize physicians who exemplify excellence in clinical medical practice. Suzanne and Bob Wright, Co-Founders of Autism Speaks, were recipients of this year’s National Health Leadership Award for their dedication in increasing awareness of autism and raising money to fund autism research. They launched the foundation, in February 2005 to help find a cure by raising funds to facilitate and quicken the pace of research, to raise public awareness of autism and to advocate for the needs of affected families. |
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John K. Castle, Dr. L. Dade Lunsford, Dr. Robert W. Schrier, Dr. Jacqueline A. Noonan, Dr. Robert W. Carlson, Dr. Stanley Chang, and Dr. John J. Connolly |
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| Physicians profiled in the Castle Connolly guides were selected following an extensive nomination, research and screening process, which involves soliciting nominations from tens of thousands of doctors across the United States each year. Castle Connolly Medical Ltd. is America’s trusted source for identifying top doctors. Founded in 1991 by John K. Castle, (Chairman) and John J. Connolly, Ed.D. (President and CEO), who served as board chairman, and president and CEO of New York Medical College, respectively. Its mission is to help consumers find the best healthcare. They achieve that through their consumer books – such as America’s Top Doctors – their web site and various consumer and business-oriented print and online partnerships. Under the direction of its physician-lead research team, Castle Connolly surveys tens of thousands of physicians and hospital executives in order to identify, screen and, ultimately, select those physicians regarded by their peers as leaders - among the very best – in their specialties and for specific diseases and techniques. Castle Connolly’s valuable top doctors information can also be found online at its website, www.castleconnolly.com [6] |
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