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Partnership Celebrates Three Years Of Accomplishments At Gala
Capacity crowd attends Gala
New York, NY, Feb 10, 2000- More than 200 industry executives, TV personalities, Columbia University deans and faculty, women's health experts and medical professionals gathered at New York’s prestigious Cosmopolitan Club to celebrate the third anniversary of the Partnership for Women’s Health at Columbia University. Proceeds from the event will fund the M. Irené
Jane Pauley, TV journalist and Dr. Marianne Legato, founder and director of the Partnership were co-hosts of the Gala
Ferrer Professorship in Women’s Health and Gender Specific Medicine. TV journalist Jane Pauley and Dr. Marianne Legato, founder & director of the Partnership, co-hosted the evening’s ceremonies including a brief review of the Partnership’s accomplishments in research as well as national professional and consumer education programs.
Partnership’s Annual Conference and Gender & Depression Conference.
Highlighted were the Partnership’s Annual Update Conference, several consensus conferences and the successfully pilot tested consumer magazine Gender & Health.

Four Athena Awards were presented at the Gala to outstanding leaders in women’s health. The recipients of the Athena Awards are pictured below:

Athena Awards 2000 Recipients 
Nancy Snyderman, M.D. Medical Correspondent, Good Morning America accepts her Athena Award
Kay Napier, V.P., P&G Pharmaceuticals, is presented her award by Dr. John Bilezikian, associate director of the Partnership, and gives her acceptance speech
Dianne Dunkelman, founder, Speaker of Women's Health Foundation receives her Athena Award and presents flowers to Dr. Legato
Harold Burson, founder & chairman, Burson-Marsteller addresses the audience

Dr. Myron Weisfeldt Chairman, Dept. of Medicine, Columbia University
In addition, Distinguished Scholar Awards were presented to Dr. Rhoda Nussbaum, women’s health leader, Kaiser Permanente and Dr. Ann Kearney-Cooke, director, Cincinnati Psychotherapy Institute.

Dr. Myron Weisfeldt (Chairman, Dept. of Medicine, Columbia Univ.) and Craig Wynett (V.P. of P&G) received special recognition for their continuing support of the Partnership. Dr. Michael Rosen, associate director of the Partnership, recognized Thai Pham, the Partnership’s first Ph.D. graduate.

The M.Irené Ferrer Award for Original Research in Gender-
Jane Pauley and Nancy Snyderman congratulate Dr. Ann Kearney-Cooke on her awards
Specific Medicine waspresented to Dr. Kenneth Manton of Duke University in the amount of $60,000. His groundbreaking research will be published

in the Partnership’s Journal of Gender Specific Medicine (JGSM) -the first peer-reviewed publication of its kind, with a readership of more than 125,000 primary care physicians.

The Partnership for Women’s Health at Columbia University is the first collaboration between academia and the private sector dedicated to advancing the study and practical use of the differences in the normal human physiology of men and women and how they experience disease.
Partnership’s Journal of Gender Specific Medicine

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