Partnership for Women's Health

Partnership Celebrates 7th Anniversary at Annual Gala and Athena Awards
Leaders in Gender-Specific Medicine honored on March 31, 2004

Benefit committee member Christiana Killian, Dr. Marianne Legato, Athena Award winner Hon. Akiko Domoto, benefit committee member Louise Forlenza, and benefit committee chair Majella Matyas

The Partnership for Gender-Specific Medicine at Columbia University held its seventh annual Athena Awards Gala on Wednesday, March 31, at the Metropolitan Club in New York City.

Honorary chair Gloria Steinem and Dr. Marianne Legato, founder and director of the Partnership, hosted the event. Honorees included Judith Shapiro, Ph.D., president of Barnard College, who received the Athena Award for Education; Linda Fairstein, Esq., best-selling crime novelist and former chief of the Sex Crimes Prosecution Unit, Office of the New York County District Attorney, who received the Athena Award for Government; Patricia D. Duquette, Ph.D., director of Women's and International Health at Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation, who received the Athena Award for Healthcare; The Honorable Akiko Domoto, Governor of Chiba Prefecture in Japan, who received the International Athena Award; Joan Hamburg, broadcaster/journalist with WOR Radio, who received the Athena Award for Media; and Lewis P. Schneider, M.D., assistant professor of clinical medicine at Columbia University, who received the award for Gender-Specific Practitioner of the Year.

The Gala's honorees are pictured with Dr. Legato and Gloria Steinem. From left to right, Linda Fairstein, Dr. Lewis Schneider, Dr. Patricia Duquette, Dr. Legato, Hon. Akiko Domoto, Ms. Steinem, Joan Hamburg, and Dr. Judith Shapiro

Following the cocktail reception and welcoming remarks from Dr. Legato and Ms. Steinem, guests participated in a live auction, which included items such as a one-week stay in Scottsdale Arizona with three Krizia leather bags, a case of 2000 Pauillac Lynch Bages wine, two house seats to any Broadway show and a $400 gift certificate to Jean Georges, a Daivd Yurman sterling silver and gold cable watch, a silver fresh water pearl collar with chalcedony beads from the Pearl Erlich designs collection, a Geoffrey Beene orange and white leaf print jacket, a Risa Benson midnight blue coat, a round of golf with lunch at the Westchester Country Club, and 15 tickets to the Diamond View Suite 41 at Shea Stadium to watch the N.Y. Mets vs. the Montreal Expos.

Proceeds from the black tie event help fund the M. Irené Ferrer Professorship in Gender-Specific Medicine at Columbia University. M. Irené Ferrer is an internationally known physician whose work integrated outstanding research, patient care, and educational achievements in training whole generations of cardiologists. The professorship will honor Dr. Ferrer's important contributions to medicine.


Auction items on display	The 2004 Athena Awards	Christiana Killian, daughter of Dr. Legato; Dr. Legato; 2003 Athena Award Winner Dr. Karin Schenck-Gustafsson and her daughter, Helena	Dr. Legato presents the International Athena Award to Governor Domoto

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