November 15, 2007
Rosenblatt wins Physicians for Social Responsibility award
The Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility (WPSR) presented the 2007 Malcolm Peterson Award to Dr. Roger A. Rosenblatt, UW professor and vice chair of the Department of Family Medicine.
Rosenblatt was nominated for the award by medical students who are active in the student chapter of WPSR, an organization that was started in 1980 to address the threat of nuclear war, and also works on environmental problems, violence prevention, and social justice issues.
Rosenblatt is the faculty advisor for the local student chapter of SPSR, and has been very involved in providing care to underserved populations as founder of the WWAMI Rural Health Research Center and as director of the medical school’s Rural Under-served Opportunities Program. He also works on pressing environmental issues, and is a member of the Advisory Board of the University’s Program on the Environment. He is a co-founder of the Collaborative on Health and the Environment-Washington chapter, is head of a faculty team investigating the human health effects of climate change, and is working with the Provost and other faculty members to design a new College of the Environment at the UW.
Malcolm Peterson was Director of Community Medicine at the UW before his death, having come here from Johns Hopkins, where he was dean of the School of Health Services.
