Dr. Atkins to Receive Journal of Women's Health Criterion Award

Event Type: Awards Ceremony

Location: 11th Annual Congress on Women's Health

Date: Monday, June 2, 2003
Time: 12:15 PM - 1:30 PM EST

Featuring: Robert C. Atkins, M.D.

Description:

Dr. Atkins will receive the Journal of Women's Health Criterion Award at the 11th Annual Congress on Women's Health on Monday, June 2. The conference will take place from Saturday, May 31, to Tuesday, June 3, at the Hilton Head Marriott Beach & Golf Resort in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina.

This annual award from the Journal of Women's Health is given to an individual who has influenced women's health in an extraordinary way. Past award winners have ranged from Bernadine Healey, the first woman to head up the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and a pioneer in the women's health movement, to Jane Fonda, who is a women's health activist and benefactor.

Dr. Atkins has been chosen to receive this award to honor his important and longstanding contribution to understanding the role of carbohydrates and their adverse effect of their over consumption on obesity, diabetes, cholesterol and heart disease; for his perseverance and determination to stay the course in the face of resistance and doubt from the medical and scientific community; and for his commitment to fight the growing and deleterious effects of the obesity epidemic.

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