The Gay and Lesbian Medical Association Oct. 8 announced that Dr. Robert Garofalo, deputy director of Howard Brown Health Center, has been named to receive the 2007 Achievement Award by the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association.

Garofalo, an adolescent medicine specialist also affiliated with Children's Memorial Hospital and Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, was recognized for his contributions to caring for HIV-infected adolescents and other at-risk teens. He is GLMA’s immediate past president.

Among those also honored by GLMA were Dr. Eliav Barr, executive director of vaccine clinical research at Merck Research Laboratories, for his work on a vaccine for HPV; Judy Shepard, executive director of the Matthew Shepard Foundation, for her contributions to promoting tolerance for GLBT people; and Dr. Paul Wertsch, chair of the American Medical Association’s Advisory Committee for GLBT Issues, for his leadership as a straight ally to GLBT people.

Dr. Sydney Tam, a family medicine physician at the Sherbourne Health Centre in Toronto, was awarded the Gayhealth.com/GLMA Provider of the Year Award because of the positive impact she has made in her patients’ lives.

The GLMA Achievement Awards are presented in association with the Pfizer Medical Humanities Initiative.

—Matt Simonette