Dr. Edward W. Hook wins the Parran Award

[Med Help]

MedHelp International is proud to announce that today Dr. Edward W. Hook, III, co-moderator of the MedHelp STD and HIV Prevention and Safe Sex forums, received the annual Thomas Parran Award from the American Sexually Transmitted Disease Association.  The Parran Award recognizes lifetime accomplishments in prevention and research in STDs.  It is named for Thomas Parran, the groundbreaking US Surgeon General who first made the country aware of its uncontrolled syphilis epidemic in the 1930s and 1940s and is the architect of modern approaches to STD prevention.

Dr. Hook and Dr. Hunter Handsfield, the other STD and HIV forum moderator, both are former presidents of the American STD Association.

[mayflowers]

Congratulations Dr. Hook!  You are very deserving of this award.

I enjoy reading your posts as well as Dr. Handsfield's post.  I have learned so much.

Keep up the good work both of you!!!!

Andrea

[gracefromHHP]

Congratulations Dr Hook!!  

It was great getting a chance to speak to you in person at the conference too!!  I hope you enjoyed the conference ( and chicago ) as much as I did.

grace

[waringblender]

Both Drs. Hook and Handsfield deserve kudos for all that they are doing here. :)  Many thanks to both of you.

[ibizan]

We are most fortunate indeed to have Dr.Hook in thei Forum...i have learned a great deal from him and Dr.Handsfield....this is an award well earned and justly deserved.Bravo Dr.Hook!

[gnozt777]

MASSIVE congratulations to Dr. Hook for his well-deserved award. Not only is he an excellent doctor, but he has an incredibly big-heart with patience of a saint! Big up to Dr. Hook!!!