Past Houston Fundraisers

2009 Seeds of Hope Benefit

for RESULTS and RESULTS Educational Fund

Friday October 16, 2009

Crowne Plaza Downtown

Joia Stapleton Mukherjee, MD, MPH, is a global leader in the treatment of MDR-TB and HIV/AIDS in resource-poor communities. She divides her time between Brigham and Women’s Hospital and clinical sites in Peru, Haiti, and Russia. Her work in Peru and Russia has led to the development of a new standard of care for the delivery of MDR-TB treatment in resource-poor settings, and she serves as a consultant to tuberculosis projects throughout the world, seeking to add MDR-TB to their existing treatment programs. Board-certified in Pediatrics, Infectious Diseases, and Internal Medicine, she also serves as an Attending Physician for the adult and pediatric infectious disease services at BWH and the Massachusetts General Hospital, respectively. She is also an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Ana Malinow is Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine and full-time faculty at the Ben Taub General Hospital Pediatric Emergency and Ambulatory Center in Houston. Dr. Malinow’s experiences with the underserved in Cleveland and Houston motivated her in 2002 to co-found Health Care for All Texas to promote universal health care through education and policy setting. Dr. Malinow is a frequent speaker on health care reform in local and national venues, and has been featured on multiple television and radio programs. She is the author of numerous Op-Ed articles and is past president of Physicians for a National Health Program, and organization having over 15,000 members and chapters across the United States working to educate the public as well as members of Congress and their staff about health care reform. She was a co-founder of Doctors for Change. She was a recipient of funding from the Arnold P. Gold Foundation for "Teaching future doctors about the health care system."

RESULTS Houston - 2007 Benefit

Building Champions to End Poverty

Houston Champions to receive the RESULTS Seeds of Hope Award

RESULTS 7th Annual Benefit Dinner

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Mark Kline

Master of Ceremonies: Patti Gras of Channel 8

Robert Hart, founder of Globeleq

Barbara Best, Texas Executive Director of the Children's Defense Fund

Beth Wachira, RESULTS partner and native of Kenya

Michael Winters, RESULTS partner

A supportive crowd listened intently to learn about AIDS in Africa and issues of poverty affecting children in America. The interested audience remained after the presentations to further discuss RESULTS efforts to encourage funding and legislative support.

Over $36,000 was raised to support the efforts of RESULTS.