TMC Women’s Health Network Stream Award
The Texas Medical Center Women’s Health Network has accepted nominees for the Kathryn S. Stream Award for Excellence in Women’s Health. The award will go to a Houston-area researcher, educator, practitioner or community leader who demonstrates outstanding achievement in the area of women’s health.
Deadline for nominations was April 3, 2009, and the group plans to name the recipient at the May 2009 TMC Women’s Health Network program celebrating National Women’s Health Week. The awardee will receive a plaque commemorating the honor. His/her name will be affixed to a plaque on permanent display in the HAM-TMC Library. A $1,000 donation will be made in the awardee’s name to the non-profit organization of his/her choice.
The award honors Dr. Katherine S. Stream, a founding mother of the organization, who served as Vice Provost for Health Affairs from 1998 to 2001 at Texas Woman’s University-Houston, and as Senior Vice President of the Texas Medical Center Corporation from 2001-2008. In those roles, she facilitated councils and committees to bring people together on all levels – student advisors, chief operating officers, nurse executives and chief medical officers.
She played a major role in shaping and nurturing the TMC Women’s Health Network, which now has more than 600 subscribing members. This award was created in 2008 when Dr. Stream retired as Senior Vice President of the Texas Medical Center. She was its first recipient.
The person selected to receive the 2009 Stream Award will exemplify the core principles of the TMC Women’s Health Network with a record of achievement in advancing women’s health through collaborations in education, research, and/or advocacy. Recognized contributions to these principles may be accrued through professional duties or volunteer service. Selection criteria include:
- Impact on women’s health, through acquisition and integration of new knowledge, dissemination of information, direct health services, or organizational leadership
- Accomplishments to date
- Record of collaborations
- Demonstration of exemplary leadership
Those who wish to contribute to the fund that supports the award may contact either co-chair of the nominations committee: Dr. Kathryn E. Peek, chair of the awards committee, at 713-792-7765 (kpeek@mdanderson.org) or Pat Mitchell, 713-791-6407 (pmitchell@texasmedicalcenter.org).