1. Awards and Recognition Ceremony
2017 People to People
Awards and Recognition Ceremony
Washington D.C., September 23, 2017
“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is,
“What are you doing for others?”
– Martin Luther King Jr.

2. 2017 People to People Awards and Recognition Categories
I. LIFE-TIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
II. EMERGING LEADER - MEDICAL PROFESSION
III. DISTINGUISHED COMMUNITY SERVICE AWARD
IV. SPECIAL RECOGNITION - HUMANITARIAN WORK
GUEST OF HONOR
Professor David H. Shinn
Former US Ambassador to Ethiopia
MODERATOR
Professor Meskerem Tadesse
Chair, 2017 P2P Awards Committee

3. LIFE-TIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
2017 Distinguished Honoree
Dr. Frances T Lester
Pioneer, Dedicated & Compassionate Physician, Educator, Researcher,

4. LIFE-TIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
2017 Distinguished Honoree
Accepting The Award for Dr. Lester:
 Dr. Elias Siraj

5. Frances T Lester, MD One of the Pioneers and Giants of Diabetes Care
and Research in Ethiopia

6. Yekatit 12 Hospital (and Medical College)

7. Her Association with Dr Peters Biochemist at Gondar College of Medical Sciences
The frequency of islet cell surface antibodies in newly diagnosed diabetics from Ethiopia. W H Peters, F T Lester, K D Kohnert, W Hildmann Exp Clin Endocrinol Aug 1986 (Vol. 87, Issue 3, Pages )
The serum amino acid spectrum of insulin- dependent diabetics and controls from Ethiopia. W H Peters, F T Lester, H Lubs Exp Clin Endocrinol Aug 1988 (Vol. 91, Issue 3, Pages 271-6)

8. Her Association with Professor Jemal Abdulkadir
Lester FT, Abdulkadir J, Larsen D, Quaana P. Diabetes mellitus – clinical features in Ethiopians. Ethiop Med J 1976;14:

9. Diabetes Care, Vol 16, Issue 1 187-192, Copyright © 1993 by American Diabetes Association
A search for malnutrition- related diabetes mellitus among Ethiopian patients
FT Lester Department of Medicine, Yekatit 12 Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

10. Long-standing diabetes mellitus in ethiopia: A survey of 105 patients
Journal: Diabetologia
Publisher: Springer Berlin / Heidelberg
September 1983
F. T. Lester
Department of Medicine, Yekatit 12 Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

11. EMERGING LEADER - MEDICAL PROFESSION “RISING STAR” AWARD

12. EMERGING LEADER / RISING STAR AWARD
2017 Distinguished Honoree
Dr. Dawit Wondimagegn Gebreamlak
Chief Executive Director of the College of Health Sciences

13. COMMUNITY SERVICE AWARD
DISTINGUISHED
COMMUNITY SERVICE AWARD

14. DISTINGUISHED COMMUNITY SERVICE AWARD Ato Wondu Bekele Woldemariam
2017 Distinguished Honoree People
Ato Wondu Bekele Woldemariam
General Manager of Mathiwos Wondu -YeEthiopia Cancer Society

15. SPECIAL RECOGNITION - DIASPORA HUMANITARIAN WORK AWARD

16. Ato Benyam Belete 2017 People to People
SPECIAL RECOGNITION - HUMANITARIAN WORK
Ato Benyam Belete
Founder of MEKEDONIA Home for Elderly &
Mentally Disabled Center, Addis Ababa Ethiopia

17. in Law from Bahr Dar University.
Ato Benyam Belete
Earning an Honorary Doctoral Degree
in Law from Bahr Dar University.

18. Accepting The Award for Ato Benyam:  Sister Martha Gebresilassie
2017 People to People
Accepting The Award for Ato Benyam:
 Sister Martha Gebresilassie

19. For Exemplary Volunteer Service
2017 People to People
“Unsung Hero” Award
For Exemplary Volunteer Service

20. *** Thank You All *** “ What are you doing for others? ”
And We Leave You with
MLK’s Message:
“ What are you
doing for others? ”