Sheikh Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Award for Medical Sciences : Photo Album

1. Grand Hamdan International Award

	Prof. Paul Zimmet Director Emeritus and Director of International Research, Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute, 250 Kooyong Road, Caulfield, Victoria 3162, Australia. Prof. Zimmet is probably the best known of all three candidates both internationally and nationally acclaimed having won most prestigious honors of the Australian government such as AM and AO. It was his classic observations back in the 1970’s that helped foresee the current epidemic of type 2 diabetes. Professor Zimmet’s main contributions have been in warning the world of the size of the diabetes epidemic.
[H. H. Sheikh Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum handing over to Prof. Paul Zimmet Grand Hamdan International Award (2009-2010)]

	Prof. Jaakko Tuomilehto Department of Public Health, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland Prof. Tuomilehto is an internationally acclaimed epidemiologist whose work in aspects of prevention of type 2 diabetes is probably best known especially the Finnish Diabetes Prevention Study (DPS) which was internationally acclaimed and showed similar results to the big Diabetes Prevention Program study done later on in the US. Professor Tuomilehto’s work has been predominantly in type 2 diabetes, but, he, like Professor Zimmet, has also made valuable contributions to type 1 diabetes, especially in alerting the world to the huge variation in incidence worldwide. Finland has the highest incidence of type 1 diabetes in children in the world.
[H. H. Sheikh Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum handing over to Prof. Jaako Tuomilehto Grand Hamdan International Award (2009-2010)]

2. Hamdan Award For Medical Research Excellence

[H. H. Sheikh Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum handing over to Prof. P. Reed Larsen Hamdan Award for Medical Research Excellence (2009-2010)]	Prof. P. Reed Larsen P. Reed Larsen is Professor of Medicine at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital at Harvard university and Chief or the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Hypertension at that institution. Prof. Larsen has made several seminal contributions to the field of thyroid physiology, pathophysiology and disease. These include the design of sensitive methods to screen newborn infants for congenital hypothyroidism and applying them to initiate the first two regional screening programs in the United States; The discovery of a previously unrecognized mechanism for the activation of thyroxine (T4) to 3,5,3' triiodothyronine (T3) within cells and its critical role in regulating TSH secretion; The cloning of the first member of the selenodeiodinase family and the elucidation of the mechanism for selenocysteine incorporation at UGA codons in eukaryotic selenoproteins; and finally the identification of a new cause of hypothyroidism, usually found in infants, called “consumptive” hypothyroidism.

	Prof. John A. Kanis Prof. John A. Kanis is currently the Emeritus Professor in Human Metabolism and Clinical Biochemistry and the Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Metabolic Bone Diseases, University in Sheffield, UK. Prof. Kanis’ research interests are largely related to disorders of skeletal metabolism including not only osteoporosis, Paget's disease of bone, hyperparathyroidism, renal osteodystrophy and neoplasia affecting the skeleton.
[H. H. Sheikh Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum handing over to Prof. John A. Kanis Hamdan Award for Medical Research Excellence (2009-2010)]

[H. H. Sheikh Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum handing over to Dr. Jeffrey M. Fridman Hamdan Award for Medical Research Excellence (2009-2010)]	Dr. Jefferey M. Friedman Dr. Friedman graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and, in 1977 at the age of 22, received his M.D. from Albany Medical College of Union University. After completing two residencies at Albany Medical Center Hospital, In 1986 he received his Ph.D., working in the lab of James E. Darnell Jr., and was appointed assistant professor. In 1991 he was named head of laboratory, and in 1995 he was promoted to professor. He has been an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute since 1986. Dr. Friedman also directs the Starr Center for Human Genetics, one of the country’s largest centers for the study of diseases linked to heredity. Dr. Friedman’s lab identified leptin, a hormonal signal made by the body’s fat cells that regulates food intake and energy expenditure and has powerful effects on reproduction, metabolism, other endocrine systems and even immune function. His discovery of leptin may represent the most significant advance in obesity research in the last 20 years.

3. Hamdan Award For Volunteers In Humanitarian Medical Services

[H. H. Sheikh Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum handing over to Dr. Prakash Amte & Dr. Mandakini Amte Hamdan Award for Volunteers in Humanitarian Medical Services (2009-2010)]	Dr. Prakash and Dr. (Mrs.) Mandakini Amte Dr. Prakash and Dr. (Mrs.) Mandakini Amte were selected as the No.1 applicant. They have been providing medical services to the tribals living in the remote forest areas, far removed from civilization, scattered in Central India for over two decades, free of charge. Dr. Amte’s work in the field of rendering medical services to the deprived, socially ostracized, under-privileged, neglected, poor and illiterate strata of the society is inspiring and commendable. Tribals suffering from malnutrition, wounded by wild animals, orthopedic cases, etc., have no one to turn to but Dr. Amte. The Amtes have treated more than 40,000 patients a year and cover about 1000 villages.

[H. H. Sheikh Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum handing over to Dr. Ashok Gupta Hamdan Award for Volunteers in Humanitarian Medical Services (2009-2010)]	Dr. Ashok Gupta Dr Ashok Gupta is a world renowned reconstructive plastic surgeon based in Mumbai, India. He obtained the highest degree and fellowships in the field of Plastic surgery. He has dedicated his life for over 20 years in social service, and has many committed doctors and volunteers from different professions. He offers free surgery to the poor, primarily to the children. In the time of crisis, war, earthquake, terrorist attack, riots or any natural calamity, Dr. Gupta has been of service to the victims. He is honored with several awards and awarded the “PADMA SHRI” in recognition to his contributions to the voluntary work in the field of reconstructive surgery.

[H. H. Sheikh Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum handing over to Dr. Adel Al Shumry on behalf of "Zayed Giving Initiative" Hamdan Award for Volunteers in Humanitarian Medical Services (2009-2010)]	Zayed Initiative bid Zayed initiative bid has contributed to help millions of patients by building hospitals and health centers in various countries around the world. The initiative has approached about 50000 volunteers to deliver its humanitarian mission to one hundred million Arab and African. The initiative’s UAE's mobile hospital, which has achieved remarkable success locally and internationally, is the first of its kind in the world to provide therapeutic and surgical services and training, preventive and awareness programs within the UAE.

[H. H. Sheikh Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum handing over Dr. Scott Harrison founder of "Cure International" Hamdan Award for Volunteers in Humanitarian Medical Services (2009-2010)]	Cure International CURE International, created by Dr. Harrison & has contributed to alleviating the suffering of disabled children throughout the world. He has established CURE as the largest and most successful NGO, wholly dedicated to establishing and managing specialty teaching hospitals for pediatric surgery and surgical training programs throughout the developing world. In just 12 years, from a dream it became a reality and CURE is now established in 12 countries. He has 1,100 employees and has performed more than 45,000 surgical procedures, mostly pediatric, provided medical care and counseling to more than 600,000 children and trained more than 300 nurses, physical therapist, physicians and surgeons, all nationals who continue to work in developing world.