Clinical Center Celebrates Lasker~Bloomberg Award at Hospital Reception

Episode # 72
Uploaded: October 5, 2011
Running Time: 02:04

CROWN: From the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, this is CLINICAL CENTER RADIO.

Researchers, patients, and staff turned out to celebrate the NIH Clinical Center -- the 2011 recipient of the Lasker~Bloomberg Public Service Award. Known as "America's Nobel prize," the Lasker award recognizes the Clinical Center for its numerous scientific achievements and for serving as a model research hospital providing high quality patient care. Clinical Center DIrector Dr. John Gallin and colleagues spoke about the hospital's commitment to public health. Ellen Berty, one of more than 450,000 research subjects cared for by the Clinical Center, also spoke about what America's research hospital means to her. Ellen successfully underwent a pancreatic islet cell transplant at the Clinical Center to treat diabetes.

BERTY: This is a place that really does deserve to get this award because it is an outstanding place for research. And I am part of that research. And it's a place where people matter.

CROWN: NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins echoed Ellen's sentiments, saying that what he believes the world needs is bright, creative minds working together to turn discovery into health. And that's what happens at the Clinical Center…Dr. Collins also surprised the crowd with an original song he wrote for the event:

COLLINS: This is the song for all the good people. All the good people whose hard work we celebrate. This is the song for all the good people. We’re joined together by this noble dream.

CROWN: From America's Clinical Research Hospital, this has been CLINICAL CENTER RADIO. In Bethesda, Maryland, I'm Ellen Crown, at the National Institutes of Health, an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services.

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