Mayo Alumni Magazine 2012 Spring - MC4409-0312 - Mayo Clinic

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MAyO CLINIC ALUMNI ASSOCIATION 67 TH MEETING 2011 A w A r d i n g E x c E l l E n c E iPad app extra Humanitarian Award and Professional Achievement Award Presented by Mayo Clinic Alumni Association to alumni nominated by their peers, to recognize significant contributions to humanity and to the medical profession Humanitarian Award C. Robert Stanhope, M.D. Consultant, Division of Gynecologic Surgery Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology Mayo Clinic, Rochester Robert Stanhope, M.D. (OBG ’82), C. was awarded the 2011 Mayo Clinic Alumni Association Humanitarian Award for a lifetime of dedication and devotion to helping vulnerable people in the clinic, in the community and around the world. He says his most satisfying efforts have been serving with short-term mission groups in Haiti, Mongolia, Honduras, Kenya and Guinea, West Africa. In Guinea, he is part of a team that is building obstetrical and surgical services in a medically poor region of the country. “It has been a blessing to have opportunities to serve men and women with dire medical needs in low-income and low-resource countries around the world and to be part of a compassionate, caring medical community at Mayo Clinic,” he says. Dr. Stanhope is cofounder of the Good Samaritan Medical and Dental Clinics and chair of the Rochester Medical Relief Mission Group. He has served on the boards of the Salvation Army, United Way, Gamehaven Council Boy Scouts of America, Seasons Hospice and Autumn Ridge Church. He is one of two Rochester residents to receive the Distinguished Eagle Award and also is a recipient of the Edward Henderson, M.D., Leadership Award from the Zumbro Valley Medical Society. Dr. Stanhope was appointed to the Mayo Clinic staff in 1982 as a consultant in Gynecologic Surgery. He completed a fellowship at M.D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute and a residency in obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Texas Southwestern− Parkland Memorial Hospital. Dr. Stanhope, a native of Milwaukee, received his medical degree from the Medical College of Wisconsin and undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin in Madison. He served in the U.S. Army, including service in Vietnam as a medical adviser. There, he built a maternity center for the wives of Vietnamese servicemen. The center was named Khu Ho Sanh Stanhope. 12 Mayo Alumni
iPad app extra Humanitarian Award Larry Vukov, M.D. Consultant, Department of Emergency Medicine Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine Mayo Clinic, Rochester Larry Vukov, M.D. (I ’80), was awarded the 2011 Mayo Clinic Alumni Association Humanitarian Award for his work leading mission trips in underserved nations and for his contributions to community-based mission service for Mayo Clinic patients. Every year for the last 21 years, Dr. Vukov has spent two weeks leading teams of medical and nonmedical volunteers from First Baptist Church and other churches on trips to rural Kenya to build and develop Hope Centers. These centers consist of a church, primary school, medical clinic and feeding center. Dr. Vukov has overseen the development of seven centers that educate and feed more than 2,000 children and clinics that provide health care for as many as 15,000 people. The mission trips, which have included many Mayo staff, residents, students and nurses, are in conjunction with Special Ministries, an organization for which Dr. Vukov is a board member. Dr. Vukov also has led or participated in short-term mission trips to Honduras, Costa Rica, Tanzania, and Guinea, West Africa. “I am grateful to have been richly blessed with a loving and understanding wife and children, a mission-minded prayerful church, and an organization like Mayo Clinic that has provided the means and support to serve the underserved and care for those in need,” he says. Dr. Vukov was appointed to the Mayo Clinic staff in 1980 as the third member in the Section of Emergency Medicine. He completed a fellowship and residency at Mayo. A native of the Chicago area, Dr. Vukov received his medical degree from Loyola Stritch School of Medicine in Maywood, Ill., and his undergraduate degree from North Central College in Naperville, Ill. C. Robert Stanhope, M.D., with a Maasai patient, in Narok, Kenya, during a 2009 trip. Larry Vukov, M.D., in Tanzania, East Africa, in 1998 with a Kenyan missionary. C. Robert Stanhope, M.D., and Larry Vukov, M.D., in Guinea, West Africa, in 2009. The physician colleagues were conducting a medical clinic in a remote village near Kankan. Spring 2012 13
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