Best Wishes - India Festival

Success Story of
Nimisha Chheda
Florida Medical Association Alliance
recently honored Nimisha Chheda with 3
awards for her hard community work in
Hillsborough County. After studying medicine
at B. H. M.C Homeopathic Medical
College in Bombay, India, she worked for
major Hospitals in Bombay. When she
came to US after marriage, she studied to
get her Masters in Public Health. Her giving
nature led her to work for volunteer
organizations; including Hillsborough
Medical Association Alliance Where she
was elected President in 2007-08. She had
taken up two community health projects,
“Screen out!” and “Breast Cancer
Awareness”. Screen Out! project is a campaign
which deals with taking smoking out
of the films aimed at
Children. Both of these
projects were successful
because of her uphill
struggle. Her success
story is published on the screen out website;
she won the international week of
action award for the Screen out! project
FMAA President-Elaine Hale, FMAA
President-elect. Ann Anderson giving 3
awards to Nimisha Chheda on 2 August
2008.
from AMAA, and she also, received a grant
for the project from the State. Florida
Medical Association Alliance honored her
with first Place awards for both the community
health projects. She is now the
spokes woman for the Screen Out! project
for the State. She has improved the
Association’s newsletter and the State honored
her with the award for that also. She is
now promoted to work with the Florida
State Medical Alliance on various positions
including representing State Medical
Alliance on FMA Public Health Council.
Nimisha has also received full scholarship
from AMA Alliance to attend their LDC
conference in Chicago this year.
“To serve is my religion” 69