About Us : Awards
P.A.D. Community Service Award Winners
The P.A.D. Community Service Award is to recognize collaborative programs focused on increasing awareness about peripheral arterial disease (P.A.D.) to high-risk populations, patients and/or the health care community.
2011 Award Winners
Stay in Circulation Community Service Award for a Local Campaign was presented to John Martin, MD for Dare to C.A.R.E.
Dare to CARE (DTC) is a program started by Annapolis vascular surgeon Dr. John Martin. He has screened – for free – more than 30,000 people since 2000, half of whom were found to have some vascular disease. Many attendees have had life-saving procedures as a result of disease detected at DTC events. Through the efforts of volunteers and the use of lectures, educational materials, free ultrasound testing and meetings with cardiovascular specialists, DTC brings the important message to the public that complications of cardiovascular disease can be prevented.
Stay in Circulation Community Service Award for a National Campaign was presented to BioMedix and ev3.
Partnering with the P.A.D. Coalition, ev3 and BioMedix provided funding for a pilot P.A.D. screening event in four markets. In addition to the personnel and equipment resources needed for the screening program, the partnership allowed for the creation of a screening toolkit, which included materials that assisted any interested facility to use in creating their own screening events. These materials are available on the P.A.D. Coalition website (www.PADCoalition.org) and are being used in a larger launch program of 40 sites in 2011.
