2025 Bernard Lown Award for Social Responsibility Dinner

From a highly competitive list of nominees, Dr. Reshma Ramachandran was selected as the winner of the 2025 Bernard Lown Award for Social Responsibility (BLASR) for her exceptional work promoting equitable access to medicines, mobilizing physicians nationwide to challenge pharmaceutical industry influence, and advancing legislative reforms that prioritize the public’s health over corporate profit.

The BLASR Award Dinner was held on the evening of June 5th at Glass House in Cambridge, MA. Read excerpts from Dr. Ramachandran’s motivational acceptance speech.

This inspiring and uplifting event allowed connection with other leaders in support of compassionate healthcare, social justice, and humanitarian values!

Watch the event recording

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2025 NOMINATING COMMITTEE

*member of selection committee

Vikas Saini, MD*

President, Lown Institute

Patricia Gabow, MD*

Chairperson, Lown Institute Board of Directors

Zachary Lown*

Lown Family Representative

George Abraham, MD

President Emeritus, American College of Physicians

Carole Allen, MD

Immediate Past President, Massachusetts Medical Society

Angie Bakke, MBA

Executive Director, Doctors for America

Nikitha Balaji

President-Elect, American Medical Student Association

David Bor, MD

Board Member, Lown Institute

Lilia Cervantes, MD

Director of Immigrant Health,University of Colorado School of Medicine
(2024 BLASR Winner)

Emily Cleveland Manchanda, MD, MPH

Director for Social Justice Education and Implementation, American Medical Association

Lauren Doctoroff, MD, MBA

Governor-Elect, Massachusetts Chapter American College of Physicians

Harry Hayman

Trustee, Hayman Family Foundation

Yolanda Lawson, MD, FACOG

Chair, Board of Trustees, National Medical Association

Susan Rogers, MD, FACP

President, Physicians for a National Health Program

Altaf Saadi, MD

Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School,
(2023 BLASR Winner)

Annelisa Silva, EdM

President, American Medical Student Association

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