"In the Service of Life Awards"

From time to time the Jenifer Altman Foundation will present "In the Service of Life Awards" to people who have made insufficiently recognized contributions to human health and/or ecological health. These are the first "In the Service of Life Awards" the Foundation has presented.

IAN GAWLER
$5000

Ian Gawler made a documented recovery from a metastatic osteogenic sarcoma, and has devoted his life to teaching other cancer patients the integrative approaches to cancer care that benefited him through the Gawler Foundation near Melbourne, Australia.

LAWRENCE LESHAN
$5000

Larry LeShan pioneered the concept that cancer patients could mobilize their own healing resources in his pioneering book You Can Fight for Your Life and has devoted his life to developing that message in books such as his classic Cancer as a Turning Point.

MARY O'BRIEN
$5000

Mary O'Brien has been a tireless scientist and educator working on behalf of the environment and the human and wildlife casualties of toxic encroachment.

SANDRA STEINGRABER
$5000

As a scientist, cancer survivor, new mother and poet, Sandra Steingraber moves both the hearts and minds of her readers in her classic work Living Downstream -- An Ecologist Looks at Cancer and the Environment.