The Bernard Lown Award for Excellence in Teaching at Brigham and Women's Hospital was established in January 2010 to celebrate physicians who are outstanding clinical teachers. The award will be given annually at the Harvard Medical School Teaching Awards Celebration. Awardees are selected based on nominations from their students and colleagues.
Dr. Lown hosted the first in a series of lectures via Skype on January 28, 2010. The "Ariel Conversation" took place with young International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) activists in Agra, India.
Prescription for Survival was selected as a finalist for the ForeWord Magazine 2008 Book of the Year Award in the Autobiography/Memoir category. ForeWord Magazine honors the best independently published titles of the year.
For more information, please visit the ForeWord Magazine website.
Dr. Bernard Lown and his memoir, Prescription for Survival, were featured in a January 4th article in the Brookline Tab by Steve Bagley. You can read the article online.
Prescription for Survival was reviewed by Dr. Mubashir Hasan in DAWN, Pakistan's leading English newspaper. You can read the review online.
Dr. Bernard Lown and the Bernard Lown Peace Bridge ceremony were featured on the front page of the Twin City Times on October 23, 2008. In addition, Dr. Lown's speech at the event was published in the "Mayor's Corner" section of the newspaper as requested by Mayor Laurent F. Gilbert.
Dr. Bernard Lown's book, Prescription for Survival, was reviewed by Thomas B. Newman, MD, MPh, in a New England Journal of Medicine article on October 23, 2008.
Please read Dr. Bernard Lown's speech during the bridge naming ceremony of the Bernard Lown Peace Bridge on October 17, 2008.
Mayor Larry Gilbert of Lewiston, ME, wrote about Dr. Bernard Lown's life and accomplishments as well as the Bernard Lown Peace Bridge in his personal blog.
Dr. Bernard Lown was featured in several articles about the Bernard Lown Peace Bridge: Sun Journal, WCSH Channel 6, WBZ TV's Maine Wire, and WMTW.
Dr. Bernard Lown was featured in an editorial, "A Timely Honor," in the Bangor Daily News on Dr. Bernard Lown Day in Maine.
Governor John E. Baldacci announced on October 15, 2008 that he will
proclaim Friday, Oct. 17, 2008, as Dr. Bernard Lown Day throughout the
State of Maine.
To read the related article and Governor Baldacci's proclamation in honor of Dr. Bernard Lown, please go here.
On October 17 at 9:30am, the South Bridge in Lewiston, Maine, will be renamed the Bernard Lown Peace Bridge in honor of Dr. Bernard Lown. Details for the event can be found in a Sun Journal article by Kathryn Skelton and on the appearances page. You can read another article about Dr. Lown by Kathryn Skelton here.
Dr. Bernard Lown and the newly established Harvard School of Public Health scholarship program and professorship in his honor were featured in an article in the Harvard Gazette on September 18, 2008.
Dr. Bernard Lown was featured in an article by Susan Chaityn Lebovits in the Sunday Boston Globe West on July 20, 2008.
Dr. Bernard Lown was featured in the Boston Globe on Monday, September 15, 2008, about the gala held in his honor at the Seaport Hotel on Saturday, September 13th.
