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July 15, 2005

Fennoy Receives NMH Community Service Award


NORTHFIELD, Mass.— Ilene Fennoy, MD of New York City was given the Northfield Mount Hermon School’s Community Service Award at the school’s recent alumni weekend festivities.

Fennoy, a 1965 graduate of NMH, is a tireless worker in the fight against diabetes and obesity. Holder of degrees in medicine and public health, she specializes in pediatric and adolescent endocrinology, diabetes, and nutrition. She was responsible for bringing public health and correctional medicinal services for New York City residents into the sphere of the Health and Hospitals Corporation, developing an AIDS prevention plan and clinical guidelines for treating HIV in pregnant women, improving the clinical programs offered by ambulatory care facilities in the Brooklyn Hospital Center, and implementing a program to improve immunization rates in young children.

Fennoy also is director of several professional societies and maintains a clinical practice, and has earned recognition as one of the best doctors in  New York. She has served a term on the NMH Board of Trustees.

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