Former Milwaukeean Richard A. Cash, M.D., recently received the 2011 James F. and Sarah T. Fries Prize for Improving Health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.
He won the award for his work in helping develop oral rehydration therapy, a treatment for cholera and other diarrheal diseases. The World Health Organization estimates that this therapy has saved the lives of some 60 million children worldwide.
Cash graduated from Nicolet High School in 1959, the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1963, and the New York University School of Medicine in 1966; and he earned a Master of Public Health degree from Johns Hopkins University in 1973. He currently is a senior lecturer on public health at Harvard University’s School of Public Health.
Melanie Hersch was recently hired as sales and membership director at the Harry & Rose Samson Family Jewish Community Center in Whitefish Bay.
Hersch worked at Sarano Promotional Services for about two years in sales, marketing, and customer service support. She also served for two years as volunteer director at Jewish Family Services of Milwaukee. She is the immediate past president of Congregation Shalom.
Milwaukee psychiatrist H. Steven Moffic, M.D., of the Medical College of Wisconsin, recently was appointed to a new committee of The Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry.
This Committee on Psychiatric Administration and Leadership will be dedicated to making recommendations to enhance the development of leaders in psychiatry.
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