Times of India (May 18, 2012)
NEW YORK: Eight Indian-Americans are among the recipients of this
year's Ellis Island Medal of Honour presented to more than 100
immigrants for their community service.
The eight, Peter Bheddah, Ravishankar Bhooplapur, Dr Sanjiv Chopra, Dr
Leena N Doshi, Dr Surendra V Jain, Hasu P Shah, Rajendra Singh and Dr
John P Thomas were presented the medal at a ceremony on the island in
New York.
Instituted in 1986 by the National Ethnic Coalition of Organizations to
recognize the contributions made by immigrants, the medals are named
after Ellis Island, the gateway through which more than 12 million
early immigrants passed.
Beddah, who immigrated from Kutch, Gujarat, in 1960, has been helping
the less fortunate through the India Association of Long Island and the
Interfaith Nutrition Network since 1994.
Bhooplapur is president of Xavier University School of Medicine and
founder and chairman of Gift of Life. He contributes to several
humanitarian causes.
Chopra, a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and a senior
consultant at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Centre in Boston, is the
author of five books, including "The Ten Tenets of Leadership."
Mumbai-born Doshi with a medical degree from Bombay University started
a radiology practice in 1985 after completing her residency in
radiology at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York. Her family runs a number
of radiology centres in New York and Florida.
Jain is founding partner and chief medical officer of Buena Park,
California-based AppleCare Medical Management LLC, a medical management
services organization that manages AppleCare Medical Group and
AppleCare Hospitalists Group.
Shah is founder of the Philadelphia-based Hersha Hospitality Trust, a
co-founder and current president of the India Heritage Research
Foundation and a founder of Hindu American Religious Institute.
Singh is chairman and CEO of Telcom Ventures and plays a leading role
in the development and deployment of emerging wireless technologies.
Kerala-born Thomas is the founder of Operation HOPE (Healing Outreach
to People Everywhere). A general surgeon in Lubbock, Texas, he has done
volunteer work in India, Bolivia, Kenya, Haiti, Honduras, and Iraq.
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