The Joseph H. Kanter Prize is intended to be a life-changing honor. Named for Joseph H. Kanter, a pioneering health care reform advocate, the award carries with it national recoginition for one physician's landmark work in equalizing the delivery of health care and a $100,000 cash prize.

Submission Deadline is Friday Februay 6, 2009.

Click here to learn how to nominate a phsician

The Health Legacy Partnership (HELP) was co-founded ten years ago by the Joseph H. Kanter Family Foundation and the Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ) to pursue three primary goals:

	To support the development of a national outcomes database that will be used by doctors and patients to determine which treatments work best for specific diseases and conditions based on specific criteria of circumstances.
	To diminish healthcare disparities among the public and reward doctors’ efforts for improving the delivery of quality healthcare to all patients.
	To improve healthcare decision making by giving people useful medical information based on scientific research. read more