Joseph Haddad ’78, MD, received the 2008 Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award for his compassionate patient care and as a humanistic role model for students and young physicians. Given by the Arnold P. Gold Foundation, the award was presented at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons commencement ceremony last spring. A biology major at Wesleyan, he is a professor of clinical otolaryngology/head and neck surgery, associate dean, and vice chairman of otolaryngology at Columbia. Additionally, he is the director of pediatric otolaryngology/head and neck surgery at Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of New York-Presbyterian Columbia University Medical Center, and since, 1991, has been traveling twice a year to Honduras to teach and perform surgery for cleft lip/palate and other facial deformities. He received his M.D. from the New York University School of Medicine. An alumni-elected trustee of Wesleyan, he received the Alumni Service Award in 1988.
