Drolet, Safavi honored as Health Care Heroes

Beth Ann Drolet, MD, and Patricia Safavi, MD, were honored Dec. 7 at the 2006 Small Business Times Health Care Heroes Awards in Milwaukee.

The Small Business Times established the award in 2004 to "honor organizations and people who epitomize the spirit embodied in the word 'hero' in the delivery of health care to the community."

Drolet won the award in the physicians category for her efforts to establish the Birthmarks & Vascular Anomalies Center at Children's Hospital of Wisconsin. Safavi, a pediatrician at Children's Medical Group's Next Door Pediatrics in Milwaukee, is honored for community service.

Drolet and Safavi were selected by a panel of judges that included Randall Lambrecht, Ph.D., MT (ASCP) dean of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee College of Health Sciences; Karen Ordinans, executive director of the Children's Health Alliance of Wisconsin; Sarah Pratt, MD, a pediatrician who is the past president of the Medical Society of Milwaukee County Board of Directors and a current member of the Wisconsin Medical Society Board of Directors; and Connie Roethel, R.N., wellness expert and president of Core Health Group in Mequon.

Last year, the Small Business Times honored the Children's Hospital rabies care team as Ultimate Health Care Heroes for their lifesaving work with Fond du Lac, Wis., teen Jeanna Giese. Giese is the first known rabies patient to survive without receiving a vaccine after exposure.