Legato, Means presented with CVS Heroes in Women’s Health Award

WOONSOCKET, R.I. In recognition of National Women’s Health Week, Larry Merlo, president of CVS/Caremark, presented Dr. Marianne Legato and Dr. Roseanna Means with the 2008 CVS Caremark Heroes in Women’s Health Award.

The award honors leaders in the field of women’s health who embody the CVS Caremark mission to improve the lives of others by bringing the best quality care to those who need it.

Legato is an internationally known academic physician, author, lecturer and specialist in women’s health. She is the founder and director of The Foundation for Gender-Specific Medicine. She is responsible for the first collaboration between academic medicine and the private sector focused solely on gender-specific medicine: the science of how normal human biology differs between men and women and how the diagnosis and treatment of disease differs as a function of gender.

A practicing physician, Means founded Women of Means in 1999 to improve the lives of women who are homeless or marginally housed through quality health care, education and advocacy. Women of Means is a physician-led non-profit that sends volunteer physicians and paid nurses into Boston area shelters to provide free urgent and immediate medical care to homeless women and children. In addition, Means is associate clinical professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.

“Dr. Legato and Dr. Means are true champions of women’s health,” stated Merlo. “We are proud to honor these leaders as the first recipients of the CVS Caremark Heroes in Women’s Health Award.”