Con Alma Health Foundation congratulates this year’s heroes of health: Chuck Howe, president of National Veterans Wellness and Healing Center, Inc. in Angel Fire, and Rebecca Palacios, PhD, assistant professor at New Mexico State University. Con Alma also awarded an...
Linda Lane Rigsby Special Award (posthumous) Advocate for Health Resources who helped found Con Alma Health Foundation and establish our Community Advisory Council (Linda’s award was accepted by her husband David Rigsby, who designated the $1,000 contribution...
2010 Hero of Health Mario Pacheco, M.D. Pojoaque Primary Care & Northern New Mexico Residency Program Nominees Jane Batson Eastern New Mexico University, Roswell David Bouquin Bill Humphries Presbyterian Medical Services Marvel Kellogg, Ph.D....
A Inaugural Class of Heroes Robert Benon Teen Health Centers, Presbyterian Medical Services Mary Louise Romero Betancourt Juvenile Justice Intensive Monitoring Program, First Judicial District Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) Monica Leyba Christus St....
Con Alma is pleased to announce that this year’s 2011 New Mexico Hero of Health is Kristine Suozzi from the New Mexico Health Equity Working Group. Dr. Suozzi has a PhD in health education and has worked in New Mexico on public health and social justice issues for...
New Mexico Heroes of Health work to improve health in New Mexico. They can be health care providers, advocates, administrators, clinicians, or policy makers, just to name a few eligible categories. They are unsung heroes; volunteers and individuals that work to...