Congratulations to David Fajgenbaum, MD, MBA, MSc (WG'15), and Michael Rovinsky, WG'86, on receiving 2024 WHCMAA Alumni Awards. David is the recipient of the Alumni Achievement Award, and Michael received the Outstanding Service Award.
David and Michael will accept their awards at our annual alumni dinner on Thursday, November 14, 2024.
David is one of the youngest tenured professors in the history of Penn Medicine (University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine), one of the youngest awardees of multiple top NIH and FDA grants, a national bestselling author of 'Chasing My Cure: A Doctor's Race to Turn Hope Into Action', and he is in his longest remission ever thanks to a precision treatment he identified for idiopathic multicentric Castleman disease (iMCD). He's now chasing "every cure" as co-founder of the nonprofit, Every Cure, having identified and/or advanced 15 other treatment approaches for iMCD and cancer.
Michael is a healthcare strategist, advisor, and business development executive with more than 37 years of experience and currently serves as Vice President of Strategic Planning for Array Advisors. Since graduation, he has been an unflagging supporter of the Wharton School's Health Care Management (WHCM) Program, strengthening alumni connection to the program through frequent visits for reunions, the WHCM conference, and meetings with students, program leadership, and alumni. He has significantly impacted students in the Program and the Program's visibility through his many years of service as a member of the WHCMAA Board and his ongoing involvement with the Career Development Committee.
Congratulations to both alumni!
