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Friday, July 27, 2007

ALS Advocate Avi Kremer Wins Award

Avi Kremer, the Harvard Business School graduate who is using his management skills to battle his dread disease, received a top prize from the ALS Association last week.

Avi received the Lawrence A. Rand Prize for "raising awareness about the disease as well as millions of dollars for research in Israel and the U.S." Avi, age 32, was diagnosed with the condition, also called Lou Gehrig’s Disease, during his first semester at Harvard.

Advice: Appreciate Avi’s courage.

Read our earlier blog post on Avi.

Source: Stephen Smith’s article in the July 23 Boston Globe.

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