[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 152 (Tuesday, November 4, 1997)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E2176]
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          ``ROFEH INTERNATIONAL CONTINUES ITS EXCELLENT WORK''

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                           HON. BARNEY FRANK

                            of massachusetts

                    in the house of representatives

                       Tuesday, November 4, 1997

  Mr. FRANK of Massachusetts. Mr. Speaker, I am glad to continue what 
has become for me an important tradition--recognizing here the great 
work done by ROFEH International, a project sponsored by the New 
England Chassidic Center located in Brookline, MA. ROFEH International, 
like the New England Chassidic Center, is led by Grand Rabbi Levi 
Horowitz, known as the Bostoner Rebbe.
  In addition to his religious leadership and scholarship, Rabbi 
Horowitz has become an expert in the field of medicine, and especially 
of medical ethics. His work on medical ethics is widely consulted, and 
as befits a religious leader who is dedicated to the welfare of others, 
Rabbi Horowitz has put the concept of medical ethics to work in a very 
important way through ROFEH International. ROFEH exists to help people 
from all over the world get access to first rate medical care which 
they would not otherwise have. Bringing people who could not otherwise 
afford it to Boston to be treated at the outstanding medical 
institutions which are so important in our metropolitan area is 
extraordinarily important work, and it is a concept which Rabbi 
Horowitz and his colleagues in ROFEH pioneered and have implemented 
brilliantly.
  On November 23, 1997, a dinner will be held in Boston to celebrate 
the work of ROFEH, and this year, as in the past, the dinner will pay 
tribute to two particularly outstanding individuals. These two men are 
Dr. Benjamin Rabinovici and Dr. Andrew L. Warshaw.
  The 1997 Man of the Year, Dr. Benjamin Rabinovici was born in 
Romania. He studied at the well known Vizhinitzer Yeshiva where he 
granted S'micha. Following his years at the Yeshiva he went to the 
Polytechnic University of Bucharest where he graduated with a B.S. 
degree in electrical engineering. When he immigrated to the United 
States in 1951, he continued his education at Columbia University where 
he received an M.S. degree in electrical engineering and the degree of 
Ph.D. in applied physics.
  Dr. Rabinovici held senior scientific and managerial positions at CBS 
Laboratories, RCA, IBM and Honeywell. He left Honeywell for an academic 
appointment as professor of electrical engineering and computer science 
at Northeastern University. He published extensively in scientific and 
technical journals, holds numerous patents, and is a senior member of 
IEEE, American Physical Society, and New York Academy of Science.
  Dr. Rabinovici is president and CEO of International Microwave Corp. 
and Tympanium Corp. He is founder and director of Parlex Corp. and is a 
trustee of Natick Village Investments. He is also in a number of Jewish 
organizations and is a trustee of Maimonides School.
  Joining Dr. Rabinovici as an honoree is Dr. Andrew L. Warshaw who 
will receive the coveted Harry Andler Memorial Award.
  Dr. Andrew L. Warshaw was born in New York. He received his A.B. from 
Harvard College, Cambridge, MA, (cum laude) and his M.D. from Harvard 
Medical School, Boston, MA, (magna cum laude). Dr. Warshaw fulfilled 
his surgical internships and residencies at Massachusetts General 
Hospital, Boston, MA.
  Dr. Warshaw is the recipient of many awards including a Phi Beta 
Kappa, Alpha Omega Alpha and the Good Physician Award of the 
Massachusetts Medical Society.
  Dr. Andrew L. Warshaw is one of the world's leading surgeons and is 
internationally renown for his care of patients and research in 
pancreatic disease. He is surgeon-in-chief and chairman of the 
Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA.
  Dr. Warshaw has served on many major committees. Amongst them are the 
Committee on Research, chairman of the Massachusetts General Staff 
Associates Executive Board, Operating Room Advisory Committee, chairman 
of the Committee on Future of Department of Surgery, Head, Pancreatic 
Cancer Study Group, Disease Focused Care Management Expert Team for 
Pancreatic Cancer, chairman of the Executive Committee for Operations 
Improvement Implementation (GI Surgery), Massachusetts General Hospital 
and director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Gastrointestinal 
Cancer Center.
  Dr. Warshaw is a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society, 
American College of Surgeons, chairman, Membership Committee, Halsted 
Society, president of the New England Surgical Society (1993-1994); co-
president-elect, Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract (1996); 
president elect, International Association of Pancreatology (1996).
  Dr. Warshaw has authored and co-authored many peer reviewed articles 
and books. Many of the doctor's articles have been published in leading 
medical books and journals.
  Mr. Speaker, I am proud to share with my colleagues and the country 
the record of this excellent organization and the biographies of the 
two men they so justly honor.

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