CAAP is pleased to announce that journalist Diane Rehm and surgeon Dr. Marwan Abouljoud have been named Arab Americans of the Year by ACCESS, CAAP’s parent organization. They will be honored at the prestigious 42nd Annual ACCESS Anniversary Dinner on Saturday, April 27 in Detroit, Mich.
Diane Rehm hosts The Diane Rehm Show on WAMU in Washington D.C. The program is distributed nationally by National Public Radio. In 30 years as host of the program, Rehm has interviewed a long list of notables, including then-Sen. Barack Obama, former presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, Nobel Laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Toni Morrison. In 2000, she became the first radio talk show host to interview a sitting president (Clinton) in the Oval Office.
As director of the Transplant Institute at Henry Ford Hospital, Dr. Marwan Abouljoud has led transplant surgery at Henry Ford to national and international recognition. He was born in Beirut in 1960, one of seven children. During the civil war there he was a medical volunteer, assisting in caring for the wounded. He received his undergraduate and medical degrees from the American University of Beirut and completed his surgical residency at the University of Michigan and Henry Ford Hospital. He did his transplant fellowship at the University of Alabama in Birmingham, and at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas.
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