HCH2019: Presentation of the Karen Rotondo Award for Outstanding Service

Deborah Borne is the winner of the 2019 Karen Rotondo Award for Outstanding Service.

Deborah Borne, MSW, MD, is Medical Director of the Transitions Division at San Francisco Health Network in the San Francisco Department of Public Health. Deb has spent nearly 30 years—first as a social worker and then as a family physician—serving individuals wherever they are with dignity and kindness. She has built collaborations and started programs to innovatively address care for individuals living in encampments, women who are pregnant and experiencing homelessness, and the stigma and paternalism that can prevent people experiencing homelessness from accessing care. Deb’s colleagues and clients are grateful for her enthusiasm, hope, humility, humor, and energy, as well as the compassion and holistic perspective she brings to her clinical work and her advocacy.

More materials from HCH2019 are available at http://www.nhchc.org/hch2019.

Learn more about the National Health Care for the Homeless Council at http://www.nhchc.org.