Jefferson Award Honors Doctor Determined To Cure Rare Disease HIBM

A Los Angeles doctor who has made it his life's work to find a cure for the rare disease Heredity Inclusion Body Myopathy, or HIBM, has won this month's Channel ABC7 (Los Angeles) Jefferson Award. Through media partnerships throughout the US the Jefferson Award organization, which was co-founded by Jacqueline Kennedy-Onassis in 1972, acknowledges and honors people who have made a difference in their community.