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Realtors® care about the community in which they live and work. They fight for affordable homeownership opportunities, take pride in giving back to the community through volunteer work, and recognize those citizens whose extraordinary contributions have enriched our area.  PMAR surveyed our members about their community involvement and in the past year, members have donated an impressive 39,400 hours to community service and either helped to raise or donated $3.4 million. For a full list of charities that PMAR’s members volunteered for or donated money to in the past year, click here.


2010 Portland First Citizen

Brian J. Druker, MD

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The Portland Metropolitan Association of Realtors® (PMAR) is pleased to announce Brian Druker, MD, director of the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute, JELD-WEN Chair of Leukemia Research at Oregon Health & Science University, and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, as the recipient of the 2010 Portland First Citizen Award. Dr. Druker will be recognized at the annual Portland First Citizen Banquet, scheduled for April 21, 2010 at the Governor Hotel, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. 

Dr. Druker specializes in treatment of Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML). As a young oncologist, he wrote to the families of patients who died, promising to find a cure. At that time, only 50% of patients diagnosed with this particular form of cancer survived the disease. In collaboration with Novartis, Dr. Druker led the way to develop Gleevec, a drug that revolutionized the way cancer is treated by zeroing in on specific cancer-causing molecules, thereby avoiding serious damage to other, non-cancerous cells. In 2001, Gleevec was approved by the FDA for treatment of CML. Since then, Gleevec has been approved for use in pediatric patients with CML, the first FDA approved cancer drug treatment in more than a decade. Today, 90% of patients diagnosed with CML survive. In addition, Gleevec has been approved by the FDA to treat six other cancers. 

Dr. Druker joined OHSU in 1993, excited at the chance to help patients while developing better cancer treatments. He received his M.D. from the University of California School of Medicine at San Diego, completed his residency in internal medicine at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, and did an oncology fellowship at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute at Harvard Medical School. 

For his work in the development of Gleevec, Dr. Druker has received numerous awards, the most recent of which is the 2009 Lasker-DeBakey Award for Clinical Medical Research. Established in 1945 by Albert and Mary Woodward Lasker, the Lasker Awards are sometimes called “America’s Nobel”; many winners have later received the Nobel Prize. Dr. Druker has received the Lance Armstrong Foundation’s Pioneer of Survivorship Carpe Diem Award, the Medal of Honor from the American Cancer Society, and many other honors. His greatest daily reward is “seeing patients in the clinic who have benefited from my work.” 

The Portland First Citizen Award was created in 1928 by the Portland Realty Board (now PMAR) to honor civic achievements and business leadership within the community. Considered one of Portland’s most prestigious awards, the individuals who have received it form an honor roll of the city’s most prominent leaders during the last eight decades. 

The Portland First Citizen banquet sponsors include The Oregonian and the Regional Multiple Listing Service (RMLS™). Advance registration for the event is required. For tickets or event information, call PMAR at 503-459-2152. In addition to the Portland First Citizen Award, two other awards will be presented at the banquet. The Portland Future First Citizen Award recognizes a high school student in the Portland metropolitan area who is a model of civic responsibility. The PMAR Good Neighbor Award will be awarded to a Realtor® member who has demonstrated an extraordinary commitment to improving the quality of life in his community. 

Past Portland First Citizens
 

1928 Ben Selling 1969 Homer T. Shaver
1929 J. C. Ainsworth 1970 Judge Gus J. Solomon
1930 Aaron M. Frank 1971 Glenn Jackson
1931 Henry B. Van Duzer 1972 Ira C. Keller
1932 Raymond B. Wilcox 1973 Howard Vollum
1933 George L. Baker 1974 William E. Roberts
1934 Hopkin Jenkins 1975 Fred G. Meyer
1935 Edward C. Sammons 1976 Larry Hilaire
1936 Arthur L. Fields 1977 Louis B. Perry
1937 Richard B. Dillehunt, M.D. 1978 Edith Green
1938 Franklin T. Griffith 1979 David Edwin Abram
1939 Charles H. Martin 1980 William Swindells, Sr.
1940 Ross McIntyre 1981 Judge Harlow F. Lenon
1941 Mrs. Thomas D. Honeyman 1982 Samuel T. Naito & William S. Naito
1942 Edgar F. Kaiser 1983 Carl M. Halvorson
1943 Portland Service Men/Women 1984 Bishop Paul D. Waldschmidt
1944 Mrs. C.S. Jackson 1985 John Piacentini
1945 Theodore R. Gamble 1986 Dr. Albert Starr
1946 Chester A. Moores 1987 Robert L. Ridgley
1947 Sid Woodbury 1988 Don C. Frisbee
1948 Hillman Lueddemann 1989 Melvin 'Pete' Mark
1949 Thomas Harry Banfield 1990 Harry L. Demorest
1950 David B. Simpson 1991 Dr. Matthew W. Prophet, Jr.
1951 Frank Erwin McCaslin 1992 Harry Glickman
1952 Edgar William Smith 1993 John 'Jack' Faust
1953 C.B. Stephenson 1994 Maestro Jacob Avshalomov
1954 Ben H. Hazen 1995 Harold & Arlene Schnitzer
1955 Dr. Morgan S. Odell 1996 Fred A. Stickel
1956 Harold Fox Wendell 1997 Neil Goldschmidt
1957 Rt. Rev. Benjamin Dagwell 1998 Brian & Gwyneth Booth
1958 William Bruce Boone 1999 Dr. Robert B. Pamplin, Jr.
1959 Paul Boole McKee 2000 Peter E. Jacobsen
1960 Dr. Leo Sherman Lucas 2002 Senator Mark O. Hatfield
1961 Dr. Samuel Latta Diack 2003 Tony L. Hopson, Sr.
1962 Truman Wesley Collins 2004 Dan Wieden
1963 Judge Donald E. Long 2005 Gert Boyle
1964 Charles R. Holloway, Jr. 2006 Jack McGowan
1965 Aubrey R. Watzek 2007 Peggy Fowler
1966 Mrs. S. Mason Ehrman 2008 Joe Weston
1967 John M. Fulton 2009 Bill Schonely
1968 John D. Gray