Doctor Pedro Cavadas is honoured with the Maimónides Award

Last November I had the good fortune of attending the 2019 Maimónides Award Ceremony at the Hotel Intercontinental in Madrid. The University of Tel Aviv, through the Asociación de Amigos de la Universidad en España, honoured Doctor Pedro Cavadas with the 2019 Maimónides Award. Cavadas is known the world over for his successful transplants and surgical reconstructions.

The accolade was delivered at a charity dinner attended by the Ambassador of Israel, Rodica Radian Gordon, the chairman of the University of Tel Aviv, Professor Ariel Porat, and the co-chairpersons of the Association, Patricia Nahmad and Isaac Querub.

The Maimónides Awards acknowledges the work of organisations and personalities in favour of concord, understanding between peoples and coexistence. Previous awardees include personalities such as Father Angel and Alicia Koplowitz.

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The Maimónides Award acknowledges Doctor Cavadas’ commitment to the more vulnerable

I was delighted to attend this award ceremony, which extolled Doctor Cavadas’ core values, such as his commitment, through his expertise and experience, to serving the under-privileged.  A veritable medical eminence whom I had the honour of meeting personally after the event, and who is an inspiration to all of us.

As doctor Cavadas himself has admitted on some occasions, his success as a plastic surgeon had turned him into the prototype of the rich and ambitious surgeon. However, his trips to Kenya led him to change his lifestyle and to create the Pedro Cavadas Foundation, a non-profit organisation that engages in reconstructive surgery in Africa.

The Maimónides award ceremony was followed by a cocktail and a dinner among very pleasant company, which also gave us the opportunity to collaborate in a worthwhile cause, since all the proceeds will be put towards funding research grants and projects.