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Monroe County Medical Society announces 2025 Edward Mott Moore Award recipients
Monroe County Medical Society announces 2025 Edward Mott Moore Award recipients
Listen to this articleThe Monroe County Medical Society recently recognized Stanley Schaffer, MD and Mary Zelazny with its 2025 Edward Mott Moore Physician and Layperson Awards.
These awards recognize individuals whose dedication to the community goes above and beyond the usual call of duty.
Schaffer is a professor emeritus of Pediatrics at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry.
Throughout Schaffer’s professional career, he has been focused on improving the health of children through prevention and collaboration to build a healthier community.
Schaffer worked as a primary care pediatrician, mainly serving children and adolescents in impoverished families while also leading and participating in health services research and activities supporting a healthier community.
In 1994, Schaffer became the inaugural co-director of the Western New York Lead Poisoning Resource Center’s Rochester Office, funded by the New York State Department of Health. He continued to direct the center, working closely with community groups and local health departments in the 9-county Finger Lakes Region throughout his career.
In 2000, recognizing the need to address childhood lead poisoning in a community-wide collaborative manner, Schaffer participated in the founding of Rochester’s Coalition to Prevent Lead Poisoning (CPLP), which subsequently was recognized nationwide for its community-based approach to addressing the problem of childhood exposure to lead.
Zelazny has been the CEO of Finger Lakes Community Health, a Community Health Center program, since 2006.
As CEO, Zelazny has led a major expansion effort to provide access to healthcare services throughout the Finger Lakes region, including the development of enhanced programs and services designed to reach out to the many culturally diverse communities it serves.
Under Zelazny’s tenure, Finger Lakes Community Health has grown from a single health center site to nine comprehensive health center sites across six counties of rural New York state, serving about 30,000 patients annually.
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