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Stephen M. Winter, MD, FCCP, of Ridgefield, chief of pulmonary and critical care medicine at Norwalk Hospital, and Clinical Professor of Medicine at Yale University School of Medicine, recently received the Humanitarian Award of the Chest Foundation of the American College of Chest Physicians, according to a news release.

The prestigious national award was presented at the 11th Annual Making A Difference Awards Dinner in San Diego, Calif.

He received the honor for "sustainable health promotion for the indigenous populations of the Northern Amazon Basin."

Winter was praised for his 30 years of international relief work. As part of the Amazon Promise project team, he provided medical clinics, health education and mosquito nets to reduce morbidity due to malaria and other medical problems among the Agaruna people of the upper Amazon.

On the most recent trip, he was among 14 volunteers who were able to move 1,980 pounds of mosquito nets with supporting medical supplies by helicopter, river launch and canoes to remote villages. The volunteers were commended for completing a "daunting task that required extraordinary flexibility and creativity."

Earlier this year, Winter was named a "Top Doctor" in the 2009 Castle Connolly listing for the tenth straight year by being selected by his peers to be among the best in his specialty of pulmonary and critical care medicine. He has also been in the Woodward/White Inc., Best Doctors in Americafor 11 years.He has received many honors from Norwalk Hospital over the years for his outstanding service to the hospital and his voluntary efforts throughout the world.

Winter has been a pioneering leader in pulmonary and critical care medicine at Norwalk Hospital. Chief of pulmonary and critical care medicine since 1994, he has been at the forefront of Norwalk Hospital developments in patient care and outreach programs to the community. He has also served as a member of the Norwalk Hospital Board of Trustees.




Winter is deeply involved in the academic programs at Norwalk Hospital, spending much of his time teaching in the hospital residency program and working closely with the Fellowship training program in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine.

He attended medical school at the University of Michigan and Cornell University. His post-graduate training was at The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and Yale-New Haven Hospital.







He has been a volunteer physician at the Americares Free Clinic

of Norwalk since 1995 and has been a board member of the Society for

Computers in Critical Care and Pulmonary Medicine since 1990. He has served

on the Board of Directors of the Americares Foundation since 2003. He has

donated his time to smoking cessation programs for students and student

mentoring programs at Ridgefield High School and Yale University. He is

active with the American Thoracic Society (ATS) and the Connecticut

Thoracic Society (CTS), serving on various committees and as secretary,

vice president and president of the CTS.

Dr. Winter has been instrumental in the planning and

development of the Norwalk Hospital medical intensive care unit, the Sleep

Disorders Center and the Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine Center and as a

board member of the hospital, he was instrumental in promoting quality and

best practice medical care as a major strategic focus of the hospital.

Dr. Winter served as a Critical Care Team Leader for the

American Red Cross in Operation Desert Storm in 1990 and helicoptered into

ground zero on September 11, 2001 to set up a triage and evacuation station

near the World Trade Center site. In addition to his work in the Northern

Amazon Basin, he has provided international medical relief work in Thailand

and Haiti and with Americares operations in the Republic of Congo, Rwanda,

Macedonia, Kosovo, Somalia, Ethiopia, North Korea, Iraq, Afghanistan,

Krygystan, Albania, El Salvador, Liberia and Darfur.

In 1999, Dr. Winter received the William J. Tracey, MD Award,

given to a Norwalk Hospital physician "whose exemplary commitment and

philanthropic leadership strengthen the hospital as a progressive leader in

the healing arts." He was honored at the Centennial Society Gala for being

an outstanding medical ambassador for Norwalk Hospital at home and abroad

for many years. Dr. Winter was a past recipient of the Humanitarian Award

of the American Lung Association of Connecticut "for his humanitarian

spirit as evidenced in his voluntary medical outreach efforts throughout

the United States and the world."

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