Combining a group of doctors with a group of lawyers would normally cause tension to rise. Yet, the Women in Medicine and Law breast cancer fundraiser does just that with beneficial, philanthropic results.
The concept for this fundraiser started in 2003 when Jean Holt, MD, and Pam Otto, MD, were invited to a luncheon in Dallas for breast cancer that was organized by attorneys.
It was at this meeting that Pam Otto, MD, a radiologist at the University of Texas Healthcare System, presented the Top 10 Reasons to Have a Mammogram. Good humor and fun was noted as the San Antonio doctors survived in a room filled with Dallas lawyers.
After this dinner, Jean and Pam felt inspired to start a fundraiser in San Antonio. At that time, there were several organizations that raised money for breast cancer research which contained either doctors or lawyers but not in combination. Jean contacted her friend Judith Blakeway of Strasburger & Price who greeted the idea enthusiastically and Women in Medicine and Law for the Cure was born. 