Doctor wins peace award

Salt Lake pediatrician and peace activist Louis Borgenicht has been named recipient of the 2005 Mahatma Gandhi Peace Award by the Gandhi Alliance for Peace.

The award will be presented Sunday at 4 p.m. at Jordan Park, 1060 S. 900 West, during a Gandhi birthday celebration.

"Lou not only speaks out, he gives of his time and his healing talents as well," Gandhi Alliance president Deb Sawyer said in announcing the award. She cited Borgenicht's "eloquence as a spokesperson for peace and his humanitarian work, which confers credibility to his anti-war message."

Borgenicht, who has been in private practice in Salt Lake City since 1985, has an art-history degree from Princeton University and a medical degree from Case Western Reserve University. He has been a member of Physicians for Social Responsibility for the past 25 years and was president of the local chapter in the 1980s. In 1996, Borgenicht worked at a hospital in Katmandu, Nepal, repairing cleft lips, palates and burn scars.

Participants on the Gandhi birthday-celebration program will include Father Gally Lourduraj of St. Ambrose Parish and Rabbi Tracee Rosen of Congregation Kol Ami. The celebration will include a chanting of Tibetan Buddhist prayers.