Vellaccio presents Morris the award. In 1969, as a Navy lieutenant and recent dental school graduate, Morris was posted to Vietnam where he cared for both fellow soldiers and Vietnamese villagers — beginning a career in public health that has taken him around the world. He has established training programs for health care professionals in Trinidad and Guyana, and was responsible for planning the post-Gulf War reconstruction of Kuwait’s oral health services. Thirty-five years after he left Vietnam, he founded the Mai Tam House of Hope Project in Ho Chi Minh City, which serves women, children, and orphans with HIV/AIDS.