Hammes Company Regional Vice President Receives Gold Heart Award
DALLAS, April 23 – The American Heart Association presented its Gold Heart Award yesterday to Craig Beam, CRE, regional vice president and partner with Hammes Company, in Orange, Calif.
The award is the highest honor the association gives to volunteers who have provided continued, distinguished service.
The award was presented at the association's 2007 Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.
Beam, who has more than 30 years’ experience in healthcare finance and real estate, was the association’s chairman of the board in 2002-03. He began volunteer service to the organization more than 20 years ago.
Beam has served on the association’s national administrative cabinet and chaired its Effectiveness & Impact Task Force, Digital Strategies Task Force and Marketing & Communications Coordinating Committee. He is a past chairman of the organization’s former California Affiliate and Orange County (Calif.) Chapter.
As national chairman, Beam helped steer the association forward as it sought to enhance its brand name on a national level. He led the organization to its first-ever paid advertising campaign and also oversaw an Ad Council campaign for the association’s division, the American Stroke Association. He was also a driving force behind the association’s implementation of Web-based delivery systems for products and information.
In 2004, Beam was selected to serve as a member of the Director’s Council of Public Representatives (COPR), a committee that advises the director of the National Institutes of Health on issues of public importance. In 1998, he was appointed an Endowed Fellow by the National Health Foundation.
A graduate of California State University, Beam received the association’s Distinguished Leadership Award in 2003. He received the former California Affiliate’s Volunteer of the Year Award in 1995.
About the American Heart Association
Founded in 1924, the American Heart Association today is the nation’s oldest and largest voluntary health organization dedicated to reducing disability and death from cardiovascular diseases and stroke. These diseases, America’s No. 1 and No. 3 killers, claim more than 870,000 lives a year. In fiscal year 2005-06 the association invested over $543 million in research, professional and public education, advocacy and community service programs to help all Americans live longer, healthier lives. To learn more, call 1-800-AHA-USA1 or visit americanheart.org.
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