Hewlett resident Debra Zinn receives Maimonides Award

Debra Zinn, of Hewlett, was one of nine Touro College School of Health Sciences students that received the distinguished Maimonides Award at the Sept. 10 graduation at the Tilles Center.

Students representing nine health sciences programs were presented with the award and an exceptional student from each professional program was selected for showcasing the highest professional ideals of a practitioner of the health sciences.

“I’m honored that I was selected to receive the Maimonides Award and to have had the opportunity to learn from such qualified and dedicated professors,” Zinn stated in a news release. “I am passionate about my field because there are so many different ways to help clients across the lifespan. Regardless of age, everyone deserves a voice and I am proud to be the one to help my clients find it.”

Zinn graduated from the speech and language pathology program and is working full-time at Kulanu Academy in Cedarhurst, a school for special-needs youth and young adults, and works with an agency to provide feeding therapy for children ages 3 to 5.