FORMER HOLLYWOOD EXECUTIVE RUNS MEDICAL PLAN HMO IN CAMBODIA WINNER HARVARD PUBLIC HEALTH Q PRIZE TRADING GOOD LIFE FOR DOING GOOD
It is hard to characterize this story for the medical blog. Scott Neeson, a former Hollywood movie executive has established a medical plan, a sort of HMO for poor families in Cambodia. He did win a prize from the Harvard School of Public Health. But really that doesn't begin to tell the story. I guess you could say this is a medical story because it makes you feel good, about yourself and about humanity.
He used to own a five bedroom mansion in Hollywood and pilot a sports car thru the Hollywood hills. He never did go to college. Today you'll find him in a garbage dump. This is not a story of a Hollywood life gone wrong. Rather it is a story of a Hollywood life gone right. Very very right. In 2007, Scott Neeson was awarded the inaugural Harvard School of Public Health "Q Prize" in recognition of his extraordinary leadership."Neeson, executive director of the Cambodian Children's Fund, a safe house for Cambodia's orphaned, abandoned, and abused children. Created by Neeson in 2003, the CCF serves 240 children from amongst the most impoverished and uneducated of Cambodia's population, those at greatest risk of child trafficking. Most of CCF's children were rescued from Stoeng Meanchey, Phnom Penh's notorious rubbish dump".
Amazing if you think about it. Neeson never went to college." But Neeson was a wildly successful film executive who gave it all up to help children he had seen while backpacking in Cambodia. "Neeson grew up in Adelaide, South Australia and started what was to be a long, successful career in the film business when he joined a company that operated local and rural drive-in theaters".
"By 1993, he had relocated to Los Angeles to join 20th Century Fox as head of international marketing. In 2000, Neeson became President of 20th Century Fox International, overseeing the release and marketing of several of the top films of all time – including 'Braveheart,' 'Titanic,' 'Star Wars' and 'X-men' – and managing gross revenues in excess of $1.5 billion dollars. In 2003, Neeson left Fox to head Sony Pictures International marketing operations".
Everyone at one time or another wonders about what they are doing with their life and the direction it is going and in Neeson's case his course veered unbelievably. Neeson first came to Cambodia in 2003 on a backpacking trip. He couldn't get over all the homeless kids, begging for a handout. "Neeson says he found himself moved by the horrific circumstances of the young kids. It was an extremely different world for him. He had just left his position as president of 20th Century Fox International and accepted a top job at Sony Pictures".It changed the direction of his life and those he met.
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