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Gal Gadot has reached icon status as far as Women’s Guild Cedars-Sinai is concerned. The group announced today that the actress has been selected to receive its Hollywood Icon award at their Snow Ball gala at the Beverly Wilshire in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Nov. 20. The event, to be hosted by Entertainment Tonight Emmy winner Nischelle Turner, will see honors presented to Dr. Shlee Song, director of the Cedars-Sinai’s Comprehensive Stroke Center, as medical visionary, and Cathy and Mark Louchheim, who are set to receive a humanitarian award. “I’m truly honored to receive the Hollywood Icon Award from the Women’s Guild Cedars-Sinai, a place that means so much to me. Having been a patient there, I’ve experienced their extraordinary care and compassion. I’m grateful to be recognized by such inspiring women who are making a real difference,” said Gadot, who stars in Julian Schnabel’s recent Venice Film Festival entry In the Hand of Dante. She recently wrapped production on Kevin Macdonald’s The Runner for Amazon MGM Studios. The patient status she cited in her statement refers to the time when she checked into Cedars-Sinai for an emergency situation as it was revealed she had a bloodclot on her brain while pregnant. “In February, during my eighth month of pregnancy, I was diagnosed with a massive blood clot in my brain,” Gadot wrote on Instagram last year. “For weeks, I had endured excruciating headaches that confined me to bed, until I finally underwent an MRI that revealed the terrifying truth. In one moment, my family and I were faced with how fragile life can be. It was a stark reminder of how quickly everything can change, and in the midst of a difficult year, all I wanted was to hold on and live.” Dr. Song serves as vice chair of systems integration and a professor in neurology at Cedars-Sinai, where she directs the Comprehensive Stroke Center. She led multiple NIH and industry stroke trials including the phase II MRWITNESS study, and pioneered Cedars-Sinai’s telemedicine network for acute stroke care. The Louchheims, married for 45 years, are credited as community and philanthropic leaders per Cedars-Sinai. Mark serves as chairman and CEO of Bobrick Washroom Equipment, Inc. while Cathy is a Women’s Guild Cedars-Sinai board member for 42 years. She’s received the Evelyn Clayburgh award and together they have raised millions for Cedars-Sinai, Otis College and the Wallis Annenberg Center. Funds raised at the event will support the Women’s Guild neurology project and the Women’s Guild distinguished chair in pediatrics at Cedars-Sinai’s newest expansion, Guerin Children’s. The guild has raised more than $70 million for the hospital.
