International Health

A Congolese physician working to restore health care in his central African country with the support of a Carroll County-based aid organization will be honored as a global health hero in New York this week. Among the nine honorees at the Time Global Health Summit sponsored by Time magazine is Dr. Leon Kintaudi, who earned his medical degree in the United States and returned to the Democratic Republic of the Congo to reconstruct its health system. He oversees 56 health zones that care for millions, working in partnership with the local government and Interchurch Medical Assistance Inc., a coalition of a dozen faith-based relief and development organizations headquartered at the Brethren Service Center in New Windsor.

Phoebe Rhea Berman, a philanthropist who endowed the Johns Hopkins Bioethics Institute, died of heart failure Saturday at Fernwood, her Green Spring Valley home. She was 89.One of Baltimore's most celebrated hostesses, she owned a thoroughbred racing stable, published a newspaper and collected modern art."She possessed what has become a lost sense of civic duty," said Doreen Bolger, director of the Baltimore Museum of Art. "She supported the fabric of the community."In 1988, Mrs. Berman presented the museum with a painting by artist Mark Rothko, "Black on Red," which Ms. Bolger called "a staggering gift."