Over the past month, we asked Denver Post readers and our staff to help us come up with a list of people in Colorado who should be recognized for their extraordinary accomplishments or ideas that either occurred or came to fruition in 2013.
Click for the complete list of this year’s winners.
Health
WINNER:
Iñigo San Millán, at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. San Millán developed a training program to track physiological data in athletes, helping them and their coaches increase players’ recovery time, endurance and performance. In 2013, San Millán began working with the “It gives us the best opportunity to really dive into our young men’s physical attributes and really have a measuring stick on it,” said coach Mike MacIntyre.
HONORABLE MENTION:
Huntington Potter, professor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and director of Alzheimer’s Disease Research, who is doing breakthrough research on the
State senator and physician , chair of the Senate Committee on Health and Human Resources. Aguilar traveled around the state in the fall to nine rural communities, holding forums and meeting with health care providers and community leaders to hear their concerns and ideas.
