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"""Rachel Minkove had the grace to turn her personal experience as a young adult with cancer inside-out, as she pursued her career in social work in order to help other young adults with cancer."" -Mary ""Lacy"" Fetting, LCSW, University of California, San Francisco ""Rachel's dignity and grace won her the admiration of those of us fortunate enough to have known her. The social work profession has lost a young woman dedicated to doing some of the most challenging work we are called upon to do.""- Jennie Dunleavy Bloom, associate dean, University of Maryland School of Social Work ""As a young woman, Rachel was an inspiration to others who have had to travel the arduous journey of cancer. As her primary caregiver, I witnessed Rachel's courage, strength and determination to live life to the fullest.""- Richard Ambinder, M.D., Ph.D., director of Hematologic Malignancies, and professor of oncology, Johns Hopkins Medicine"

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Judy Fruchter Minkove served as a senior writer at Johns Hopkins Medicine (JHM), where she worked since 2002. In this role, she wrote for and managed two of the health system's newsletters: Hopkins Brain Wise (Dept. of Psychiatry) and Aequanimitas (for Osler Medical Residency alumni). She also wrote regularly for Dome, JHM's flagship employee newsletter. In addition, her work has appeared in Hopkins Medicine Magazine (the medical school's alumni publication). Minkove has won several national writing awards, including the Association of American Medical College (AAMC) Group on Institutional Advancement (GIA) Awards for Excellence and the Robert G. Fenley Writing Award of Distinction, in 2005.A self-described grammar nerd, she also enjoyed her role as a Johns Hopkins copy editor for assorted publications, press releases and Web content. Prior to joining Editorial Services in 2003, Minkove managed publications, events and transplant patient volunteers at the Johns Hopkins Comprehensive Transplant Center.All told, Minkove has more than 35 years of editorial experience, including four years as manager of public relations at Levindale Hebrew Geriatric Center and Hospital and 13 years as a medical textbook copy editor for Williams & Wilkins/Waverly Press. She has also published essays in The Baltimore Jewish Times, The Baltimore Sun, The Forward and The New York Jewish Week.A rabbi's daughter-raised in a modern Orthodox home in communities across the country-Minkove is probably best known for her family's close ties to young Elvis Presley, whose family shared a duplex with the Fruchters in Memphis.Outside of work, Minkove relishes reading, swimming, cooking and spending time with family-especially her five grandchildren, two of whom are named after her daughter, Rachel, who died in 2012 from complications of Hodgkin's lymphoma. At this juncture, Minkove, who retired in April of 2023, continues to chronicle Rachel's impactful, albeit way-too-short, life.judyminkove.com

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