Ava Silverstein: October 2016 Volunteer of the MonthAva was given the October Volunteer of the Month Award in recognition of her work for the past six years as physical therapist at the weekly Multiple Sclerosis Swim-In program run jointly by NCJW and the MS Society. This program could not functioned without her. Ava grew up in New Rochelle, NY, and she and her husband moved to Woodcliff Lake 28 years ago to raise their family of two daughters. After earning her degree in occupational therapy at SUNY in Buffalo, Ava worked at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, MD. She subsequently earned a master’s degree in physical therapy at Columbia University and went on to work at the Hospital for Joint Diseases in New York. She first met Ruth Cowan when she volunteered at the NCJW’s After Breast Cancer Surgery program and continued with her as a volunteer at MS Swim-In. Ava was president of NCJW Mid-Bergen Section for two years and co-president for another year. She has also been involved with Jewish Federation of Northern NJ and the Melanoma Research Foundation of which her husband is president. In her spare time, Ava loves traveling, biking, painting, needlepoint and gardening and is presently studying at an Ulpan to learn conversational Hebrew.
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