Ā Ā The Living Legends Awards for Service to Humanity began in 2006 by Doreen A. K. Hines and her ministry team, while serving as Minister of Music, at the Emmanuel Seventh-day Adventist Church, Ashton, MD. Ā In 2015, after 10 years of phenomenal growth, The Living Legends Awards for Service to Humanity program was incorporated by Doreen A. K. Hines, Esq and became a registered 501(C)3 with a Trademarked name.
Gul Jabbar, currently a third year medical student at IAU, began her service to the community as a freshman in college while volunteered for the Sheppard Pratt Health. She then progressed to working as a mental health counselor in her junior year. Ā While juggling her academic life as psychology pre-medicine major and being a teaching assistant in psychology, she was involved in campus leadership and served as the secretary and then president of the student government association. She was also a board member of her class advisory committee. Ā Gul also spent time providing humanitarian work in Texas and Mexico, where she helped build houses and worked at an orphanage. She was chosen as a recipient in her psychology class for an internship at the Kennedy Krieger Institute that lead her to work as a research assistant at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in the psychiatry department. Upon graduation, she achieved her highest accolade as a recipient of the Daily Recordās Circle of Excellence Scholarship awarded to one college female student in Maryland. Ā
Upon graduation she worked as a mental health counselor for Franklin Square Hospital Medical Center while studying for the GREās to apply for graduate school. Ā Gul was accepted to Boston University and completed her degree in Masters of Arts in Clinical Psychology. Ā It is in Boston where Gul became involved in National Alliance of Mental Illness (NAMI), one of the nation’s largest mental health organizations. Ā With NAMI she served as a family to family teacher, joined peer support groups and participated in the NAMIwalks. She is currently an active volunteer for NAMIās Baltimore chapter.
Following her Masters, Gul became a research coordinator at Harvard Medical School, working with families with first degree relatives that have Schizophrenia in hopes to better understand a genetic correlation between them. Ā Upon completing her time at Harvard she proudly served with AmeriCorps/Community Healthcorps at the Boston Healthcare for the Homeless Program as a case manager.
Currently, Gul is doing rotations in Baltimore as a third year medical student. She hopes to continue her work in internal medicine with a focus on mental health. Ā Her interests include working with the underserved community to better understand the impact of behavioral health and to take preventative measures to improve mental health.