Rajiv Kumar, the Brown medical student who founded Shape Up RI, has received a Community Health Leaders Award from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation -- 1 of 10 people around the country chosen for the honor.

Shape Up RI is a program that encourages people to increase physical activity and lose weight by forming teams that compete over an 8- or 12-week period on the basis of how many steps walked, pounds lost or exercise hours logged. Over the past four years, 35,000 Rhode Islanders have participated in Shape Up RI.

Full Story: Founder of Shape Up RI wins national award Source: Projo News Blog, October 8th, 2009 Author: Felice Freyer Added on October 9th, 2009 at 9:50 am, by Matt Mikula