For immediate release: 9/20/04

Carol M. Rosenbaum Wins an EMMY
for writing and producing Temple Lifelines: Beating the Odds 

Rosenbaum’s 13th National Award

Carol M. Rosenbaum has won an Emmy in the Health and Science Category for Temple Lifelines: Beating the Odds – the second program in her Temple Lifelines series broadcast by CBS 3 in Philadelphia.
The mid-Atlantic Emmy Awards, given by the National Television Academy, are television’s most prestigious, and honor excellence in news, programming and individual achievement.
Ms. Rosenbaum writes and produces the series for CBS 3. This is her 13th national award. Another program in the series, Breathing Easier, won a national Telly Award earlier this year.

Temple Lifelines: Beating the Odds explores heart treatments and transplants, and features the wrenching story of a man who bonds with the mother who donated her daughter’s heart to him.

The Temple Lifelines documentary health series focuses on patients with advanced disease, sudden illness or injury who have been treated and dramatically helped in different centers at Temple University Hospital. CBS 3 Health Reporter Stephanie Stahlhosts the series.

In recent years, Ms. Rosenbaum won many national awards for her writing/producing/directing, including awards for African-American Women CAN Beat Breast Cancer, the TV Public Service Announcement A Blanket of Warmth (producedfor the Utility Emergency Services Fund) and for Maria’s Story, a healthcare docu-dramaShe also won a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for her TV news series, Poverty Has A Woman’s Face.