Walter P. Cooke Award: Janet H. Sung, MD, and John J. Sung, of Clarence, N.Y.

The Harlem Radiology Center had a modest beginning in 1987 when Janet Sung, MD, and her husband, John, after pooling their assets, selling their apartment and taking out a loan, greeted their first 32 patients.

The practice has been growing ever since. In addition to transforming their modest roots into Windsong Radiology Group, now the second-largest diagnostic imaging center in the United States that employs more than 200, the Sungs have become committed members of the Western New York and University at Buffalo communities.

Janet Sung, a nationally recognized radiologist specializing in women's imaging, has pioneered numerous diagnostic procedures and is often called upon by the media as a resource on breast cancer issues. Her husband is a certified public accountant who has offered his business acumen to the UB Foundation Board of Directors and other local organizations.

In 1999, the Sungs established an endowed scholarship fund in the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences with a $1 million gift, thereby tangibly solidifying their belief in the educational mission of the university by creating opportunities for medical students that may not have existed otherwise. Their daughter, Janice, is a 2003 alumna of the medical school, and the Sungs' scholarship is a vote of confidence in the quality of the clinical training and research that the school affords it students.

In 2003, Janet Sung was presented with the Governor's Award for Excellence, and the same year, the couple was named Entrepreneurs of the Year by Junior Achievement. In 2008, Just Communities of WNY recognized them as Community Leaders of the Year.

In addition to the John J. and Janet H. Scholarship Endowed Fund at UB, the couple established the Sung Family Foundation a year later to support charities locally and internationally.