Deborah Adler of New York has achieved acclaim in industry and art for her prescription bottle designs and labeling program that have helped to prevent thousands of deaths each year.
Tragedy can inspire those who live in its shadows to pave a path to progress and compassion. Deborah Adler, born into a family of Holocaust refugees and herself an eyewitness to the 9/11 terror attacks, found a way to build a better bottle. An artist and graphic designer with an entrepreneurial spirit, Adler created the ClearRx prescription system while a graduate student at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.
Her father, Dr. Melvin Adler, is an orthopedic surgeon who recently retired after years practicing at Montefiore Mount Vernon Hospital and teaching at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx. Her mother, Karen Adler, was a nurse who succumbed to pancreatic cancer in 2021. Her maternal grandfather and an uncle were also doctors. 'I was brought up always looking up to them,' she said of the family caregivers. 'I think she gave birth to my dad in the back of a bakery.
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