I am pleased to announce that M. D. Anderson Cancer Center was awarded a 2007 IMPACT Award from the Houston Human Resources Association at the award banquet held at Reliant Center, Tuesday, March 27, 2007. We received recognition for our institution's pilot program conducted in the Palliative Care unit measuring the positive impact of leveraging spirituality as a dimension of diversity to improve workplace productivity. The Houston HR Association, known as HR Houston, is the Houston affiliate chapter of the Society for Human Resource Management.