Timothy A. Fitzgibbon, M.D., a practicing partner at Dillon Family Medicine, is the recipient of the University of South Carolina School of Medicine’s Humanitarian Alumni Award.
He will be recognized along with six other alumni award winners at the school’s 13th annual Black Tie/White Coat Gala taking place March 7, at 701 Whaley in Columbia.
The Black Tie/White Coat Gala was started in 2002 by fourth-year students at the USC School of Medicine with the hope of making a lasting contribution to both the School of Medicine and the greater Columbia community.
This year, as in years past, 100 percent of the proceeds from the gala will support the USC School of Medicine Alumni Scholarship Fund and The Free Medical Clinic.  
Since 2002 more than $550,000 has been awarded to the two worthy charities.  Please join us at the Gala this year.  For tickets call 803-216-3303 or visit btwgala.med.sc.edu. Fitzgibbon is a 1987 graduate of the School of Medicine. He is the local medical director for Hospice Care of South Carolina and volunteers as the assistant scout master in the local Boy Scout Troop 761 and at the Free Medical Clinic in Dillon.
Fitzgibbon’s primary humanitarian pursuit has been with the mission organization Shattering Darkness (www.shatteringdarkness.org).
He has participated in mission trips to Burkina Faso, West Africa, where Shattering Darkness is involved in treating malaria and malnourished children in the area.
In addition to those efforts, the organization has been improving sanitation and decreasing water borne illness by drilling clean water wells and providing hot meals for local orphans.
The organization is currently working on opening an elementary school.