Local Family Raises $6,400 to Benefit Winthrop's Cancer Center for Kids


Vol. 12, No. 2
August, 2002

  • Winthrop’s New Radiation Oncology Center Offers Most Advanced Technology and Outpatient Treatment in Region Provides
    Patients with Quick, Targeted Treatment

  • Winthrop Surgeons Offer New Hope for People with Morbid Obesity

  • Winthrop’s Orthopedic Surgeons Provide Access to New Type of Relief for Knee Pain
    Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedure May Help Those Slowed Down by Osteoarthritis

  • Comprehensive Neurological Intensive Care Unit Opens at Winthrop
    New Unit Provides Patients with Advanced Monitoring Technology

  • Biofeedback Therapy Offers Patients at Winthrop Control Over Their Own Health

  • Allergy Sufferers - Prepared for Allergy Season?

  • Important Sun Safety Tips for Healthy Summer Skin

  • Winthrop’s $6.6 Million Emergency Department Renovation and Expansion Project Continues to Move Right Along

  • Plans for Multi-Faith Chapel in the Works as Winthrop’s Pastoral Care and Education Program Continues to Reach out to Patients

  • First Epileptic Patient Undergoes PET Scan at Winthrop’s PET Imaging Center

  • Latex Allergies a Big Concern
    Winthrop Requests, ‘Leave Latex Balloons Home’

  • Healthcare with a Smile - It’s the Personal Touch that Makes Winthrop Welcoming and World Class

  • Life and the Human Spirit Celebrated at Cancer Survivor’s Day

  • Local Family Raises $6,400 to Benefit Winthrop’s Cancer Center for Kids

  • Marvin Tiger Foundation Donation Provides Children at Winthrop’s Cancer Center for Kids with Hours of Fun, Entertainment

  • Aventis Pharmaceuticals Donates $10,000 to Winthrop’s Emergency Services Program

  • Sleep Disorders Center at Winthrop Achieves AASM Reaccreditation

  • 78th Annual Meeting of Winthrop-University Hospital’s Auxiliary Recounts a Year of Many Successes

  • Winthrop Physicians Named Among Elite in New York Magazine’s 2002 Listing of the “Best Doctors in New York”

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    • In a photo taken in one of the many child-friendly treatment rooms in WinthropÕs Cancer Center for Kids, Brendan Kearns (fourth from left) with his sister Caitlyn (third from left) and his aunt, Cheryl Scarry (third from right) proudly display the $6,400 check presented to Maxine Andrade (second from right) of the Cancer Center for Kids. BrendanÕs mother Christine Kearns (right) and aunt, Christine Murphy (left with son, William) also helped organize the benefit.
    Brendan Kearns' 350 closest friends and family came out to celebrate his birthday, and oh, what a celebration it was for this five-year-old! This party however, was not a typical birthday bash, but a fundraising benefit to help children living with cancer. For more than a year and a half, Brendan has been receiving treatment for leukemia at Winthrop-University Hospital's Cancer Center for Kids.

    The benefit raised $6,400 for Winthrop's Cancer Center for Kids and also helped pay for the new Nintendo Fun Center, a mobile entertainment unit containing a TV monitor, VCR and Nintendo-64 game system.

    Marvin Tiger Foundation Donation Provides Children at Winthrop's Cancer Center for Kids with Hours of Fun, Entertainment


    The children being treated at Winthrop's Cancer Center for Kids are in for a big treat, thanks to a generous donation from the Marvin Tiger Foundation. Laptop computers, equipped with Internet access, will soon be available to the Center's patients. Computer-savvy youngsters will be able to email friends, stay in touch with teachers and keep up with school assignments, as well as have the capability to visit special web sites and chat rooms designed for children living with cancer.

    Cancer Center for Kids patient, Matthew Fabrizio, tests out one of the new laptop computers during his treatment as Geraldine Linton, Marvin Tiger Foundation Chairperson, Grant Review Committee (left) and Foundation Founder and Chairperson, Michelle Tiger (right), look on.

    Aventis Pharmaceuticals Donates $10,000 to Winthrop's Emergency Services Program


    Winthrop-University Hospital was the recent beneficiary of Aventis Pharmaceuticals' philanthropic outreach. Aventis presented the Hospital with a check for $10,000 in support of the Emergency Services Program.

    Accepting the donation on behalf of Winthrop is John P. Broder, Vice President, External Affairs and Development (left) and Brian R. Malone, R.Ph, M.S., Director, Department of Pharmacy (second from left) with Christine Rice, Senior Advanced Therapeutic Specialist, Lovenox, Aventis Pharmaceuticals (second from right) and Mark R. Diamond, Area Manager, Advanced Therapeutics, Aventis Pharmaceuticals (right).


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