Robert
I. Grossman, MD, Dean and CEO of NYU Langone Medical Center, hosted the
NYU Cancer Institute Autumn Ball on Monday, October 19, 2009, at the
Mandarin Oriental in Manhattan. More than 430 people attended this year’s
Gala, co-chaired by Sandra Meyer and Roberta
Greenberg, board members
of the Cancer Institute. The event honored Herbert
Lepor, M.D., the Martin
Spatz Chairman of the Department of Urology at the Cancer Institute,
for his superb research and patient care involving prostate cancer.
This
year’s gala raised $1.16 million. Funds raised will support the
Cancer Institute’s humanitarian agenda: to give cancer patients
access to comprehensive care, removing socioeconomic barriers, and to
ultimately eradicate cancer in every community.
The mission of the NYU
Cancer Institute is to discover the origins of human cancer and to use
that knowledge to eradicate the personal and societal burden of cancer
in the community, the nation, and the world. Attendees included: Kenneth
G. Langone, chairman of the board of trustees, NYU Langone Medical
Center;
Lori Fink, chairman of the NYU Cancer Institute Board
of Directors, and her husband Laurence Fink; Ed
Meyer,
Arnold Greenberg, June Newmark, Joel
Smilow, Stanley Shopkorn and NYU Cancer Institute Board
of Director members and Gala co-chairs Sandy Meyer and Roberta
Greenberg.
