UPMC CancerCenter, partner with University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute VOL 10, NO. 1, 2014 NO. 10, VOL
INSIDE 4 From Survivor to Champion | 10 Prestigious Grants | 14 Faculty Honors and Additions | 19 2013 Gala | 20 2014 Gala/Donors
FROM SURVIVOR TO CHAMPION The University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, working in conjunction with UPMC CancerCenter, UPMC’s clinical care delivery network, is western Pennsylvania’s only National Cancer Institute (NCI)-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center, reflecting the highest level of recognition by the NCI.
ON THE COVER Robert Flug, a patient of Dr. David Bartlett at the David C. Koch Regional Perfusion Cancer Therapy Center, has turned his appendiceal cancer journey into hope for others with this rare disease.
Cancer Discovery & Care is a publication of UPMC CancerCenter and the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI) and is produced by UPMC Clinical Marketing. © Copyright 2014 UPMC. All rights reserved. No portion of this magazine may be reproduced without written permission. Send suggestions, comments, or address changes to Amyjo McDade at UPCI/UPMC CancerCenter, Office of Communications, UPMC Cancer Pavilion, 5150 Centre Ave., Suite 1B, Pittsburgh, PA 15232, or via email at [email protected]. 4 10 14
UPMC CancerCenter and UPCI Executive Leadership ...... 2
Magazine Message ...... 3 A message from our Director and Chairman
FROM SURVIVOR TO CHAMPION ...... 4
Accreditation: It’s more than validation for us. It’s confidence for our patients ...... 9
PRESTIGIOUS GRANTS MEAN GREATER HOPE FOR CANCER PATIENTS . . . . . 10
“I felt like I mattered” ...... 13
OUR FACULTY: RECENT HONORS AND NEW ADDITIONS ...... 14
One Facebook page that’s easy to like ...... 18
50th anniversary of Surgeon General’s Tobacco Report ...... 18
LIVING COURAGEOUSLY: A FUTURE WITHOUT CANCER ...... 19 2013 Hillman Cancer Center Gala
2014 GALA ...... 20 2014 Hillman Cancer Center Gala
2014 DONORS ...... 21
News Briefs ...... 28
University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute | 1 UPMC CancerCenter and University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI) Executive Leadership
Nancy E. Davidson, MD Stephanie K. Dutton, MPA, CMPE James D. Luketich, MD Director, UPCI and UPMC CancerCenter Chief Operating Officer Co-Director, Surgical Oncology Services Vice President, Medical Oncology Operations, Chairman, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery Stanley M. Marks, MD UPMC CancerCenter Chairman, UPMC CancerCenter Eric D. McIntosh Peter G. Ellis, MD Director, Human Resources Charles E. Bogosta, MBA Deputy Director, Clinical Services President, UPMC CancerCenter John Mucenski, PharmD Associate Chief Medical Officer, UPMC CancerCenter Regional Director, Pharmacy Operations K. Scott Baker Robert L. Ferris, MD, PhD, FACS Vice President, UPMC Joel Nelson, MD Associate Director, Translational Research, UPCI Chief Government Relations Officer Chairman, Department of Urology Co-Leader, Cancer Immunology Program, UPCI David Bartlett, MD Susan Schoonover Michelle Fisher Reyes Vice Chairman, Surgical Oncology and Research Manager, Surgical Oncology Director, Advocacy and External Relations GI Surgical Services UPMC Chad J. Scott, MPH Michael J. Becich, MD, PhD Administrator, UPP Hematology-Oncology Susan Gibson, RN, BSN, MBA Associate Director, Cancer Informatics Senior Director, Hillman Cancer Center Shivendra V. Singh, PhD Richard P. Bondi Associate Director, Basic Research, UPCI Jennifer Rubin Grandis, MD, FACS Chief Financial Officer Leader, Head and Neck Cancer Program, UPCI Cheryl Steele, RN, MSN, MPM, AOCN Dana Bovbjerg, PhD Director, Regulatory, Quality and Safety, Lisa Haskins, RT (R)(T)(ARRT) Leader, Biobehavioral Oncology Program Medical Oncology Senior Director, Radiation Oncology Adam M. Brufsky, MD, PhD, FACP Scot Stevens Maureen Hatch, MBA Associate Chief, Division of Hematology-Oncology Chief Information Officer Senior Director, Medical Oncology Operations Associate Director of Clinical Investigation, UPCI Director, Personalized Medicine Technology, UPMC Dwight E. Heron, MD, FACRO, FACR Edward Chu, MD Bennett Van Houten, PhD Director, Radiation Services, UPMC CancerCenter Deputy Director, UPCI Co-Leader, Molecular and Cellular Cancer Chairman, Department of Radiation Oncology, Chief, Division of Hematology-Oncology Biology Program, UPCI UPMC Shadyside Co-Leader, Experimental Therapeutics, UPCI Jessica Weidensall Pawel Kalinski, MD, PhD Deidre Cleary Director, Marketing Director of Research, Division of Surgical Senior Director, Clinical Research Administration Oncology, UPCI Jennifer C. Yates Frank Czura, CPA Manager, Media Relations Kelly B. Kassab, RT (R)(T), MHA Director, Compliance and Privacy Vice President, Radiation Oncology Operations Jian-Min Yuan, MD, PhD Maryann Donovan, PhD, MPH Executive Administrator, Department of Associate Director, Cancer Control and Population Associate Director, Research Administration, UPCI Radiation Oncology Sciences, UPCI Co-Leader, Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention Program Michael Keyes Executive Director Karen Yuhas, RN, BSN, MBA The Regional Cancer Center Director, Central Billing Office
University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI) Council
Chair Nick DeIuliis William Isler The Honorable John R. Pippy Sy Holzer Joseph W. DeNardo William Kassling Jane Roesch Robert Denove Mario Lemieux Cynthia Roth Vice-Chair Douglas P. Dick Sally Levin Susan C. Santa-Cruz Elsie H. Hillman George A. Fechter Jeffrey Lipton Frederic B. Sargent Curtis Aiken Sr. Lee B. Foster II David Malone Dan Shapira Thomas Balestrieri John P. Friel Kevin McClatchy Robert Slagle G. Nicholas Beckwith III Chip Ganassi Susan P. McGalla Sandy Snyder James Broadhurst Thomas B. Grealish Katie McSorley Thomas VanKirk Carlos Cardoso Joseph Haleski Leslie Merrill The Honorable Jack Wagner Frank Coonelly Roy W. Haley David Morehouse John Weinstein Harriet Crawford I.N. Rendall Harper Eugene J. O’Sullivan Michael Zamagias Randall L. Crawford Mark Hart Arnold Palmer Barbara Crown Dawne Hickton Bradley Penrod
2 | UPMC CancerCenter LEADERSHIP MESSAGE
Of course, authorship of highly influential Our contributions to the slow but steady papers is but one metric of success. We decrease in cancer mortality in the United also count the grant dollars we bring in to States are an important measure of our support our work, including several Lead success. With your support over the years, Academic Participating Site (LAPS) grants UPCI and UPMC CancerCenter have and the award from the National Cancer changed the face of cancer in our region. Institute that brands UPCI’s Clinical Trial Your generous investment of time, talent, Program as one of only 31 Comprehensive and funds has allowed us to challenge the We frequently ask ourselves how we can tell Cancer Centers within the National Clinical way we view these diseases, unlocking if we at University of Pittsburgh Cancer Trial Network. Also of importance is the innovative treatment options that are Institute (UPCI) and UPMC CancerCenter number of individuals who we train and transforming medicine and extending — are making a difference in our campaign educate, the number of clinician-researchers or even saving — lives, one at a time. against cancer. One way we can judge holding leadership positions in national Still, our work is far from complete. The progress is by the impact of our cancer organizations, our rankings in U.S. American Cancer Society estimates that researchers in their chosen areas of News & World Report, and so much more. 1.5 million people were diagnosed with investigation. Ideally, a great idea is tested But the most significant indicators are cancer in the United States in 2014. Each of in the lab and/or clinic, and those studies the patients and families that we serve, these individuals deserves the opportunity lead to a specific conclusion that influences the quality of care we provide, and the to soar in the face of his or her disease, and how we think about or approach cancer. individual lives we strive to improve and needs our ongoing support. All of us at UPCI Such discoveries are then published in the extend. As you will read in this issue, we and UPMC CancerCenter look forward to scientific or medical literature so that are helping patients far beyond the borders partnering with you as we advance our others may build upon this new knowledge of western Pennsylvania, including a man vision to make a meaningful impact on the and create new cancer therapies. from New York City diagnosed with a prevention and treatment of cancer. rare cancer who sought treatment at the David C. Koch Center.
Nancy E. Davidson, MD Stanley M. Marks, MD
Director Chairman UPCI and UPMC CancerCenter UPMC CancerCenter
University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute | 3 FROM SURVIVOR TO CHAMPION
THE STORY OF A RARE CANCER AND TWO MEN ON A MISSION TO DEFEAT IT
4 | UPMC CancerCenter ROBERT FLUG
University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute | 5 FROM SURVIVOR TO CHAMPION
In 2008, Robert Flug was a New York City women’s clothing manufacturer who, as a young man, had twice beaten cancer. Through his history with the disease, his natural curiosity, and his habit of completely immersing himself in everything he does, Robert became a self-made cancer authority. One day that April, something serious happened that would have major implications not only for his health, but for how a very rare disease is treated. The story it would set in motion is one of courage, compassion, collaboration, and coincidence.
“My appendix burst,” Robert recalls. “I had laparoscopic so much of this type of surgery. For these very complicated operations, surgery here in New York. Afterwards, I compared the our entire team is working together closely, from the outpatient nurses surgical report with the pathology report, and I noticed to the anesthesia team to the ICU nurses. They’re on top of things they were inconsistent. So I called the pathologist and quickly, which allows us to do operations of this magnitude safely.” he asked me if I was a physician. And then he said the words a patient never wants to hear: ‘Oh my, I’m sorry. You have Robert has gone six years with no evidence of recurrent disease, pseudomyxoma peritonei.’” which, according to Dr. Bartlett, suggests a good prognosis for the long term. “We don’t use the ‘cure’ word; we just say that he’s in Known as PMP for short, pseudomyxoma peritonei is a very rare, slow- prolonged remission.” growing cancer of the appendix that can spread throughout a person’s abdomen. A series of recommendations and coincidences led Robert to “I was really weak,” says Robert. “And I’m a guy who had done David Bartlett, MD, chief of the Division of Surgical Oncology at UPMC three New York City marathons. But I had a lot of hope, and I was CancerCenter and Bernard Fisher Professor of Surgery at the University very, very grateful. I guess it was maybe the happiest moment of Pittsburgh. Dr. Bartlett had a keen interest in PMP, stemming from of my life, because everything just came together, everything I’d been the seven years he’d spent studying it at the National Cancer Institute. through. My family and my close friends were there with me, and And he’d built quite a reputation for treating it. Dr. Bartlett saved my life. On May 15th of the next year, I got married, and last year on June 8th I walked my daughter down the aisle. “I came out and spoke with Dr. Bartlett, hoping that I didn’t need And it’s all thanks to Dr. Bartlett and his team.” surgery, because it’s a huge surgery,” Robert remembers. In the end, surgery was his best option. The relationship between Robert Flug and Dr. Bartlett continued after surgery. The PMP surgery Dr. Bartlett and his team perform at the David C. Koch Regional Perfusion Cancer Therapy Center is designed to find “It’s very difficult to get government funds right now to research any and all tumor tissue, going from the diaphragm to deep in the PMP,” Robert says. “Money has to come from the private sector, pelvis, examining every inch of the abdominal cavity and aggressively and there are so few people who get this disease that fundraising removing anything that looks like tumor. The abdominal cavity is then is difficult. Not many people have heard of it.” bathed in a heated solution of concentrated chemotherapy to try to kill Robert donated money to start a fund at UPMC CancerCenter’s any remaining microscopic cells and prevent the disease from recurring. foundation specifically to research PMP. The fund pays for both The eight-hour operation itself was a success. Robert faced a laboratory-based and clinical outcomes-based research. Through few complications, as is common with this risky surgery, but he his personal connections, Robert has brought in other donors who weathered them. “Patients come from all over the world to UPMC have helped build the fund. Today, UPMC CancerCenter is the only CancerCenter for these types of procedures,” says Dr. Bartlett. site that has as comprehensive a PMP research program in terms “The advantage is that we have such a good team, because we do of biology and treatment.
6 | UPMC CancerCenter “I GUESS IT WAS MAYBE THE HAPPIEST MOMENT OF MY LIFE, BECAUSE EVERYTHING JUST CAME TOGETHER, EVERYTHING I’D BEEN THROUGH.”
ROBERT FLUG
University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute | 7 FROM SURVIVOR TO CHAMPION
“...LAST YEAR ON JUNE 8TH I WALKED MY DAUGHTER DOWN THE AISLE. AND IT’S ALL THANKS TO DR. BARTLETT AND HIS TEAM.”
ROBERT FLUG
The story doesn’t end with Robert’s philanthropy, either. special and a joy to work with. He has a very positive attitude, and Always a voracious reader and a curious thinker, Robert was he’s not doing this for himself, because he’s already beaten this inspired to work with Dr. Bartlett on potential breakthroughs. disease. He’s really doing this for others.”
About every three months they discuss the ongoing research Dr. Bartlett and Robert both have high hopes for the future of PMP and go through any updates. Robert has become, in his own treatment. Dr. Bartlett says, “Our overall mission is that we want to way, an expert not only on his disease but on cancer biology. avoid the operation and the complications that come with it. We Thanks to the fund that Robert has worked so hard to support, want to develop treatments that we can apply that are simpler, Dr. Bartlett’s team has been able to develop animal models that easier, and safer.” mimic exactly what happens in the human body and some new treatment approaches. As for Robert Flug, he’s still working as hard as ever to contribute whatever he can to the fight against PMP. “I try to apply common “We may be fighting the disease from completely different sense and read as much as I can to educate myself so I can maybe backgrounds, but because we get along and communicate so help others,” he says. well, we’ll hopefully be successful,” says Dr. Bartlett. With that kind of compassion and collaboration, it’s no coincidence “Robert is a unique individual who combines a strong insight into that these two very different people are working together toward the cancer biology — even though that’s not his background — and the same goal. a very inquisitive mind,” says Dr. Bartlett. “That’s what makes him
8 | UPMC CancerCenter ACCREDITATION: IT’S MORE THAN VALIDATION FOR US. IT’S CONFIDENCE FOR OUR PATIENTS
Earning accreditation from prestigious national institutions is proof of our commitment to quality and excellence in patient care and treatments across our entire UPMC CancerCenter network. It means we can guarantee that the quality we provide at Hillman Cancer Center is available at every facility throughout our network. And it’s reassurance to our patients that they’ve made the right choice for their cancer care. Here are some of our recent accreditations.
N C I C o m p r e h e n s i v e C a n c e r C e n t e r certification measures quality that drives in nursing, professional practice, and patient Our cancer research is judged to be among successful patient outcomes and provides care. This is one of the highest nursing the best in the country. The University of tools to meet nationally accepted standards. awards a hospital can earn; it demonstrates Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI) is one of UPMC CancerCenter is one of the largest excellence, commitment to patient care, and only 41 cancer centers in the U.S. designated cancer treatment networks in the U.S. — a healthy work environment. This national as a comprehensive cancer center by the both in number of cancer care sites and award, which has been granted to only 6.8 National Cancer Institute (NCI) — and the geographic area — to apply for and receive percent of U.S. hospitals, involves a lengthy only comprehensive cancer center in western QOPI certification. application and rigorous evaluation process Pennsylvania. This designation recognizes that includes extensive interviews and review our research, clinical care, education, and CoC of all aspects of nursing services. community outreach. It means people across Recognition at the highest possible level. In the region have access to world-class cancer 2012, for the second time, the Commission FACT treatments and clinical trials, including on Cancer (CoC) of the American College of Offering high-quality cellular therapy. UPMC state-of-the-art therapy for complex and Surgeons granted three-year accreditation CancerCenter’s adult hematopoietic stem cell rare cancers. with commendation to the UPMC St. transplant program was awarded a three-year Margaret Cancer Program, a critical part of re-accreditation by the nonprofit Foundation ACRO UPMC CancerCenter. Three-year for the Accreditation of Cellular Therapy Distinction in radiation oncology care. UPMC accreditation with commendation is only (FACT). Our program demonstrates CancerCenter recently became the largest awarded after an on-site evaluation by a adherence to FACT’s strict standards, which cancer network in the country to earn physician surveyor who finds commendable emphasize the clinical use of cellular therapy accreditation from the American College of compliance with one or more standards products collected and processed with Radiation Oncology (ACRO). It means we’re representing the full scope of the cancer rigorous controls. FACT officials visited the meeting strict, nationally accepted standards program — including cancer committee Mario Lemieux Center for Blood Cancers, the for providing the highest quality of radiation leadership, cancer data management, clinical program’s home, to conduct an inspection of oncology care. It’s the culmination of a services, research, community outreach, and staff and processes. Since 1990, UPMC process that began in the summer of 2011 quality improvement. In addition to UPMC St. doctors have performed more than 1,400 when ACRO officials reviewed detailed Margaret, many other UPMC CancerCenter bone marrow or stem cell transplants to treat reports of patient charts, technology, staff locations hold this accredation. This special patients with a variety of diseases. The certifications, processes, and site services for recognition is given only to programs earning program averages 150 transplants a year. each radiation oncology site. They visited all a commendation rating for one or more 21 UPMC CancerCenter radiation oncology standards with no deficiencies. By receiving ACR sites to survey day-to-day operations. every possible commendation with zero Honors for radiology. UPMC Horizon earned deficiencies, our program earned the highest the American College of Radiology (ACR) QOPI award possible: Outstanding Achievement. gold seal of accreditation for ultrasound, Quality drives successful cancer patient mammography, magnetic resonance imaging outcomes. QOPI, the Quality Oncology Magnet® (MRI), nuclear medicine and positron Practice Initiative, recognizes the importance A rare honor for excellence in nursing. emission tomography (PET), and computed of continuous quality improvement in cancer UPMC Shadyside earned Magnet Recognition tomography (CT). care. Developed by world-renowned Status® from the American Nurses oncologists and cancer care experts, QOPI Credentialing Center (ANCC) for excellence
University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute | 9 JAN BEUMER, MD, and EDWARD CHU, MD
10 | UPMC CancerCenter PRESTIGIOUS GRANTS MEAN GREATER HOPE FOR CANCER PATIENTS UPCI was recently awarded nearly $10 million for critical cancer research and clinical trials
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) has awarded the University These lab-based studies are critically important as new of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI) a pair of highly competitive anticancer agents and targeted therapies are being developed. grants totaling $9.25 million over the next five years. The funding will be used to improve the efficiency of clinical trials, develop drugs Dr. Chu’s team has been working closely with colleagues in for cancer more quickly, and accelerate research into rare tumors. pathology, who perform sophisticated sequencing analyses of patients’ tumors to identify the presence of certain genetic UPCI is one of only 12 centers in the country to receive the NCI mutations. These mutations can then determine the specific Experimental Therapeutics–Clinical Trials Network (ET-CTN) type of experimental treatments that should be given to a cancer with Phase I Emphasis grant, and one of only 31 cancer centers patient. This way, doctors can administer new therapies in a nationwide and the only one in Pennsylvania to receive a Lead truly individual, personalized manner. Academic Participating Site (LAPS) grant under the NCI’s new clinical trials network. Their efforts benefit from a large patient base at UPCI and UPMC CancerCenter, which allows the team to conduct these “This speaks to our expertise across the continuum of clinical first-in-human studies (meaning they haven’t yet been tried with research,” says Nancy E. Davidson, MD, director of UPCI and human subjects). Most of the eligible patients seen by the UPCI UPMC CancerCenter. “These two grants reflect the tremendous Phase I team have already received standard-of-care therapies accomplishments of our clinical investigators and, most importantly, and are looking for new treatment options. provide wonderful opportunities for people in western Pennsylvania to take advantage of the most advanced cancer care and have “At one time, Phase I studies were only about safety and side access to cutting-edge clinical trials. And that’s because of the effects,” says Dr. Chu. “But now, we’re also looking to see whether great science that’s going on at the University of Pittsburgh, or not the drug has clinical benefit by inhibiting the growth of the the amazing commitment to clinical care at UPMC CancerCenter, cancer. In fact, just within the last week, a new drug was approved and the expertise of our faculty and our staff across our network by the FDA that targets a specific genetic mutation found in patients and across the region.” with lung cancer. The fact that this drug was approved solely on the basis of Phase I studies is completely unprecedented. It Funding clinical trials using new drug therapies underscores the crucial importance of matching tumor genetic The ET-CTN grant is led by UPCI Deputy Director Edward Chu, mutations with specific, targeted therapies. MD. The five-year, $4.25 million award will further complex clinical “Any time we treat patients with a new agent or a novel combination research into the development of new drug therapies. of drugs, and we get a meaningful response that the patient can “Getting this grant is all about team science,” says Dr. Chu. tolerate and that controls their tumor for some time, it is really “A successful Phase I drug development program takes a team tremendous for the patient and their family. It is also very rewarding of clinical investigators. We also work very closely with basic and for our entire team,” Dr. Chu says. translational scientists, clinical pharmacologists, and a clinical As for the future, Dr. Chu adds, “The hope is that all of the pharmacology laboratory that is one of the top two or three in the studies that we are conducting, in the very earliest phase of drug country, if not in the world.” development, can progress to the point where these drugs, That lab is led by Dr. Chu’s co-principal investigator, Jan Beumer, or a combination of regimens, will eventually be used in MD. The ET-CTN team will focus on investigating the clinical everyday clinical practice.” pharmacology and metabolism of completely novel agents.
University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute | 11 PRESTIGIOUS GRANTS MEAN GREATER HOPE FOR CANCER PATIENTS
Matching patients with new treatments faster than before cancer and go deeper into the patient’s genes and the nature of the The second of the two awards is a nearly $5 million LAPS grant, tumor. It’s all about using scientific insight as a way to push forward part of the new National Clinical Trials Network (NCTN). The NCTN new, customized treatments. is intended to shorten the time it takes research to get from the lab to patients. At UPCI, this grant is led by Adam Brufsky, MD, PhD, “The beauty of the clinical trial is not only do patients get great care, associate director for clinical investigation. The grant will support but we learn something along the way that will help more patients an infrastructure that allows patients to enroll in national clinical down the road,” says Nancy Davidson, MD, director of UPCI and trials led by NCTN at over a dozen sites across the UPMC UPMC CancerCenter. CancerCenter network. “Everything we do in standard practice in oncology today is based on Dr. Brufsky’s UPCI clinical trials steering committee includes results from clinical trials that were done in the past. So we are standing Dwight E. Heron, MD, FACRO, FACR; Mark Socinski, MD; John on the shoulders of the patients, the doctors, and the nurses, who Kirkwood, MD; and Robert P. Edwards, MD. did these trials in the past,” Dr. Davidson says. “When patients go into a trial, the main reason is, of course, for themselves, as it should “This grant is tremendous validation of the important and cutting- be. But people are often quite altruistic, and they appreciate that the edge work that we are doing here at UPCI and our ability to shape learning that goes on in the trial may help others.” what’s happening in cancer research across the country. We’re excited to play a vital role in this new system and expand access to No one is closer to the patients in these trials than Deidre Cleary, trials all over western Pennsylvania,” Dr. Brufsky says. “Being picked RN, BSN, CCRC, senior director of Clinical Research Services. She is for a LAPS grant means you have faculty and staff who are truly in charge of 130 coordinators, data managers, and regulatory and involved at the highest level of shaping the cancer research agenda.” administrative staff who register patients for the trials.
The new NCTN network will have a big impact in at least one crucial “My hope is that in the future, cancer becomes just another chronic area: a national network of clinical trials sites for patients with rare disease,” Ms. Cleary says. “We won’t have to go through many cancers. As more cancers are classified into smaller subsets, the new different chemotherapies to find the one that works for the patient. network will support the efforts to define and locate the specific We can personalize it and treat the patient for years.” patients who qualify for those studies. Recognition and awards from the National Cancer Institute A major focus of the LAPS grant is to help move UPMC even further are certainly outstanding achievements for UPCI and UPMC into the area of personalized, precision cancer medicine, based upon CancerCenter. But as far as Dr. Davidson is concerned, both the the biology of a specific cancer. For instance, for a patient with breast commitment and the focus remain unchanged. “There’s a huge cancer, the goal would be to understand more than the type of breast team involved in this work,” she says, “and the team is always wrapped around the patient.”
DEIDRE CLEARY, RN, BSN, CCRC, and ADAM BRUFSKY, MD, PhD
12 | UPMC CancerCenter “I FELT LIKE I MATTERED” A cancer survivor shares her clinical trial experience
VICKY BAKER “ST. MARGARET WAS CLOSE TO OUR HOME, AND THE PEOPLE THERE WERE FANTASTIC...”
In 2008, Vicky Baker was shocked to find out The trial was for chemotherapy. It added a drug that had typically been used to treat colon cancer to the normally that what she thought was an ulcer in her prescribed regimen. Both Vicky’s trial and her radiation therapy mouth was, in fact, cancer in her gum and jaw. were conducted at UPMC CancerCenter at UPMC St. Margaret. “St. Margaret was close to our home, and the people there were Her periodontist and PCP both recommended fantastic,” Vicky says. “I was delivered right to the best hands: the one place they would go if they were in the clinical personnel, physicians, nurses, everyone, every step of same situation: UPMC CancerCenter. the way. I felt like I mattered.” “It was a very hard six months between the surgery and the “I talked to the surgeon, and he said they were going to do drastic treatment,” she says. “My biggest concern was that I wouldn’t things to me, and quickly,” recalls Vicky. The surgery required be able to speak or smile. But when I smile now, people smile removing part of her jaw and reconstructing it with parts of her back.” As for the trial, she says, “It’s continuing. I’m still here, lower leg bone. After the surgery, she was asked to participate in so it was successful for me. This will be my first full year a clinical trial. without a scan. And I found out on Mother’s Day that my daughter is pregnant.”
University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute | 13 PATRICK MOORE, MD, MPH, and YUAN CHANG, MD
OUR FACULTY: RECENT HONORS AND NEW ADDITIONS
14 | UPMC CancerCenter SALLY E. CARTY, MD, FACS
DAVID BARTLETT, MD
University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute | 15 OUR FACULTY: RECENT HONORS AND NEW ADDITIONS
As a pre-eminent cancer research center and one of the largest integrated community networks of cancer physicians, researchers, and health care specialists in the United States, UPMC CancerCenter and the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute have assembled a group of some of the most prominent experts in the country, and we continue to recruit new talent.
FACULTY HONORS (SHOWN PREVIOUS PAGE) Yuan Chang, MD, and Patrick Moore, MD, MPH, were inducted the UPMC/UPCI Multidisciplinary Thyroid Center. The AAES is into the Association of American Physicians. This election is an dedicated to the advancement of the science and art of endocrine honor reserved for 60 individuals per year who have demonstrated surgery, which covers diseases of the thyroid, parathyroid, adrenal outstanding contributions to the fields of biomedical science and glands, and neuroendocrine. The theme of her year-long term was translational research. Dr. Chang, a distinguished professor of Education: Teach to Reach, which focuses on increasing the pathology, and her collaborator Dr. Moore, distinguished professor number of fellowships in endocrine surgery to keep pace with the of microbiology and molecular genetics, are a husband-and-wife increased national interest in this specialty. “Nearly half of the research team whose virology and cancer lab has revolutionized academic institutions in the United States do not have an the study of human tumor viruses and infectious diseases. endocrine surgeon on staff, and this initiative will be working to Together, they have discovered two of the seven known human change that,” Dr. Carty says. Dr. Carty is only the third female cancer viruses: Kaposi’s sarcoma-associated herpesvirus, the endocrine surgeon to head the AAES in its 33-year history. cause of AIDS-associated Kaposi’s sarcoma; and Merkel cell polyomavirus, the cause for most Merkel cell carcinomas. David Bartlett, MD, was elected treasurer of the Society of New diagnostic and treatment options already are emerging Surgical Oncology®, the premier organization for surgeons and from their research. health care providers dedicated to advancing and promoting the science and treatment of cancer. Dr. Bartlett is the Bernard Fisher Sally E. Carty, MD, FACS, completed a term as president of the Professor of Surgery, vice chairman for Surgical Oncology and American Association of Endocrine Surgeons (AAES). Dr. Carty is Gastrointestinal Services, vice chairman of the David C. Koch professor of surgery, chief of Endocrine Surgery, and director of Regional Perfusion Cancer Therapy Center, and director of the Endocrine Surgery Fellowship Program, as well as codirector of Multidisciplinary Disease Site Clinical and Research Programs.
NEW FACULTY
Colin Champ, MD Andy (David) Clump, MD, PhD Laura M. De Castro, MD Radiation oncologist Radiation oncologist Associate professor of Medicine, Special expertise: the treatment of breast Special expertise: head and neck malignancies University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine; cancer and central nervous system and stereotactic radiosurgery Director of benign hematology, Institute for malignancies, and clinical nutrition and Transfusion Medicine and UPMC CancerCenter; exercise relating to cancer treatment Madeleine Courtney-Brooks, MD, MPH director of Clinical Translational Research, UPMC Assistant professor of Gynecologic Oncology Sickle Cell Disease Research Center of Excellence Rushir Choksi, MD Special expertise: minimally invasive Special expertise: the impact of sickle cell Medical oncologist gynecologic oncology surgery, optimizing disease on end-organ damage, psychosocial Special expertise: hematology and gynecologic oncology care for elderly patients, issues related to the disease, and development medical oncology and quality of life at the end of life for of novel treatments gynecologic oncology patients
16 | UPMC CancerCenter Ying Ding, PhD Gregory J. Kato, MD Inderpal Sarkaria, MD, FACS Assistant professor, biostatistics, Professor of Medicine, Assistant professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine; director of Thoracic Robotic Surgery, Special expertise: the design and analysis of director, Adult Sickle Cell Center of Excellence, and co-director of the UPMC Esophageal biomarker studies and biomarker/subgroup UPP Division of Hematology/Oncology and Lung Surgery Institute (ELSI) identification; survival analysis, including Special expertise: nonmalignant hematology, Special expertise: cutting-edge minimally semiparametric inference theory and method, adult sickle cell disease, and early-phase invasive surgery for thoracic diseases, and application of empirical process; sickle cell clinical trials robotic thoracic surgery, clinical and comparative effectiveness research (CER) molecular-genetic characterization of using Bayesian indirect and mixed treatment Brenda Kurland, PhD lung and esophageal cancers, novel comparisons and meta-analysis of patient Research associate professor, biostatistics, advanced surgical imaging technologies outcomes; and proteomics experiment design University of Pittsburgh in thoracic oncology and network analysis Special expertise: biostatistics and the design and analysis of clinical trials involving Jack D. Schocker, MD Kathleen Dorritie, MD quantitative imaging, breast cancer, lung Radiation oncologist Assistant professor of Medicine, cancer, and functional imaging, specifically Special expertise: the treatment of all University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine PET and breast MRI cancers, stereotactic radiosurgery, Special expertise: hematologic malignancies, intensity modulated radiation therapy, stem cell transplantation, and the John Lech, DO image-guided radiation therapy development of novel therapeutics for Hematologist/medical oncologist acute myeloid leukemia Special expertise: the treatment of gastrointestinal Alison Sehgal, MD malignancies and peritoneal carcinomas Assistant professor of Medicine, Melissa Hogg, MD University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Assistant professor of Surgery, Seah Lim, MD, PhD, FRCP Special expertise: allogeneic and University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Hematologist/medical oncologist autologous stem cell transplant, Special expertise: gastrointestinal surgical Special expertise: stem cell transplantation, lymphoma, leukemia, and multiple oncology with a focus in minimally invasive hematological malignancies, hemato-pathology, myeloma treatment of benign and malignant diseases and general hematology of the stomach, bile duct, and pancreas Rajesh Sehgal, MBBS, MD, FACP Carissa Low, PhD Hematologist/medical oncologist Marilyn Huang, MD, MS Assistant professor of Medicine, and assistant Special expertise: solid tumors including Assistant professor of Gynecologic Oncology professor of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh breast, colon, and lung cancer, and Special expertise: all gynecologic malignancies, Special expertise: bidirectional relationships blood disorders hereditary gynecologic cancers, minimally between inflammation and patient-reported invasive surgery, and Phase 1 clinical trials outcomes over the course of cancer Felicia Snead, MD treatments; development of interventions Radiation oncologist Annie Im, MD to reduce symptom burden and enhance Special expertise: breast, central nervous Assistant professor of Medicine, quality of life in cancer patients system, and gastrointestinal cancers, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and general radiation oncology Special expertise: research of hematologic Solomon Ofori-Acquah, PhD malignancies, such as leukemia, lymphoma, Visiting associate professor of Medicine Robert VanderWeele, MD, MS and myeloma; drug development; stem cell and director, Center for Translational and Hematologist/medical oncologist transplantation; and graft-versus-host disease International Hematology Special expertise: hematology and Special expertise: sickle cell disease and medical oncology Bruce L. Jacobs, MD, MPH acute chest syndrome, medical laboratory Assistant professor of Urology, sciences specializing in hematology and Joseph Wang, MD University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine blood transfusion Radiation oncologist Special expertise: minimally invasive and Special expertise: the treatment of open surgery for prostate, kidney, bladder, Javier Salgado, MD all cancers, intensity modulated and testicular cancer Assistant professor of Surgery, radiation therapy, and image-guided University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine radiation therapy Special expertise: the treatment of colon and rectal cancer, inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), and other diseases of the colon and rectum
University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute | 17 ONE FACEBOOK PAGE THAT’S EASY TO LIKE
You may use Facebook to share important life events and keep up with your friends and family. But for UPMC CancerCenter patients, Facebook is much more than a social networking tool. It’s a way to get educated about treatment options, keep up with our efforts to fight cancer, and share stories of inspiration and hope.
UPMC CancerCenter launched its offer advice and support to one another. In Facebook page in September 2011 to keep addition, the page highlights staff members visitors updated on cancer-related news to spotlight the heart of the CancerCenter: and events, and to share information about caring people who are committed to UPMC’s doctors and cancer care. helping patients.
But UPMC CancerCenter’s Facebook page Patients use the Facebook page to share other patients and their loved ones know now offers the opportunity to do much their thoughts on everything from the they aren’t alone. more. It is another way to reach out to mundane to the deeply personal. They CancerCenter patients and their families, discuss how to manage family and friends’ Since taking this community-focused caregivers, and friends. expectations about the “new normal” approach, UPMC CancerCenter’s fan base as a survivor. And they offer prayers, has increased nearly five-fold. Fans of the When faced with any health-related issue, encouragement, and a willingness to page who have never met give each other patients tend to jump online to see what just listen. support, hope, and advice. They want to be information is out there. Because of this, updated on each other’s health, and they UPMC CancerCenter’s goal was to create The page also includes weekly features send well wishes to each other. a virtual cancer community — offering like “Motivational Mondays,” a source of support to anyone affected by cancer, encouragement and positive energy, and If the purpose of a community is to pull directly or indirectly — to connect people “Learn the Lingo” posts that translate together to help each other through tough who are in similar situations with facts cancer terminology into plain language. times, work toward a common purpose, on cancer, encouragement from others, “Ask the Audience” reaches out to the and promote a sense of hope, then UPMC and more. greater cancer community for stories CancerCenter’s Facebook page is a and anecdotes. There are also event community in the truest sense of the word. The UPMC CancerCenter Facebook page announcements, trivia questions, and features patient testimonials, showing general cancer information, as well as Keep up with current news, follow visitors how other people have gotten updates on UPMC CancerCenter patients’ stories, and share your own through situations similar to theirs. These developments. It’s all about patients giving tips and memories by clicking “like” at stories are also opportunities for people to each other good advice and making sure Facebook.com/UPMCCancerCenter.
50TH ANNIVERSARY OF SURGEON GENERAL’S TOBACCO REPORT
January 2014 marked the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Surgeon General’s report that brought the negative health impact of tobacco into the public spotlight. To mark this golden anniversary, a new Surgeon General’s report was released reflecting our progress in the area of tobacco control and our understanding of the overwhelmingly negative effects of tobacco use on human health. We are honored that three University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine faculty served as co-authors: Hillary Tindle, MD, Steve Shapiro, MD, and Nancy Davidson, MD.
18 | UPMC CancerCenter LIVING COURAGEOUSLY: A FUTURE WITHOUT CANCER
On October 24, 2013, more than 850 of the region’s In addition, Sy Holzer, president of PNC Bank Pittsburgh most enthusiastic community and civic leaders and and chair of the UPCI Council, gave remarks alongside other distinguished guests recognized $4 million Nancy E. Davidson, MD, director of UPCI and UPMC raised in support of cancer research at care at the CancerCenter, and Stanley M. Marks, MD, chairman of University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI) and UPMC CancerCenter. They honored researcher Theresa UPMC CancerCenter. Nimick-Whiteside, PhD, with the PNC/UPCI Director’s Distinguished Scholar Award for her extensive work in Living Courageously: A Future Without Cancer was cancer immunology. co-chaired by Christina and Carlos Cardoso and Rebecca Cost Snyder. The gala featured performances Cathy and Sy Holzer served as honorary co-chairs along by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra under the with Elsie and Henry Hillman. The Hillmans also received a direction of composer Robert Miller who conducted special recognition by then University of Pittsburgh scores that were specifically written for UPMC. Chancellor Mark A. Nordenberg for their longstanding commitment to the community and cancer care.
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Sy Holzer. Event co-chairs were Rebecca Cost Snyder Snyder Cost Rebecca were co-chairs Event Holzer. Sy devastating disease. devastating
and Cathy and Hillman Henry and Elsie co-chairs who are exploring new and better ways to treat this this treat to ways better and new exploring are who
Gala leadership and supporters included honorary honorary included supporters and leadership Gala years. He thanked the dedicated physicians and researchers researchers and physicians dedicated the thanked He years.
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Adam M. Brufsky, MD, PhD, was honored as the 2014 2014 the as honored was PhD, MD, Brufsky, M. Adam dance and shadow troupes in the United States. United the in troupes shadow and dance
Cancer Institute (UPCI) and UPMC CancerCenter. CancerCenter. UPMC and (UPCI) Institute Cancer also given by Le Ombré, one of the premier silhouette silhouette premier the of one Ombré, Le by given also and patient care programs at the University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh of University the at programs care patient and
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Marvin S. Tell S. Marvin Mary L. and Thomas M. Hill M. Thomas and L. Mary Edgar Snyder Edgar
Margaret and John Hill, MD Hill, John and Margaret
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Susan J. and David L. Bartlett, MD Bartlett, L. David and J. Susan
George E. Meanor E. George
Maria and Robert Edwin Durrant, Esq. Durrant, Edwin Robert and Maria P ITT S BURGH, P A 15 2 3 2
Mary Lou and Richard Durr Richard and Lou Mary
Peter M. Augustine M. Peter Katie and David McSorley David and Katie Laura E. and Alfred P. Doyle, MD Doyle, P. Alfred and E. Laura
Jamini Vincent Davies Vincent Jamini
($5,000 – $9,999) – ($5,000 The McKamish Family McKamish The
Janet E. and George R. Desko R. George and E. Janet
and Thomas Kensler, PhD Kensler, Thomas and
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Fran and Jim McGlothlin Jim and Fran LEADERSHIP CIRCLE LEADERSHIP Nancy C. Dempsey C. Nancy
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2014 (July 1, 2013 – June 30, 2014). 30, June – 2013 1, (July 2014
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and Benjamin Davies, MD Davies, Benjamin and
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UNIDavies A. VERandy and RSIW. TBarbara Y OF PITT SBURGH CANCER INS T I T U T E
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medical and patient education, and outreach outreach and education, patient and medical N ILIO V A P R E NC A C MC P U Frances and Corky Cost Corky and Frances
Clawson J. Gregory new physicians and scientists, seed money, money, seed scientists, and physicians new Limbach Family Fund Family Limbach
Carrie and Adam Cohen Adam and Carrie A FUTURE
A ND UPMC CANCERCENTE of recruitment programs, research R clinical Margaretha L. Casselbrant, MD Casselbrant, L. Margaretha
Anne Lewis Anne
Mary and Jay Cleveland, Jr. Cleveland, Jay and Mary
the operation of clinical programs, basic and and basic programs, clinical of operation the
Lisa H. Butterfield, PhD Butterfield, H. Lisa Sally Levin Sally
The annual fund provides vital support for for support vital provides fund annual The
Susan and Alan Citron Alan and Susan WITHOUT CANCER
Janice L. and Peter B. Brock B. Peter and L. Janice
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Robert Levin Robert R E T CEN R E NC A C N A ILLM H
ANNUAL GIVING ANNUAL Chaus Josephine
Susan and Michael Boyle Michael and Susan
Nathalie and Mario Lemieux Mario and Nathalie
Christina and Carlos Cardoso Carlos and Christina
Dominic N. Bertucci N. Dominic E FUTUR A
Anne Gendler and David Leib David and Gendler Anne
Sally and Craig Wolfanger Craig and Sally R E T N E C R E C N A C Campbell Beth and Carl
John Bednarski Jr. Bednarski John
Sarah and Ray Lamont Ray and Sarah
4 1 0 2 E H T
Pete Wheeler Pete
Carl Dale Cameron Dale Carl
Susan S. and David Becraft David and S. Susan
Kim and Don Kramer Don and Kim
Wheeler Family Charitable Foundation Charitable Family Wheeler
Jodi and Seth Brufsky Seth and Jodi
Julie E. Bauman, MD Bauman, E. Julie
Curtis I. Kossman Foundation Kossman I. Curtis
N A M L L I H VanKirk Tom and Bonnie Jill and Adam Brufsky, MD, PhD MD, Brufsky, Adam and Jill
Susan J. and David L. Bartlett, MD Bartlett, L. David and J. Susan
Valerie R. Koch R. Valerie
Gayle Tissue and Yiannis Kaloyeropoulos Yiannis and Tissue Gayle Lisa Domenico Brooke Domenico Lisa
Denise and Raymond L. Barry, Jr. Barry, L. Raymond and Denise
Koch Family Koch
Danielle Greenburg Danielle Barbara and Gary Bowser Gary and Barbara
Kathryn A. Barbustiak A. Kathryn of Memory in — Danielle Team Kathy and Cary Klein Cary and Kathy
V IN ARE OU Y D EN TT A O T ED T I Joseph R. Baldini III Baldini R. Joseph Elizabeth L. and John P. Surma P. John and L. Elizabeth Karen and Joseph L. Kelley III, MD III, Kelley L. Joseph and Karen
Amada and Rashid A. Awan, MD Awan, A. Rashid and Amada Stork Foundation Stork Tricia and Bill Kassling Bill and Tricia
Maureen and Eric Anderson Eric and Maureen Elaine and James Steinfurth James and Elaine Laura and Thomas Karet Thomas and Laura
Nicholas J. Alfano J. Nicholas Patricia and William Snyder William and Patricia Becky Burgwin and Patrick L. Kane, MD Kane, L. Patrick and Burgwin Becky
William J. Adams J. William Sandy Snyder Sandy Janis and Jonas Johnson, MD Johnson, Jonas and Janis
($1,000 – $4,999) – ($1,000 Rebecca Snyder Rebecca Cathy and Sy Holzer Sy and Cathy
PARTNERS FOR PROGRESS FOR PARTNERS Patricia G. Snyder G. Patricia The William Talbott Hillman Foundation Hillman Talbott William The
DONORS
2014
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Kenneth J. Spangler J. Kenneth
Susan L. Stepchuk Stepchuk L. Susan
Linda M. DiBucci M. Linda Sally M. and Lee F. Snyder F. Lee and M. Sally
Louis A. Steiner A. Louis
Stephanie F. and Bernard Mallinger, OD Mallinger, Bernard and F. Stephanie
Michael S. Deluca S. Michael Charles A. Smithgall III Smithgall A. Charles
Kimberly N. Stearns N. Kimberly
Ernest F. Magario F. Ernest
James H. Daughdrill III Daughdrill H. James Paul R. Shine R. Paul
Marquis M. Smith, Jr. Smith, M. Marquis
Victoria Madero-Arnold Victoria
Barbara A. Dappert, MD Dappert, A. Barbara Katherine A. Servich A. Katherine
Jewel M. Slepchuk M. Jewel
Daniel E. Luko Jr. Luko E. Daniel
Molly and Thomas G. Crooks G. Thomas and Molly Thomas J. Semanchik J. Thomas
Donna M. Sherman M. Donna
Gary R. Luchini R. Gary
Thomas G. Cooney, Sr. Cooney, G. Thomas Madeline G. Sarno G. Madeline
Amanda Shapira Amanda
Shelley and Douglas J. Lucas J. Douglas and Shelley
Deidre L. Cleary L. Deidre Nancy A. Rozendal and Gordon Lisker Gordon and Rozendal A. Nancy
Tracy Robin Seewald, MD Seewald, Robin Tracy
David A. Love A. David
Courtney N. Clarke N. Courtney Robert W. Riordan W. Robert
Bonnie Seaton Bonnie
Martin Louis Martin
Patrick J. Clancy J. Patrick Mr. and Mrs. John W. Riesmeyer W. John Mrs. and Mr.
Henry C. Scully C. Henry
Anna Lokshin, PhD Lokshin, Anna
Alexander J. Ciocca III Ciocca J. Alexander Anthony R. Ricottone, MD Ricottone, R. Anthony
Doris M. Scott M. Doris
Kenneth A. Liss A. Kenneth
Mikyung Choe Mikyung Alan H. Resnick, MD Resnick, H. Alan
Y OU ARESchumann E. Glen INV I T ED T O A TTEND Mary C. Linn C. Mary
Joseph R. Chapman R. Joseph Mohammed Pervaiz Rahman, MD Rahman, Pervaiz Mohammed
Kimberly B. Schriver B. Kimberly
Li-Yin Lin, PhD and Chih-Tsung Kang, PhD Kang, Chih-Tsung and PhD Lin, Li-Yin
and Rahman Lubna James F. Cawley F. James
Joseph E. Schmitt E. Joseph
Claire B. and Larry Levine Larry and B. Claire
Donna Puleio, MD Puleio, Donna Christine Carmazzi Christine
Susan Criep Santa-Cruz Criep Susan Mary S. Lee S. Mary
Shannon L. Puhalla, MD and Glen Puhalla Glen and MD Puhalla, L. Shannon
Stacy L. Byers L. Stacy H I LLM A N
John P. Rumschik P. John
Thomas Leavitt Thomas
Jerry F. Pounds F. Jerry Steven A. Burton, MD Burton, A. Steven
Michael L. Rossi L. Michael Margaret S. Lally, MD Lally, S. Margaret
Cathy Plesha Cathy
T H E 20 1 4 Buckwalter L. John
Ann A. Rogers A. Ann John H. Kurtz III Kurtz H. John
Jodi A. Pitchok A. Jodi
Rebecca A. Brown Family Brown A. Rebecca A FUTURE CANCE R CE N TER Rebecca and Robert C. Rockey C. Robert and Rebecca
and Cory Scott Krebs Scott Cory and
James F. Pingpank Jr., MD Jr., Pingpank F. James David E. Brougher, MD Brougher, E. David
Krebs Smith Melissa Robert Riggle Robert
Terrie and Rodney L. Piatt L. Rodney and Terrie
H ILLMA N CA NCE R CENBrooks TAnn EBarbara R
Sri Kottapally, MD Kottapally, Sri WITHOUT CANCER John C. Regan C. John
R E C AN C HOUT T I W Jill Petros Jill Paul R. Brand R. Paul
Jason Korn Jason
Edward V. Randall Jr. Randall V. Edward
Teresa I. and Jeffery David Peters, Esq. Peters, David Jeffery and I. Teresa
Bernice H. and Philip D. Bollman, Jr. Bollman, D. Philip and H. Bernice
Joan B. Knapp B. Joan
Charles D. Prestopine D. Charles
R CANCERCENTE UPMC ND A
E FUTUR A Kathleen and Demetrios T. Patrinos T. Demetrios and Kathleen Jennifer R. Blakeley R. Jennifer
Steven M. Kinney M. Steven
Deborah L. Prentiss L. Deborah
John P. Papalia P. John
Bernard J. Bernacki, MD, DO, MPH DO, MD, Bernacki, J. Bernard U P MC CA NCE R P AV ILION
Hee S. and Hyoung D. Kim, MD Kim, D. Hyoung and S. Hee
E T U T I T S IN CANCER SBURGH T PIT OF Y T RSI VE UNI Jill Fredland Portland Fredland Jill
and Peter T. Paladino, Jr., Esq. Jr., Paladino, T. Peter and 4 1 0 2 PhD Beeson, Patricia
Gregory L. Kettering L. Gregory
Carter D. Pope D. Carter S UITE 1B PhD Paladino, Ann Kathryn
Michael J. Becich, MD, PhD MD, Becich, J. Michael
Joan and Joseph Kenney Joseph and Joan E TH G N FITI E BEN
Dorothy J. and Neal M. Pollon M. Neal and J. Dorothy and Adrian V. Lee, PhD Lee, V. Adrian and
Marian C. Baur C. Marian 5 150 CE N T R E AV ENU E
Brett C. Keisel C. Brett Steffi Oesterreich, PhD PhD Oesterreich, Steffi Sharon M. Phillips M. Sharon
Lisa M. Basile M. Lisa
Kelly and Douglas G. Kassab G. Douglas and Kelly J. Renee Modra Renee J.
Lonna Perella Lonna P ITT S BURGH, P A 15 2 3 2
James D. Basil D. James
Roy T. Johnson T. Roy Mr. and Mrs. Allan H. Meltzer H. Allan Mrs. and Mr. James S. Patterson S. James
Mark Barbustiak Mark
Adele M. Jasion M. Adele
Dennis J. Meisner, MD Meisner, J. Dennis
Carolyn M. Patterson M. Carolyn
Eugene Bang Eugene
2 3 2 5 1 A P H, BURG S T IT P
Edward W. Icardi W. Edward Joan Marshall Joan Ellen M. Ormond, PhD Ormond, M. Ellen
Leroy M. Ball, Jr. Ball, M. Leroy
Leslie S. Hyde and Louis Gerrard Santora Gerrard Louis and Hyde S. Leslie Sean M. Magee M. Sean
E U EN V A E R T N E C 0 15 5 Robert Paul Oeler Oeler Paul Robert
BENE FITIN G THE Balestrieri J. Thomas and M. Anna
James C. Huntington C. James
Michael P. Lyons P. Michael
Eric S. Newman S. Eric
Patrick A. Airhart A. Patrick
B 1 TE UI S
Peter M. Holway M. Peter Elsie Y. Lewis Y. Elsie
Donald E. Moore E. Donald 2014
UNIVERSIT Y OF PITT SBURGH CANCER INS$999) – T I($500 T U T E
William A. Hite A. William Sandra Levin Sandra N ILIO V A P R E NC A C MC P U Andrew W. Moore W. Andrew
CHAMPIONS
Tracy G. and J. Craig Hill Craig J. and G. Tracy Susan and Louis E. Leff, MD Leff, E. Louis and Susan
A ND UPMCMiltenberger D. Natalie CANCERCENTER A FUTURE
Christopher P. Hayner, DMD Hayner, P. Christopher Jung S. Lee S. Jung
Gene W. Milner, Jr. Milner, W. Gene
Preston L. Zarlock L. Preston
Barbara J. and Robert W. Hannan W. Robert and J. Barbara Thomas A. Landau A. Thomas
James J. McQuade J. James WITHOUT CANCER
Raymond B. Wynn, MD Wynn, B. Raymond
R CANCE T U HO T WI
R E T CEN R E NC A C N A ILLM H
John C. Hamilton C. John Frances S. and Stewart L. Lancaster, MD Lancaster, L. Stewart and S. Frances
Melissa L. McLane L. Melissa
Eleanore G. Wyckoff G. Eleanore
Beth L. Gray L. Beth Janet and Bert Lamport III Lamport Bert and Janet
Daniel R. McLachlan R. Daniel
and Bennet Van Houten, PhD Houten, Van Bennet and
E FUTUR A
Gregory D. Grabiak, MD Grabiak, D. Gregory Thomas A. Labert A. Thomas
Eric D. McIntosh D. Eric R E T N E C R E C N A C Woshner M. Victoria
4 1 0 2 E H T
and Lee S. Goodman S. Lee and Rose M. Kutsenkow M. Rose
John R. McConaghy, MD McConaghy, R. John
Lois E. Wolfanger E. Lois
Goodman Green Sandra
Robert F. Kozel F. Robert
Herbert R. Matthews R. Herbert Patience D. Wessel D. Patience
Anthony C. Giunta C. Anthony
N A M L L I H Kirwin P. Erika
James C. Martin C. James Lawrence R. Werner R. Lawrence
Martin B. Friedman B. Martin
Jerry Z. Kendrick Z. Jerry
Helen B. and Curtis R. Marquard R. Curtis and B. Helen and Michael D. Voloshin, MD Voloshin, D. Michael and
J. Peter Freed Peter J.
MD Voloshin, K. Denise James E. Kelly, Esq. Kelly, E. James Gary Marker Gary
Steve Fox Steve
Dolores and J. Franklin Viverette, MD Viverette, Franklin J. and Dolores Timothy L. Kane L. Timothy
V IN ARE OU Y D EN TT A O T ED T I Isabel and Lee B. Foster II Foster B. Lee and Isabel
Team Up for a Cure a for Up Team Suzanne M. Kane M. Suzanne
Shaun Figueroa Shaun
and John B. Talbott, MD Talbott, B. John and John R. Kane R. John
William A. Ferri, Jr., MD Jr., Ferri, A. William DrPH Talbott, Oshinsky Evelyn
and Kevin M. Kane, MD Kane, M. Kevin and
John H. Feist, MD Feist, H. John James P. Talarico P. James PhD Kane, Getzie Irene
Margo Fall Margo Henry G. Stoecker G. Henry Wendy Jacobson, MD Jacobson, Wendy
Karen K. Egorin K. Karen Janet S. Stewart S. Janet Mary Lee and Joe R. Irwin R. Joe and Lee Mary
Tarit Kanti Dutta, MD Dutta, Kanti Tarit Jeffrey W. Spear, Esq. Spear, W. Jeffrey Aura R. Hulme R. Aura
DONORS
2014 2014 DONORS
Rev. James L. Bruney Howard R. Gross Francine and David M. McDowell Kristin F. Burns Mary Lynn and Patrick H. Gurrentz John R. McGinley Jr. Xiaoyan Cai and Zhou Wang, PhD Roger Gurrentz Lynn S. and George E. McGrann, Esq. Deborah L. Calderazzo Sheila Marie and Michael F. Halloran Jeffrey C. McKibben Shirley B. and George E. Campbell, Jr. Dal Soo Han, MD Alexis Michelle Megaludis, MD David A. Caperelli Bernadette G. Harris, MD Jeannine C. Meiksin Y OU ARE INJuliusV R. CasaliI T ED T O A andTT TimonsEN EsaiasD David G. Metinko Jonathan B. Chambers Betty Jean and Henry B. Higman, MD Joseph R. Meyn, DMD Peter H. Stephaich Frank C. Chiprich Robert E. Hoffmaster Barbara T. and Charles J. Miller, MD Min Sun, MD Arlene C. Chiz Jeffrey J. Horan D. Lee Miller, MD David P. Swanson Michael John Horan H I LLM A N Georgios Chrysochoou Mark W. Miller Michael Swindell Frank J. Cignetti Jean L. Hort Kathleen A. Minder Harry A. Thompson II T H E 20Thomas1 4 E. Clair Kelly A. Hughes-Allen Rena M. Moll Sara B. Thompson CANCE R CE N TER Jeffrey J. Claycomb Edward W. Icardi Doris J. Moser A FUTURE William H. Trippler
Thomas Colella Marilyn and Daniel David Infante Thomas M. Mulroy, Esq.
Michael A. Tulenko
H ILLMARaymondN J. CosgroveCA NCELykourgosR IordanidisCENT E RLee Murphy and Robert L. Martier WITHOUT CANCER R E C AN C HOUT T I W Robert Unland
Jerilea A. and Harry M. Crooks Jean Lynn and Samuel A. Jacobs, MD Ann Marie Natishan
David A. Wallace
William F. Cygnarowicz Sandra L. and Edward A. Jaeger, MD Nancy Nicolella Nernberg R CANCERCENTE UPMC ND A E FUTUR
A Elizabeth Warheit Carolyn E. Damasio Esther K. Jarrett and Maurice A. Nernberg
Joseph Andrew Webber U P MC CA NCE R P AV ILION
Parteni Danek Joseph J. Juriga Rona L. Nesbit E T U T I T S IN CANCER SBURGH T PIT OF Y T RSI VE UNI 4 1 0 2 Susan E. Weintraub Frank T. Datri David N. Kaplan Patricia A. Newingham S UITE 1B
Marcia J. Weiss The Karla Family Joseph T. Newsome, DVM E TH G N FITI E Anthony E. Demarco BEN Timothy V. Wieseckel 5 150 CE N T R E AV ENU E Edward U. DePersis Brian Karlovits, PhD Mary L. Niverth Jay E. Wildpret Mary G. DiDiano Arthur J. Kerr, Jr. David F. Noyes P ITT S BURGH, P A 15 2 3 2 Karen J. Wirth Andrea DiMarco LaTawnia Kershaw Donald J. O’Reilly
Bruce E. Woodske, Esq.
Charles Dittman Evelyn M. Kittner William Ofcansky
2 3 2 5 1 A P H, BURG S T IT P E. Howard Young William J. Dombrowski Jonathan E. Klein Richard D. Pagnotta
Jian Yu, PhD and Lin Zhang, MD
Georgine A. Dorundo Martin W. Klein Mary M. Pasztor E U EN V A E R T N E C 0 15
5 Ornella and Hassane M. Zarour, MD
BENE FITIN GAnn TH E. DreyerE Natalie Klein James S. Patterson
B 1 TE UI S Wendy Lee Zellner Dennis M. Duda Laurence I. Kleiner, MD Kevin Russell Patterson, MD 2014
Wen Zhu, MD
UNIVERSIT YSarita OF G. Eisner PIT and TMiltonSBURGH Eisner Nellie CANCER S. Kraus INS T I T MarilynU T E and Nicholas Pavlakovic, Jr. N ILIO V A P R E NC A C MC P U Anton H. Zidansek Alvar R. Erlandson Dan R. Lackner Kevin I. Peretic A ND UPMC CANCERCENTER A FUTURE The Family of Linda Taiedi Crystal LaPlante Cindy J. Piendl
AMBASSADORS
Fred P. Fanto Nancy J. and Stanley J. Lehman, Esq. William Pietragallo II, Esq.
($250 – $499) WITHOUT CANCER R CANCE T U HO T WI Amy L. Lenker Michael Pignatiello R E T CEN R E NC A C N A ILLM Michael W. Fausti H
Raed S. Abdullah, MD
Sharon X. Feng and Zhe-Xi Luo Karen J. Light Ryan A. Plusch
Stefan M. Ahlers
E
A FUTUR A Nola Ferrari Judith K. and Ronald G. Linaburg, DMD John Podoletz R E T N E C R E C N A
C Donna M. Artz Edward T. Liverani Terri L. and James C. Polacheck 4 1 0 2 E H
Donald C. Fetzko, Esq. T
Mary C. Ballerini
Charles F. Flach Carole M. Lombardo Lorraine D. Poleski
Joseph D. Balsone Thomas E. Long III Mildred M. Posvar N A M L L I H G. Elaine Flinn and Richard A. Flinn, PhD Linda Barlow Smalis Diane E. Lucas Susan H. and John Alden Redfield, PhD and Stamatios M. Smalis Edward C. Furlong Patrick M. Lynch Colette D. and Jean-Francois Richard, PhD Jeanne K. and Michael H. Gavin
Per H. Basse, MD, PhD, DMSci Joseph D. Gensante Barbara Macy Mary K. and James R. Rightnour, Jr.
D EN TT A O T ED T I V IN ARE OU Colleen P. Bayko William P. Getty III Stanley T. Malec Jared S. Roach, Esq. Y Elsa F. and Kenneth Beckerman Susan Gibson Arthur R. Malenky Margaret A. and Robert J. Robertson, PhD Joanne B. and Jeffrey P. Bissell Esther Glasser William H. Mallinson John R. Robinson Frederick A. Bodnar Nancy B. Gold-Cohen Pamala L. and Joseph G. Robinson, Jr. Charles Young Mansell, Esq. Linnette Booker and Steven H. Cohen Karen and Donald J. Roman, Esq. Norman D. McAlister Lois L. Bortner Jack S. Goldsmith Brent D. Rosenthal Edward J. McClain Jr., MD Sandra L. Bosak Donna P. and Ralph E. Grabowsky Michael J. Ryan Jean H. McCullough D. H. Bovbjerg, PhD Barbara F. and David S. Greenberg Kristine N. Samloff Carol Ann McDonald Hugh P. Boyle Mary Grenen, Esq. Krista Sammartino and James F. Grenen, Esq. James McDonald Kathleen M. Bradey Patricia M. and Joseph S. Sanfilippo, MD Dodi Walker Gross Daniel L. Bridge Thomas Saulle
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Douglas A. Scanlon ESTATES Big Burrito Restaurant Group Elaine Scarsella University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, The Buncher Company Peter D. Schmitt partner with UPMC CancerCenter, gratefully Canon Business Process Services, Inc. acknowledges gifts from the following Connie D. Schoentag Chartwell Pennsylvania LP individual estates and trusts: Michelle Schreiber Comptec, Inc. Brian D. Scott Estate of Judith E. Siegel Baum CONSOL Energy, Inc. Avalyn C. ShankY OU ARE INEstateV of LucianI CasteT ED T O ACostTT CompanyEND Michael F. Shaw Estate of Gloria C. Farinelli Crawford Consulting Services Kennametal Susan T. Silversmith Estate of Corbin M. Higgins Franco Associates Loyalhanna Care Center and Lawrence F. Leventon George J. Kastlin Trust The Louis A. Grant Family Joanne Ross Simon Mascaro Construction Company LP H I LLM A N Estate of Sharon C. Schoenberger Grey NY and Benjamin W. Simon Mason Contractors Association Estate of Howard A. Simon Hefren-Tillotson, Inc. Jewel M. Slepchuk Massaro Corporation T H E 20Estate1 of4 Julia H. Tamkevicz Hockey Western New York LLC Ellen S. Smith CANCE R CE N TER Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Jones Day A FUTURE Jeanette N. and Jan D. Smith, MD BUSINESSES, CORPORATIONS, Mistick Construction Co. Kennametal, Inc.
Jane Spangler H ILLMAADVOCACYN C ASSOCIATIONS,A NC E R CENT E RMLE Holdings LLC AND OTHER GROUPS LG Realty Advisors WITHOUT CANCER R E C AN C HOUT T I W Marilyn and Joseph M. Spirer Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC
University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Lids Foundation, Inc.
Christine Stanko New Era Cap Company, Inc. USA
partner with UPMC CancerCenter, gratefully Judith and James Matheny R CANCERCENTE UPMC ND A E FUTUR A Judith A. Starr OMI Refractories LLC
acknowledges gifts of $250 or more from McKamish, Inc.
Paul K. Stefko businesses, corporations, advocacy Oracle Corporation U P MC CA NCE R P AV ILION
Miles Against Melanoma 5K PA E T U T I T S IN CANCER SBURGH T PIT OF Y T RSI VE associations, and other groups. UNI 4 1 0 2 Daniel Stein Oxford Development Company Normandy Industries, Inc. S UITE 1B
Carol H. and David W. Steinbach ($500,000 – $999,999) Pinnacle Peak Foods, Inc. E TH G N FITI E Phillips Lytle LLP BEN Richard A. Steinman, MD, PhD Power Piping Company 5 150 CE N T R E AV ENU E American Cancer Society, Inc. The Pink Pamper Charles E. Stine PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP American Lung Association Pittsburgh Steelers LLC P ITT S BURGH, P A 15 2 3 2 Stephanie Bigi Stoever SAI Consulting Engineers, Inc. ($100,000 – $499,999) Radelet McCarthy Polletta, Inc. and Gregory C. Stoever Sysco Pittsburgh, LLC
Reed Smith LLP
Susan K. Stonebraker Alliance for Cancer Gene Therapy 2 3 2 5 1 A P H, BURG S T IT P TEVA Pharmaceuticals Tailgate for the Cure, Inc.
Harry Strauser ($50,000 – $99,999) Walgreens Specialty Pharmacy
United States Steel Corporation
E U EN V A E R T N E C 0 15 5 Lawrence Tentor,BEN PhD E FITIN GAmerican THE Association for William Penn Care Center
Shena Tharnish Cancer Research ($5,000 – $9,999)
B 1 TE UI S ($1,000 – $4,999) 2014
Mark E. Thompson,UNI MDVERSIT YHackers OF for PIT Hope T SBURGHAC CANCER Dellovade INS T I T U T E
AAA East Central N ILIO V A P R E NC A C MC P U George W. Turner Life Raft Group Anonymous AEC Staffing, LLC Louis E. Valli A ND UPMC CANCERCENTEPennsylvania Breast Cancer CoalitionR American Textile Company A FUTURE Allegheny Technologies, Inc.
Mary C. Vandruff Pittsburgh Cure Sarcoma Andrew Sariochek Memorial Fund
American Bridge Company
Millie Vignovic P. J. Dick Trumbull Bombardier Transportation, USA, Inc. WITHOUT CANCER R CANCE T U HO T WI R E T CEN R E NC A C N A ILLM
AVI Foodsystems, Inc. H
Margaret Volchko The Frank E. Rath Spang & Company Bowser Pontiac, Inc.
Attorneys & Staff of
Barbara J. and M. M. Vujevich, MD Charitable Trust Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
E A FUTUR A Goldberg, Persky & White, PC
R E T N E C R E C N A
C Frederick E. Waag ($25,000 – $49,999) Camelot Communications Group, Inc. 4 1 0 2 E H Bank of America T
John P. Waldron Cohen & Grigsby PC
American Academy of Otolaryngology– BGI Millwork
Richard L. Wechsler, MD Head and Neck Surgery Deloitte Services LP Bison Baseball, Inc. N A M L L I H Norman Weinstein Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC Eat’n Park Hospitality Group, Inc. Blue Marlin Systems, Inc. Patricia L. White Celgene Corporation Eli Lilly Company Bricklayers & Allied Craftworkers E. Susanne and James A. Wilkinson Highmark Elliott Ebara Group Campbell & Levine, LLC
Michael L. Williams Major League Baseball EQT Corporation D EN TT A O T ED T I V IN ARE OU Carnegie Mellon University Y Samuel C. Williamson National Organization for Rare Disorders Ernst & Young LLP Cerner Corporation Andrew A. Yohe New York Yankees FedEx dck worldwide, LLC Marlene E. and John A. Yokim PGT Trucking, Inc. Foot Locker, Inc. Dee Dee Sacco’s Fight for Life Fund Stanley R. Yopek, Jr. Plum Running Mustangs Frank Calandra, Inc. Dendreon Jian Yu, PhD Alumni Assn., Inc. Freed Maxick CPAs, PC Dow Chemical Company PAC Match Lin Zhang, MD ($10,000 – $24,999) Gordon Food Service Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Dorothy K. Zikos Adams Capital Management, Inc. HP Dudley Enterprises, Inc. Joseph F. Zunic, Jr. AEC Group, Inc. IBEW Local Union No. 5 Evans City Elementary and Joseph J. Zwirecki Amgen International Union of Operating Middle Schools Engineers Local Union 66 ANH Refractories Fashions for a Cure Johnson & Johnson AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP Federated Investors, Inc. Health Care Systems, Inc.
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Staff of Hillman Cancer Center Cancer Hillman of Staff
Roesch Family Charitable Trust Charitable Family Roesch
The Antigua Group, Inc. Group, Antigua The
Sisterson & Co. LLP Co. & Sisterson
Riggs Family Foundation Family Riggs
Hillman Foundation Hillman Advanced Polymer Technology Co. Technology Polymer Advanced
Sid Lee, Inc. Lee, Sid
Frank J. & Sylvia T. Pasquerilla Foundation Pasquerilla T. Sylvia & J. Frank
Henry L. Hillman Foundation Foundation Hillman L. Henry Aaron R. Moeller Memorial Moeller R. Aaron
Sherwood Trading Group LLC Group Trading Sherwood
Olive Lee Gilliand Foundation Gilliand Lee Olive
The Breast Cancer Research Foundation Research Cancer Breast The ($250 – $499) – ($250
SeattleGenetics
and E. Merle
($1 Million+) ($1
Schenley Park Capital Management LLC Management Capital Park Schenley W. Rick’s Taproom & Grill & Taproom Rick’s W.
Lymphoma Research Foundation Research Lymphoma
Sam-Son Distribution Center, Inc. Center, Distribution Sam-Son our mission. our Vizwerks, Inc. Vizwerks,
The Hawksglen Foundation Foundation Hawksglen The
provided support of $250 or more to further further to more or $250 of support provided
RYWTF Golf Outing Golf RYWTF United Way of the Columbia-Willamette the of Way United
Gailliot Family Foundation Family Gailliot
acknowledges the foundations that have have that foundations the acknowledges
RTI International Metals, Inc. Metals, International RTI and Southern New Jersey New Southern and
($10,000 – $24,999) – ($10,000 partner with UPMC CancerCenter, gratefully gratefully CancerCenter, UPMC with partner
Philadelphia Greater of Way United
Ross Stores, Inc. Stores, Ross University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Institute, Cancer Pittsburgh of University
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Medical Hughes Howard
& Hematology Group Hematology &
Quest Diagnostics, Inc. Diagnostics, Quest
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ProStrakan
Staff of Bettis Atomic Laboratory Atomic Bettis of Staff Charles F. Spang Foundation Spang F. Charles
Print Leader/Printing Prep, Inc. Prep, Leader/Printing Print Field Club Field
Roswell Park Cancer Institute Cancer Park Roswell Beckwith Family Foundation Family Beckwith
Pittsburgh of Association Golf Women’s Pittsburgh Associates Pittsburgh
The Rosen Family Trust Family Rosen The A Glimmer of Hope Foundation Hope of Glimmer A
Westmoreland Country Club Country Westmoreland H I LLM A N & Raspanti LLP Raspanti &
Rosen Bilchik Family Bilchik Rosen ($25,000 – $49,999) – ($25,000 Bosick Alfano Gordon Pietragallo West Herr Automotive Group Automotive Herr West
R.I. Lampus, Co. Lampus, R.I.
PG Publishing Company Publishing PG Wesco International, Inc. International, Wesco
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Peoples Natural Gas Co. LLC Co. Gas Natural Peoples Upper St. Clair Girls Lacrosse Boosters Lacrosse Girls Clair St. Upper CANCE R CE N TER
Sarcoma Foundation of America, Inc. America, of Foundation Sarcoma A FUTURE
PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. Group, Services Financial PNC
Parsons Brinckerhoff, Inc. Brinckerhoff, Parsons UPMC Radiation Oncology Managers Oncology Radiation UPMC
Charitable Trust Charitable
PL Restaurant Associates LLC Associates Restaurant PL
Paragon Wholesale Foods Wholesale Paragon
United Way of the Greater Triangle Greater the of Way United
The Frank E. Rath Spang & Company HCompany & ILLMSpang Rath E. Frank The A N CA NCE R CENT E R WITHOUT CANCER
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Middle Creek Co-workers Creek Middle Google Pittsburgh/Google Shopping Pittsburgh/Google Google and James T. Knox Fund Knox T. James and
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of Society Aid Hospital Ladies
Mary Gorell Memorial Fund Memorial Gorell Mary
UNIVERSIT Y OF PITT SBURGH CANCER INS T I T U T E Crossmedia, Inc. Crossmedia,
Learning Child Center LLC Center Child Learning
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Kongsberg Defense Corporation Defense Kongsberg
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Clarity Business Solutions, Inc. Solutions, Business Clarity
Kittleman & Associates & Kittleman
Jentoe Corporation Jentoe
William S. Conover II Fund II Conover S. William
Bronder Technical Services Technical Bronder
Index Trading & Manufacturing, Inc. Manufacturing, & Trading Index
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Biomedical Laboratory Biomedical R E T CEN R E NC A C N A ILLM H
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Image Associates, Inc. Associates, Image
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IBM Employee Services Center Services Employee IBM
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Friends of Richard Cohen Richard of Friends
The Calahan Fund Calahan The R E T N E C R E C N A C
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Anna M. Balestrieri Fund Balestrieri M. Anna
School High Salem Greensburg
Argo Group Argo
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Green Oaks Country Club Country Oaks Green
($500 – $999) – ($500
The Pittsburgh Foundation Pittsburgh The
N A M L L I H Emron Gibraltar Industries Gibraltar
Pancreatic Cancer Foundation Cancer Pancreatic
Depraco LLC Depraco Yough High School Cheerleaders School High Yough Friends of Rita Bauer Rita of Friends
Lustgarten Marc
Cumbo, Inc. Cumbo, Whole Enchilada, Inc. Enchilada, Whole Friends of Christy Angelo Christy of Friends
Lungevity Foundation Foundation Lungevity
Complete Reporting Services Reporting Complete Western Pennsylvania Laborers’ Union Laborers’ Pennsylvania Western
Foundation of New York, Inc. York, New of Foundation
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Carmeuse Lime & Stone & Lime Carmeuse Wabtec Corporation Wabtec
The Ellison Medical Foundation Foundation Medical Ellison The
Blue Sky Agency Sky Blue Vautier Communications, Inc. Communications, Vautier
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Blackhorse Consulting LLC Consulting Blackhorse & Contracting Company Contracting &
Wheeler Family Charitable Foundation Charitable Family Wheeler Painting Patrinos D. T.
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National Hockey League Foundation League Hockey National
Raymond B. Wynn, MD Wynn, B. Raymond
space Unfortunately, care. patient enhancing and research
National Christian Foundation Christian National Sharon and Robert W. Welch W. Robert and Sharon
Pittsburgh Cancer Institute plays a vital role in advancing advancing in role vital a plays Institute Cancer Pittsburgh Fannie Mae Foundation Mae Fannie Charles B. Watson B. Charles
Dollar Bank Foundation Bank Dollar
and Michael D. Voloshin, MD Voloshin, D. Michael and Every gift to UPMC CancerCenter and the University of of University the and CancerCenter UPMC to gift Every
MD Voloshin, K. Denise ($250 – $999) – ($250
Janet Tripodi Janet
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Donna Puleio, MD Puleio, Donna
Family Foundation Family
Joyce Metnick Joyce
Wiegand Barbara & Bruce The
Martin G. McGuinn G. Martin
UB Foundation Activities, Inc. Activities, Foundation UB
James J. McQuade J. James *Deceased
Kristen S. and William Daniel May Daniel William and S. Kristen
Foundation, Inc. Foundation,
H I LLM A N Jeffrey C. McKibben C. Jeffrey
Michael P. Lyons P. Michael Simonds Hillman Lea Juliet The
Eric D. McIntosh D. Eric
Program Manager Program Flannery, Eleanor
James D. Luketich, MD Luketich, D. James
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The Evan & Tracy Segal Family Foundation Family Segal Tracy & Evan The CANCE R CE N TER
Barbara Macy Barbara A FUTURE
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Shelley and Douglas J. Lucas J. Douglas and Shelley
of Development of
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Karen J. Light J. Karen WITHOUT CANCER
Director Interim Development; Clinical
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NHL Foundation NHL
Executive Director, Director, Executive McCrimmon, Sam
Amy L. Lenker L. Amy
Noel and Christian G. Carmody G. Christian and Noel The M & T Charitable Foundation Charitable T & M The
DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT DEVELOPMENT Nancy J. and Stanley J. Lehman, Esq. Lehman, J. Stanley and J. Nancy
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Menasha Corporation Foundation Corporation Menasha
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Kelly and Douglas Kassab Douglas and Kelly
and Robert L. Burns Jr., Esq. Jr., Burns L. Robert and
THE UNIVERSITY OF OF UNIVERSITY THE
Lilly Family Foundation Family Lilly U P MC CA NCE R P AV ILION
Brian Karlovits, MD Karlovits, Brian
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Esq. Burns, Ward Kimberly
AND CANCERCENTER UPMC
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Leslie S. Hyde and Louis Gerrard Santora Gerrard Louis and Hyde S. Leslie S UITE 1B Eli Budelman Eli
Foundation, Inc. Foundation,
Gerald D. Holder, PhD Holder, D. Gerald E TH G N FITI E BEN
Wendy Lee Zellner Lee Wendy
Donna Marie Borgese Marie Donna
The Judith A. Lese Breast Cancer Cancer Breast Lese A. Judith The 5 150 CE N T R E AV ENU E
Diane Holder Diane
Andrew A. Yohe A. Andrew Richard Bondi Richard The Roy F. Johns, Jr. Family Foundation Family Jr. Johns, F. Roy The
Paula and Bradley Hencel Bradley and Paula
Michael L. Williams L. Michael P ITT S BURGH, P A 15 2 3 2 Mary Berkebile, MD and Jack Berkebile Jack and MD Berkebile, Mary Charitable Trust Fund Trust Charitable
Michael J. Hardobey J. Michael
Hellerman E. Gertrude Jay E. Wildpret E. Jay Anonymous (4) Anonymous
Andrew J. Gorsuch J. Andrew
Robert I. Glimcher Family Foundation Family Glimcher I. Robert Robert Unland Robert
($1,000 – $4,999) – ($1,000
2 3 2 5 1 A P H, BURG S T IT P
Jack S. Goldsmith S. Jack Foundation, Inc. Foundation, Min Sun, MD Sun, Min
Ann K. and William Rankin Newlin Rankin William and K. Ann
Fisher Hillman Matthew The
Susan Gibson Susan
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for the Alleghenies the for Michelle V. and David M. Friedland, MD Friedland, M. David and V. Michelle
Patrick Stabile Patrick
B 1 TE UI S Randall L. Crawford L. Randall Foundation Community The
Reid J. Fleming J. Reid
Michael F. Shaw F. Michael 2014
Elizabeth B. Concordia B. Elizabeth Foundation
UNIVERSIT Y OF PITT SBURGH CANCER INS T I T U T E
Charles F. Flach F. Charles
N ILIO V A P R E NC A C MC P U Kimberly B. Schriver B. Kimberly
Pittsburgh of Hospital Children’s ($5,000 – $9,999) – ($5,000
Jeanine M. Fisher M. Jeanine
Michelle Schreiber Michelle A FUTURE
A ND UPMC CANCERCENTER Foundation County Beaver
and Barry C. Lembersky, MD Lembersky, C. Barry and Bonnie W. and Thomas L. VanKirk L. Thomas and W. Bonnie
Elaine Scarsella Elaine
($1,000 – $4,999) – ($1,000
Faust M. Diane
Nikol and Stanley M. Marks, MD Marks, M. Stanley and Nikol
Krista Sammartino Krista WITHOUT CANCER
R CANCE T U HO T WI Anthony E. Demarco E. Anthony
R E T CEN R E NC A C N A ILLM H Wabtec Foundation Wabtec
Janis C. and Jonas T. Johnson, MD Johnson, T. Jonas and C. Janis Jodi A. Pitchok A. Jodi
Michael S. Deluca S. Michael
SWS Charitable Foundation, Inc. Foundation, Charitable SWS Thomas B. Grealish B. Thomas
Sharon M. Phillips M. Sharon
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Molly and Thomas G. Crooks G. Thomas and Molly
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Kim and Curt Fleming Curt and Kim Kevin I. Peretic I. Kevin R E T N E C R E C N A C
Deidre L. Cleary L. Deidre 4 1 0 2 E H T
Charitable Foundation Charitable
Buchanon Ingersoll & Rooney & Ingersoll Buchanon Peoples Natural Gas Co., LLC Co., Gas Natural Peoples
Company Appliances Safety Mine
Alexander J. Ciocca III Ciocca J. Alexander
Mary A. and Charles E. Bogosta E. Charles and A. Mary
Richard D. Pagnotta D. Richard
Kennametal Foundation Kennametal
Deborah L. Calderazzo L. Deborah
N A M L L I H Bigley G. Thomas and Joan Rachel and Eric S. Newman S. Eric and Rachel
The Adam Frey Foundation Frey Adam The
Stacy L. Byers L. Stacy
($10,000 – $24,999) – ($10,000 Patricia A. Newingham A. Patricia
The Dow Chemical Company Foundation Company Chemical Dow The
Kristin F. Burns F. Kristin
Ann Marie Natishan Marie Ann
(June 2013 through May 2014). May through 2013 (June
& Eastern OH Eastern & Linnette Booker Linnette
during the 2013 United Way Campaign Campaign Way United 2013 the during
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Colleen P. Bayko P. Colleen CancerCenter and the University of of University the and CancerCenter
($5,000 – $9,999) – ($5,000 $250 or more in support of UPMC UPMC of support in more or $250
Bayer Corporation Bayer
United Way donations and/or pledges of of pledges and/or donations Way United
Pamela E. Arroya E. Pamela The Woiner Foundation Woiner The
acknowledges donors who designated designated who donors acknowledges
Anonymous (10) Anonymous William Talbott Hillman Foundation Foundation Hillman Talbott William partner with UPMC CancerCenter, gratefully gratefully CancerCenter, UPMC with partner
University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Institute, Cancer Pittsburgh of University Stefan M. Ahlers M. Stefan Stork Foundation Stork
UNITED WAY UNITED ($250 – $999) – ($250 Scott A. Garet Memorial Foundation Foundation Memorial Garet A. Scott
DONORS
2014 BRIEFS
FOR AN UNCOMMON CANCER, UNCOMMONLY STRONG SUPPORT
Pittsburgh Cure Sarcoma (PCS) celebrated their fourth “It’s been a survival year for us,” says Sue, who credits annual 5K Run/Walk on July 12, 2014. The event, which the tight-knit fundraising team for helping her deal supports research and awareness of this relatively rare with her grief. “It’s been hard, but organizing the race form of cancer, raised more than $180,000 this year. has helped me stay focused. This year’s race was a Strong community support contributed to its success, feel-good day, a celebration of life. Our goals are to raise making it the second largest sarcoma-related awareness and to provide an environment for people to community event in the country as recognized by have fun and support each other.” the Sarcoma Foundation of America. As beneficiaries, Since 2011, PCS has raised approximately $500,000 the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute and to fund sarcoma research in Pittsburgh and nationwide. Hillman Cancer Center have benefitted from PCS’s impressive fundraising efforts. The race’s founders, Sue notes that the support of UPMC CancerCenter’s Carl Firetto and Bill Suit, recently lost their battles with Hussein Tawbi, MD, PhD, helped keep PCS’s planning the disease. Their wives, Cindy Firetto and Sue Suit, on track. “Dr. Tawbi has worked so hard to bring have taken up the mantle for organizing this year’s race. sarcoma research to the area. He shows up every year for the race. We’re so grateful for his commitment.”
MUSTANGS STAMPEDE TO STAMP OUT LEUKEMIA
The Plum Running Mustangs, part of Plum support from the Plum community and Stampede in the Park, with its mission to School District’s track and field program, became an annual tradition. This year, the “stamp out leukemia,” also helps secure held their 7th annual Stampede in the Park Running Mustangs reached a major brighter futures for graduating Running 5K on July 19, 2014, to benefit leukemia and milestone: they broke the $100,000 Mustangs by awarding college scholarships. lymphoma research at the University of fundraising mark. Michael Boyiadzis, MD, Four graduating seniors from Plum’s track Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI). Their of UPMC CancerCenter presented the and field program receive $1,000 each for coach, Joe Ionta, has chronic lymphocytic organization with a plaque to mark this demonstrating leadership, integrity, and leukemia. Faced with a cancer diagnosis, achievement. Through sponsorships and devotion to their teams. Backed by individual “Coach I” used his personal challenge to grassroots initiatives, the Running Mustangs and corporate sponsorships, including inspire and motivate others. He organized donated more than $20,000 to UPCI in UPMC East, the Running Mustangs have and launched the first Stampede in the Park 2013, and their lifetime fundraising total to turned their passion for their sport into a in 2007, an event that received strong more than $140,000. mission to help others.
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