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FALL 2007 BETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER • ST. LUKE’S HOSPITAL • ROOSEVELT HOSPITAL • LONG ISLAND COLLEGE HOSPITAL • THE NEW YORK EYE & E AR INFIRMARY LEADINGWAY Team Continuum Establishes a Center for Hematologic Malignancies…page 3 ALSO INSIDE: Spring Galas and a Holiday Ball! • Friedman Support for Petrie Renovations • Luncheons for Breast Service and Planned Giving • Hecht Family Legacy Continues • Alan and Barbara Mirken Department of Neurology • Hospice Benefit • Singer-Kriser Dinner • Anniversaries for Karpas and Yarmon Division • Armstrong Opening • Jazz Fundraiser for Small Grants • Cheers! for Breakthroughs in Neurosurgery LEADINGWAY 03 Formed in 1997, CONTINUUM Continuum Health Team Continuum • Hospice Benefit • Breast Service Luncheon Partners, Inc. unites five distinguished voluntary teaching hospitals: Beth 06 Israel Medical Center, St. Luke’s and Roosevelt Hospitals, Long Island College PLANNED GIVING Hospital and The New York Eye & Ear Luncheons Honor Planned Giving Infirmary. All of the Continuum hospitals were established more than a century ago by civic-minded individuals with a 07 shared commitment to improving health and health care for their communities. BETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER Continuum remains committed to deliv- Hecht Family Legacy Continues • Lynn Diamond Supports ering the very finest medical care while Neurology • Second Century Ball • Singer-Kriser Dinner • providing excellent medical training and Karpas 25th Anniversary • Yarmon Division Anniversary • Louis pursuing groundbreaking research. The Armstrong Opening • Friedman Foundation Helps Renovate Continuum network allows each hospital to maintain its own identity while benefit- Petrie • Groundbreaking for Mirken Neurology Department ing from the rich resources of its partner 12 institutions. Working together under the Continuum banner, our partner hospitals ST. LUKE’S AND ROOSEVELT HOSPITALS have the outstanding medical resources, Fundraiser for Small Grants • Cheers! • Spring Gala in facilities, expertise and dedication needed Times Square to give New Yorkers the superlative health care they want and deserve. 14 LONG ISLAND COLLEGE HOSPITAL Spring Ball at the Brooklyn Bridge 15 THE NEW YORK EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY For further information regarding gifts to Beth Israel Holiday Ball • Hyman Gift Fights Blindness Medical Center, St. Luke’s and Roosevelt Hospitals, Long Island College Hospital and The New York Eye & Ear Infirmary, please contact Development Department Continuum Health Partners, Inc. 555 West 57th Street, 18th Floor New York, NY 10019 212.636.8400 www.chpnyc.org Please write to Patricia Balsamini at the above address if you wish to have your name removed from future fundraising requests. Continuum TEAM CONTINUUM EstaBLISHES CENTER FOR HEMatOLOGIC MALIGNANCIES he care and treatment of Tpeople with cancers of the blood is advanced significantly with the establishment of the Team Continuum Center for Hematologic Malignancies. This vital new pro- gram has been made possible by a generous contribution of $1.1 million from Team Continuum. “Our new program will offer advanced medical care, including opportunities to participate in clinical trials and outstanding Michael Grossbard, MD, Alton Barron, MD, Paul Nicholls, Robert Butters, Louis Harrison, MD, supportive services designed specifically Kathleen Kearns, Frank J. Cracolici, and Diana Nicholls for patients with lymphoma, leukemia, myeloma, and myelodysplasia,” said Michael “Although I had to get my transplants else- ship with the disease, but they dismiss the L. Grossbard, MD, chief of the division of where, Roosevelt is my home,” Mr. Nicholls patients. Dr. Grossbard has a relationship hematology/oncology at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt said. “When I finished my treatment at with both the disease and the patient,” Hospitals and Beth Israel Medical Center, Roosevelt, I actually felt like I was leaving Mr. Nicholls said. “He understands what and associate director of Continuum Cancer home, which was a strange experience.” patients are going through and treats them Centers of New York. “I am so grateful from a psychological point of view. He gives to Team Continuum and its founder Paul The new center without walls will operate you treatment for the disease, but he also Nicholls for their incredible generosity and under the direction of Dr. Grossbard, an makes you feel better, which are two for helping me to realize a longtime dream internationally recognized expert in the different things.” of creating this program of excellence.” management of hematologic malignancies and the development of antibody-based “I took an instant liking to him and I want- The gift was inspired in part by the excel- therapies for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. ed to help him help other patients,” Mr. lent care Mr. Nicholls received when he Nicholls continued. “So over the course of was being treated for myeloma at Roosevelt “Over the course of treatment, I’ve come several months, I discovered his ambitions Hospital by Dr. Grossbard. across some physicians who have a relation- about building a center, and I said, ‘Well, I believe I can help you.’” The gift was also given in honor of Dr. Carl Henry Nacht, a highly regarded Roosevelt physician and Team Continuum member who was killed in a bicycle accident in 2006. It is also a tribute to Mr. Nicholls’s late father-in-law, George Gholson Walker, who was a trustee and benefactor of Roosevelt Hospital many years ago. Barry Golson, Thia Golson, Tom Chase, Diana Nicholls, Michelle Chase, Paul Nicholls, and Marrick Kukin, MD (continued on next page) FALL 2007 03 Continuum TEAM CONTINUUM EstaBLISHES CENTER FOR HEMatOLOGIC MALIGNANCIES (CONTINUED) Team Continuum started in 2003 when Mr. Nicholls, who was beginning treat- ment for multiple myeloma, asked Dr. Grossbard if he would be able to run in that year’s marathon. Mr. Nicholls did run the marathon that year and raised money in the process—and Team Continuum was born. Dr. Grossbard was so inspired that he decided to run with him the next year. Joan Sarnoff, Paul Nicholls, Sue Mercy, Gene Mercy, and Diana Nicholls Since then, Team Continuum has grown support that is fully integrated into day-to- “Believe it or not, there is no place in to more than 600 members who have day treatment from day one of the diagnosis. New York City where you can go and get run in marathons or participated in other In earlier contributions totaling $300,000, myeloma treatment under one roof,” he events to raise more than $3.5 million for Team Continuum has supported the Fami- said. “It is my ambition for Team Con- families fighting cancer and for cancer care lies in Need and Child Life Funds and the tinuum to help build such a comprehensive programs. Team Continuum has been a Roosevelt Hospital Emergency Department program for myeloma through the Center generous contributor to Continuum cancer as well as the work of Dr. Grossbard. for Hematologic Malignancies.” patient care, helping to support everything from nutritionists to research to equipment Paul Nicholls hopes that the Team Contin- If you would like to learn more about the purchases. Another recent gift of $150,000 uum Center for Hematologic Malignancies work of Team Continuum—or to support was made to Continuum’s Cancer Support- will be the foundation for the development Team Continuum either by running in the ive Services, providing care for symptoms of a world-class program specifically for marathon or by sponsoring Paul Nicholls to and side effects, as well as psycho-social myeloma treatment. run again in 2007—log on to their website at www.teamcontinuum.net Stephen Hochman and Michael Grossbard, MD Letty Simon, Charles Bergman, Paul Nicholls, Frank J. Cracolici, Michael Grossbard, MD, Scott Stuart Levy, and Robert Butters Santarella, Shelley Terry, and Paul Nicholls Hospice Benefit At Continuum Hospice Care’s Third Annual Musical Benefit on March 4, 2007, nearly 150 people enjoyed New York City Opera’s performance of Gilbert and Sullivan’s “The Pirates of Penzance.” The benefit raised more than $122,000, while also increasing awareness of the excellent work being done by Continuum Hospice Care. After the show, guests were treated to a high tea and 1 2 3 champagne reception, where cast member Kevin Burdett, still in stage makeup, stopped by to PHOTOS greet everyone and led the group in a couple of 1 Betty Yarmon, Carolyn Cassin, James R. Borynack Broadway favorites. James R. Borynack served as 2 Carolyn Cassin, James R. Borynack, and benefit chairman for the event, whileA nn Lozman Ann Lozman and Jay Harris were the founding chairmen. Un- 3 Ann Lozman and cast member Kevin Burdette derwriting was also provided by Commerce Bank, 4 Showtunes ‘round the piano with performer Barbara and Gerry Ranzal, and Betty Yarmon. 4 Kevin Burdette 04 LEADING THE WAY Breast Service Luncheon Nearly 400 people attended the Beth Israel PHOTOS Medical Center and St. Luke’s and Roosevelt 1 Réal, Peggy Fleming, Alice Netter, and Serge 11 Gold lace sequinned chiffon gown with gold Hospitals’ Breast Service Luncheon at the Pierre 2 Front: Joan Tucker and Joan Picket. Back organza opera coat on April 25, 2007. Chaired by Alice Netter, the row: Allison Fehrenbacker, Rosalyn Feldman, 12 Alison Estabrook, MD, and Morton P. Hyman event raised more than $650,000, including Barbara Moss, Diane Felenstein, and 13 Seiko and Robert G. Newman, MD underwriting from Marilyn Simons, Helen Appel Ruth Brause 14 Gina Freis, Lenore Hecht, and and Carol Maslow. Proceeds support breast 3 Patricia Shiland, Alice Netter, and Stacey Schulman service programs at the hospitals, which include Laurie Sprayregen 15 Beaded chiffon shift dress extensive wellness programs for patients, clinical 4 Toni Ross, Elizabeth Montesano, and 16 Jean-Marc Cohen, MD, Ilana Cohen, MD, studies and community outreach. Bobbie Abrams Barbara Zeifer, MD, Sheldon Feldman, MD, 5 Patricia Joye-Chatfield and Josephine Brezenoff and Manjeet Chadha, MD At the luncheon, guests were treated to an 6 Shirley Cooper, Alice Netter, Morton P. Hyman, 17 Serge, Joan Tisch, Carol Maslow, and Réal inspiring keynote address by figure skating icon and Roz Komaroff 18 White silk taffeta gilet with black silk chiffon and breast cancer awareness advocate Peggy Fleming.