On September 29, 2010 there will be a celebration to mark the 15th anniversary of the first transplant performed by the Bone Marrow Transplant Program at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. Under the leadership of Dr. Neal Flomenberg, who established the BMT program at Jefferson in 1995, there have been approximately 650 transplants performed to date. Read more…

The Ace Club will host the Prostate Cancer Foundation’s 8th Annual Philadelphia Prostate Cancer Fundraiser. Clay Hamlin and Neal Rodin invite you to join Michael Milken at the 8th Annual Philadelphia Prostate Cancer Fundraiser.

The Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson and Prostate Health International’s Gary Papa Run are offering free prostate screenings as part of a research program. Prostate cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death among men. Screening is important because prostate cancer shows no symptoms in its earliest stages.

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The US World News & Report ranked the Thomas Jefferson University Hospital 35th in the nation for Cancer Care.

The U.S.News & World Report this year also named Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals as among the best in the nation in seven other specialties – orthopaedic surgery; rehabilitation medicine.; ear, nose & throat; gastroenterology; geriatrics; gynecology; and pulmonology.

The Ramblewood  Country Club in Mount Laurel, NJ will  host John Runyan’s 2010 “Score For The Cure” Golf Tournament on September 21st 2010. The proceeds will benefit the Kimmel Cancer Center of Jefferson. Dietz & Watson is the Title Sponsor of the event. This 2010 event will mark the 6th year of the event which has raised nearly $1,000,000 in the fight against prostate cancer. For more details please download the pamphlet . To register via e-mail please send a request to njgolf@ramblewood.com
For directions and other general course info, please see Ramblewood Golf Course’s web page at http://www.ramblewoodcc.com/ .

Dr. Edith Mitchell

CancerCare ( www.cacnercare.org ) will honor Dr. Edith Mitchell at it’s upcoming Tribute to Our Friends reception on September 30, 2010 in New York City. Dr. Mitchell will receive the CancerCare 2010 Physician of the Year award. This award is presented to a physician who demonstrated outstanding commitment to CancerCare through contributions of time, talent and resources. CancerCare would like to commend Dr. Mitchell on her leadership in the field of gastrointestinal oncology and her support in increasing patient access to psychosocial services.

Drs. Weiss, Pestell, Flomenberg, and Kelly

Mark Weiss, M.D., has been appointed Director of the Hematologic Malignancies and Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation division in the Department of Medical Oncology.  Dr. Weiss comes to the faculty with more than 25 years of clinical and educational experience.  He is also an internationally respected and renowned expert in the field of hematologic malignancies, particularly CLL and ALL.

Dr. Weiss comes to  TJU from Memorial-Sloan Kettering Cancer Center where he held the position of Associate Member. He is board certified in Internal Medicine, Hematology and Medical Oncology.  He serves on numerous editorial boards such as Blood, Cancer Research, and Leukemia.

Dr. William Kevin Kelly has been appointed Professor of Medical Oncology and Urology and Director of Solid Tumor Oncology at Thomas Jefferson University. He also serves as the Associate Director of Translation Research at the Kimmel Cancer Center in Philadelphia, PA.

Prior to coming to Thomas Jefferson University, he was an associate professor of medicine and director of Urologic Oncology at Yale Cancer Center. He has a longstanding clinical expertise in genitourinary malignancies and oncology drug development; bringing novel agents from the bench to the clinic. Dr. Kelly currently conducts a broad range of clinical investigations in novel biologics and chemotherapeutic agents and continues to be actively involved in the Cooperative Groups. He serves as member of Oncology Drug Advisory Committee for the FDA and the National Cancer Institute Prostate Cancer Task Force. Dr. Kelly has been widely published as an author or co-author of more than 100 manuscripts, chapters and abstracts; and he serves on the several editorial boards and is a reviewer for multiple journals.

Left to Right: Hushan Yang, Larry Slagle, Samantha Sabin-Rex, Amy Leader, Daneen Baird, Nancy Hodgson, and Marja Nevalainen

The Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson hosted the 3rd Annual ACS-IRG Luncheon on June 16, 2010. The 2010 Pilot Project recipients are Nancy Hodgson, RN, PhD of the Jefferson Center for Applied Research in Aging and Health, Amy Leader, DrPh, MPh and Hushan Yang, PhD, both of the department of Medical Oncology. Read more…

Dr. Richard Pestell and Craig Kaplan

Dr. Richard Pestell accepts a $10,000 check from Craig Kaplan, MilkBoy Communications, on behalf of Dietz and Watson for Jon Runyan’s “Score for the Cure” Golf Tournament. The tournament last year was a great success. To date, they have raised nearly $1,000,000 in the fight against prostate cancer.

The sixth annual Jon Runyan “Score for The Cure” will be held on Tuesday, September 21, 2010.

This annual fundraiser is co-sponsored by Dietz & Watson and Pacific American Securities. This event promises to be a fun filled event featuring past and present members of the Philadelphia Eagles as well as other area professional athletes. The proceeds will go directly to helping cancer research at the Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson.

The Quintin Foundation hosted their 4th Annual Martini Tasting Event on Sunday April 18, 2010 from 2-5 pm at Steve and Cookies, 9700 Amhearst Avenue in Margate. The event featured all of the latest trends in top shelf vodka flavors as well as a variety of beers which will be paired with an assortment of delicious foods, live music from acoustic guitar player, Tony Pontari, and a silent auction. The proceeds benefit the cancer programs, research, and treatments at the Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson. For more information about the Quintin Foundation please see their home page