Lengthy Department, NJ, June 3, 2022 – The twenty seventh Annual Energy of Pink Luncheon, a premiere fund-raising luncheon for Most cancers Companies at Monmouth Medical Heart (MMC), will function keynote speaker, Robin Arzón, Vice President of Health Programming at Peloton.
An avid ultra-marathon runner, best-selling creator and international health chief, Arzón’s life mission is to redefine, reform and rethink risk by way of motion. This 12 months the occasion is co-chaired by Sima Yakoby Epstein and Debbie Menkowitz, together with boutique co-chairs Jessica Buchner and Michelle Kutsak.
The luncheon, offered by devoted MMC Basis group leaders who make up the Leon Hess Most cancers Heart Council, will probably be held on Thursday, July 21, on the Rumson waterfront dwelling of Mary and John M. Kiely. John M. Kiely is the CEO of the Kiely Household of Corporations, Tinton Falls.
Robin’s message to people is to concentrate on what you are able to do reasonably than on any limitations. In 2020, she was named some of the influential individuals on Fortune Journal’s 40 Beneath 40 listing, and in 2021, she turned the first-ever recipient of Glamour Journal’s ‘Daring to Disrupt’ Award.
“The RWJBarnabas Well being motto ‘Let’s Be Wholesome Collectively’ suits completely with Robin’s pleasure of motion and its transformative powers,” says Caitlin Olson, Regional Vice President of Growth for MMC and its southern campus. “Her highly effective and optimistic message is in line with our healthcare system’s mission to make sure individuals of all ages have the means and skill to dwell more healthy, extra fulfilling lives.”
One of many Basis’s flagship occasions, the Energy of Pink Luncheon raises funds to reinforce the care delivered to oncology sufferers at MMC, and its devoted volunteers have raised greater than $6,000,000 to learn the hospital’s Leon Hess Cancer Center. This 12 months, proceeds from the occasion will profit the event of revolutionary most cancers companies on the new Vogel Medical Campus in Tinton Falls, NJ.
Two broadly revered RWJ Barnabas Well being Southern Area oncology doctor specialists, together with board-certified inside medication doctor and medical oncologist, Seth D. Cohen, MD, Regional Director of Oncology Companies for the RWJBarnabas Well being Southern Area, and Richard S. Lazzaro, MD, FACS, Southern Area Chief of Thoracic Surgical procedure, will focus on the brand new regional thoracic oncology program that’s bringing state-of-the-art therapy to sufferers, in partnership with Rutgers Most cancers Institute of New Jersey—the state’s solely NCI-Designated Complete Most cancers Heart. The Leon Hess Most cancers Heart is the area’s solely facility designated as an Educational Complete Most cancers Program by the American School of Surgeons’ Fee on Most cancers. MMC supplies close-to-home entry to probably the most superior therapy choices and medical trials.
“Our new most cancers heart will deliver revolutionary and expansive most cancers care and applications to assist our sufferers proceed to dwell life to the fullest, from therapy by way of survivorship,” says Eric Carney, President and CEO of each MMC and Monmouth Medical Heart Southern Campus. “That is attainable partly due to the work and generosity of the Leon Hess Most cancers Heart Council; they’ve been a beautiful accomplice to Monmouth Medical Heart.”
To buy a ticket or reserve a desk for this 12 months’s Energy of Pink Luncheon, or for extra info, go to www.rwjbh.org/POP.
