joined Meridian Health "Pass The Baton" to spread a message of hope -
Meridian Health, a large healthcare system in New Jersey, joined a movement National called "Pass the Baton ™" to help raise money for research into innovative cancer and spread a message of hope. The event at the New Jersey Medical Shore Meridian Health of the University Centre introduced a performance by Boyz Struck, a hip-hop dance team comprised of boys aged 8-11, who recently performed on the Got Talent America, Spider-Man a visit, and Neptune Mayor Dr. Michael Brantley proclamation declaring today "Day Baton Pass" Neptune, NJ. The community also heard Sandra Doyle Ferullo, a survivor of cancer Farmingdale, NJ, which benefited from new treatments through research on advanced cancer.
Pass The Baton was launched on Good Morning America on March 19 by Siemens, one of the main engineers of imaging, laboratory diagnostics and IT solutions for health care in the world, raise funds for stand Up to cancer cons (SU2C). SU2C is a program of the Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF), a 501 (c) (3) charitable organization, and supports research on the pioneering cancer to get new therapies to patients quickly. With each pass of the Baton, physically or virtually through www.facebook.com/TheBatonPass, Siemens will donate one dollar to Stand Up To Cancer, up to one million dollars, to 5 September 2014. The Baton Pass is an effort to the basis to raise funds and spread a message of hope and unity in the country. Baton has traveled thousands of miles across the United States and Canada and was passed more than 00,000 times.
The guests learned first hand about Meridian's commitment to provide access to the best care for cancer, more compassionate, near the home of Timothy J. Hogan FACHE, President Regional Hospital, Monmouth County, Meridian Health. Denise Johnson Miller, MD, medical director, breast surgery at the University Medical Center of Jersey Shore, also discussed research working with Meridian Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey to share the latest treatments and clinical trials the more promising.
Jersey Shore University Medical Center, Siemens, and the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), working closely with SU2C to examine funding proposals dream team, the members of the the team and the patients spent the Baton with Spider-Man and the Boyz Struck.
"Pass the Baton was a great celebration of the promise that cancer research holds for millions of people, including Sandra Doyle Ferullo is now cancer free because of a therapy developed over a clinical research trial. It was also a great show of support for community research at Meridian Cancer Care, where we are actively carrying out more than 100 oncology clinical trials in the hope that there will be more stories like Sandra survival, "said Dr. Johnson Miller.
"the Baton symbolizes the progress we have made in cancer detection, monitoring and treatment, and the hope we all share for the continuous progress," said Tim Cosgrave, vice president Client Desktop, Siemens healthcare. "Siemens is proud to align SU2C and celebrate the work with health care systems as Meridian health."
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