Corey Ribotsky Info

Here is a video from the Onyx and Breezy Foundation, where Corey Ribotsky is a Foundation Member. They work to help animals in need across the United States and invest their time and energy in many charitable projects.

Upcoming at the Sunrise Day Camp – the only charity in America that provides a camp for kids undergoing cancer treatment – is the Champions for Charity 2011 fundraiser.  On Thursday December 1, from 6 to 9pm, guests will be privy to an evening of entertainment, including cocktails, appetizers, and more.  Lainie Contillo and Cathy Krieger are inviting everyone to join.  Corey Ribotsky has been involved with this important charity and its vital work for many years.

There will be other events seeking to raise money for this charity around the same time.  From December 1^st to 3^rd, various Americana Manhasset & Wheatley Plaza stores around the nation will be participating in Champions for Charity though its annual holiday shopping event.  Anyone who shops at this event using their Champion Card, will have 25 percent of their pre-tax purchases donated to Sunrise Day Camp.  This is another great way to raise vital monies for this hard-working and important charitable organization.

On September 27 from 1.00pm to 2.30pm, an online lecture will take place on leukemia and lymphoma.  Corey Ribotsky has been working with the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society (LLS) – supporting its vital work – for many years.  This conference is just one way of increasing awareness and educating the public in the hope of preventive care.

Topics covered at the lecture will be: myeloma diagnosis and stages; early signs and symptoms of myeloma; treatments available for myeloma and what is currently in the works and should be available in the future; how clinical trials can help in developing treatment for myeloma in the future and lastly, for those individuals suffering from myeloma, their quality of life and how to improve it.

The speaker is Asher A. Chanan-Khan, MD, Chair Of Hematology And Oncology at the Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida.  This is an LLS-sponsored program which has the support of grants from the Celgene Corporation, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Onyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Corey Ribotsky is involved in various charitable organizations.  One of these is the Onyx and Breezy Foundation, which was set up seven years ago, as a way of paying tribute to the memory of Mark and Wanda Shefts’ two Labrador retrievers.  The foundation seeks to “assist animals in a variety of ways,” and has been successfully doing this since its inception.

Upcoming at the foundation there are a few interesting events.  Next Sunday and Monday for example, is the Bellmore Family Street Festival, which will take place in Bellmore, NY, from 11am ‘til 6pm.  If you can’t make that, check out the Eleventh Hour Rescue Pubtoberfest on September 24^th, which will take place in Rockaway, New Jersey from 11am ‘til 5pm.  The following day the Nyack Septemberfest is scheduled from 10 am ‘til 5pm.

Keep checking back at www.onyxandbreezy.org/upcoming_events.html for more information on how you can be a part of this worthy organization.

Get ready for this month’s important awareness month for leukemia and lymphoma.  September is the annual month marking leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma awareness.  There have been significant strides in the treatment of patients with blood cancers in the last few years.  Much of this work has been supported by the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) where Corey Ribotsky volunteers.  The organization was founded in 1949.

According to survivor Nikki Henshaw, the work of the LLS is only to be commended. She stated quite clearly, “I have personally seen the progress in cure rates and treatments from when I experienced leukemia in 1994.These changes have dramatically improved the quality of life for those who are battling cancer.”

Indeed, the statistics speak for themselves.  In the last four decades, there has been an 87 percent increase in the survival rate of children who contract acute lymphocytic leukemia, from 3 percent to 90 percent.  As well, since the 1960s, there has been a doubling in the survival rate of Hodgkin lymphoma patient survival.

Still there is much work to be done and the LLS requires substantial finances and volunteers to keep up with its good work.

As summer comes to a close, it’s time to look ahead to some important fall events.  The Onyx and Breezy Foundation, where Corey Ribotsky is an Associate, is having its 7^th Annual Black Tie Gala on October 15^th.  This lovely evening will include dinner, dancing, a silent auction and entertainment.

Participants can meet Emmy and Tony Award Winner Ken Howard and actor Giles Marini, both of whom are now board members.  Those present will enjoy the music by Total Soul, a 13 piece party band that will play everything from Motown to R&B.

In addition, there will be a special performance by the comedian Robert Klein. The night is lining up to be a very special event, and one that supporters of the Onyx and Breezy Foundation won’t want to miss.

As a volunteer at Sunrise Day Camp, Corey Ribotsky is someone who would no doubt be thrilled at the quality of staff members there.  For example, the current director of hospital and community relations, Bonnie Flatow, is also a medical technologist who works at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.  She has three children and began as a volunteer – like Ribotsky – at the Sunrise Day Camp to help the organization “guide through the maze of hospitals and medical issues.”

For two years, Flatow was Sunrise Day Camp’s chairperson where she set up the advisory board, putting together new programming including Sunshine from Sunrise.  Today she is “pioneering the brand new position of Director of Hospital and Community Relations.”

In addition to these roles, she is the hospital liaison officer to 11 hospitals that are involved with Sunrise, while “reaching out to new medical and respite institutions to form new affiliations.”  She also sets up the children’s hospital visits and works directly with their parents.  Flatow is currently coordinating the Sunrise on Wheels project.

Out of everything she does, it seems that Bonnie is “best known for her warm smile, her engaging personality, and the genuine love and caring that she brings to each and every child whom she meets.”

This year, the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s (LLS) 2011 Man & Woman of the Year campaign raised more money that it ever has in the 21 year history of the program.  The campaign offers people the title of 2011 Man of the Year and 2011 Woman of the Year for the people who raise the most money in a ten week time period for the LLS.  Certainly, fundraisers of this sort and donors like Corey Ribotsky enable the LLS to continue their important cancer research work.

This year’s campaign raised $14.5 million, which is $2.7 million more than the high reached last year.  650 candidates competed to raise the most money. The winners were New York City classic rock DJ Ian O’Malley and Kelley LaFontaine of LaFontaine Automotive Group in Highland, Michigan.

At the Children’s Medical Fund of New York of which Corey Ribotsky is the president, there are many extremely talented and experienced volunteers and workers.  The Physicians’ Advisory Council at the CMF has a whole slew of expert physicians spanning a wide range of pediatric care.  Council members are working together with others at the CMF in an effort to “spread awareness and broaden its resources.”  As well, advice is given on how to allocate assets to make sure there is a response and treatment to children’s most urgent medical needs.

These members are:  Jordan S. Gitlin, MD, Richard Glick, MD, Peter Silver MD and Mark A. Mittler MD.  The latter’s role in the Steven and Alexandra Cohen Children’s Medical Center of NY is co-chief of the Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery.  As well, Mittler is Assistant Professor of Neurological Surgery at New York University College of Medicine.

The Children’s Medical Fund of New York has many different ways for people to get involved.  CMF, where Corey Ribotsky is the president, has both a Men’s and a Women’s Division. The Women’s Division works throughout the year to raise money to help children in medical need.

Women who are part of this organization participate in a few major events each year including the Ladies Night Out and the Lester’s Kids’ Fashion Show.  They also have local affiliate chapters that bring neighborhoods together.

Becoming a Women’s Division member requires a donation of $2500 which is payable over the five years of the membership.  Benefits with this membership include a special rate ticket to CMF events, an Angel Wall plaque upgrade, and more.