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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:

Kerry Jones Waring
716-845-1027
Kerry.jones@roswellpark.org

Roswell Park Cancer Institute Named

LIVESTRONG® Community Impact Project Finalist and Award Recipient

Organization will receive grant to help people affected by cancer

BUFFALO, NY – April 9, 2012 – Today Roswell Park Cancer Institute was announced as a LIVESTRONG® Community Impact Project finalist and award recipient. The project, created by the Lance Armstrong Foundation, the non-profit founded by the cancer survivor and champion cyclist to serve people affected by cancer and empower them to take action, will bring proven cancer support programs to 90 communities across the United States.

“We are proud to be named as a LIVESTRONG Community Impact Project award recipient,” said Judy Smith, MD, Medical Director at Roswell Park. “Once again, our dedicated community of supporters demonstrated their commitment to Roswell Park and our efforts on behalf of cancer patients. This award will enable our team to enhance the services they provide and will raise important awareness of the critical role Palliative Care plays in the lives of cancer patients and their families.”

“By investing in these bold and innovative cancer support programs, the Lance Armstrong Foundation is providing inspiration and empowerment to area residents so they can band together as a community to face cancer head-on,” said Doug Ulman, Foundation president and CEO.  “We are grateful to each and every person who voted for making their voices heard and improving access to care for those affected by cancer.”

More than 200 qualified hospitals, cancer centers, university students and community organizations in eight regions across the United States were selected to participate in an online voting campaign. Over a two-week period, more than 450,000 votes were cast and Roswell Park was among the finalists. Roswell Park’s Palliative Care team will use the $10,000 award to take part in a national training program that will support their efforts to obtain the Joint Commission’s Advanced Certification Program for Palliative Care.

Advanced Certification for Palliative Care is designed to set standards and acknowledge hospitals providing state-of-the-art palliative care services that relieve symptoms and stress of serious illness and improve quality of life for patients.  The Center to Advance Palliative Care will provide tools and training to 20 hospitals and cancer centers across the country to assist in their efforts to qualify for the Certification.

The Lance Armstrong Foundation is committed to supporting community organizations in their efforts to help cancer survivors face the challenges and changes that come with cancer. Since its inception in 1997, the organization has invested more than $70 million in community-centered organizations.

About Roswell Park Cancer Institute

The mission of Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI) is to understand, prevent and cure cancer. RPCI, founded in 1898, was one of the first cancer centers in the country to be named a National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center and remains the only facility with this designation in Upstate New York. The Institute is a member of the prestigious National Comprehensive Cancer Network, an alliance of the nation’s leading cancer centers; maintains affiliate sites; and is a partner in national and international collaborative programs. For more information, visit RPCI’s website, call 1-877-ASK-RPCI (1-877-275-7724) or email askrpci@roswellpark.org.

About the Lance Armstrong Foundation
The Lance Armstrong Foundation serves people affected by cancer and empowers them to take action against the world’s leading cause of death. With its iconic yellow LIVESTRONG wristband, the Foundation became a symbol of hope and inspiration to people throughout the world affected by cancer. Created in 1997 by cancer survivor and champion cyclist Lance Armstrong, the Foundation provides free patient navigation services to survivors with financial, emotional and practical challenges that accompany the disease.  Known for its powerful brand – LIVESTRONG – the Foundation is also a leader in the global movement on behalf of 28 million people living with cancer today. Since its inception in 1997, the Foundation has raised more than $450 million for the fight against cancer. For more information, visit LIVESTRONG.org.

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For immediate release Tuesday, November 1, 2011

MEDIA ALERT

Buffalo Renaissance Foundation and Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus Announce Dedication of Public Art

Spirit of Life Tree First in a Series of City-Wide Installations

WHAT: The dedication of the contemporary sculptural art installation, Spirit of Life Tree, on the southeast corner of High and Ellicott Street on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus. In an effort to contribute to the City of Buffalo’s growth as a cultural tourist destination, and inform our citizens and visitors of the rich traditions and potential of Buffalo, the Buffalo Renaissance Foundation Downtown Sculptural Art Initiative intends to place five thematic sculptural art installations throughout the downtown over the next five years. These sculptures will celebrate the “Spirit of Buffalo” in both traditional and contemporary art forms.

The Spirit of Life Tree is eight feet high. It is made of Corten metal, which ages and gets stronger with time.

“Our intention is to collaborate with organizations around the city to tell the story of Buffalo,” said Jake Schneider, President of the Buffalo Renaissance Foundation. “This is the first installation of permanent public art in the city since the 1980s. We are thrilled install the first piece on such a high visibility location on the growing Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus.”

“The sculpture is titled Spirit of Life. A spirit of hope lives in the people who travel here to this medical campus seeking a better quality of life and ways that this community can strengthen them,” said artist Valeria Cray-Dihaan. “This tree represents their spirit, and life, and the strength of the people to be healed whether it is emotionally or physically or both. Made of steel, the tree is unmoved by doubt or disbelief. It will endure all the seasons.”

Speakers at the dedication include:

Jake Schneider, President, Buffalo Renaissance Foundation

Valeria Cray-Dihaan, Artist

Thomas R. Beecher, Jr., Chair Emeritus, Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus

WHEN:                 Friday, November 4, 2011 at 10:00 a.m.

WHERE:              Southeast corner of High & Ellicott Streets

On the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus

(Parking available in the parking garage at the corner of Ellicott and Goodrich. Enter on Ellicott, Goodrich, or North Streets.)

For more information, contact Kari Bonaro, BNMC at kbonaro@bnmc-old.local, 716.218.7157 or 202.904.7034

About the Buffalo Renaissance Foundation

Since 1981, the Buffalo Renaissance Foundation has had only one direction in mind for Western New York. Comprised of a group of local business leaders who value Buffalo as the ideal place to live, work and raise a family, our mission is to help the community move forward for generations to come.

About the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus

The Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus is a consortium of the region’s premier health care, life sciences research, and medical education institutions, all located on 120 acres in downtown Buffalo, New York. The BNMC is dedicated to the cultivation of a world-class medical campus for clinical care, research, education, and entrepreneurship. BNMC member institutions are the University at Buffalo, Kaleida Health, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute, Buffalo Medical Group, Buffalo Hearing & Speech Center, Olmsted Center for Sight, Upstate New York Transplant Services, and the Center for Hospice and Palliative Care.

The BNMC has:

• 4.5 million square feet of existing research, clinical, and support space today
• More than two million square feet currently or soon to be under construction, equaling an investment of $500 million in public and private funding.
• 8,500 people working on the Medical Campus today, a number that will rise to nearly 12,000 in the next few years.
• More than one million patients and visitors annually.
• Nine major institutions and more than 40 public and private life sciences companies are located on the BNMC.

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For immediate release Thursday, April 21, 2011

MEDIA ALERT

Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus Announces LEED Certification of Innovation Center

Former Trico Products Corp. Building is First LEED Core & Shell Project in NYS Outside of New York City

WHAT: The announcement of LEED certification of the Thomas R. Beecher, Jr. Innovation Center on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus. This successful example of adaptive reuse – it is part of the former Trico Products Corp. complex – is the first LEED Core and Shell project in New York State outside of New York City. Twenty-four companies currently reside in this multi-tenant building on Ellicott just north of Goodell Street on the BNMC.

Join members of the BNMC project team and other special guests for brief remarks regarding this renovation, including the LEED score; the unveiling of the LEED plaque; tours of the building; and a celebration.  Refreshments will be served.

Speakers include:

Patrick J. Whalen, Chief Operating Officer, Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus, Inc.

John Daly, Principal, Trautman Associates

Kenneth Shoetz, Vice President of Regional Offices, NYS Empire State

Development Corporation

Dennis Elsenbeck, Regional Executive of Energy Solutions, National Grid

Timothy Vaeth, Vice President of Development, Ciminelli Real Estate Corp.

Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design (LEED) is an internationally recognized green building certification system developed by the U.S. Green Building Council – a not-for-profit organization committed to a prosperous and sustainable future for our nation through cost-efficient and energy-saving green buildings.

WHEN:                 Thursday, April 21^st at 10:00 a.m.

WHERE:               Thomas R. Beecher, Jr. Innovation Center, 4^th floor

                                    640 Ellicott Street

Buffalo, NY

On the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus (Parking available in the lot directly across the street, just north of Goodell)

For more information, contact Kari Bonaro, BNMC at kbonaro@bnmc-old.local, 716.218.7157 or 202.904.7034

About the Innovation Center at 640 Ellicott Street

The Thomas R. Beecher, Jr.  Innovation Center at 640 Ellicott Street is a state-of-the-art, LEED-certified building with a collaborative environment designed to foster innovation and creativity among companies seeking to be a part of the thriving Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus.  Currently 24 public and private companies reside in the Innovation Center. The facility is an example of adaptive reuse—once part of the Trico Products Corp. complex—and boasts a newly renovated lobby, core and shell, conference rooms and rest rooms.  Solar panels were installed through a grant from NYSERDA to reduce the building’s energy consumption.

The Innovation Center has received funding through New York State’s Upstate Regional Blueprint Fund Grant, RestoreNY, National Grid, the John R. Oishei Foundation, NYSERDA, and the U.S. Small Business Administration through a grant secured by Congressman Brian Higgins.

About the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus

The Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus is a consortium of the region’s premier health care, life sciences research, and medical education institutions, all located on 120 acres in downtown Buffalo, New York. The BNMC is dedicated to the cultivation of a world-class medical campus for clinical care, research, education, and entrepreneurship. BNMC member institutions are the University at Buffalo, Kaleida Health, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute, Buffalo Medical Group, Buffalo Hearing & Speech Center, Olmsted Center for Sight, Upstate New York Transplant Services, and the Center for Hospice and Palliative Care.

The BNMC has:

• 4.5 million square feet of existing research, clinical, and support space today
• More than two million square feet currently or soon to be under construction, equaling an investment of $500 million in public and private funding.
• 8,500 people working on the Medical Campus today, a number that will rise to nearly 12,000 in the next few years.
• More than one million patients and visitors annually.
• Nine major institutions and more than 30 public and private life sciences companies are located on the BNMC.

EMBARGOED UNTIL:                                                                      CONTACT:
Wednesday, March 23, 2011 at 5:45 p.m.                                      Kari Bonaro, 716.218.7157 or 202.904.7034 (m)

 

Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus Updates Community on Progress

Collaboration of Region’s Leading Institutions Celebrates Past, Present, and Future Growth and Development

BUFFALO, NY – Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus officials today highlighted the growth and development of the 120-acre Medical Campus over the past 10 years, outlined the findings of its recent Master Plan Update and the Four Neighborhoods, One Community initiative, and identified priorities for the future. This update was presented to an audience of business leaders, health care professionals, researchers, entrepreneurs, government and community leaders, as well as the media, during a public meeting on the BNMC at Roswell Park Cancer Institute’s Hohn Auditorium.

“Today we are highlighting the impact that the continued collaboration of the region’s leading life sciences research, clinical care, and medical education institutions has on our community,” said William L. Joyce, Chair, Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus Board of Directors. “The Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus as a whole has become the economic driver the leadership envisioned ten years ago.”

“The BNMC has far exceeded expectations, fulfilling the 20 year Master Plan developed in 2002 in just eight years,” said David Gamble, Principal of Gamble Associates of Boston, Mass., the BNMC’s master planning consultant. “The growth is truly remarkable, and they have done so in a way that few other medical centers have, as a catalyst for neighborhood revitalization.”

Joining Joyce and Gamble to address the crowd were Congressman Brian Higgins; Mayor Byron Brown, City of Buffalo; James Wadsworth, Chair, The John R. Oishei Foundation Board of Directors;  and Matthew Enstice, President & Chief Executive Officer, Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus, Inc.

Mayor Brown highlighted Four Neighborhoods, One Community, a planning initiative funded by the John R. Oishei Foundation, in which City staff worked alongside BNMC staff to reach out and engage stakeholders in the four neighborhoods of Allentown, Fruit Belt, Downtown, and BNMC.  This collaborative neighborhood planning initiative was conducted by Sasaki Associates and Madden Planning Group.

“Four Neighborhoods, One Community began with the recognition that the city and the Medical Campus are committed to working together to harness their respective strengths.  This is a project focused on prioritization of existing plans, new ideas, and most of all implementation,” said Mayor Brown. “Together, ‘one community’ seeks to evolve into a center of employment, research, health care services, education, a variety of housing opportunities, and the retail and entertainment amenities that come from a vital urban setting.”

Congressman Higgins announced the naming dedication of the BNMC’s Innovation Center, the recently renovated four-story former Trico Products Corp. building on Ellicott Street, to longtime BNMC leader and volunteer Thomas R. Beecher, Jr.

“The Thomas R. Beecher, Jr., Innovation Center is a symbol of entrepreneurship and collaboration on the BNMC,” said Rep. Higgins. “The dedication of this building is the perfect way to honor the man who has dedicated so much time and energy to the success of the thriving Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus.”

BNMC Chief Executive Officer Matthew K. Enstice “flew” the audience through a virtual model of the Medical Campus developed by the University at Buffalo’s Center for Computational Research. This model shows the dramatic development that has taken place on the 120-acre campus over the past 10 years, highlighting the success of the BNMC member institutions.

The virtual model of the Medical Campus and copies of Four Neighborhoods, One Community, including the BNMC Master Plan Update, the Allentown Neighborhood Strategy, and the Fruit Belt Neighborhood Strategy are available at bnmc-old.local.

About the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus

The Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus is a consortium of the region’s premier health care, life sciences research, and medical education institutions, all located on 120 acres in downtown Buffalo, New York. The BNMC is dedicated to the cultivation of a world-class medical campus for clinical care, research, education, and entrepreneurship. BNMC member institutions are the University at Buffalo, Kaleida Health, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute, Buffalo Medical Group, Buffalo Hearing & Speech Center, Olmsted Center for Sight and the Ross Eye Institute, Upstate New York Transplant Services, and the Center for Hospice and Palliative Care.

The BNMC has:

• 4.5 million square feet of existing research, clinical, and support space today
• More than two million square feet currently or soon to be under construction, equaling an investment of $500 million in public and private funding.
• 8,500 people working on the Medical Campus today, a number that will rise to nearly 12,000 in the next few years.
• More than one million patients and visitors annually.
• Nine major institutions and more than 40 public and private life sciences companies are located on the BNMC.

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