(Press Release) The North Texas Chapter of The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) kicked off its Man & Woman of the Year (MWOY) effort on Apr twelfth at Sambuca inwards downtown Dallas. The event, which is a signature effort of The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS), is a x calendar week fundraising blitz amid 8 work organisation together with civic leaders inwards the Dallas/Fort Worth area. The candidates volition survive raising coin inwards accolade of ii North Texas Honored Heroes. Sadie Keller is the Girl of the Year together with Brian Shaw is the Boy of the Year. Both are currently inwards the maintenance stage of their handling regimen for needlelike lymphocytic leukemia (ALL). ALL is the give away 1 cancer killer of children nether xviii years old. The 2015 North Texas MWOY effort shattered national records yesteryear raising to a greater extent than than $657,000 concluding year. Erin Ragsdale, a senior vice president at Alyn Media, was named the National Woman of the Year afterwards she raised $457,000 during the x calendar week campaign.
The 2016 candidates correspond a various grouping of industries together with connections to the LLS mission:
Dr. Brian Berryman is the deal MD for the Blood together with Marrow Transplantation Services at Baylor University Medical Center together with is the Medical Director of the Blood together with Marrow Transplantation Services at Medical City Hospital Dallas. He too serves equally a fellow member of the North Texas Medical Advisory Board.
Michael Leyton is the possessor of his ain business, MLeyton Co together with works equally a freelance marketing specialist inwards the Dallas area. Michael together with his sis are both blood cancer survivors.
George Meza is a senior managing director at Accenture together with a survivor of follicular B Cell lymphoma. He is too a longtime wheel coach for LLS’s Team In Training Program together with a fellow member of the North Texas Board of Trustees.
Shannon Ridley is an Account Executive amongst Amazon Web Services together with is running inwards retentivity of his blood brother who fought together with lost his battle against multiple myeloma.
Jeanne Buck works for Takeda Pharmaceuticals which produces multiple blood cancer related drugs, including drugs specifically geared towards multiple myeloma. Jeanne is participating inwards accolade of her blood brother who is a lymphoma survivor.
Leigh Costa owns her ain sports marketing firm, Costa Sports Marketing, together with donated her os marrow dorsum inwards 2014 to assistance a patient battling leukemia.
Loan Huynh is an work organisation human relationship managing director for Imagine! Print Solutions together with is a two-time leukemia survivor. She serves on the North Texas Board of Trustees.
Amanda Whitelaw serves equally Vice President of New Business Development at United Way of Metropolitan Dallas together with is running inwards accolade of her mom’s struggle against blood cancer.
The effort volition destination amongst a dark necktie Grand Finale Gala, which volition survive held on Saturday, June 18th at the Renaissance Hotel inwards Dallas, TX. For to a greater extent than data visit visit www.mwoy.org/ntx.
Photo c/o The North Texas Chapter of The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. The 2016 MWOY candidates at kickoff. (L-R) Michael Leyton, Amanda Whitelaw, George Meza, Loan Huynh, Shannon Ridley, Leigh Costa, Dr. Brian Berryman (missing: Jeanne Buck)
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