Charles Stiefel appointed to M.D. Anderson Cancer Center Board of Visitors

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Charles Stiefel appointed to M.D. Anderson Cancer
Center Board of Visitors
(1888PressRelease) Philanthropist and
pharmaceutical executive Charles Stiefel joins
business and community leaders nationwide in
support of famous Houston cancer
center. Houston, TX - The MD Anderson Cancer
Center Board of Visitors (BOV), an appointive
board of volunteers dedicated to advancing M.D.
Anderson's initiatives, welcomes philanthropist
Charles Stiefel of Raleigh, North Carolina as a
new member. Stiefel, along with his wife Daneen,
previously made a one million dollar gift to M.D.
Anderson to endow a professor's Chair in the Head
Neck Center. The Stiefel endowment was made in
honor of the 3 physicians who successfully
treated Stiefel for 2 types of cancer in
2007. "I am deeply honored to join this
prestigious Board of Visitors and to help M.D.
Anderson succeed in its mission of Making Cancer
History," said Stiefel. "Cancer claimed the
lives of my mother, father, younger brother and
uncle - - as well as several of my friends - -
and there is probably no one in America who has
not lost a friend or loved one to this terrible
disease. That is why my primary philanthropic
focus is to fund cancer research and endeavor to
help physicians improve patient outcomes." Since
the board's inception in 1957, BOV members have
played a significant role in MD Anderson's
mission to eradicate cancer by helping raise
funds, awareness and support for the
institution.
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"We're grateful to these business and community
leaders from across the nation for not only their
efforts to secure philanthropic contributions to
the institution, but also for their personal
gifts of time, resources and talents," said
Ronald DePinho, M.D., president of MD Anderson.
"Their generosity is crucial in advancing the
institution's cancer research and patient care
initiatives. Certainly the BOV's support will
have a significant role in achieving our goals to
drastically reduce cancer mortality through the
recently announced Moon Shots Program." http//ww
w.charlesstiefelphilanthropy.org