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Black Tie International:
Just for Men!
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Just for Men!
New York’s Noted
Philanthropist Iris
Cantor Donates
$20 Million to
Establish
Comprehensive,
One-Stop-Shopping
Center for Men’s
Health
First of Its Kind in
the Region
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Dr Mehmet Oz, Dr.
Lisa Oz, John Mack,
Iris Cantor, Dr.
Herbert Pardes, Dr.
Antonio Gotto, Jr.,
Dr Steven Corwin.
Photo
by: Will Ragozzino |
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NEW YORK (May 11, 2010) — Men
concerned about their health will soon have
a new health facility designed especially
for them, thanks to the generosity of New
York’s pre-eminent philanthropist Iris
Cantor, who donated $20 million toward its
establishment. The first of its kind in the
region, the Iris Cantor Men’s Health Center
at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill
Cornell Medical Center will provide one-stop
comprehensive medical services for men. The
Center is scheduled to open in 2012.
The Iris Cantor Men’s Health Center will be
located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan
in the same building as the Iris Cantor
Women’s Health Center, which was established
in 2002 through a $5 million gift made by
Mrs. Cantor. It will allow NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill
Cornell to expand its current medical
services and at the same time fulfill an
important gap within the community.
“Forty percent of patients currently treated
at the Iris Cantor Women’s Health Center are
men, most of whom were likely brought in by
the women in their lives. This signaled to
me that there is a real need for a dedicated
men’s health center,” says Iris Cantor. “It
is time for men to have a place of their own
for comprehensive health care.”
“We salute Iris Cantor, and we look forward
to the opening of this groundbreaking center
dedicated solely to the health concerns of
men,” says John J. Mack, chairman of the
Board of Trustees at NewYork-Presbyterian
Hospital. “Following the same model as our
women’s health center, there is no doubt in
my mind that the Iris Cantor Men’s Health
Center will likewise become a valuable
health resource, and will provide
comprehensive care for men in the New York
area and beyond.”
“We are grateful to Iris Cantor for her
continued generosity and her extraordinary
vision,” says Dr. Herbert Pardes, president
and CEO of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital.
“For almost 10 years, the Iris Cantor
Women’s Health Center has offered women a
wide array of health care services all under
one roof. The creation of the equivalent for
men will allow us to continue to provide the
highest quality of care to our patients,
while enabling men to focus on their health
in a way that they never could do before.”
The Iris Cantor Men’s Health Center will
occupy 9,500 square feet on the
12th floor of a state-of-the-art
medical facility at 425 E. 61st
St., which also includes clinical programs
in the areas of mental health, radiology,
dermatology and sleep medicine.
For more information, patients may call
(866) NYP-NEWS.
Iris Cantor
In 1978, Mrs. Cantor and her late husband,
B. Gerald Cantor, established the Iris and
B. Gerald Cantor Foundation to fund medical,
educational and cultural institutions and
programs in the U.S. and abroad. Now under
Iris Cantor’s leadership, the Foundation has
since helped establish comprehensive women’s
health centers on both coasts, including the
Iris Cantor Women’s Health Center at NewYork-Presbyterian
Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center.
Opened in 2002, the Center is now one of the
most comprehensive medical facilities for
women in the world. The Center has served
close to 90,000 women and men and has
demonstrated Mrs. Cantor’s inspiration for
the Center, that “convenience is an
incentive to health.”
Her commitment to health care in New York is
long-standing, as she also serves on the
board of governors for the NewYork-Presbyterian
Hospital, and as vice chairman of the
Executive Committee of NewYork-Presbyterian’s
Lying-In Hospital.
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell
Medical Center
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell
Medical Center, located in New York City, is
one of the leading academic medical centers
in the world, comprising the teaching
hospital NewYork-Presbyterian and Weill
Cornell Medical College, the medical school
of Cornell University. NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill
Cornell provides state-of-the-art inpatient,
ambulatory and preventive care in all areas
of medicine, and is committed to excellence
in patient care, education, research and
community service. Weill Cornell
physician-scientists have been responsible
for many medical advances — including the
development of the Pap test for cervical
cancer; the synthesis of penicillin; the
first successful embryo-biopsy pregnancy and
birth in the U.S.; the first clinical trial
for gene therapy for Parkinson’s disease;
the first indication of bone marrow’s
critical role in tumor growth; and, most
recently, the world’s first successful use
of deep brain stimulation to treat a
minimally conscious brain-injured patient.
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital also comprises
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia
University Medical Center, NewYork-Presbyterian/Morgan
Stanley Children’s Hospital, NewYork-Presbyterian
Hospital/Westchester Division and NewYork-Presbyterian/The
Allen Hospital. NewYork-Presbyterian is the
#1 hospital in the New York metropolitan
area and is consistently ranked among the
best academic medical institutions in the
nation, according to U.S.News & World
Report. Weill Cornell Medical College is the
first U.S. medical college to offer a
medical degree overseas and maintains a
strong global presence in Austria, Brazil,
Haiti, Tanzania, Turkey and Qatar. For more
information, visit
www.nyp.org
and
www.med.cornell.edu . |
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