Rick
Bard and Dr. Gwendolyn C. Baker |
Miss
USA and Dr. Daniel F. Roses |
Miss
USA and Nina Boxer |
Cindy
Guyer and Nino Selimaj
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MANHATTAN MAGAZINE FOUNDATION
Rick Bard Promotes
Breast Cancer Awareness
Story and Photos by Tim Boxer
 ANIEL
ROSES and Gwendolyn Baker, honorary chairs of the Manhattan Magazine Foundation, helped
editor/publisher Rick Bard honor three medical
professionals at the Manhattan Breast Cancer Awareness Awards.
The event attracted Candace Krueger, the
reigning Miss USA, romance cover queen Cindy Guyer, and
theater critic Aubrey Reuben to Nino’s Ristorante on the
Upper East Side, where Nino Selimaj played host to an SRO
crowd of supporters.
Bard, who has been presenting the awards for
six years, mentioned that his mother, Sylvia, had breast
cancer 27 years ago. “The key,” he said, “is early
detection.”
The three awardees were
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Dr.
Beryl McCormick,
clinical director of
Memorial Sloan-Kettering
Cancer Center’s
department of radiation
oncology.
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Dr.
Violet Merle
Mcintosh, chief of breast
surgery services at
Englewood Hospital.
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Dr.
Carolyn D. Runowicz,
director of the division of
gynecologic
oncology at
Albert Einstein College of
Medicine/Montefiore Medical
Center, and a breast cancer survivor. |
Dr. Baker is also a breast
cancer survivor. In fact, Dr. Roses was her doctor.
It’s important,” Dr. McCormick stressed,
“that women see their doctors and screen their breasts. Of all the
cancers out there, breast cancer is curable.”
Dr. Roses summed up the occasion: “We are
honoring people who are trying to cure disease, not spread it.”
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