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Black Tie International:
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Endometriosis Foundation of America
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The Endometriosis Foundation of America
Holiday Celebration
December 21, 2010
Photos by: GMK/Blacktiemagazine.com
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Andres Aquino, Padma Lakshmi |
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Nadia Malik, Padma Lakshmi |
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Deborah Castillero, Daniel Anderson |
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Gerard
Mc Keon, Harolyn Blackwell, Andres Aquino |
The Endometriosis Foundation of America
is a nonprofit
organization focused on fighting against the
devastating effects of a disease that affects
millions of women and adolescent girls. Through
increased awareness, education, research and
legislative advocacy, the EFA is committed to
improving affected individuals' lives by early
detection and treatment.
One of the research goals of the foundation is
to create a tissue bank to address the many
unanswered questions about why endometriosis
occurs. Similarly, Lenox Hill Hospital
Department of Pathology is planning for a tissue
procurement facility to be launched over the
next two years in coordination with the
Feinstein Institute of Medical Research in the
North Shore/LIJ Health System to procure and
process human tissue and other biospecimens for
research
purposes.
Last night's holiday event at the Morgan Library
was a celebration to support this important
research initiative. The foundation announced it
will provide the initial seed money to create a
tissue bank repository to better understand the
causes and effects of endometriosis, a disease
that affects over 176 million women world-wide.
The
co-founders hosting the event, Tamer Seckin,
MD and international celebrity host, Padma
Lakshmi, also included angelic like
performances from Harolyn Blackwell, renown
opera singer, and the Brooklyn Youth Chorus.
More than 150 important guests gathered
from the medical community and those
interested in learning more about the
disease to celebrate this very important
announcement. For more information about
endometriosis and the foundation, visit
www.endofound.org.
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