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New York, NY –
(August 8, 2011) – Ms. Laura Heatherly, Chief Executive
Officer of the T.J. Martell Foundation for Leukemia, Cancer
and AIDS Research, is proud to announce the hiring of Ms.
Robin Vogel as Executive Director for the New York
headquarters, effective immediately.
Before joining
the staff of the T.J. Martell Foundation, Ms. Vogel worked
for the Greater New Jersey Chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis
Foundation for fourteen years, most recently as Executive
Director. She took the chapter from raising $500,000 per
year to raising over $3 million this year. She expanded the
Great Strides walkathon program to include sites all over
the Greater NJ area, and in 2011 this campaign netted over
$1.4 million. Together with her staff, she added a number
of exciting events including a Comedy Night that hosted 700
people and raised over $105,000 in 2010 as well as a Sports
Challenge that is held on the field of the new Meadowlands
Stadium with former New York Giants center Shaun O’Hara as
the event chair. She also worked extensively on a Major
Gift Campaign which was a first for New Jersey.
“My mother
was diagnosed with cervical cancer at the age of 51 and less
than six months later she passed away, so I know too well
what a horrible disease cancer is. I also remember the time
when a diagnosis of AIDS was an immediate death sentence. I
lost many friends and colleagues to AIDS with the first
being my dresser in Grease. He died in 1981, before we even
had any real idea of what this disease was. I always vowed
that somehow/someday I would help to find a cure for AIDS.
Now that I’ve joined the T.J. Martell Foundation, I am
thrilled to make that vow a reality,” says Ms. Vogel.
Ms. Vogel
attended The George Washington University in Washington, DC
and played the part of Cha-Cha DiGregorio in Grease on
Broadway. She lives in Manhattan and has volunteered with
Broadway Cares Equity Fights AIDS.
For more
information, please contact the T.J. Martell Foundation at
(212) 331-2161 or visit
www.TJMartellFoundation.org.
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ABOUT THE T.J.
MARTELL FOUNDATION
The T.J. Martell Foundation for Leukemia, Cancer and AIDS
Research was founded in 1975 by music industry executive
Tony Martell and his colleagues in loving memory of his son,
T.J., who died of leukemia. It is the music industry's
largest foundation that funds innovative medical research
focused on finding cures for cancer and AIDS. The Foundation
has provided over $250 million dollars for research.
Research hospitals funded by the foundation include T.J.
Martell Memorial Laboratories at Mt. Sinai Medical Center,
Harvard School of Public Health, MD Anderson Cancer Center,
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer
Center, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center,
Columbia-Presbyterian Cancer Center, Massachusetts General
Cancer Center, The Mayo Clinic, Winship Cancer Institute at
Emory University and Arnold Palmer Medical Center.
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