News Release
October 30, 2007
Contact: Christopher DeFrancesco, 860-679-3914
e-mail:
cdefrancesco@uchc.edu
Media Alert
Dedication of Center for Hematologic Disorders
Health Center Partners with Lea’s Foundation
for Leukemia Research
FARMINGTON, CONN. – The University of Connecticut Health Center
is dedicating the Lea’s Foundation Center for Hematologic Disorders
Thursday, Nov. 1, at 5:30 p.m. at the Patterson Auditorium.
Lea’s Foundation for
Leukemia Research, a Hartford nonprofit that provides financial
support to blood cancer research efforts, last year pledged $1.25
million to establish the center.
The Lea's Foundation Center for Hematologic Disorders will be a
clinical, translational and basic research center of excellence for
patients with benign and malignant blood disorders including
leukemia, lymphoma, multiple myeloma, hemophilia, bleeding
disorders, and sickle cell diseases. Its creation will enable the
Health Center to recruit and hire a cadre of prominent experts and
physician-investigators to lead and build a pre-eminent program of
research and clinical care for hematologic disorders in Connecticut,
and provide state-of-the-science compassionate care for the
residents of Connecticut and southern New England.
The first of these experts already has arrived.
Biree Andemariam, M.D., who specializes in hematologic blood
disorders and hematologic oncology, joined the UConn Health Center
this summer.
To get to the Patterson Auditorium: Entering the campus
from Route 4, at the first stop sign, continue straight. Turn right
at the fork and continue up the hill. Turn left at the stop sign at
the academic entrance. Look for event signs for parking.
Directions to the UConn Health Center.
The University of Connecticut Health Center includes the schools of
medicine and dental medicine, the UConn Medical Group, University
Dentists, and John Dempsey Hospital, a Solucient Top 100 Hospital®
2006. Founded in 1961, the Health Center pursues a mission of
providing outstanding health care education in an environment of
exemplary patient care, research and public service. To learn more about
the UConn Health Center, visit our website at
www.uchc.edu.
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