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Brain Cancer
Energetic and Influential Members of the Brain Trust Draw Attention and Funds To Brain Disease Research
March 25th, 2009
Singer, actor, musician and philanthropist Pauletta Washington thought she had too many other responsibilities in 1998 to join a new group supporting brain tumor research at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. "The Brain Trust" was being formed to raise funds and awareness for the work of neurosurgeon Keith Black, M.D., but Washington, wife of actor Denzel Washington, passed up several opportunities to find out what the group and the research were all about. "I know that if you're spread too thin, you get nothing done, but then I came to an event and was just blown away. I spoke with Dr. Black one on one, took a tour of the facility, and got excited and jumped in," said...
Source: Vaccine Weekly (2009-03-25)
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