Chairman: Martin D. Sass
President & Director of Research: Francis P. Arena, M.D., FACP
Director of Scientific Development: Sudhir Gupta, M.D., Ph.D., MACP
Co-Founder: Barbara Sass
J. Michael Bishop, MD: Chancellor, University of California
San Francisco, CA
Judah Folkman, MD: Children's Hospital
Boston, MA
Robert C. Gallo, MD: Institute of Human Virology
Baltimore, MD
George Klein, MD: Microbiology & TurnerBiology Center
Karolinka Institute
Stockholm, Sweden
John Reed MD PhD: The Burnham Institute
La Jolla, CA
Myron Arlen, MD North Shore University Hospital, Manhasset, NY
Daniel Catovsky, MD Royal Marsden Hospital, London, England
Nicholas Chiorazzi, MD North Shore - Long Island Jewish Research Institute, Manhasset, NY
Dwight Carlton De Risi, MD North Shore University Hospital, Manhasset, NY
Brian G. M. Durie, MD Cedars-Sinai Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, CA
Mitchell L. Gaynor, MD Cornell University - Weill Medical College, New York, NY
Francis J. Giles, MD M.D. Anderson Cancer Center,
Houston, TX
Richard J. Gralla, MD Columbia University/New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY
Sanford J. Kempin, MD St. Vincent Hospital, New York, NY
Jean-Marc Nabholtz, MD University of California, Los Angeles, CA
Lawrence D. Piro, MD John Wayne Cancer Institute, Santa Monica, CA
Aaron Polliack, MD Hadassah Universily Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel
Kanti Rai, MD North Shore University/Long Island Jewish Hospital, Lake Success, NY
Richard T. Silver, MD New York Hospital/Cornell Medical Center, New York, NY
Maria Theodoulou, MD Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
V. Craig Jordan, PhD RH Lurie Cancer Center-
Northwestern University
Chicago, IL
Lawrence H. Schwartz, MD Memorial Sloan-Kettering
Cancer Center, New York, NY
Mark Weiss, MD Memorial Sloan Kettering
Cancer Center, New York, NY
Morton Coleman, MD New York Hospital/Weil - Cornell Med. Ctr., New York, NY
WE WELCOME DR. COLEMAN ON OUR MEDICAL ADVISORY BOARD!
Joseph Amella, President Accretive Solutions, Inc.
Walter Cameron, President Walter F. Cameron Advertising, Inc.
Thomas E. Constance, Esq., Senior Partner Kramer, Levin, Naftalis & Frankel, LLP
Mollie Grossman, Sales & Career Development Leader Prudential Douglas Elliman
Hope G. Smith
Ari Sass, Vice President MD Sass Investors Services, Inc.
Lara Sass Sivin
Phil Sivin, Senior Vice President M.D. Sass Investors Services
Lois M. Lerner: Executive Director
Barbara Feltkamp: Executive Assistant
President: Joan Ambrosino
In 1986, Martin & Barbara Sass and Dr. Francis P. Arena set out on a mission to create a foundation that would help in the fight against cancer and blood related diseases. Its goals encompassed the education, research and patient care of neoplastic diseases. The foundation became known as the Hematologic Research Foundation (HRF). This name was chosen because it was felt that through research in diseases, primarily hematologic, we would find inroads into other diseases. Over the years, the scope of the HRF grew into many different areas. The HRF began sponsoring lectureships that provided a basis for the further education of attending physicians and scientists at major universities and continued the education of young physicians/scientists.
Martin and Barbara Sass have been the philanthropic backbone of the foundation. They allowed the scope to be as broad as the imagination and as deep as the needs of the community and of the physicians that have served on its panels. The Sass' outstanding contribution enabled the HRF to take up the slack when government funding for research and other programs were dramatically curtailed and as a result of their ongoing generosity the foundation's name was changed to The Sass Foundation for Medical Research, Inc.
