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Event
Breast Cancer Connections - 4th Annual Spring Benefit
The entire Breast Cancer Connections community is pleased to invite you to join our 4th Annual Spring Benefit. We are gratified to announce our exceptional speaker, physician and author Abraham Verghese.
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
8:00am - 10:00am
Sharon Heights Golf and Country Club Ballroom
2900 Sand Hill Road Menlo Park, CA 94025
ABOUT ABRAHAM VERGHESE, M.D.:
Dr. Verghese is Senior Associate Chair and Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine in the Department of Medicine at Stanford University. He is a strong advocate for the value of bedside skills and physical diagnosis skills he sees as waning in an era of increasingly sophisticated medical technology.
His first novel, Cutting for Stone, was published by Knopf in 2009 and received the Indies Choice book award for Adult Fiction from the American Booksellers Association. His first book, My Own Country, a memoir about AIDS in rural Tennessee, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and was made into a movie. His second book, The Tennis Partner, was a New York Times notable book and a national bestseller. He has published extensively in the medical literature, and his writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes and elsewhere.
ABOUT BCC:
Breast Cancer Connections is a nonprofit organization providing free information and support to people touched by breast cancer in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Note: Your ticket purchase registers you for this event; there are no paper tickets.
To purchase a table of ten for $3,000 please call Kelly Spaulding at (650) 326-6299, Ext. 17
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LocationSharon Heights Golf & Country Club (View)
2900 Sand Hill Road
Menlo Park, CA 94025
United States
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| Kid Friendly: No |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: No |
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