Marian Greenblatt Education Fund

The Marian Greenblatt Fund is currently supporting two programs that address breast cancer.  First is a screening program at Inova Hospital in Fairfax, VA.  The program is led by Dr Rebecca Kaltman, director of the Saville Center for Screening and Prevention. At the first screening event, an Arts and Healing program held in conjunction with the Nueva Vida community organization, women enjoyed art projects, music, and a warm breakfast while receiving cancer screenings and other health and wellness screenings.  29 women were screened at the first event, which targeted underserved and underinsured women.

 

The Fund continues to supported the Patient Navigator Program at Suburban Hospital in Bethesda MD, an affiliate of Johns Hopkins Medicine. The program assigns a skilled nurse to explain to new breast cancer patients the different treatment options and the resources available to patients, and then follows the patient through the treatment process, being a source of information, comfort, and support.  About 300 patients a year are helped by this program. 

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In 2022, the Fund provided support to breast cancer research led by Karen L. Smith, M.D., M.P.H., a medical oncologist specializing in breast cancer at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center at Sibley Memorial Hospital and assistant professor of oncology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.  Dr. Smith's research primarily focuses on patient-reported outcomes and reducing toxicities of cancer therapy.  She is interested in improving the lives of all patients facing breast cancer but has a special focus on those living with metastatic disease, those diagnosed at a young age, and those at risk for recurrence of hormone-receptor positive disease.