Victor Center Miami Hosts Official Launch Gathering
Tuesday,March 17th at the Polo Club in Delray Beach, Florida
The Victor Center for Jewish Genetic Diseases, founded at Albert Einstein Healthcare Network in Philadelphia, has expanded and recently opened a Center at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. The launch celebration for the third Victor Center in the country was a lively and informative event which was attended by representatives from the University of Miami, area synagogues, community leaders and healthcare professionals.
The launch took place at the Polo Club of Boca Raton. The four guest speakers were highly informative and passionate in their deliveries which allowed for a very interesting and poignant question and answer period. In attendance were representatives of the Albert Einstein Healthcare Network, the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, community leaders, Rabbis from local synagogues, and health care professionals. This new Center, along with the two previously existing centers at Albert Einstein Health Network and Tufts Medical Center in Boston, share a common mission. They provide educational programs and outreach, affordable and accessible genetic counseling and carrier screening of eleven Jewish genetic disease that has a carrier frequency of 1 in 5 in the Ashkenazi Jewish population. For information about The Victor Centers at Albert Einstein Healthcare Network in Philadelphia; Tufts Medical Center in Boston or the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, visit www.victorcenters.org
Donna E. Shalala, President of the University of Miami; Lois Victor, Founder of the Victor Center for Jewish Genetic Testing; Barry Freedman, President and CEO of the Albert Einstein Healthcare Network in Philadelphia.
Richard and Naomi Prever, Evelyn Africk, Lois Victor
Arnold Kaminkow, Donna Rubin, Margot Kravitz, Robert Newman
