ICAN Northern California Golf Invitational

presents
ICAN Northern California
Golf Invitational
October 13, 2014
Napa Valley Country Club
Thank You
for Your Generous
Sponsorship
in Support of
Welcome from Patricia Sklar, Tournament Chairman
I welcome each of you to ICAN’s first-ever
Northern California Golf Invitational at the
beautiful Napa Valley Country Club. It has been
a delight to chair this event with a first-rate
tournament committee, and I am ever-grateful
for the leadership-beyond-compare of each of my
fun and fabulous co-chairs, John Youngberg, Fred
Miller, and Liz Reeve ... along with the awesome
support of Mary Lou Hamilton, Phil Schlein, and
Jeff Veness. We are delighted to have as our Master
of Ceremonies Ira Smith, who is the Voice of Napa
Valley Sports for KVON and KVYN.
I am very proud to be associated with the unique and highly acclaimed
work of ICAN, the International Cancer Advocacy Network.
Founded in 1996, the International Cancer Advocacy Network’s mission is
to fight for the lives of Stage IV cancer patients, leaving no stone unturned
in their battle for life. ICAN provides patients with direct, case-specific
navigation as well as customized advocacy and research services on
treatment options, molecular profiling, and clinical trials. Profiled in
Newsweek and Pharmaceutical Executive, ICAN operates with the highest
standards of board governance.
Revenues from this Northern California Invitational will support the Dan
Mears Clinical Trials Program at ICAN as well as the Donald Cameron
Novel Therapeutics Program at ICAN, plus breast cancer, ovarian cancer,
and prostate cancer programs. We are proud that for each of the past
six years, 94% of every dollar raised by ICAN has supported our Patient
Program Services.
Three cheers to each of you for being part of ICAN’s California family,
and may our efforts all work toward turning cancer from a life-threatening
disease into a benign, chronic illness that takes not a single additional life.
With grateful thanks, and hoping you will include ICAN going forward in
your annual giving,
Patricia Sklar
Tournament Chairman
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Profuse Thanks to
Our Major Sponsors
Phil Schlein and T Beller
Mary Lou and Jack Hamilton,
Hamilton Family Foundation
Enid Lasch
Lunch Sponsor
Shirt Sponsor
In memory of
my husband, Art Lasch,
and my good friend,
Milt Schlemmer.
May they rest in peace.
Love, Enid
With Gratitude to
Our Hole Sponsors
Hamilton Family
Foundation
Liz Reeve
Patricia Sklar
Enid Lasch
We regret the inability to list sponsors who contributed after our printing deadline.
In honor of
two courageous
cancer warriors...
my husband Jack,
and my sister
Sarah Jane Wise...
With love and respect,
Mary Lou Hamilton
Thank You to Our Generous
Auction Donors
Bodega Harbour Golf Links
Norah Burrows Photography
Cakebread Winery
Etude Winery
Linda and Jack Hamilton
Mary Lou and Jack Hamilton
Inn at Southbridge
Meadowood
Napa Valley Country Club
Opus One Winery
PGA West
Reverie Winery
Alan Spiegelman
Liz and John Youngberg
Golfer Goody Bag Donors
Kaiser Permanente
Cadillac
Liberty Mutual Insurance
ICAN Physicians Council
Napa Valley Country Club
PGA Superstore
Tournament Shirts by Antigua, generously underwritten by
Trinchero Family Estates, and coordinated by
Ryan Pray of Gateway Golf Group
With Gratitude to Our Dinner
Wine and Table Favor Donors
Emilio’s Terrace (2008), Schlein Family Vineyard
and
Mary Lou and Jack Hamilton, Hamilton Vineyard
Diane and John Livingston, Livingston Moffett Winery
Craig Camp, Cornerstone Cellars
Jennifer and Herb Lamb, Herb Lamb Vineyards
Clark Robert Smith and Brian Smith, WineSmith
In view of cancer's one-of-a-kind nature, we proceed
patient-by-patient, cancer-by-cancer, subtype-by-subtype,
gene-by-gene, and protein-by-protein, which allows
ICAN's Personalized Medicine Cancer Case Navigation
Programs to zero in on targeted therapeutics and
promising treatment options within both approved drugs
and clinical trials pipelines.
At ICAN, we advocate using the paradigm of optimized
treatment protocol based on the patient's genetics and
specific molecular changes that have occurred in the
patient's cancer at the subcellular level. By "translating"
such cutting-edge diagnostics into concrete strategic
treatment options at each critical juncture, ICAN helps
patients ask the right questions of their medical teams,
and is often asked to explain answers given to them by
their physicians so that ultimate treatment decisions best
suit who they are and where they are, both medically
and geographically. At the patient's request, ICAN makes
referrals to world-class specialists and medical centers.
In an effort to empower the patient in his/her cancer
management, we often encourage the patient to request
that his/her medical team order critically important
diagnostic and prognostic testing. Exciting advances in
biomedical research are providing a new paradigm in
treatment, enabling patients to obtain a scientific basis for
how their tumor evolved, and how they might respond to
available therapeutic avenues--whether those treatment
regimens are FDA-approved, standard of care mainstays, or
whether those therapies are in the clinical trials arena.
If you would like to join our Leadership Council
or Friends of ICAN, California, please email
[email protected], as we would
love to have your talents and volunteer efforts
working with us for ICAN!
Despite the plethora of oncology practices, medical
centers, laboratories, academia, clinical trials, biotechs
and pharmaceutical companies that ICAN deals with, we
remain beholden to no one except the patient.
With a small staff and more than 1100 volunteers in 30
areas of ICAN, covering 17 different time zones, we literally
work around the clock in terms of our team’s passionate
dedication to our patients. Every second, someone at ICAN
is researching, advocating, empowering, or explaining ...
all in an effort to extend lives with the highest possible
quality of life.
According to patients, ICAN is the only advocacy
organization that provides this kind of “in-the-trenches”
help to adult and pediatric cancer patients and their
families across the U.S. and around the world, 24/7/365.
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Michael is a four-year survivor of
Non Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, still in
complete remission, who has donated
his golf photography talents for the
Invitational’s foursomes.
Michael’s golf photographs will be uploaded to his website:
www.calimikephotography.com.
Golfers can go to the web site and download them for free. If golfers
want to purchase a hard copy of the photograph, he will make them
available at his cost (shipping and processing).
To reach Michael Parsons :
707-294-8305 or [email protected]
Bouquets to Amy!
To Amy Magaziner Robertson , Marketing Manager, Arizona
Oncology, for her resourcefulness, generosity and tenacity, and to
for underwriting ICAN's
our friends at
hole signage printing needs.
We Salute the Professionalism of Napa Valley Country
Club
Todd Meginness
General Manager
Mitch Johnson
Director of Golf
Don Guinn
Clubhouse Manager
ICAN’s Tournament Committee has enjoyed monthly meetings at
NVCC to plan this event.
Your generous support will benefit
ICAN’s Dan Mears Pancreatic Cancer Clinical Trials Program,
in honor of and in memory of nuclear engineer and entrepreneur,
Dan Mears of San Diego.
ICAN’s program salutes Dan’s heroic and proactive battle against
metastatic pancreatic cancer as well as the tireless advocacy and
support of his beloved wife, Susan Fielder Mears, and Dan’s daughter
Susan Mears Mitchell, husband Mick, and family.
Dan’s program focuses on pancreatic
cancer research under the direction
of the chairman of ICAN’s renowned
Scientific Advisory Council, G. Robert
Pettit, PhD, the discoverer of Auristatin
E (now licensed as MMAE), which is
one of the most exciting compounds
ever to achieve FDA approval.
Auristatin E is being energetically explored in solid tumor cancer
clinical trials by leading pharmaceutical companies across the globe.
The Mears Program also serves as a gateway to ICAN’s Remission
Coach project, which is disruptive technology (meaning one that
“shakes up” the industry) in the form of a comprehensive search system
connecting patients to clinical research.
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Serving as a clearinghouse for world-class pancreatic cancer patient
advocacy, the Mears Program is working to foster a patient-centric
drug pipeline for academic, industry, and government researchers
in pancreatic cancer. Emphasizing cutting-edge molecular profiling
and tumor sequencing, ICAN positions pancreatic cancer patients to
achieve the most systematic and informed review possible of what is
driving their pancreatic tumor to proliferate and which targets could be
most promising in terms of novel therapies.
TOGETHER:
A BETTER WAY TO
FIGHT CANCER
THROUGH CLINICAL
RESEARCH.
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through clinical trials.
As a member of US Oncology Research, we provide patients access to one of
the nation’s largest cancer treatment and research networks in the country.
Through US Oncology Research, Arizona Oncology physicians have contributed
to the FDA-approval of 50 cancer therapies. We’re proud to bring more than
60 promising clinical trials to our community each year in order to find more
effective ways to treat cancer and expand treatment options for our patients.
At Arizona Oncology, we believe together is a better way to fight.
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Your Support Tonight Will Benefit
The Donald Henry Cameron Novel Therapeutics Program
A self-made man, Donald Henry
Cameron lived his life with style and
grace. Above all, Don deeply loved
his wife, children, and grandchildren.
Don’s wife Diana, who was at his side
throughout as a creative and tenacious
spouse advocate, ultimately received
ICAN’s Ultimate Spouse Advocate
Award in 2012. Don fought the good
fight against lung cancer with the love
of family first and foremost in his heart.
Don faced his fight as he faced all adversity—as a silent warrior,
with one foot in front of another. He never complained
throughout four different chemo regimens, radiation therapy,
and whole brain radiation once his non small cell lung cancer
had metastasized to the brain. He amazed his ace team at Kaiser
Permanente with the longevity of his battle, the courage of his
cancer journey, his proactive questions throughout his treatment,
and the quality of life he maintained. He lived and died on his own
terms--with his love and pride in family on his lips and from a
heart attack, not from the cancer. He is much missed by his very
close and loving family and his countless cherished friends.
“ICAN...You are the voice of calm, reason, and stability
coupled with tremendous intellect and knowledge when the
rest of the world seems to be spinning out of control.”
—Diana Cameron
Diana established The Donald Henry Cameron Novel Therapeutics
Program at ICAN in 2011, in beloved memory of her husband Don.
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Thank you, Bill Perry and W.K. Perry Farms
for your generous support of ICAN!
Honorary Chairmen
Northern California Golf Invitational 2014
The Honorable Bill Dodd
Napa County Supervisor
The Honorable Jill Techel
Mayor of Napa
The Honorable John Dunbar
Mayor of Yountville
The Honorable Mike Thompson
Member of Congress
Fifth Congressional District
ICAN Northern California Golf Invitational
Tournament Committee 2014
Patricia Sklar, Chairman
Larry Sharp
John Youngberg, Co-Chairman
Ben Hill
Fred Miller, Co-Chairman
Jay Lewis
Liz Reeve, Co-Chair
Doris Gentry
Jeff Veness
Mike Parsons
Mary Lou Hamilton
Kelli Lind
Phil Schlein
Steve Conway
ICAN Leadership
Sherry Weinstein
Chairman, Board of Trustees
Tim Wang
Director of Graphic Design
Robert H. Tamis, MD
Chairman, Health Technology
Initiatives
Lynne Cory
Director of Web Development
Carey Gregory
Chairman, Board Governance
Marcia K. Horn, J.D.
President and CEO
Brenda Berliner
Director of Special Projects
Lila Hauptman
Chairman, Donor Gift Receipting
Tournament Volunteers
Liz Reeve
Chairman,
Tournament
Volunteers
Shari Bluband
Doris Gentry
Sandie Brodsky
Jack Hamilton
Diana Andree
Diana Cameron
Shari Baker
Bob Fisher
Kathy Burrows
Carole Wang
Schutter
Dr. Stephen Horn Patsy Wynne
Janyce Ziarnick
Tyra Jarvis
DeLinda
McMullen
Heartfelt Thanks to
for Donating ICAN's
Hole Signage Printing
Patricia Sklar,
you are a gem and a
wonderful leader!
Thank you for chairing our
first tournament in
Napa Valley!
With admiration, affection,
and profound gratitude,
The Members of the
Northern California
Invitational Committee 2014
Thank You,
John Youngberg,
Fred Miller,
and Liz Reeve,
Tournament Co-Chairmen,
for Your Generous
Support and Exemplary
Leadership!
With affection,
Patricia Sklar, Chairman
2014 Northern California Invitational
and Marcia Horn, ICAN CEO
For
Mary Lou Hamilton
and
Jeff Veness
Your leadership has been
invaluable.
Hugs from Patricia, John, Fred, Marcia
and the Tournament Committee
See you next year for the
Second ICAN Northern California
Golf Invitational!
We would love to have you join our Tournament Committee
to plan the next ICAN Northern California Invitational.
Coming September 2015 at Napa Valley Country Club!
Your support will sustain and grow ICAN’s Stage IV cancer
patient advocacy services.
Please call us at 707-591-1131 or email
[email protected]
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