impactCancer Winter 2019

The OSUCCC – James and The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center are collaborating with Nationwide Children’s Hospital (NCH) to bring the first proton therapy treatment facility to central Ohio.

Rosa Lapalombella, PhD, has been named as the new director of the Pelotonia Fellowship Program (PFP), which provides funding that enables Ohio State students in any discipline and at all levels of scholarship to conduct cancer research in the labs of faculty mentors.

The Sickle Cell Program at the OSUCCC – James recently received the nation’s only disease-specific certification for sickle cell from The Joint Commission following a two-day on-site survey that yielded no findings.

David Cohn, MD, chief medical officer at the James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute, is an avid cyclist and athlete. It’s apt, then, that he uses a sports analogy to explain his new leadership position as medical director of philanthropy at the OSUCCC – James.

Ever committed to delivering the highest quality patient care, the OSUCCC – James recently opened a new Onco-Palliative Clinic, a first-of-its-kind pilot study that is already transforming the way lung cancer patients’ symptoms are managed.

Doug Ulman got a bit emotional as he surveyed the crowd gathered around him at the recent Pelotonia Check Celebration.

As lung cancer continues to claim tens of thousands of lives each year, our researchers remain focused on treatment innovation and prevention efforts that can improve outcomes for today’s patients while reducing cases in the future.

Experts at the OSUCCC – James are teaming up to take on cancer through dedicated groups focused on core components of care and research.

Mira Bisesi is the spitting image of her mother—from her beautiful smile to her down-to-earth personality. Sadly, the 17-year-old shared only 10 weeks with her mother, Joan Bisesi, who passed away from a recurrence of head and neck cancer in 2001.

Dr. James Rocco never had the opportunity to meet Joan Bisesi, but he thinks about her a lot.

To say that incoming James Foundation Board chair Rich Porter is accomplished is an understatement.

More than 155 donors and friends gathered at The Ohio State University Golf Club on Aug. 13 for the 13th Annual Value City Furniture Swing Classic.

Community Partners are passionate individuals, groups and corporations who share our vision of creating a cancer-free world. More than 400 Community Partners are raising critical funds to further research, education and patient care at the OSUCCC – James.