2021 Annual Dinner Location Update:
UPMC Club at Heinz Field
Valet parking along Art Rooney Avenue in front of Suite Entry B
Stanley M. Marks
Blood Cancer Research Fund
Stanley Marks, MD
Chairman, UPMC Hillman Cancer Center
Chief of the Division of Hematology/Oncology at UPMC Shadyside
Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
2019 James Conner
Courage Award Recipient:
Harrison Brown
2019 Perry R. (Dick) Swanson
Humanitarian Award:
Joe Curtin
2016 James Conner Courage Award Recipient
2016 James Conner Courage Award Recipient
James Conner, Leukemia Survivor
James Conner was honored at the 2016 Stanley M. Marks, MD Golf Classic and it was that year that the annual Courage Award was renamed in his honor. In 2015, as a junior running back for the University of Pittsburgh, James was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma...
James Conner accepts the newly named "James Connor Courage Award."
Awards
Best Doctors of America in Hematology and Medical Oncology
Hillel Academy Outstanding Alumnus
Top Physicians in America
Our Mission
The Stanley M. Marks Blood Cancer Research Fund continues to make an indelible impact on the overall body of knowledge of cancer treatment, detection and prevention, the UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, and the 74,000 patients it serves annually. It does so by supporting highly innovative research at UPMC Hillman Cancer Center aimed at the development of new and more effective therapies for patients with all types of cancers as well as early detection and prevention strategies to reduce the burden of cancer regionally, nationally and globally.