Katie Triplett is the Executive Director of the Mississippi/ Louisiana Chapter of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Prior to being at LLS for eleven years, Katie served as the General Manager of the New Orleans Yacht Club and as the Community Development Director at A Shared Initiative Inc. (ASII) for the ASI Federal Credit Union. Katie is a graduate of Indiana University and has lived in New Orleans since 2003.
Louis J. DeGennaro, Ph.D., is president and chief executive officer of The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS), the world's largest voluntary health agency dedicated to fighting blood cancers. Dr. DeGennaro leads the operations of this $300 million cancer patient advocacy agency with headquarters in Rye Brook, New York.
Dr. DeGennaro has been a member of the LLS executive leadership team since he joined LLS as chief scientific officer in 2005. He was named LLS chief mission officer in 2009, with responsibility for leadership of all of LLS's mission functions, including research, patient education and support, public policy and advocacy. He was named president and CEO in September 2014.
As the key architect of LLS's cures and access agenda, Dr. DeGennaro conceived and pioneered LLS’s Therapy Acceleration Program® - a venture philanthropy approach to accelerating new treatments to patients through drug discovery and development partnerships with the biotechnology industry. LLS’s foray into venture philanthropy helped redefine the activist role of non-profits to meet urgent unmet medical needs. Under Dr. DeGennaro’s leadership LLS launched its groundbreaking precision medicine Beat AML® Master Trial in October 2016, leading the offensive against acute myeloid leukemia, one of the most deadly blood cancers that has seen few improvements in treatment in more than 40 years.
Dr. DeGennaro has devoted his career to saving lives through drug discovery – first in academic research, later directing drug development at several pharmaceutical companies. At LLS he has found the perfect intersection of science and patient care, overseeing the funding of cutting-edge research, supporting patients and engaging in patient advocacy work. In addition to providing leadership and vision for his staff, he is committed to keeping a significant constituency of volunteers motivated and dedicated to the organization, which includes oversight over a breadth of national fundraising campaigns including the iconic Team In Training and Light The Night.
After receiving his doctorate in biochemistry from the University of California at San Francisco, Dr. DeGennaro did his post-doctoral research at the Yale University School of Medicine. His previous academic appointments include research group leader, Max Planck Institute in Munich, Germany, where his laboratory was among the first to clone genes expressed exclusively in the nervous system; and associate professor of neurology and cell biology, University of Massachusetts Medical School.
From: Randall Feldman To: Rotary Club of New Orleans Date: 5/8/20 Subject: COVID-19 REPORT
Cash Donations:
1. St. Xavier’s. Randy Feldman will donate to our school/orphanage in India $100 plus an additional $10 for every $100 donated. So, if you contribute $100, he will contribute an extra $10. If you contribute $1,000, he will contribute an extra $100, etc. This match is good through May 31. Make your donation to NORFI and in the memo line write St. Xavier’s and send it to Mary L. Bonfanti, NORFI Board President, 428 State St., New Orleans, LA 70118, or ask Tara to bill you and note that it is for the St. Xavier’s Project.
2. The Rotary Foundation.
a. District Governor Nominee-designate Regina Wedig reminds us that District Governor Bob Haeuser has extended the matching points incentive drive for donations to The Rotary Foundation. The District will match points in increments of 100 and up to 500 for individual donations to the Foundation received between February 1, 2020 and May 15, 2020. To qualify for the points match, please send a copy of the Multiple Donor Form (https://my.rotary.org/en/document/multiple-donor-form) or Individual Donor Form (https://my.rotary.org/en/document/contribution-form-rotary-foundation) and proof of payment submitted to The Rotary Foundation to: Regina Wedig, PO Box 185, Amite, La. 70422, or via e-mail to ReginaWedig@WedigLaw.com.
Regina, says, “I hope you take advantage of this opportunity to reach your first or next Paul Harris Fellow recognition level as we raise awareness of the importance of Foundation giving. The number of matching points is limited and will be distributed on a first come basis, so don’t miss out on this opportunity.
“As the current District Governor Nominee-designate, meaning I will serve as District Governor for D6840 in 2022-2023, I have added motivation to ask you to support this initiative. The donations made to the Foundation during the current 2019-20 Rotary year will determine the funds that will be available as district grants during my tenure as your District Governor.
“There are so many wonderful local projects throughout our District that warrant consideration for that extra boost a district grant may offer. Please join me in enriching our service to the world and our local communities.”
b. From The Heartbeat, the Rotary Zones 30/31 newsletter. “Rotary is uniquely prepared to assist communities around the world, but we need your help. If you can give, donate to the (Rotary) Foundation’s Annual Fund [See 2.a. above] to support humanitarian projects, to the PolioPlus Fund to support both polio eradication efforts and other health infrastructure, or to our Disaster Response Fund to support local efforts to fight the pandemic and help people who have been affected by other disasters. [The District has already received $25,000 from this Fund, some of which went to one of our Club’s projects]. The Disaster Response Fund accepts online contributions and District Designated Funds (DDF). Districts may designate their DDF contributions to the Disaster Response Fund to be used exclusively for COVID-19 grant activities. Cash contributions will be used for general disaster response, including response to COVID-19.” To make a donation: https://my.rotary.org/en/donate.
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