POSTPONED: Thesecondopinion's 6th Annual Benefit - 50 Years and Still Going Strong

March 14, 2020 @ 8:15AM — 10:30AM Eastern Time (US & Canada)

Featuring Dr. Robert M. Sapolsky, Acclaimed Best-Selling Author, Stress Expert, Biologist and Neuroscientist

POSTPONED: Thesecondopinion's 6th Annual Benefit - 50 Years and Still Going Strong image

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Dear thesecondopinion Friends and Supporters:
As you are all aware, the Coronavirus has severely impacted the Bay Area, with the CDC, state and local officials strongly encouraging social distancing. In an effort to keep everyone healthy and safe, we have made the difficult decision to postpone our annual Breakfast Benefit, featuring Dr. Sapolsky, which was originally scheduled for May 1, 2020.
The Benefit is our organization's biggest event, helping us raise a quarter of our annual revenue. One hundred percent of the proceeds go towards supporting individuals with cancer and their families. We are truly grateful for all of you who have already made donations or purchased tickets.
Thesecondopinion is actively looking for new dates to host the Benefit. Please stay tuned to your email, and our website and Facebook page for updates, including event refunds, should they be necessary.
In the mean time, let's continue to support one another in the coming weeks. These are truly difficult and trying times for everyone, especially our cancer patients.
In appreciation and gratitude,

Howard B. Kleckner, M.D., Medical Director

Cheri Livingston, Managing Director

POSTPONED

Join us for breakfast and listen to Dr. Robert M. Sapolsky, one of the world's leading neuroscientists and renowned stress expert and author, speak on the connection between stress and stress related disease. His books include A Primate’s Memoir which won the 2001 Bay Area Book Reviewers Award in nonfiction; The Trouble with Testosterone; Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers; Monkeyluv-and Other Essays on our Lives as Animals. His most recent book; Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst is a Washington Post Best Book of 2017, and also received the Los Angeles Times book prize. Dr. Sapolsky was awarded Rockefeller University’s Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science for 2008.

Dr. Sapolsky's articles have appeared in publications such as Discover; The New Yorker; The Los Angeles Times and The Wall Street Journal. Dr. Sapolsky is a MacArthur “Genius” Fellow, a professor of biology and neurology at Stanford University, and a research associate with the Institute of Primate Research at the National Museum of Kenya. In 2008, National Geographic and PBS aired an hour-long special on stress featuring Dr. Sapolsky and his research on the subject. The humor and humanity he brings to a sometimes sobering subject matter make Dr. Sapolsky a fascinating speaker. He lectures widely on topics as diverse as stress and stress-related diseases, baboons, the biology of our individuality, the biology of religious belief, the biology of memory, schizophrenia, depression, aggression, and Alzheimer’s disease.

Each year we plan a benefit with the goal of raising $120,000, a quarter of our annual budget. With the funds we raise we are able to support cancer patients and their families by increasing their understanding of a complex medical diagnosis and alleviate uncertainty.

Please join us for a wonderful morning of celebration, education and information!

PROGRAM SCHEDULE

8:15 AM REGISTRATION

8:15 AM to 8:45 AM - Breakfast & Socializing

8:45 AM to 9:00 AM - WELCOME by Dr. Robert Ignoffo, Board President

9:00 AM to 9:10 AM - PATIENT TESTIMONIAL

9:10 AM to 9:20 AM - VOLUNTEER PHYSICIAN

9:20 AM to 10:00 AM - SPECIAL PRESENTATION by Dr. Robert M. Sapolsky, Author, Stress Expert, Biologist, Neuroscientist

10:00 AM - CLOSING REMARKS by Howard Kleckner, M.D., Medical Director

10:00 AM to 10:30 - BOOK SIGNING

Books Inc. for book purchase

For sponsorship opportunities please contact Cheri Livingston, 415-775-9956

Thesecondopinion has been serving the California cancer community for over 50 years! The organization is committed to providing free, independent and comprehensive second opinions to adults in California diagnosed with cancer. We believe that all cancer patients should have the same access to medical resources as those who usually have broader access to medical care, in their language and at their level of understanding.