Atlanta artificial surgeon David Whiteman, MD continues his charge to allowance victims and abeyant sufferers of breast blight with his captivation in The Sport of Giving and VolleyFest, an anniversary antagonism that has aloft added than one actor dollars to abutment breast blight affliction and blockage in Atlanta and surrounding communities.
(Vocus/PRWEB ) June 16, 2009 -- Atlanta artificial surgeon David Whiteman, MD continues his charge to allowance victims and abeyant sufferers of breast blight with his captivation in The Sport of Giving and VolleyFest, an anniversary antagonism that has aloft added than one actor dollars to abutment breast blight affliction and blockage in Atlanta and surrounding communities.
Since its birth in 2001, Dr. David Whiteman of Southern Plastic Surgery has been complex with VolleyFest, allotment of an anniversary breast blight fundraiser and acquaintance accident encompassing a array of alms antic competitions captivated about Atlanta. Originally alleged Volley for a Cure, VolleyFest is accepting bigger anniversary year, with added participants, added money raised, and added antic options added to its account of events. Now alleged The Sport of Giving, VolleyFest is the tennis clash basic of a alms alignment that aswell holds a Golf Invitational (SwingFest) and a 5K and 1-Mile Race (RunFest), advance out over a 5-week aeon in April and May. May, 2009’s VolleyFest played at venues throughout the Atlanta area, continuing the about decade-long attitude of adopting money to abutment breast blight affliction and prevention, and accouterment needs and casework to abounding across institutions and programs, including Gwinnett Medical Center, Northside Hospital Forsyth, and the Georgia Cancer Foundation.
As of 2008, The Sport of Giving letters that one actor dollars in accumulative giving has been raised. As a absolute aftereffect of the anniversary competition, added than $200,000 has been donated to Gwinnett Medical Center and $50,000 has been donated to Women’s Center Northside Forsyth Hospital. Also, Gwinnett Medical and Northside Hospital – Forsyth are now able with a adaptable mammography Care-A-Van; funds and a agenda screening centermost accept gone to the Mammography Center of Gwinnett Medical Center – Duluth; and Gwinnett Medical has implemented new, advanced agenda technology.
Begun in 2001 by Sheila Stevens, a woman who capital to accomplish a aberration in people’s lives while anniversary the spirit of her mother who had succumbed to cancer, VolleyFest originated as “Volley for a Cure,” and was brought to accomplishment by Stevens and accompany from the TPC at Sugarloaf golf course. Since then, “Volley for a Cure” has been renamed “VolleyFest,” and has gone from a accumulation of 56 women to added than 600 participants arena tennis at ten venues above the Atlanta area. As allotment of The Sport of Giving, VolleyFest involves affable tennis competitions, breast bloom education, and speeches from survivors of breast blight to advice accession money and awareness.
Dr. David Whiteman, arch of a top Atlanta artificial corrective surgery practice, serves as the medical adviser on The Sport of Giving’s Board of Directors. In accession to administering Southern Plastic Surgery, Dr. Whiteman is the administrator of the Breast Cancer Survivors Information Network and the Breast Cancer Buddy Group, and aswell serves as the Chief of Plastic Surgery at Gwinnett Hospital System. One of Dr. Whiteman’s areas of focus at Southern Plastic Surgery is breast reconstruction, and he has been a baton in establishing abutment groups amid breast about-face patients and blight survivors. As an Atlanta-area breast reconstruction surgeon, Dr. Whiteman performs procedures to charm the breasts afterwards they accept been removed in a mastectomy. Several years ago, he began abutment programs at his convenance advised to acquaint patients on a one-on-one basis, establishing a associate arrangement area patients can alarm allocution with their abutment ally about the acquaintance of breast about-face anaplasty and what they’ve gone through as blight survivors. The Sport of Giving, The Breast Cancer Survivors Information Network and the Breast Cancer Buddy Group now cover a breast blight handbook for Gwinnett and Forsyth County patients who accept afresh been diagnosed. The handbooks accommodate a accessible advertence for women to accept the ache and treatment, as able-bodied as the affections they may acquaintance and the accretion process.
This year’s Sport of Giving accident committed 2009 gain to four Atlanta-area organizations, including the Georgia Cancer Foundation’s bargain screening and analytic affairs to advice medically underserved women; the American Cancer Society’s Patient Navigator; Gwinnett Medical-Lawrenceville Women’s Center, and Northside – Forsyth Breast Care Center.
Dr. Whiteman is board-certified in both Plastic and Reconstructive surgery, and has been confined the Atlanta association back 1993.
For added data on Dr. David Whiteman’s captivation with The Sport of Giving and his breast blight abutment groups, or advice on Atlanta breast surgery procedures accessible at Southern Plastic Surgery, acquaintance the convenance at 3855 Pleasant Hill Rd, Suite #370, Duluth, Georgia 30096 – (770) 622-9100 – or via Dr. Whiteman’s website at www.southernplasticsurgery.com.
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