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Leewood Golf Club, Eastchester
More than 50 golfers took to the greens at Leewood Golf Club in Eastchester for the Westchester Neuroscience Research Foundation’s 3rd Annual Golf Outing.
John Abrahams, MD, founder/director of the WNRF, said the foundation is expanding its scope into research for spinal cord and head injuries. “We look for researchers who are cutting-edge and may find it hard to find traditional funding because they are the ones leading the innovative work of the future.”
Attendees paid $500 for golf, lunch, a putting contest, cocktail reception, and auction. (Non-golfers paid $175 to attend the cocktail reception..
Proceeds from the event help support potentially life-saving research and clinical trials to fight brain tumors. The foundation helped to launch the Westchester Brain Tumor Program with the Cancer Center at Northern Westchester Hospital and Brain & Spine Surgeons of New York last year to make national clinical trials available in the Westchester area.
