This past weekend Callibra’s CEO Chris Galassi, MD stepped up for the Shave for the Brave event to support Children’s cancer research. Dr. Galassi was one of more than 100 volunteers and shavees in the St. Baldrick’s Foundation’s 2018 Shave for the Brave held in Park Ridge, IL on Saturday, April 7. He admits he didn’t “have a big mop of hair in the first place,” but notes that through this one event location more than $87,000 was raised for childhood cancer research. According to The St. Baldrick’s Foundation, more children are lost to cancer in the US than to any other disease.
Dr. Galassi feels Childhood cancer research is extremely underfunded and St. Baldrick’s helps fund the best childhood cancer research to save the lives of kids locally and around the world. “I am sure Cancer research sometimes seems endless”, he said “but in recent decades there have been real discoveries in treatment of some children’s cancers that have turned dismal prognoses into highly successful survival outcomes for some kids. It’s exciting that there has been real progress but there’s still a lot to do.”
Chris Galassi with Declan Stapleton, event host and owner of The Harp and Fiddle where the event took place
If you still want to help out you can still make a donation at his personal page: https://www.stbaldricks.org/participants/mypage/980673/2018
A special Thank You! to all of the following sponsors who assisted with their support on the event:
Law Office of Daphne L. Pals
Richard Brantner
Stephen Dodds MD
Colin Kaide MD
Marie and Michael
Matthew Roberts
Nate Rudman MD PC
Cathy Raschke
Joanna Scianna In Memory Of Richard Oliva
Kathy and Paul Nordhaus
Michael Miedona In Memory Of Richard Oliva
Michael Clifford
Mike Rooney
JBO In Memory Of Monica Harrison Carfrey
Bill Reynen
Hugh Martin
Joyce Nordhaus
Kim Voss
Sarah Wilson
