On
Wednesday, October 21, 2009, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell
Medical Center presented a performance by Bernadette Peters for its annual
Cabaret 2009 benefit, at The World Financial Center Winter Garden. The
event has raised over $2 million to support the ongoing work of the Medical
Center in patient care, research and medical education.
More than 800
guests attended, including honorary chair Charlotte Ford; Lisa and Richard
Perry; Joan and Sanford I. Weill; NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital’s
president and CEO Dr. Herbert Pardes and Dr. Nancy Wexler; and Weill
Cornell Medical College Dean Dr. Antonio M. Gotto and his wife, Anita.
Also attending are event committee members Katie O’Neill Bistrian
and Frank Bistrian, Leslie and Brian Brille, Lisa and James Cohen, Shoshanna
and Josh Gruss, Patricia Yarberry Allen, M.D. and Douglas McIntyre, Pamela
Lipkin, M.D. and Bruce Ratner, and Stephanie Landess Suslak and Neil
S. Suslak.