The CEO Roundtable on Cancer Salutes Coach Mike Krzyzewski
26 January 2015 - 11:00PM
Business Wire
The CEO Roundtable on Cancer salutes Coach Mike Krzyzewski on
his 1000th victory, further solidifying his legacy as the
winningest men's basketball coach in NCAA Division I history. In
addition to his recent history-making win, Coach K’s trailblazing
resume includes leading the U.S. men's national basketball
team to gold medals at the 2008 and 2012 Summer
Olympics and the 2010 and 2014 FIBA World Championships
and serving as assistant coach for the Olympic gold medal-winning
“Dream Team” in 1992.
On and off the basketball court, Coach K has been a vital part
of another “Dream Team” in the fight against cancer as a Charter
Member of the CEO Roundtable on Cancer. Since the organization’s
founding in 2001, when former President George H.W. Bush challenged
a group of executives to "do something bold and venturesome about
cancer,” Coach K has played a unique role in providing inspiring
leadership to this unique group of globally statured business
leaders.
“Coach K has inspired those of us united in the effort to
prevent and cure cancer with the same legendary leadership and
intensity he brings to his team on the basketball court,” said
Chris Viehbacher, chairman of the CEO Roundtable on Cancer. “We
salute Coach K on this coaching milestone and thank him for
continuing to set a Gold Standard of leadership for our CEO
Roundtable on Cancer.”
At a meeting of the CEO Roundtable on Cancer in September, 2009,
Coach K pledged to wear on his lapel the round golden pin
representing the organization’s CEO Cancer Gold Standard,
recognizing the commitment of employers who take concrete actions
to reducing cancer risk of their employees and family members. The
CEO Cancer Gold Standard™ was created in collaboration with the
National Cancer Institute, many of its designated cancer centers,
and leading health non-profit organizations and professionals.
Today, more than four million employees and family members are
benefiting from the vision and leadership of Gold Standard
employers.
At the CEO Roundtable on Cancer’s most recent meeting on
November 8, 2014, it was Coach K who recognized AstraZeneca and
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center as “MVPs on the Cancer Dream
Team.” Coach K presented those two cancer patient centric
organizations with the 2014 Dr. Charles A. Sanders Life Sciences
Awards in recognition of their innovative and collaborative work on
Project Data Sphere, LLC, an independent not-for-profit initiative
of the CEO Roundtable on Cancer’s Life Sciences Consortium. Project
Data Sphere (www.ProjectDataSphere.org) is a clinical trial data
sharing platform created in collaboration with SAS Institute to
advance research to improve the lives of cancer patients around the
world.
About The CEO Roundtable on Cancer
The CEO Roundtable on Cancer was founded in 2001, when former
President George H.W. Bush challenged a group of executives to "do
something bold and venturesome about cancer within your own
corporate families." The CEOs responded by creating and encouraging
the widespread adoption of the CEO Cancer Gold Standard which calls
for organizations to evaluate their health benefits and workplace
culture and take extensive, concrete actions in five key areas of
health and wellness to fight cancer in the workplace. For more
information on the CEO Cancer Gold Standard™ and the free web-based
accreditation process and support, please visit
www.CancerGoldStandard.org.
Project Data Sphere®, LLC
Project Data Sphere, LLC (PDS), an independent, not-for-profit
initiative of the CEO Roundtable on Cancer’s Life Sciences
Consortium (LSC), operates the Project Data Sphere platform
(www.ProjectDataSphere.org) which provides one place where the
research community can broadly share, integrate and analyze
historical, patient-level cancer phase III comparator-arm data with
the goal of advancing future research to improve the lives of
cancer patients and their families around the world.
CEO Roundtable on CancerJohn Dornan, Executive Director,
919-531-0966John.Dornan@CEORoundtableOnCancer.org