About Pediatric Cancer Foundation

Pediatric Cancer Foundation is a nonprofit charitable organization that raises funds for groundbreaking research and early phase clinical trials to eradicate childhood cancer. These trials are conducted by world renowned doctors at the hospitals we support.

Our Impact

In the past 55 years, Pediatric Cancer Foundation has distributed close to $20 million dollars to doctors and researchers who have been instrumental in increasing the cure rate for pediatric cancer from 58% in 1970 to over 80% today!

Pediatric Cancer Foundation currently supports 11 promising projects at 9 leading research hospitals:

  • New York-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital
  • Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  • Stephen D. Hassenfeld Children’s Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders at NYU Langone Medical Center
  • Feinstein Institute of Medical Research - Northwell Health
  • Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital at Westchester Medical Center
  • Mount Sinai Health System
  • The University of Chicago Medicine, Comer Children’s Hospital
  • The Ohio State University College of Medicine
  • Children’s National Hospital, Washington, D.C.

Learn more about the projects we fund.

Walk Committee

Manhattan Committee Co-Chairs

Dylan Posner

Sam Taubenfeld

Manhattan Committee 

Katherine Bartell

 Beccah Baskin

Kelly Gibney

Spencer Heitzler

Hannah Kriftcher

Brendan Porter

Aaron Schur

Jax Smith

Rachel Smith

Zach Shulman

Dara Zeltt

 

PCF Executive Board

President
Taryn J. Kristal

Executive Director
Pamela Strauss Peligri*

Financial Director
Michelle Sherman 

Vice Presidents

Marci Allen
Stefanie Bartell-Zednik
Laura Graffeo
Allison Lean
Jennifer Lewis
Melissa Heitzler
Jenny Frank Goldsmith
 

 

 

* Denotes Past Presidents

PCF Board of Directors

Alison Pepper Atanasio
Jay Canell
Neil Canell
Wendy Cohen
Terry Z. Feldman
Kelly Gibney
Jamie Heiberger Harrison
Dana Hokin
Jayne Maslansky
Meredith Perl
Dylan Posner
Patty Rosen
Courtney Schlesinger
Sindie Schur
Mindy Shulman
Sam Taubenfeld

 

PCF Honorary Board

Jayne Asher*
Lois Baskin
Ellen Berger
Pam Bieber
Susan Cohen
Wendy Cohen
Linda Friedman
Linda Gesoff
Susan Katcher
Lona Kessler
Leslie Levy*
Louise Oshatz
Shari Philipps
Jodi Posner
Lauren Robinson*
Amy Rosen
Jane Schaiman*
Kyra Schulhof
Jane Shandell*
Brenda Siegler*
Donna Slotnick
Liz Somekh
Anne Stafman
Jennifer Stone
Caren Suesserman
Janet Teich
Lynn Tobias*
Poppy Wurtzburger

Brooklyn Chapter

Denise Lamberto
Julianne Calisto

* Denotes Past Presidents

Medical Advisory Board & Consultants

Medical Advisory Board

Dr. Angela Kadenhe-Chiweshe
Dr. Joshua Raff
Dr. Adam Levy
Dr. Julie Monroe
 

Consultants

Dina Cohen
Nancy Joselson
Natalie Shushan

Pediatric Cancer Foundation

P. O. Box 654

Purchase, NY 10577

T: 914-825-4004 | www.pcfcares.org | info@pcfcares.org