Dr. Edna Kapenhas and Victoria Schneps Honored at The Ellen Hermanson Foundation Summer Gala

August 27, 2023
By Suzanna Bowling
Times Square Chronicles

In the Hamptons two important events helped enlighten and bring much-needed awareness to an important cause Breast Center. The 28th Annual ELLEN’S RUN took place on Sunday, August 20th, 2023 followed by the Summer Gala on Saturday, August 26th  at the beautiful waterfront Bridgehampton Tennis & Surf Club. The event honored Dr. Edna Kapenhas, Medical Director of The Ellen Hermanson Breast Center and Stony Brook Southampton Hospital as well as Victoria Schneps. President and Co-Publisher Schneps Media.

T2c talked to Ms. Schneps

Ticketed guests gathered for cocktails, dinner, dancing, as well as a beach bonfire. A violinist serenaded guest as they walked into the event.

A sponsored live auction raised crucial funds with featured tickets to Stephen Colbert, a Billy Joel concert at Madison Square Garden, and even opening night admittance to the famed Metropolitan Opera.

In attendance looking fabulous Gala head Jean Shafiroff.

Co-founder and chairwoman, Julie Ratner, help raise crucial funds through two important benefits. Since the organization’s inception with the leadership of Ratner, The Ellen Hermanson Foundation has awarded more than $6 million in grants. This has changed the medical landscape of the East End of Long Island by ensuring access to state-of-the- art breast health care and empowering people with cancer, The Ellen Hermanson Breast Center is recognized as a Breast Imaging Center of Excellence by the American College of Radiology. The great task of no one being turned away due to lack of health insurance is just one crucial life-changing effort. There is also an emergency medical fund that provides essential services and its Community Partnerships with the Bridgehampton Child Care and Recreational Center, OLA (Organización Latino-Americana), the Retreat and the Shinnecock Indian Health Center. No patient is turned away from the Ellen Hermanson Breast Center for lack of insurance or inability to pay for treatment.

These event showcased the important and heartwarming mission of Julie and The Ellen Hermanson Foundation, which was founded in 1996 with her sister Emily Levin.  Named in honor of their younger sister, Ellen, who died in 1995 of breast cancer at the age of 42.

Currently, Julie is a member of the National Breast Cancer Coalition and the New York State Breast Cancer Network. She has also served on the boards of the League Education and Treatment Center in Brooklyn (as President), Congressman Tim Bishop’s Breast Cancer Advisory Board, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, the Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra, the New York Chamber Symphony, the Hadassah Foundation, and The American Friends of the Soroka Medical Center of the Negev in Israel.

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