Amidst tragedy, there may be at all times hope. And there she is …
Wings of Hope for Pancreatic Most cancers Analysis is welcoming Madison Marsh, Miss America 2024, to its subsequent annual fundraiser. Like Wings of Hope’s founder Maureen Shul, Marsh has helped elevate funds for pancreatic most cancers analysis since dropping her mom to the illness.
“My mother was an enormous runner, even when she was going by chemotherapy remedies,” Marsh mentioned in an Air Pressure interview. “After we talked about methods to boost cash, we needed it to recollect who my mother was and never what most cancers had made her. So we began the Whitney Marsh Basis and particularly hosted a 5K and 10K run yearly.”
The 2023 graduate in physics from the U.S. Air Pressure Academy would be the keynote speaker at Night of Hope, Sept. 6, within the Exploration of Flight occasion heart at Centennial Airport. Proceeds will help the groundbreaking pancreatic most cancers analysis happening on the College of Colorado Most cancers Middle on the Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora.
This Miss America and 2023 Miss Colorado has a transparent reply when requested about altering the world. Whereas nonetheless a teen, after her mom died — at solely 41 — from some of the difficult of cancers, she began the inspiration named for her mom to boost funds for analysis into remedies and cures. The graduate intern at Harvard Medical College is, herself, now learning how synthetic intelligence may be used to detect tumors within the difficult-to-reach pancreas.
“In direction of the tip of my time at [the Air Force Academy], I began to comprehend that my larger passions have been in coverage making and most cancers analysis, in order that’s why I ended up on the Kennedy College,” Marsh mentioned.
Marsh’s different accomplishments embody being the primary active-duty Air Pressure officer to compete within the Miss America pageant. She can be an authorized personal pilot with a black belt in tae kwon do.
Along with fundraising for the trigger, the Whitney Marsh Basis presents medical seminars and a nationwide platform for the alternate of analysis into pancreatic most cancers. The inspiration has additionally initiated a pilot program to help financially struggling households who’re in danger for pancreatic most cancers by offering the important blood screening that they may not in any other case obtain.
Shul, Wings of Hope’s founder who misplaced her mom and a brother to pancreatic most cancers, is thrilled to welcome Marsh to Night of Hope.
“Madison’s spectacular profession as a pilot within the U.S. Air Pressure and a Harvard intern exploring methods AI can be utilized for early detection of pancreatic most cancers makes her message all of the extra pressing in the case of understanding and treating this illness,” Shul mentioned. “One of many challenges with pancreatic most cancers is alerting the general public to early signs, and elevating consciousness is as essential as elevating funding for analysis in combating this illness.”
Tickets and sponsorships can be found for Night of Hope. For extra data, go to wingsofhopepcr.org.
