Riders for the Cure, the official employee motorcycle riders’ group, recently presented $12,000 to the Children’s Cancer Hospital at M. D. Anderson.

Motorcycle group members handed over the check to Eugenie Kleinerman, M.D., division head for Pediatrics, during a Dec. 4 ceremony in Kim’s Place. The funds, which were raised by this year’s Sam’s Jam motorcycle ride, will be directed toward research to lessen the side effects of cancer treatments in children.

Patrick Browning, J.D., clinical business manager in the Cancer Prevention Center (and Riders for the Cure president), Jason Hassenbusch, PRS Administrative Services, Linda Dunker, office manager, Stem Cell Transplantation (and Riders for the Cure vice-president) and other riders from the nonprofit group also were at the presentation.

The ride, which was Oct. 18, is named in memory of Samuel Hassenbusch, M.D., Ph.D., who was a professor in Neurosurgery and medical director of the Physicians Referral Service here and an avid motorcycle rider and enthusiast. More than 130 bikes carrying 200 participants rode from the Houston Main Building to West of the Brazos in Damon, TX.

Here’s a great video of a cancer survivor who has found motorcycling to be therapeutic in more ways than one.  Rider Stories

The RFTC is proud to announce that our contribution to the M. D. Anderson Charity Wreath Auction took first place witht he highest bid!