Cancer. It’s a foreboding word that no one can seem to avoid. We’ve either known someone personally, or heard of someone affected and dying from cancer. The word implies an outside force attacking the core of the body. Such a formidable disease is difficult to tolerate, and when a child is forced to carry such a burden, the disease becomes increasingly intolerable. The fight against cancer is a cultural effort, and yet there are certain people and organizations who make it their personal mission to battle this plague.
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Boston Scientific Corporation is a company that understands the pain associated with cancer. Since the founding of BSC, they have been “motivated by the belief that less-invasive medicine could help clinicians improve patient care by reducing risk, trauma, cost, procedure time and the need for aftercare.” Their main aim is to educate and financially help individual community members who are going through such a crisis.
According to the company, “Boston Scientific’s community health initiatives have two major areas of focus: reducing health disparities for the underserved and ensuring their access to quality care; and supporting disease prevention and awareness programs to help patients reduce their risk for chronic illness.” Boston Scientific puts an emphasis on encouraging students to study in areas of health, science and technology in order to ensure a continuing generation of people dedicated to eradicating such a disease.
The Corporation also tries to promote charities that share common goals with Boston Scientific. They feel “strongly about supporting credible patient advocacy groups, empowering them to be the source patients and their families turn to for trusted, accurate information.” Michael Onuscheck, President of the Neuromodulation business within the Boston Scientific Corporation, chooses which foundations to support based on their ability to serve the community in the area of healthcare. Michael believes that the key to helping a community fight against pediatric ailments is to “serve the underserved”- that is, give a monetary boost to families who would otherwise go without the healthcare. Using his team of employees, Onuscheck scouts the community to discover the charities that are helping families in the same way in which Boston Scientific seeks to assist them.
After joining Boston Scientific in 2004, Michael lead the commercial launch of the Precision™ Spinal Cord Stimulator for intractable pain, and helped launch the spinal cord stimulation business, so he has invested much of his personal time into the furtherance of medical technology.
This year, BSC has chosen to align its company with The Michael Hoefflin Foundation because it promotes ways “to educate the public and provide grant funding for innovative research to accelerate progress in the fight against pediatric cancer.” Since Michael and Boston Scientific value a foundation’s ability to help the “under served and under privileged”, they believe that the Michael Hoefflin Foundation is a great match for BSC’s philanthropic endeavors.
When it comes to finding better ways to save lives and relieving the medical burden of cancer, doctors and scientists can use all of the help they can get. And according to Michael, Boston Scientific is prepared to meet that challenge.
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