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VEGAS, May 13, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Keep Memory
Alive honored Blake Shelton
at the 27th annual Power of LoveĀ® gala on Friday, May 10 at MGM Grand Garden Arena. An
esteemed lineup of entertainers came together to celebrate the
country music sensation including Gwen
Stefani, Jay
Allen, Colbie Caillat,
Kristin Chenoweth, Andy Grammer, Mickey
Guyton, Gary LeVox, Cassadee Pope and Jay
Pharaoh.
The Power of Love gala is a vital platform to generate funds to
enable the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health to
find, fund, and facilitate the most effective and innovative
research, treatment, and educational support programming for
patients and their families affected by brain disorders, including
Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Huntington's, multiple system atrophy and
multiple sclerosis.
Other notable guests in attendance included Lisa Vanderpump,
Ken Todd, Crystal Minkoff, Rob
Minkoff, Meredith Marks,
Deniece Williams, Tommy Thayer, Mark
Davis, Elaine Wynn,
Jeffrey Soffer, Steven Lagos, and Maria Shriver, founder of The Women's
Alzheimer's Movement Prevention and Research Center at Cleveland
Clinic and chief visionary and strategic advisor of the new Women's
Comprehensive Health and Research Center.
Chefs Wolfgang Puck and Evan
Funke prepared the gourmet dinner, paired with wines
from Southern Glazer's Wine, Spirits & Beer of Nevada, followed by a dazzling dessert display
from the MGM Grand pastry team.
Keep Memory Alive Co-founders Camille
and Larry Ruvo welcomed the 1,500 guests, with Camille
remarking, "Before there is a cure, there is a caregiver. Until the
cure, there is a caregiver. A topic we rarely think about, yet it
is more prevalent than we realize. Each day at the Cleveland Clinic
Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health, a patient is diagnosed with a
neurodegenerative disease such as Alzhzeimer's, Parkinson's and
multiple sclerosis. And standing beside them facing this life
changing reality is a caregiver. The perfect example of the
ultimate caregiver is a mom. With Mother's Day this weekend, I want
to express my gratitude to all of your mothers because without
them, we wouldn't have the wonderful community sitting before us
here this evening."
Larry Ruvo then gave a "report
card" of the past 15 years since the center opened, citing:
- 300,000 patient visits
- Designed the first Women's Alzheimer's Prevention Program
- More than 116,000 visits for the Angie Ruvo Caregiving
Program
- Only National Multiple Sclerosis Society Center for
comprehensive mass care in the state
- Nevada's first and only
Parkinson's Foundation Center of Excellence
- One of the first five CurePSP Centers of Care in the U.S. and a
Center of Excellence for Alzheimer's
The Ruvos presented Shelton with the Lou Ruvo Philanthropic
Award designed by Frank Gehry for
his charitable work, praising Shelton for "living a life of true
generosity and giving so freely to so many causes."
Allen delivered a moving rendition of his viral hit song "Blank
Stares" inspired by his mother's battle with the disease. Pharaoh
then treated the audience to a side-splitting comedy set before the
performances kicked off featuring a mix of original and renditions
of Shelton's songs, including:
- "Keep Your Head Up" by Grammer
- "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" by Chenoweth
- "God's Country" by Guyton
- "Make It Rhyme" by LeVox
- "Neon Lights" by LeVox and Pope
- "Wasting All These Tears" by Pope
- "Bubbly" by Caillat
The night culminated in Shelton taking the stage to perform
"Sangria," "Ol' Red" and leading the crowd in a rousing rendition
of "Sweet Caroline" from Neil
Diamond, the 2020 Power of Love honoree. Stefani then joined
him for the closing duet "Nobody But You."
Throughout the evening, almost every star reflected on the
profound impact of brain disease within their families.
Meredith Marks became emotional as
she spoke about the loss of her father, Crystal Minkoff fondly remembered her own
father, Cassadee Pope spoke about her grandmother battling
dementia, while Deniece Williams
shared her experience of caregiving for her aunt.
In celebration of Mother's Day weekend, the stars also shared
messages for the special moms in their lives.
Guests bid on once-in-a-lifetime silent and live auction items.
Even Shelton got into the action,
bidding and winning a walk-on role in a Mark Wahlberg movie and later joking that he was
a movie star.
For Power of Love updates or additional information, visit
keepmemoryalive.org and follow on Instagram @ccnevadakma,
Twitter @ccnevadakma and facebook.com/ccnevadakma.
About the Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health:
Cleveland
Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health, which opened in 2009,
provides expert diagnosis and treatment for individuals and
families living with Alzheimer's disease, Lewy body, frontotemporal
and other dementias; Parkinson's and Huntington's disease, multiple
system atrophy and other movement disorders; and multiple
sclerosis. With locations in Cleveland,
Ohio; Weston, Florida, and
headquarters in Las Vegas, Nevada,
the center offers a continuum of care with no-cost opportunities
for the community to participate in education and research,
including disease prevention studies and clinical trials of
promising new medications. An integrated entity, Keep Memory Alive,
raises funds exclusively in support of the Nevada
location. clevelandclinic.org/Nevada.
About Keep Memory Alive:
Keep Memory Alive, whose
mission is to provide enhanced treatment and ultimately cures for
patients and their families suffering from neurocognitive
disorders, raises awareness and funds to support Cleveland Clinic
Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health. By supporting Keep Memory Alive
and its fight against neurodegenerative diseases such as
Alzheimer's, Huntington's, Parkinson's, ALS, and memory disorders
of all kinds, we can ensure progress towards better treatments and
ultimately cures that will occur in Las
Vegas. For additional information, call (702) 263-9797 or
visit keepmemoryalive.org.
Contact:
Carrie
Giverson | Dawn Britt,
702-472-7692,
377632@email4pr.com
MacKenzie Ruta, 702-219-5601,
377632@email4pr.com
Cleveland Clinic Corporate Communications
9500 Euclid
Ave. / JJN4-01
Cleveland, OH 44195
Phone: 216.444.0141
newsroom.clevelandclinic.org
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