BUFFALO, NY – JoAnne Ruh, Vice President for Information Systems at Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI) received the Executive of the Year Award from InfoTech Niagara's 2007 BETA Awards held on Wednesday, March 21. 

Roswell Park Cancer Institute was also nominated for Best Online (www.roswellpark.org); for Best Success Story for the electronic medical record (EMR) rollout in 2006; and RPCI spin-off PersonaDX and Lionel Coignet were nominated for the Life Sciences Award.

InfoTech Niagara's Buffalo/Niagara Emerging Technology Awards seek to discover, honor, and promote the efforts of local and regional companies, organizations, and individuals who are the innovators, creators and advocates of new technologies, new methods of integrating technology, and of economic development through technology in WNY.

Roswell Park Cancer Institute, founded in 1898, is the nation’s first cancer research, treatment and education center and is the only National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center in Upstate New York. RPCI is a member of the prestigious National Comprehensive Cancer Network, an alliance of the nation’s leading cancer centers. Roswell Park has affiliate sites and collaborative programs in New York, Pennsylvania, and in China. For more information, visit RPCI’s website at www.roswellpark.org, call 1-877-ASK-RPCI (1-877-275-7724) or e-mail askrpci@roswellpark.org.