[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 194 (Wednesday, December 14, 2022)]
[House]
[Pages H9738-H9739]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




              CELEBRATING THE SERVICE OF DR. KASHYAP PATEL

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair recognizes the gentleman from 
South Carolina (Mr. Norman) for 5 minutes.
  Mr. NORMAN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to celebrate the dedicated 
service and enlightened research of Dr. Kashyap Patel, the chief 
executive officer of Carolina Blood and Cancer Care Associates.
  Dr. Patel was born and grew up in Gujarat state, India, where his 
father taught him about the great activist Mahatma Gandhi. During this 
time, he learned life's guiding principles: You walk with people. You 
don't walk over them; you don't talk over them. Be a voice for the 
voiceless, marginalized, and underprivileged citizens.
  In 1996, Dr. Patel immigrated to the United States from the United 
Kingdom on an EB-1 as an individual of extraordinary ability due to his 
achievements in cancer research. He became a naturalized citizen in 
2002.
  Upon moving to the United States, he completed his residency at 
Jamaica Hospital in Queens, New York, primarily serving a low-income 
minority population.
  As the CEO of Carolina Blood and Cancer Care Associates, a practice 
with eight providers, Dr. Patel and his colleagues have never turned 
away any patients with cancer in more than two decades, irrespective of 
ability to pay.

  This is all due to his 501(c)(3) foundation, No One Left Alone, or 
NOLA, which supports uninsured cancer patients. All proceeds from his 
book, ``Between Life and Death,'' also go to the NOLA Foundation.
  Dr. Patel has an encouraging and loving family. His wife, Alpa, his 
son, Maharshi, and his daughter-in-law, Hirangi, support him in walking 
his path of placing others above himself.
  In 2022, Dr. Patel was recognized for his work in ``The ASCO Post 
Narratives in Oncology,'' an annual special issue commemorating 
oncology leaders from across the world. He is the first community 
oncologist to receive this distinction.
  Just a few of his other awards and outstanding achievements include: 
president of the Community Oncology Alliance; Living the Mission Award 
NCODA 2021; Lifetime Achievement Award, SCOS, for contributions to 
cancer; 2022 nominee of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor; associate 
professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at VCOM in 
Spartanburg, South Carolina; medical director of the Internal Oncology 
Network for diversity, equity, and inclusivity; and associate editor in 
chief at AJMC's ``Evidence-Based Oncology.''
  Dr. Kashyap Patel has truly set the gold standard for decades of 
dedicated service and commitment to his patients and to the community, 
for which he will long be remembered. For that, we all join in saying a 
big thank-you.
  In the words of Winston Churchill, there is a time when doing your 
best is

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not enough; you must do what is required. Dr. Patel has done what is 
required to serve his patients and live a lifetime of dedicated 
service.

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