Vattikuti Invitational 2013

June 17, 2013 was the 12th year of the Vattikuti Invitational, a premier charity event that benefits the cancer programs at Henry Ford Health System and Beaumont Health System. The event celebrates and builds upon the extraordinary generosity of Raj and Padma Vattikuti, whose exceptional gifts to each institution are funding cancer education, treatment and research programs at Beaumont's Vattikuti Digital Breast Diagnostic Center and Henry Ford's Vattikuti Urology Institute. Over the past eleven years, the Invitational has netted over $4.2 million for cancer care.

The 2013 Vattikuti Invitational featured a round of golf at the world-class championship course of Oakland Hills Country Club, site of the 2004 Ryder Cup Matches, 2008 PGA Championship and the 2016 US Amateur. The day's activities also included a tee-off breakfast, lunch, cocktails, strolling dinner and entertainment.

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Founded on April 26, 1997

The Vattikuti Foundation is a non-profit corporation that was founded by Raj and Padma Vattikuti in 1997. The Foundation serves both the local community in Southeast Michigan as well as causes in India and other parts of the world. Through the Vattikuti Foundation Raj and his wife Padma continue to lend their support to a number of worthwhile charitable causes. The Foundation has distinguished itself by founding the Vattikuti Urology Institute at Henry Ford Hospitals and the Vattikuti Digital Breast Diagnostic Center at Beaumont Hospitals. The Vattikuti Foundation is committed to making robotic surgery and other technologically advanced medical procedures of the future cost effective and available to underprivileged communities. Vattikuti Foundation also focuses on creating an infrastructure to coordinate and reach out to the people who are in poverty through the Poverty Alleviation Initiative program in India. Its initial pilot program has positively affected villages in the Tumkur District of Karnataka. The goal of this project is to reach over a million people over the next ten years.