Atlanta cancer center names treatment room after Aflac employee

The Aflac employee whom the Ledger-Enquirer featured this summer after a national magazine recognized him for his servant leadership on behalf of children fighting cancer has been honored again -- this time by an Atlanta hospital.

James Mailman, a field liaison manager for the supplemental insurer in Columbus, is among this year's 55 Fortune 500 Heroes, a special group of employees at the nation's largest companies who perform inspirational acts of charity and goodness.

Since 2004, Mailman has led fundraisers that produced more than $262,000 for the Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta. That includes enough coins collected to generate the $12,000 the center needs each year to pay for the Beads of Courage program. The patients earn a bead for each procedure they go through, and they proudly display them on their strands.

Now, some of those patients will receive their treatments in a room the center named after Mailman.

"James is a very special employee, someone that has made a difference in society by doing it a little at a time," Aflac chairman and chief executive officer Dan Amos said in a news release.

Mailman "represents the quintessential employee," Amos said, "one that works hard but gives back to the community, and that's something we want to stress with all of our employees."

"I like to do little things for the kids," Mailman, whose wife is a cancer survivor, said in the release. "Somebody should do something, and that's the little piece that I do. Bottom line is, I'm just trying to pay it back."

Mark Rice, 706-576-6272. Follow him on Twitter@MarkRiceLE.ONLINE ONLY

Click on this story at www.ledger-enquirer.com for a link to the video of Dan Amos unveiling the cancer treatment room named after James Mailman, plus a link to the L-E's feature story about Mailman and Aflac's involvement in the Beads of Courage program.

This story was originally published October 2, 2015 at 5:03 PM with the headline "Atlanta cancer center names treatment room after Aflac employee ."