Foundation For Success Blueprint for the future 2010 AnnuAl RepoRt Foundation. 1 Message.From.the.President . 2 Blueprint. 11 Financials . 26 Leadership. 32 Awards . 38 Support. 40 Events. 45 Giving. 48 Foundation A successful enterprise, like a well-constructed building, must have a strong foundation. More than 110 years of excellence in patient care, research and education have laid a rock-solid foundation for another century’s worth of excellence. In addition, during the past three years National Jewish Health has assembled the building blocks for a successful implementation of Decade of Innovation: Strategic Plan 2017, our pioneering effort to develop the field of preventive and personalized medicine. Our Strategy Is On Track In February 2007 the National Jewish Health Board of Directors unanimously approved a 10-year strategic plan, Decade of Innovation: Strategic Plan 2017. That plan called for an ambitious expansion while continuing to lead as a preeminent academic health center. Michael Salem, MD as we were moving into the first years During the past three years we have created President and CEO of our plan, very few foresaw the severe several new tools and infrastructure that will The Carole and Albert Angel recession that would soon come. at allow us to truly integrate our research and Presidential Chair National Jewish health, we saw its impact clinical efforts at the point of the patient. in our investments, substantially increased among our accomplishments are: demands for charity care and a challenging • Substantial increase in new, distinguished fundraising environment. research and clinical faculty the strength of an institution, however, can • institutional tissue biobank be judged by its reaction to difficult times. • electronic health records thanks to both commitment and sacrifices by a talented, creative, passionate and • Comprehensive research database dedicated faculty and staff, and the guidance encompassing the biobank, electronic and help of our Board and trustees, we health records and other information are pleased to report that National Jewish resources health has enjoyed a very successful year. • Center for Genes, environment and health our investments have regained their value, • proteomics, mouse genetics facility benefits have been restored and charitable giving is recovering. we appear to have • Institute for advanced Biomedical ® weathered the economic storm and are now imaging looking over the horizon to a bright future. • Minimally invasive Diagnostic Center in fact, during the first three years of our • lung Cancer Center strategic plan, through the depths of the • Molecular Diagnostics laboratory recession, we have enjoyed substantial • New strategic alliances growth — in patient care, research programs and new faculty. we have achieved all of the • New clinical services in cardiology, controllable milestones set for the plan’s gastroenterology and NJ4kids in pediatrics first three years, and are on track to continue • Substantially increased patient volume fulfilling the strategic vision embodied in the and research funding original plan. 2 | 2010 NatioNal Jewish health Annual RepoRt these new tools and infrastructure every aspect of our plan is coordinated Tom Gart improvements will continue to serve as to fulfill our promise of applying the best Chair, Board of Directors the foundation on which we will build the science to improve the lives of millions of National Jewish health envisioned in our 10- people across the country and around the year vision. several of them are described in world – science transforming life®. articles asthma, CopD, cardiology, lung and other more detail in the following pages. throughout this annual report describe how cancers, immunology, inflammation, and scientific research is leading us forward, infectious diseases and allergies. our foundation, however is more than revealing the causes of disease and just pet scanners, research databases we are a victim of our success, however; prospects for treatments and cures. and gene sequencers. Generous donors we are rapidly outgrowing our existing are, and always have been, integral to the on page 14, you can meet 25-year-old facilities. our newest building, the iris and ongoing success of National Jewish health. lindsey alexander, one of an increasingly Michael smith Clinics and laboratories, is larry silverstein and his son Roger and the valuable cohort of asthma patients in the completely occupied, and we are now in the hearst Foundations, highlighted on pages Childhood asthma Management program process of moving some departments off 8-10, are examples of steadfast donors continuation study, who have contributed to our main campus. we will need additional who have supported us throughout our better asthma care for millions of patients. research and patient-care space if we are history. Dale schuble and her family (page to continue our positive trajectory. we Cell biologist David Riches, phD, and 17), the Boettcher Foundation (page 23), are developing a Master Campus plan to his colleagues’ efforts to understand the and 200 extraordinary guests at this year’s address our urgent space needs. biological pathways leading to scarring in Beaux arts Ball (page 25) are examples of the lungs have revealed a class of enzymes in sum, this is an exciting time at National crucial support that will enable us to achieve that hold great promise for treating the Jewish health. we believe we have success in the future. devastating disease idiopathic pulmonary weathered the recent storm. after an the blueprint for that successful future fibrosis (page 16). exploring the intricate impressive start, we have a detailed plan is our strategic plan, which contains a details of how molecules in the immune that lays out a comprehensive blueprint for powerful set of ideas and solutions that will system bind and fit together has helped the future. allow us to: John Kappler, phD, and his colleagues there are still many challenges ahead of make important discoveries that point to 1. Innovate and lead as an academic health us. we feel confident, however, that if we treatments for cancer, diabetes and chronic center continue to act boldly, National Jewish beryllium disease (page 22). 2. Remain preeminent in our areas of focus health has a brilliant future. 3. Maintain our collegial culture; and Bringing such discoveries rapidly from the laboratories to the patient is the basic 4. Become more self-sufficient over time. premise of our strategy. we continue to Tom Gart and build translational research programs in Michael Salem, MD NatioNal Jewish health.org | 3 Building Blocks Lay a Foundation for Success In January 2007 the National Jewish Health Board of Directors approved Decade of Innovation: Strategic Plan 2017, which laid out a vision of National Jewish Health as a pioneer in the development of personalized medicine. In the three and a half years since, National Jewish Health has created several new institutional programs that lay the foundation for successful implementation of the strategic plan. MINIMALLY INVASIVE DIAGNOSTIC into an extraordinary tool that allows basic CENTER scientists and clinicians to collaborate on Recent advances in technology have made innovative research projects. it possible for pulmonologists, gastroenter- the integrated Bioinformation and specimen ologists and others to perform in an Center, or “biobank,” contains blood, cells, outpatient setting a variety of diagnostic urine, lung fluid, and other tissue samples and therapeutic procedures that previously collected from more than 2,000 patients. required invasive surgery and a stay in the these tissue samples are linked through a hospital. in late 2007 ali Musani, MD, FCCp, database with electronic medical records, joined the faculty to bring those advanced research data and other information from technologies to National Jewish health in patients who donated them. the Minimally invasive Diagnostic Center (MiDC). the biobank provides a rich resource for researchers to test hypotheses, search for Dr. Musani performs early diagnosis and clues to the origins of disease and understand staging of lung cancer in patients who would the effects of different medications. otherwise wait months for a diagnosis. he pediatrician Daniel searing, MD, used the places stents to open airways closed by research database to discover that low levels cancer and other disorders. he frequently of vitamin D are associated with more asthma removes foreign bodies, from earrings symptoms and greater medication use. More to fish bones, that people have inhaled important discoveries are sure to emerge into their airways. physicians throughout from the database. National Jewish health also perform many other procedures in the MiDC, including ELECTRONIC health RECORDS bronchoscopy, endoscopy, colonoscopy, electronic health records are widely laryngoscopy and allergic desensitization. recognized as an important tool to increase efficiency and safety in patient care. instead of INTEGRATED BIOINFORMATION AND SPECIMEN CENTER tracking down paper charts stored in remote filing rooms, physicians can instantly retrieve National Jewish has combined millions of medical records on computers throughout data points and thousands of tissue samples the institution. they see a patient’s history, 4 | 2010 NatioNal Jewish health Annual RepoRt track and order prescriptions, order tests INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED patient’s response to warfarin, prescribed and review results. staff no longer struggle BIOMEDICAL