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SUMMER 2019 CHRONICLE STORIES OF HOW YOUR GIFTS CHANGE LIVES AT VCU HEALTH of GIVING COVER STORY MCV FOUNDATION NEWS A Year of Honoring MCV Campus leaders and trailblazers / PAGE 8 MCV FOUNDATION EVENTS Anniversaries Strengthening our friendships in Williamsburg / PAGE 16 MCV CAMPUS GIVING Celebrating our storied past and turning our Improving our ability to see, research and gaze toward the next 180 years / PAGE 4 treat the heart / PAGE 24 Chronicle of Giving Letter from the Board Chair and President Medical students have studied on the MCV Campus in the Egyptian Building since the mid-1800s. The color image Dear Friends: MCV Foundation shows modern-day students during their annual class photo. The black and white Board of Trustees Summer 2019 image shows the building in the 1890s. e are pleased to share with you another edition of the Chronicle of Giving, which Historical Photo: Special Collections and Farhad Aghdami, Esq. of Archives, Tompkins-McCaw Library, VCU. highlights your generosity and how donors like you improve and save lives Chronicle Giving ON THE COVER Wyatt S. Beazley IV Color Photo: Kevin Schindler through our MCV Campus partners at VCU Health. John O. Beckner, R.Ph. W The Chronicle of Giving is published by the Fiscal year 2018 was a strong year for the MCV Foundation. New gifts to the MCV Campus Roger L. Boevé totaled $66.7 million, while our planned giving program accounted for $17.1 million in Charles F. Bryan Jr., Ph.D. MCV Foundation for alumni and friends of the expectancies. In addition, our endowment portfolio outperformed the custom benchmark, Bronwyn M. Burnham Medical College of Virginia Campus of Virginia growing by 9.85% and moving our total assets past $550 million. These positive results have Elizabeth Whalley Buono, J.D. Commonwealth University. © 2019 MCV Foundation Rachel Burgess continued into fiscal year 2019, with total assets now exceeding $600 million. MANAGING EDITOR / Alex Henley George W. Burke III, M.D. Over the past year, there have been many exciting additions to the VCU Health development Robert C. Canfield EDITOR / Eric Peters team and to the scope of care that our providers can deliver. VCU Massey Cancer Center, VCU Charles M. Caravati Jr., M.D. CONTRIBUTORS / Margaret Ann Bollmeier, School of Nursing and VCU School of Pharmacy all have welcomed new lead development I. Lee Chapman IV David Silver, Harry Thalhimer and Brian Thomas officers, and the MCV Campus gained its first associate vice president for development, Tom Herbert A. Claiborne III, J.D. Maness. These new additions to the team, along with their fundraising colleagues across Richard M. Clary, M.D. GRAPHIC DESIGN / Kevin Schindler Art and Design Charles F. Crone campus, are responsible for making sure your gifts support lifesaving developments, such as George P. Emerson Jr. ——— ——— ——— the new state-of-the-art Cardiac Imaging Suite at VCU Health Pauley Heart Center and the Steve Gaidos The MCV Foundation was established in 1949 to announcement of the Christine B. and David E. Cottrell Surgical Innovation Laboratory at the Sheryl Garland inspire and steward philanthropy that supports the VCU School of Medicine. Jeffrey H. Gumenick MCV Campus of Virginia Commonwealth University. We’ve enjoyed spending time this year with our donors and the wider communities in Basil Leonard Hurst III Richmond and Williamsburg. The Discovery Series event in October was an opportunity Darius A. Johnson We support the clinical care, research and education Susan Kornstein, M.D. for our friends in Williamsburg to hear directly from VCU Health experts about the latest mission of our MCV Campus partners: VCU College John A. Luke Jr. of Health Professions, VCU School of Dentistry, advancements in diagnosis and care. In September, we hosted our second event in partnership David A. Lyons VCU School of Medicine, VCU School of Nursing, with the Virginia Museum of History & Culture to explore specific milestones in medical history J. Keith Middleton VCU School of Pharmacy, VCU Massey Cancer Center and how VCU Health is prepared to protect and treat Central Virginians in the future. H. Frederick T. Moore and VCU Medical Center. COVER STORY Our connection with the community reached even further through our continued Robert F. Norfleet Jr. marketing outreach, which included comprehensive advertising throughout the region Rebecca T. Perdue Ghulam D. Qureshi, M.D. We manage over $600 million in assets to ensure and the second issue of NEXT magazine, a publication highlighting the innovative research A Year of Anniversaries W. Taylor Reveley III the MCV Campus remains at the forefront of 4 happening across campus. James H. Revere Jr., D.D.S. excellence and innovation in patient care, research Celebrating our storied past and turning our gaze toward the next 180 years. Looking ahead, we are optimistic about so much on campus. VCU Health is building a Michele A. Romano, M.D. and education. Through more than 1,700 funds, 16-story outpatient facility at the corner of North 10th and East Leigh Streets; in February, the John W. Slyh, C.P.A. we provide scholarships, professorships, research health system announced plans to build an 86-bed inpatient children’s hospital on Marshall T.K. Somanath and program funds to support the lifesaving work Street; and this spring, we helped the College of Health Professions cut the ribbon to their new Ellen E. Spong occurring at VCU Health every day. These funds Tracy Kemp Stallings 154,000-square-foot building that will centralize all 11 of the college’s units. allow VCU students, healthcare providers and MCV FOUNDATION NEWS MCV CAMPUS GIVING James H. Starkey III researchers to be on the cutting edge of healthcare 8 24 Thank you for taking the time to learn more about the exciting changes on campus and all Judith Forehand Starkey We honor some of the MCV The Pauley family continues delivery, offering patients the most exciting the ways that people like you are making an impact on the life-changing patient care, research Kit T. Sullivan, D.D.S. Campus’s most impactful leaders its support of VCU Health ● treatments and medical technology available. and education happening at VCU Health every day. Harry R. Thalhimer and trailblazers at our annual by helping establish a state-of- Richard P. Wenzel, M.D., M.Sc. We honor the history of the Medical College dinner and awards ceremony. the-art Cardiac Imaging Suite. Michelle Y. Whitehurst-Cook, M.D. of Virginia and the value of philanthropy to Sincerely, Spencer Williamson healthcare education, research and service. Ex Officio Members: ——— ——— ——— Michael Rao, Ph.D. GOING GREEN / If you would prefer to President of VCU and receive this magazine via email, please contact MCV FOUNDATION EVENTS MCV CAMPUS NEWS VCU Health System 16 36 [email protected] to be added The partnership with our friends Looking ahead to the largest Harry R. Thalhimer Margaret Ann Bollmeier Marsha D. Rappley, M.D. to the email distribution list. in Williamsburg continues to capital construction project in Board Chair President Chief Executive Officer, VCU Health System and Senior Vice thrive through our 10th Discovery VCU Health System history. President, VCU Health Sciences Series event. 2 Chronicle of Giving Summer 2019 MCV Foundation MCV Foundation Chronicle of Giving Summer 2019 3 Chronicle of Giving Cover story 1838: 1898: A Year of Anniversaries The VCU School of Medicine turned 180 in 2018. The VCU School of Pharmacy turned 120 in 2018. In November of 1838, the medical department at Hampden-Sydney College opened Celebrating our storied past and turning our gaze in Richmond, and by 1844, the department had moved into the building that today toward the next 180 years. stands as one of VCU Health’s and VCU’s most iconic structures, the Egyptian Building. Ten years later, the department received an independent charter from the Virginia General Assembly to become the Medical College of Virginia. Since then, VCU School of Medicine has provided world-class patient care, research and education through a civil war, two world wars, pandemics, depressions and many other times when Richmond and the country needed help most. ● 1893: Under the direction of Jean-Venable “Kelly” Goode, Pharm.D., director of The VCU Schools of Nursing and community pharmacy practice at the Dentistry turned 125 in 2018. VCU School of Pharmacy, P3 student Brian Snow practices giving a vacci- nation to fellow P3 student Jaymin VCU School of Nursing celebrated its At the VCU School of Nursing’s 125th Anniversary Patel. Photo courtesy of VCU School Gala, students dress in nursing uniforms seen of Pharmacy milestone at the 125th Anniversary throughout the profession’s history. Pictured from Gala at The Jefferson Hotel in left to right with era of uniform: Andrea Berger, The VCU School of Pharmacy October. Founded in 1893 as the 1950s; Shirley Barlow, 1940s; Jerica Santorum, 1980s; Jedidiah Fung, present-day; Stephanie Rudderow, traces its roots to 1898, making Virginia Hospital Training School, 1890s. Photo courtesy of VCU School of Nursing it the oldest pharmacy school the School of Nursing has evolved in Virginia. It has been a leader from offering a diploma in nursing and adapted through the years as to offering bachelor’s, master’s and pharmacy practice evolved from doctoral degree programs. It has the art and science of compound- graduated more than 11,000 nurses ing and dispensing medicine to a and now enrolls approximately 800 The Egyptian Building has been patient-focused practice. Today, students annually. a part of the VCU School of the school teaches 600 Pharm.D. Medicine for nearly all of the That same year, the predecessor and graduate students, utilizes school’s 180 years. The history to the School of Dentistry opened of this iconic structure is shown more than $9 million in research in the 1890s, 1930s and 2010s.