ISSUE 9 ISSUE FALL/WINTER 2019 FALL/WINTER

IMPACTUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND MEDICAL CENTER

Champions for Transformation Hospital leaders, donors, and supporters embrace the future promise of UMMC

NEWS FOR DONORS AND FRIENDS IN GRATITUDE New Fund Aids Catastrophically Determination. Advocacy. Commitment. Resiliency. These words describe the character of a champion. Injured Patients At the University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC), our champions are our doctors, nurses, and hospital THE UPMAN ENDOWED FUND FOR R ADAMS staff who dedicate their lives to healing the sick and COWLEY SHOCK PATIENTS discovering new, lifesaving treatments; they are our provides support for lodging, transportation, and food patients and families who put their trust in us and share their story to inspire others; and they are our dedicated donors, like you, who invest in the advancement of hen a person survives a catastrophic , it’s not patient care, research, education, and technology. only their physical scars that run deep. Below the At UMMC, our champions don’t wear gold medals or surface, many people struggle psychologically and seek the spotlight. They walk among us in the hallways W emotionally. Some face isolation, crippling debt, and of our hospital and on the streets of our communities; an inability to work. Life as they know it will never be the they stay up all night to care for a sick child or make a same and accepting this reality can be one of the biggest generous gift to fund a groundbreaking clinical trial. challenges of all. You are among our close circle of supporters on Carole Upman knows these circumstances all too well, whom we rely to advance our mission. I have the unique having devoted much of her life to helping this population. opportunity to see our visions become a reality thanks In 1991, she founded and became president of Chesapeake to your support. It has been one of my greatest Disability Management, Inc., an organization that offers privileges as the President and CEO of UMMC. catastrophic case management services to injured workers. As of December 1, 2019, I will be the new President While she has since retired and closed the company in and CEO of the University of Maryland Medical System March of this year, Carole oversaw a staff of knowledgeable, (UMMS). I am extremely humbled that our Board of experienced nurses and vocational counselors who worked Directors has shown such trust and confidence in my with injured workers with intense rehabilitation needs. abilities, vision, and commitment to our system. “These injured workers may require long distance Together, we have accomplished a great deal for transportation or a rehabilitation service at home in a UMMC. As I move into my new role, I will remain different state than they experienced the injury,” Carole committed to our mission of patient-centered care, explains. “It takes creative planning and backup plans to education, research, and community engagement. move to the next level of recovery.” Alison G. Brown, MPH, will step in as your interim As a registered nurse, certified case manager, and nurse president and is no stranger to UMMC, having spent life care planner, Carole has seen some of the most extreme most of her career with UMMS and serving as the and complex cases — second or third degree burns over 80 President of the Midtown Campus. to 90 percent of a person’s body, traumatic brain , It has been an honor to serve as your President and spinal cord injuries, and crushed/amputated extremities. The CEO, and I look forward to building on the foundation people Carole served were injured on the job and her role we have created together. Thank you for being was to help these patients navigate through the various our champion. challenges of surviving a catastrophic event. She addressed matters such as worker’s compensation, communicating

Mohan Suntha, MD, MBA with insurance companies, offering support to the family, President and Chief and helping the patient regain their independence. Executive Officer “Whatever the needs were, my purpose was to make this University of Maryland an easier experience for them. These individuals were Medical Center coping with a plethora of problems,” she explains. The Marlene and Stewart Many people that Carole encountered over the years Greenebaum Professor of received treatment at the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Radiation Oncology Center. Her relationship with Shock Trauma began in the University of Maryland School of Medicine 1970s, when she first learned of the “” and saw up close the inner workings of the trauma center. To this day, Carole remains impressed by the highly orchestrated care that occurs for every patient, in every circumstance.

2 IMPACT | FALL/WINTER 2019 Carole and Michael Upman established The Upman Endowed Fund for R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center Patients to help injured workers and trauma patients with everyday needs, such as lodging, transportation, gas, parking, and food.

“There are systems and protocols in place at Shock Trauma help with everyday needs, such as lodging, transportation, not only administratively, but medically to help ensure that gas, parking, and food. the team doesn’t miss potentially life-threatening issues that “Not everybody has as much on reserve as we’d like may go unseen in other facilities,” she says. these days. The idea is that if the patient or family has an Carole provided emotional support as well. The mental toll urgent need, but doesn’t have the financial resources to fill that a catastrophic injury takes on both the patient and their it, the fund will cover the cost,” Carole explains. “I want the family is substantial — and when a person’s livelihood is family to have what they need to stay involved in their loved dependent on the use of their body, the emotional cost is one’s recovery.” that much higher. She and Michael feel blessed that they have the means “When you take away their ability to work, it’s devastating to provide this opportunity to future patients and families. psychologically and socially,” Carole explains. “They don’t While she knows the fund won’t solve every challenge, know what their role is in society and they don’t know if Carole hopes it will at least bring some respite during an they have a role in society. How are they going to be able extremely trying and difficult time. to recover when they’ve defined themselves by what they “I hope this fund makes their life changes more tenable physically did? And many of these folks have done hard and eases some of the new challenges that they will have to physical labor.” learn to navigate,” Carole says. “And maybe take down some Over the years, Carole witnessed the relentless grief of of the barriers to wellness.” patients who lost so much of their livelihood due to their injury. She also recognized the difference that having — or not having — family support made in their recovery. Involved and present families can boost the patient’s “Not everybody has as much on morale, help move them forward, and give them hope for reserve as we’d like these days. the future. However, many families cannot shoulder the daily costs that come with visiting their loved one — especially I want the family to have what if the family lives far away and their relative is hospitalized for weeks or months. they need to stay involved in To alleviate this obstacle, Carole and her husband, Michael, their loved one’s recovery.” established The Upman Endowed Fund for R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center Patients. Carole’s admiration for Shock Carole Upman Trauma coupled with her longtime advocacy for severely injured workers inspired the creation of the fund, which will

3 MEET OUR CAMPAIGN CHAIR

hen asked to serve as Chairman Maryland Greenebaum Comprehensive came to grips with the great difficulties of the Campaign Committee for Cancer Center (UMGCCC). Both she and traumas of her condition, never W the Roslyn and Leonard Stoler and Dr. Kirwan were deeply impressed complaining, always in good spirits, Center for Advanced Medicine, by the expert, compassionate, and and invariably displaying her Dr. William ‘Brit’ Kirwan readily agreed. coordinated care of the entire charming sense of humor right until The former Chancellor of the University medical team. the very end.” System of Maryland and current “It was a difficult time for us, but Scheduled to break ground next year, Chairman of the Kirwan Commission we always felt so welcomed and so the nine-story Roslyn and Leonard felt a sense of personal obligation to beautifully cared for by the talented Stoler Center for Advanced Medicine join such an important effort. professionals at the Greenebaum will be constructed above the main “I’ve had a very long and wonderful Comprehensive Cancer Center,” he says. entrance of the University of Maryland relationship with the University of While Patty passed away from Medical Center at 22 S. Greene Street. Maryland Medical Center. It’s just complications of the disease in 2018, It will be an incredible resource for always been one of the real joys of my Dr. Kirwan’s steadfast commitment to future generations faced with a cancer professional life to have had this the advancement of cancer care diagnosis and will enable advancements relationship,” says Dr. Kirwan, who also continued. His role as Campaign in patient care, research, and discovery. serves on the University of Maryland Chairman is undoubtedly reflected in “I look forward to helping this Medical Center Board of Directors. his affection for Patty, whom he first transformative project come to fruition. “But I think my greatest emotional met in the seventh grade and was We have such amazingly talented attachment comes from the cancer married to for 58 years. people who are really working at the care that my wife, Patty, received when “Patty taught my family, our friends, cutting-edge of research on cancer she was diagnosed with multiple and me an invaluable lesson — how to treatments,” Dr. Kirwan says. “When myeloma in 2010.” face life’s greatest challenges with you think about a brand-new facility For eight years, Patty underwent grace and courage,” Dr. Kirwan says. with all the best possible equipment multiple forms of therapies and “It was really, in so many ways, such and spaces, there’s no limit to what the treatments at the University of an inspirational thing to see how she Center will be able to accomplish.”

4 IMPACT | FALL/WINTER 2019 Remembering Marlene Greenebaum

The last mile of this year’s Maryland Half Marathon & 5K honored the life of one of our most dedicated and generous champions.

arlene Greenebaum was known for a wonderful woman who was extremely her kind words and compassion passionate about cancer care, research, M when speaking to people with and discovery. When she would visit cancer. She and her late husband, with cancer patients, I know she made Stewart, made the founding gift to the life a little brighter for them. Her University of Maryland Marlene and photos and quotes along the race Stewart Greenebaum Comprehensive course brought a similar feeling to Cancer Center (UMGCCC) in 1996. many of our runners and walkers.” Drawing from her own cancer This year’s Maryland Half Marathon experience, Marlene brought comfort & 5K attracted more than 1,700 to countless patients and their families runners and raised a net revenue of over the last two decades. more than $375,000 for cancer “She was the embodiment of grace research, the highest ever raised for and compassion along her own cancer Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum UMGCCC. It will benefit ground- journey and in how she supported breaking research in several areas others in theirs,” says Mohan Suntha, Advisors and the University of including lymphoma and leukemia, MD, MBA, president and chief executive Maryland School of Medicine Board of prostate cancer, and brain cancer. officer of the University of Maryland Visitors, and is the cofounder of the “The legacy of Marlene Greenebaum Medical Center. annual Maryland Half Marathon & 5K. is seen every day through our Marlene passed away last December In this year’s race, Michael dedicated achievements and progress in cancer at the age of 80, leaving behind two the final mile to his mother. Inspirational care,” says Kevin J. Cullen, director of children, three grandchildren, and an quotes and photos lined the streets of UMGCCC. “Marlene was a dear friend extensive legacy of giving to UMGCCC. “Marlene’s Mile,” giving runners an extra and benefactor who turned her Marlene and Stewart’s passion for boost of encouragement as they experience with cancer into a advancing cancer care and research headed toward the finish line. mission to help those who suffer from lives on through their son, Michael, who “It was really special to honor my the disease here in Maryland and serves on the UMGCCC Board of mom this year,” Michael says. “She was around the world.”

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Samantha Greenebaum, Heather Greenebaum, Michael Greenebaum, and Robbie Greenebaum ran in honor of Marlene Greenebaum. Runners are off to a quick start at the Maryland Half Marathon & 5K.

5 6 IMPACT | FALL/WINTER 2019 Champions for Children

hen Jill and Chris Davis visit the Baltimore Oriole want to encourage and empower University of Maryland Children’s them in the hope of watching them Hospital (UMCH), a big smile Chris Davis and his grow into caring, compassionate, W appears on the face of every wife, Jill, recently generous leaders who are inspired to child in our care. Since 2016, Jill and help those in need.” made a lead gift Chris have been champions of our The new suite will position the mission. Their initial gift of mamaRoo to construct the hospital to meet the growing needs of infant seats to the Drs. Rouben and Evelyn Kay Davis seriously ill children. In the Children’s Violet Jiji Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Heart Program alone, surgeries have (NICU) provides comfort to every Congenital Hybrid increased by 50 percent within the past premature or critically ill baby; their Catheterization year and the new addition will help it annual participation in Crush’s Homers reach its fullest potential. for Hearts Home Run Derby inspires Suite, a state-of- “We are incredibly grateful to Jill and others to give and brings awareness to the-art unit that will Chris for their steadfast generosity, our institution. commitment, and time they spend with benefit countless Once again, Jill and Chris stepped up our young patients,” says Steven J. to the plate by making a $3 million gift young lives. Czinn, chair of the Department of to construct a new, state-of-the-art Pediatrics at the University of Maryland Pediatric Hybrid Catheterization/ School of Medicine and director of Operating Room. Their generous gift is UMCH. “Their interaction with patients, the largest philanthropic donation from families, and staff, coupled with a Baltimore sports figure to UMMC. community-wide events like Crush’s “This is a cause that is close to our Homers for Hearts Home Run Derby hearts,” says Chris. “Everyone at the supports the lifesaving work being hospital has inspired our family — from done within our hospital — specifically the patients and families who show the innovations with our nationally such courage in the face of recognized Children’s Heart Program, overwhelming challenges to the which has seen tremendous growth medical professionals and caregivers and stellar patient outcomes.” who dedicate their careers to saving Mohan Suntha, MD, MBA, president and improving lives.” and chief executive officer of UMMC, Chris and Jill named the new unit says: “This remarkable gift from Chris after their daughter, Evie, who was and Jill Davis will benefit children born with a ventricular septal defect in throughout the state of Maryland January 2018. The Evelyn Kay Davis “This is a cause that and beyond. It will provide critical Congenital Hybrid Catheterization support to expand the resources and is close to our Suite will be a comprehensive surgery technology available at the University center equipped to perform lifesaving hearts. Everyone at of Maryland Children’s Hospital — pediatric surgeries. including a new cardiac catheterization “We are committed to showing our the hospital has lab and operating room — allowing daughters that with great privilege inspired our family.” our world-class experts in children’s comes great responsibility,” Chris says. heart disease to provide the most “As their father, I pray that my girls advanced care possible. We are Chris Davis will embrace opportunities to serve grateful to Chris and Jill Davis for their others and love as they are loved. I generosity and partnership.”

7 PLANNED GIVING AT UMMC

THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND MEDICAL SYSTEM FOUNDATION appreciates the many gifts it has received over the years from grateful patients and friends through their estate plans. A planned gift can have a dual impact. It can provide for you and your family and, at the same time, secure a strong future for our institution. Your financial and philanthropic goals can determine the type of planned gift that is best for you.

There are many planned giving opportunities available to leave a lasting legacy to the University of Maryland Medical Center, including:

Bequests • An outright gift providing the satisfaction of extending impact and interests beyond a donor’s lifetime • May reduce or eliminate estate taxes

Appreciated Securities • Charitable income tax deduction for full fair market value of the securities • Avoid capital gains taxes that would have been due if a donor sold appreciated securities

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LIVE PLANNED GIVING AT UMMC TOGIVE

CORINNE “PEACHY” SCHWARTZ had a zest for life that matched the color of her hair — a Life Insurance vibrant outlook that complimented a generous • May enable a donor to make a larger gift than through a and compassionate personality. Most everyone bequest or cash donation referred to her as Peachy, a nickname that • Gift credit and an immediate income tax deduction for the originated from her peachy cheeks as an cash surrender value of the policy infant, recalls Richard Schwartz, one of her Real Estate three children. • Income tax charitable deduction based on the full fair market Peachy and her late husband, Joseph, value of the property were benefactors of the University of Maryland • Avoidance of capital gains taxes on the appreciated portion Medical System. They named the Joseph of the value and Corinne Schwartz Division of Transplantation at the University of Maryland Retained Life Estate Medical Center and the Schwartz Stroke and • Donate property, but retain the use of the property (such as a Brain Injury Center at Kernan Hospital, now residence or farm) during benefactor’s lifetime the University of Maryland Rehabilitation & Retirement Plan Assets Orthopaedic Institute. • Distributed directly to a beneficiary who is named to receive Before Peachy passed away at the age of the plan assets 94 this past December, she planned one last • Extra tax savings from donation of retirement plan assets, major gift — a bequest to benefit the Children’s which are subject to income taxes and may also be subject to Heart Program at the University of Maryland federal estate taxes for individuals who inherit them Children’s Hospital, which is on the leading- edge of discovery into new treatments and Charitable Lead Trust therapies for pediatric heart disease. • Possible estate and gift tax savings “‘I live to give’ — that was really her • Income tax deductions may be possible for value of payments philosophy. She wanted that quote on her made to charity headstone,” Richard says. • Assets eventually returned to a donor’s loved ones Inspired by his parents, Richard has also Charitable Gift Annuities Trust given significantly to the University of Maryland • Immediate charitable income tax deduction for a portion of Medical Center in support of the R Adams the gift Cowley Shock Trauma Center and the • Fixed income for a donor and/or second person for life Drs. Rouben and Violet Jiji Neonatal Intensive • Income payments can begin immediately or can be delayed Care Unit. until a future date chosen by the donor “My mother loved when I told her I made • When the gift annuity ends, assets used for a purpose the a donation and would always ask me, ‘How donor designates much?’ and then would say, ‘Give more,’”

Richard laughs. “Our family always hoped Charitable Remainder UniTrust that our giving changes lives and saves lives — • Immediate charitable income tax deduction for a portion that would be the ultimate gift.” of the gift • Fixed or variable income for a donor and/or another person • Specified term (generally a donor’s lifetime) • Income based on a payout rate chosen by the donor • When the trust ends, assets used for a purpose the donor designates

To learn more about planned giving opportunities offered by the University of Maryland Medical System Foundation, please contact us at 410.328.5608 or visit www.ummsfoundation.org.

9 The Ronny Maher Memorial Polo Match has benefitted Shock Trauma for 22 years. Honoring Tradition

t’s been more than two decades down. The following weeks and months Ronny Sr. eventually moved to a rehab since a medivac transported Ronny were physically and emotionally facility, but nine months later passed Maher, Sr. to the R Adams Cowley difficult, recalls Ron Jr., but the team away due to various complications that Shock Trauma Center following a of surgeons, doctors, and nurses at evolved. Three weeks later, the Iserious fall from his horse while Shock Trauma helped to ease the Maryland Polo Club held a game in his foxhunting on Thanksgiving Day 1996. family’s stress. memory. While horses were always a An avid rider and foxhunter since “They made a bad situation part of Ronny Sr.’s life, polo came to childhood, Ronny Sr. and his son, bearable,” says Ron Jr. “If there was him later in life — and he absolutely Ron Jr., enjoyed foxhunting together ever an issue or a question, there was loved the sport. almost every Saturday and on holidays always someone at our side saying, About 50 family members and friends throughout the winter months. ‘This is what you need to do now.’ We attended the memorial game. As Ron Jr. While the trauma team saved Ronny knew everyone by their first name — and his cousin, Mary Bee Gaines, looked Sr.’s life, the accident severed his spinal all of Dad’s nurses and doctors. It was around, they saw the smiling faces of column, paralyzing him from the neck like an extended family.” their loved ones and thought an annual

10 IMPACT | FALL/WINTER 2019 Honoring Tradition

polo match could become a new tradition that celebrates the life of his father while benefiting Shock Trauma. This idea occurred 22 years ago. The Ronny Maher Memorial Polo Match has since grown into an annual fundraiser that attracts more than 500 people every summer. For $70 per ticket, guests enjoy a polo match, dinner and drinks, live music, and a silent auction. Over the last two decades, the event has collectively raised approximately $1 million for Shock Trauma. Ron Jr. will continue to host the Ron Jr. coordinates most of the annual polo match until “people stop event logistics, from gathering coming.” For now, there does not sponsorships and silent auction items appear to be an end in sight. While to confirming the caterer and finding a several years have passed since the band. His wife, Peggy, manages guest accident, Ron Jr. vividly remembers check-in and the silent auction; while and forever values the comprehensive his sons, Ron III and Jack, handle data and compassionate care his father entry and guest transportation. Many received at Shock Trauma. It is the of the same people attend year after dedicated team of doctors, nurses, year, including Jane Aumick, the and staff at Shock Trauma who inspire trauma nurse who cared for Ronny Sr. him to plan a fun and successful in Shock Trauma. benefit every year. “For many years, I knew everybody “There’s just something about the there. They were all family, friends, spirit of the people who work there and neighbors,” Ron Jr. says. “But over and the dedication to their patients,” the years, I find that I do not recognize Ron Jr. says. “The staff doesn’t see the names that were coming up, which them as just patients, they see them as is kind of cool. It means that more people with families. Yes, they treat the people are finding out about it and trauma, but they also treat the family coming out.” and they do a phenomenal job.”

A Special Thanks to the Generous Sponsors of the 2019 Ronny Maher Memorial Polo Match

Core Design+Build, The One Group of Keller Williams, Loane Brothers, Apple Ford Lincoln, Chesapeake Employers’ Insurance, Kinsley Construction, Printing Corporation of America, FX Studios, Beltway Companies, Gala Cloths, Amalia Seiguer, Rosemary Harder, and Dr. and Mrs. Barry Daly.

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Kids Being Kids

Wrapping up its fifth year, Camp Open Arms once again provided children with limb differences a carefree summer camp experience. Founded by Dr. Joshua Abzug, Camp Open Arms gives children an opportunity to participate in a variety of activities including hiking, water balloon fights, arts and crafts, and a ropes course. The weeklong camp is not only a place of acceptance and happiness for children with limb differences, but also for their parents and loved ones to build camaraderie and hope together. Camp Open Arms held its annual Jamboree in September as well. The event raises funds for the camp while also giving campers and their families another opportunity to spend time together. This year’s Jamboree included a very special performance by America’s Got Talent winner Darci Lynn Farmer and her friend, Edna.

IMPACT is published by the University of Maryland Medical System Foundation

Mohan Suntha, MD, MBA President and Chief Executive Officer, UMMC The Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Professor of Radiation Oncology, University of Maryland School of Medicine Louise Michaux Gonzales, Esq. Chair, UMMC Board of Directors Janice J. Eisele Senior Vice President, UMMS Foundation Copy: Jennifer Lehman Keir Design: SDYM, Inc. Photography: Tracey Brown, Larry Canner, Chessie Photo, Maximilian Franz, Robert Keller, Dan Kubus/Baltimore Orioles, Thomas Ritterhoff, Stephen Spartana

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