® SPRING 2013 NON-PROFIT ORG. U.S. POSTAGE PAID Catalyst PERMIT NO. 22328 Cedars-Sinai Medical Center LOS ANGELES, CA 8700 Beverly Boulevard, Suite 2416 Los Angeles, California 90048 Catalyst IN THIS ISSUE The Bonds of Health Head Strong PIMCO founder Bill Gross A childhood of agonizing and his wife, Sue, make migraines, and the “blessings a transformational gift to of adversity,” led Ozioma Cedars-Sinai’s Advanced Nwosu — now a Cedars-Sinai Health Sciences Pavilion. Washington Scholar — to a career in neuroscience. Love, Actually Lipstick Service Herb Klein honors his wife’s Volunteer makeup artists memory and the people at help cancer patients face Cedars-Sinai who entered the mirror and restore their Circle of Friends. their self-confidence. Healthy Passions Love of family and health The Multiplier Effect are married in Jim and Sue and Bill Gross on Linda Lippman’s life. Fostering Health in Los Angeles, and the Transformative Impact of the Advanced Health Sciences Pavilion Contents Redefining Modern The Starting Point Medicine for the Community The Major Catalyst Catalyst hope this new issue of Catalyst finds you and your loved ones 10 The Bonds of Health thriving and in the best of spirits. Catalyst is published 10 three times a year by the PIMCO founder Bill Gross and his wife, Sue, make a transformational This is an exciting year for Cedars-Sinai and the community we serve. Community Relations and gift to Cedars-Sinai’s Advanced Health Sciences Pavilion. IThanks to the generous and steadfast support of our donors, the Advanced Development Department of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. The Philanthropic Spark Health Sciences Pavilion (AHSP) is slated to open its doors this summer. The groundbreaking facility solves a modern problem: The traditional Senior Vice President for 14 Love, Actually 16 Healthy Community Relations and buildings and organizational structures of many institutions do not Herb Klein honors his Development Passions always lend themselves to the rapid translation of scientific discoveries Arthur J. Ochoa, Esq. wife’s memory and the Love of family people at Cedars-Sinai and health are into practical advances. The AHSP will bridge this gap by bringing Director, Development who came to be her married in one researchers and clinicians into common spaces to encourage unplanned Communications 14 16 Kenneth Ross friends. couple’s life. interaction, and to share insights and solutions. Senior Editor 18 Global Race to the Top The 11-story, 820,000-square-foot structure will house the Cedars-Sinai Laura Grunberger Lynn Arce steps out of California and into her comfort zone — the world — to gain international Heart Institute and neurosciences programs as well as laboratories Editorial Coordinator support for run for her. for the Regenerative Medicine Institute, a state-of-the art surgery and Louise Cobb procedure center, and a unique training center. The Pavilion was born Managing Editor from the idea that experts who work Susan L. Wampler in different specialties would benefit Editorial Assistant “Though it is a sophisticated facility, the tremendously from each other’s insights. Amanda Busick Pavilion is no ivory tower — it was designed to Their collaboration at the AHSP will Art Direction accelerate the pace of discovery as well The Doyle|Logan Company 18 maximize patient comfort and convenience.” as the development of new treatments Event Photographers and procedures that can save lives. Alex Berliner Vince Bucci 20 From China, With Love Synthesis Our aging population faces a rising tide of heart disease and Curtis Dahl Mending Kids neurodegenerative disorders, and patients are already beginning to Thomas Neerken International 36 Lipstick funds surgery Servıce benefit from breakthroughs such as heart stem cell therapy and a team’s second Volunteer makeup artists vaccine against brain cancer — trailblazing techniques that emerged from medical mission help cancer patients face the minds of Cedars-Sinai researchers. The new Pavilion is ideally poised to a Chinese the mirror and restore to harness the very best in research and efficiently turn new discoveries orphanage. their self-confidence. 36 20 into unparalleled care. Though it is a sophisticated facility, the Pavilion is no ivory tower — it The Starting Point 6 Take Flight to Fight 28 Board of Governors was designed to maximize patient comfort and convenience. Imaging, 1 Redefining Modern Medicine Women’s Cancer 30 The Heart Foundation laboratory, pharmacy services, and a variety of guest resources make for the Community 7 Best Shot for Prevention Lawrence B. Platt 31 The Helping Hand of the Pavilion a comprehensive facility for patients seeking the ultimate in 7 In Memoriam: Los Angeles modern healthcare. Building Momentum Leon Morgenstern, MD 2 Heart Health Matters 32 The Fashion Industries Guild Our community has nurtured Cedars-Sinai since the dawn of the 20th 8 Meeting Needs Beyond 34 The Pink Party century. Today, we are deeply grateful to the visionary donors — people 3 Volunteers Make Patient the Numbers Votes Count Illuminations like Bill and Sue Gross, featured in this issue — who helped make the Forward Motion © 2013 by Cedars-Sinai Medical Center 3 In Memoriam: 40 Philanthropic Tributes Advanced Health Sciences Pavilion a reality. We are privileged to stand side Letters to the editor, address changes, 23 Appointments, dedications, Cedars-Sinai Medical requests to be added/removed from our Stanley Freeman and events in the by side with them in our shared mission of hope and healing. mailing list, or all other inquiries can be Center Honor Roll addressed to Catalyst, Cedars-Sinai Medical 4 Head Strong Cedars-Sinai community Center, 8700 Beverly Blvd., Suite 2416, Connections Los Angeles, CA 90048. We can also be 5 In Memoriam: Dynamic Energy 49 Upcoming Events reached by phone at (323) 866-6732 and Carmen Harvey Warschaw 26 Women’s Guild Lawrence B. Platt|Chairman, Cedars-Sinai Board of Directors by email at [email protected]. E CATALYST SPRING 2013 1 Building Momentum Volunteers Make Clinton conference Patient Votes Count galvanizes commitments in community health ome 120 Cedars-Sinai patients were able to cast their votes in the from Barbra Streisand, presidential election on November 6 — with the help of the Volunteer SServices Department. Twenty-five volunteers visited patients’ rooms others. the day before the election with absentee voter applications, gathered the necessary information to determine eligibility, and then took the forms to the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder. The diligent volunteers waited for the ballots, which “The honor is mine they subsequently distributed to patients of taking care of on Election Day. They then delivered all our patients the completed ballots to the nearest here at Cedars- polling place. Sinai. Just to “Our volunteers take Heart Health Matters great pride in being see them getting part of our democratic President Bill Clinton and the Clinton Foundation hosted the second process by helping better every day annual Health Matters: Activating Wellness in Every Generation conference patients exercise their is very rewarding. at the La Quinta Resort & Club in Palm Springs. The event convened right to vote,” says more than 400 stakeholders from the worlds of healthcare, public policy, Allison Rotter, Volunteer The patients business, education, individual wellness, and sports to identify strategies Services manager. “It to promote and improve individual healthy lifestyles in the home, the also means a lot to wouldn’t be community, and the workplace. those patients who want Among the esteemed participants were C. Noel Bairey Merz, MD, their voices heard and happy without all director of the Barbra Streisand Women’s Heart Center and the their votes counted but the good people Women’s Guild Chair in Women’s Health at Cedars-Sinai, and aren’t able to go to their 1,462 Barbra Streisand, who pledged $2 million toward a campaign polling place.” working with me.” Number of trees saved by Cedars-Sinai to increase heart-health awareness and education among employees recycling more than women. The initiative will maximize the Heart Center’s — Bonshere San Juan, clinical 85 tons of paper and leading expertise in research in heart disease treatment for In Memoriam: partner, 7 South West Rehab, who 39 tons of cardboard the benefit of women nationwide. Stanley Freeman, First Life Trustee was recently honored by a patient in only two months The Health Matters conference announced a total of 31 through a Circle of Friends gift pledges, with investments in disease prevention reaching usinessman and civic leader Stanley Freeman recently passed away over $100 million — which will affect more than 25 million at the age of 98. A loyal Cedars-Sinai supporter for more than half By making a gift through Circle of Friends, you help Cedars-Sinai make people across the United States. a century, Freeman played an important role in the merger in 1961 B advances in biomedical research, between Mount Sinai Hospital and Cedars of Lebanon that led to the “The pledges made during this conference will educate tomorrow’s physicians, and undoubtedly impact many lives for many years to come,” said Medical Center as we know it today. An early chair of the Cedars-Sinai continue to serve the community. Streisand at the event. Board of Governors, he was elected as the first Life Trustee in 1985. For more information about Circle of Freeman is survived by his wife, Annetta; daughters Claudia and Shelley; Friends and how you can say “thank Above: Chelsea Clinton discusses “Access to Healthy Lifestyles” with Dr. C. Noel Bairey Merz and son, Charles. you,” visit csmc.edu/circleoffriends. at the 2013 Health Matters conference. 2 CATALYST SPRING 2013 CATALYST SPRING 2013 3 Building Momentum Head Strong A childhood of scientists while participating in cutting-edge In Memoriam: Carmen Harvey Warschaw agonizing migraines, research. Ozioma is the first recipient in the armen Harvey Warschaw passed and the “blessings of program’s nine years to receive a yearlong internship, which includes a $30,000 to away on November 6.