ANNUAL REPORT 2018–2019 Table DREAM BIG. of Together, let’s change the course of Contents lives and medicine. Message from the MUHC Foundation Chair Thank you. of the Board of Directors and the MUHC Foundation President ................................ 3 We want to express our gratitude to you, the donors who support the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) and its Research Institute (RI-MUHC) through our Foundation. You make everything possible. You Message from the MUHC Board of are the difference between mediocrity and excellence in health care. Directors Chairman ................................... 4 Thanks to your generosity and commitment to compassionate care, discovery and teaching, our Foundation Message from the MUHC President raised a total of $31 million, including investment revenue, this year. These funds drive innovation in and Executive Director ............................... 5 research, purchase state-of-the-art equipment, and support highly specialized programs that make the MUHC one of the top research hospitals in Canada. Within this annual report, you will see firsthand what Get Involved .............................................. 6 you, and donors like you, have helped achieve – the lives you’ve saved, the illnesses you’ve cured, and the pain you have relieved. Impact ..................................................... 10 We invite you to reflect on your impact, and to join us in looking ahead to the next phase of our dream for Research & Patient Care ...........................12 health care in Montreal. Celebrate for a Cause .............................. 16 The MUHC was born from a bold, and ambitious idea. As a community, we built this world-class hospital. Thanking our Donors ............................... 19 Now, we want to fill it with the top physicians and scientists and equip them with the technology and tools they need to practice the most advanced medicine. We want to establish North America’s leading centre of Women’s Health ...................................... 20 cutting-edge care, research and teaching. To accomplish this, we need to dream big. Awards & Recognition ...............................22 Let’s dream big for our families, our community, our city and our country. Together, let’s dream big and change the course of lives and medicine. In the News ............................................. 23 Financial Highlights .................................. 24 Norman Steinberg Ad. E., Chair of the Board of Directors Julie Quenneville, President The Honour Roll 2018 .............................. 26 Board of Directors ................................... 39 A message from Peter Kruyt A message from Dr. Pierre Gfeller On behalf of the Board of Directors of the MUHC, I am pleased to recognize the important contributions of the Assuring the best present and shaping a healthier future are always top of mind at the MUHC. MUHC Foundation to the mission of our academic health centre. That is why resting on our laurels is not an option. I wish to thank the Foundation’s leadership team, board and staff for their essential support working in tandem A strategic leader and partner, the MUHC comprises a talented and dedicated group of clinical towards our institution’s needs and furthering our medical leadership. The foundation’s successful performance and non-clinical professionals, as well as researchers. Each is motivated by personal and ca- is a solid reflection of its desire to promote excellence and innovation. I must also express heartfelt gratitude reer-oriented goals, but also by a mutual desire to promote interdisciplinary and inter-institutional to the donor community. Your generosity and sustained support encourages the MUHC to perform at the collaboration to improve the health outcomes and experience of patients. This compelling highest level. collective goal requires curiosity, tenaciousness of purpose and strong support. Under the leadership of MUHC president and executive director, Dr. Pierre Gfeller, the MUHC has recently Day after day, the MUHC’s teams fulfil the quadripartite mission that distinguishes them as an ac- begun working with the Board to define strategic priorities. It looks forward to ongoing collaboration with ademic health centre, namely: specialized and ultra-specialized patient care; fundamental, clinical the MUHC Foundation and to seeing it become an even stronger partner—one whose direction is aligned and health outcomes research; cutting-edge education; and the development and assessment with our goal of creating a healthier future for the population here at home and at large. of health technologies and modes of intervention. They weigh decisions carefully and take pride in their actions. They develop new practices and advocate for policy change. They work hard to assure a respectful and healing environment for patients, loved ones, visitors and colleagues alike. Peter Kruyt Excellence and innovation are not merely words heard in speeches or in messages; they resonate Chairman of the Board of Directors, McGill University Health Centre deeply within them and are, in fact, meaningful barometers against which they measure their efforts to transform the health care landscape in Montreal, in Quebec, across Canada, and around the world. With the help of the MUHC Foundation and our other hospital foundations, the MUHC can and will continue to make an exceptional impact on people’s lives. This annual report is a reflection of achievements that have benefited from the generosity of donors. On behalf of our teams and our patients, I extend heartfelt gratitude for your trust and for investing in excellence and innovation. Thank you for your ongoing support. Together, we’ll go farther than either of us can dream today. Pierre Gfeller, MD, CM, MBA President and Executive Director, McGill University Health Centre GET INVOLVED HOSPITAL HERO MONTHLY DONORS GET INVOLVED A heartfelt thank you Partners in Care, working together for At 33 weeks pregnant, first-time mother Julie Liebman a brighter future was admitted to the MUHC Birthing Centre, and told she would be placed on bed rest for the remainder of her pregnancy. Her husband Marc arrived that night ready for a lengthy stay. Neither suspected that their infant daugh- ter would be welcomed into the world in a most dramatic Rory Bertrand, a portfolio manager for the Lalonde-Doyon fashion only hours later. group at National Bank Financial, grew up in Montreal and studied Engineering before completing a joint Julie, her husband, and her parents were gathered in her Master’s degree at Concordia’s Goodman Institute. He is a room when the monitor recording the baby’s heartbeat dedicated professional who has committed to joining the broadcast a noticeable slowdown. It took only a moment Partners in Care program by giving monthly to the MUHC before Dr. Robert Gagnon, the obstetrician-gynecologist, Foundation. Every little bit helps, and small donations ran into the room, unhooked the monitor and wheeled every month add up to equal significant impact! her into the operating room. Our monthly donors are committed to advancing patient Julie and Marc’s daughter Léona was delivered by care, teaching and research, and by contributing regularly caesarian nine minutes later. What Julie remembers all year long, they are joining forces to raise the standards before slipping out of consciousness from the general of care and push the boundaries of research. As a young anesthetic she was given, was a steady calming voice, one Grateful patient Julie Liebman and her daughter Léona with her MUHC hospital heroes man Bertrand worked part-time as an aid to children with that reassured her she was being cared for by a team autism. He believes that experience contributed to his of people who knew what to do in this kind of medical present day commitment to philanthropy in the health emergency. care sector. Julie could not make out who her anesthesiologist was behind his mask, but he was the last voice she heard 2018–2019 REPORT ANNUAL before going under, and when Julie awoke in the recovery LA CAPITALE room, anesthesiologist Dr. Thierry Daloze was still there. MUHC FOUNDATION MUHC RECOGNIZING YOUR HEROES! In November, Julie thanked Dr. Daloze and two Birthing Centre nurses by making a Hospital Hero donation in their honour. The MUHC Foundation’s Hospital Hero Last Fall, La Capitale Insurance and Financial Services team joined the program connects patients and their families with the MUHC Foundation in honouring the nominees by doubling donations to our staff, physicians, and volunteers who have changed their Hospital Heroes program. This collaboration raised $90,000. All proceeds lives for the better. have been allocated to providing optimal patient care and encouraging Monthly donor Rory Bertrand took part in the MUHC Foundation’s Run for a Reason fundraiser scientific discoveries that will transform health care. Thank you La Capitale! 6 7 GET INVOLVED STRATEGIC GIVING PERSONAL FUNDRAISING GET INVOLVED Leave a legacy Gratitude as a driving force and prepare for tomorrow, today Easter weekend 2018 is one that Monica Flores will never forget. It was the weekend she was admitted to the MUHC Birthing Centre due to complications with her pregnancy. Monica was in the hospital for two months, before the twins were born at 33 weeks on June 7, 2018. It was a healthy and successful delivery by Dr. Alice Benjamin and the multidisciplinary team. By leaving a gift in your Will to the MUHC Foundation, you are ensuring the future “A complicated pregnancy can