--- Page 1 --- TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE 2019 REPORT ON PHILANTHROPY Create. Inspire. Empower. --- Page 2 --- $16,068,470 $1,762,986 THE NUMBER OF SUPPORTED THE SCHOOL DOLLARS RAISED IN OF MEDICINE ANNUAL FUND THE 2019 FISCAL YEAR DURING THE 2019 FISCAL YEAR TOTAL GIVING SCHOOL OF MEDICINE 3-YEAR COMPARISON GIFTS BY ALLOCATION Number of Number of contributing dollars raised donors FY 2019 $16,068,470 3,803 FY 2018* $50,524,615 3,592 FY 2017 $14,218,330 3,461 FY 2015 FY 2016 FY 2017 FY 2018 FY 2019 Dean’s Fund for Excellence *FY18 numbers reflect a one-time $25 million estate gift. Adopt-a-Student Scholarship Fund Dean’s Discovery Fund for Medical Research Annual Fund............................................$1,762,986............. 11.0% Matching..................................................$18,687................0.001% Individuals...............................................$2,244,169.............14.0% FY 19 GIFTS Gift Planning*..........................................$271,968.................. 1.7% BY Corporations and Foundations.............$1,604,250.............10.0% SOURCE Sponsored Research...............................$7,146,736.............44.5% Bequest Intentions*................................$3,019,675.............18.8% *Non-binding future commitments Tulane’s fiscal year runs from July 1, 2018 – June 30, 2019. ON THE COVER: Current Tulane medical student Jean Lafontant (center) gets a helping hand from Mike Woodson (left), assistant director of admissions at the School of Medicine. Photograph by Bach Imagery --- Page 3 --- MESSAGE FROM THE DEAN Tulane University School of Medicine is surging ahead, transforming lives Family Creates Scholarship through insightful education, trailblazing research and Fund in Memory of compassionate care. We are achieving those successes through the generosity and commitment of donors like you. Remarkable Newcomb Grad Your support does outstanding things at Tulane School of Theirs was a romance for the ages. In her memory, Allyn’s family Ira Udell was a young medical established the Allyn P. Udell Medicine. This year, 3,803 student at Tulane University when Creative Medical Scholars Endowed alumni, donors and friends he saw a beautiful young woman Fund at Tulane School of Medicine. contributed $16,068,470 in across the room at Rosh Hashanah The fund will award a scholarship support of the school. Your services. Immediately smitten, he for a female medical student in the generosity is making an asked his roommate to help him Creative Medical Scholars Program. important difference in every uncover her identity. Preference will be given to a student aspect of our mission, allowing Two weeks later, Ira had her conducting cancer research. us to improve human health name (Allyn Sue Padawer) and The Udell family wanted to create by performing innovative phone number. He overcame his research, to deliver high- a fund at Tulane that would have shyness and made a cold call to the quality patient care and to train brought delight to Allyn, who was Newcomb College undergraduate. tomorrow’s leaders. well known for her positive outlook She captivated him at their first and concern for others. “She would In the following pages, we date at Camellia Grill. Less than a be happy knowing that somebody at celebrate just a few of the year later, they were married. Tulane was going to be benefitting many ways that philanthropy “It was a romance straight out of a from it,” Udell said. is elevating Tulane School of book,” Ira said. “It was a love story.” Medicine. Thank you for the The Allyn P. Udell Hello Dolly Foun- Allyn graduated from Newcomb in dation will honor an extraordinary many ways your support is art therapy in 1973, Ira graduated woman. Her legacy of selflessness making a difference across from Tulane School of Medicine in the School of Medicine. and optimism will surely live on in 1974, became an ophthalmologist, the prospective physicians who Sincerely, and they had three children. Then, receive the award bearing her name. when Allyn was in her 40s, she started experiencing back pain when she played tennis. An x-ray showed If you are interested in the Allyn P. Udell L. Lee Hamm, MD that she had multiple myeloma, a Creative Medical Scholars Endowed Senior Vice President and cancer of plasma cells. Allyn fought Fund, please contact Holly Gulden at Dean, School of Medicine for her life and lived 21 more years. hgulden@tulane.edu or 504-314-7625. --- Page 4 --- FACULTY Tulane athletes are some of The Class the best and brightest in the of 2023 190 first-year students country. By establishing a fund selected from that we plan to grow into a Chair, 12,982 applicants we can ensure Tulane athletes 92 women and 98 men receive the best care possible. 37 students are first- – FELIX H. “BUDDY” SAVOIE III, MD CHAIRMAN OF ORTHOPAEDIC SURGERY | CHIEF OF SPORTS MEDICINE generation college students When fully funded, the Felix “Buddy” and Amy Savoie 26 percent are Endowed Fund will support the lead Orthopaedic Sports underrepresented minorities Medicine Team Physician. RESEARCH PATIENT CARE A NEXT- A REWARDING GENERATION WHOOPING COUGH PARTNERSHIP Tulane School of Reunion VACCINE The National Medicine began a Snapshot new partnership with Institutes of Health Children’s Hospital 347 reunion celebrants awarded Tulane New Orleans earlier supported the school School of Medicine an $8.55 million contract $8. this year to collaborate through gifts and pledges on clinical, academic totaling $1,142,003. to develop a more and research activities effective and longer- in pediatrics. Through lasting vaccine against this agreement, Tulane The class of 1979 broke pertussis, more commonly known as physicians now see an all-time record with over “whooping cough.” pediatric patients 60 classmates in attendance. Microbiologist Lisa at the Children’s Morici, PhD, and Uptown campus and its network of satellite This year, over immunologist James McLachlan, PhD, will specialty clinics across 368 alumni returned lead the project. the region. to attend their reunion. --- Page 5 --- An Acclaimed Leader In time, Grant Hieshima, MD (M’69) Anita Assembly Center. Grant took his pioneering new therapies for aneurysms would become an internationally name from Camp Grant in Rockford, and vasospasm and becoming a full acclaimed leader in the field of Illinois, where his father was stationed professor at the University of California, interventional neuroradiology, but he when he was born. San Francisco. He was named director wasn’t initially sure he wanted to of the Neuroscience Institute at the Grant said, “We were very grateful pursue medicine at all. St. Joseph’s Medical Center in Orange to Tulane for having accepted my County, California. Growing up, he noticed that the long father. It made a huge difference in all hours involved in a thriving practice of our lives.” Looking back on a career that kept his father Asaichi S. Hieshima, produced innovative techniques and Grant began his career at Tulane as an MD (M’49) away from his greatest saved countless lives, Grant said, “My undergraduate, applying to the School hobby: fishing. And that struck Grant most important contributions had to of Medicine before he had enough Hieshima as a deal-breaker. do with training other doctors to not credits to graduate. “They accepted only do procedures but to think of As Grant matured, he reflected upon me, so I might be considered a college innovative ways to treat things that the generosity and respect with which dropout that never got a bachelor’s hadn’t been treated before.” his father treated his patients and degree. But that gave me good decided to embark upon a career in incentive to finish medical school.” At his 50th class reunion in 2019, medicine. His father offered to help—on Grant was awarded the Tulane Medical He excelled as a medical student, the condition that Grant attend his own Association Lifetime Achievement winning the coveted Oscar Creech alma mater of Tulane University School Award for his many contributions to Memorial Award in Surgery. He of Medicine. It almost seemed like fate the field of medicine. seemed destined to become a to Grant, after all, his father taught him surgeon, but the Vietnam War Asked what advice he would share with to fish in New Orleans City Park. intervened. With a bad number in the up-and-coming physicians, Grant said, Asaichi, a World War II veteran, had draft lottery, Grant was unable to find “Sometimes your career is not a single- applied and been accepted into Tulane a surgical residency. He completed a minded effort to do something from School of Medicine while he, his wife radiology residency at Harbor/UCLA early on in your training. Sometimes Medical Center and found a new we have to adjust and adapt. I feel like Yoshi Alice and their young son Grant passion, continuing on to subspecialty my life and career has been that way— were interned at the Camp Amache training in neuroradiology and nuclear I certainly don’t have any regrets.” Japanese American internment camp medicine as the war ended. in Colorado. Grant spent the first three years of his life in the internment In the years that followed, Grant Grant Hieshima, MD passed away camps, having been born at the Santa rose through the academic ranks, suddenly in August 2019. --- Page 6 --- Non-Profit Organization U.S. Postage PAID New Orleans, LA Permit No. 647 143 0 T U L A N E AV EN U E , # 8 745 N E W O R L E A N S , L A 70112 CAMPAIGN PROGRESS AT-A-GLANCE $1.09 billion BUILDING AN ENVIRONMENT raised during the Only the THAT SUPPORTS EXCELLENCE Audacious campaign to date* 4 of 7 construction projects completed ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIPS Yulman Stadium Innovative medical student $109,670,316 The Goldring/Woldenberg educational spaces Business Complex The Steven and Jann Paul Hall total commitments to date Mussafer Hall for Science and Engineering Campaign Goal: $125 Million+ The Commons New Residential Quad FACULTY EXCELLENCE RESEARCH ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT 6 356 20.2% 54,106 presidential endowed raised to date engaged chairs faculty supports alumni to date funded positions research to date to date Total Research Commitments Campaign Goal: 10 Campaign Goal: 400 to Date: $262,298,034 *ALL TOTALS AS OF 10/31/2019