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TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE 2019 REPORT ON PHILANTHROPY
Create. Inspire.
Empower.
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$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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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chairs faculty supports alumni to date
funded positions research
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Campaign Goal: 10 Campaign Goal: 400 to Date: $262,298,034
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