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$100 millionand counting
The Campaign for Swedishsurpasses initial goal
Organ Transplantprogram celebrates40 years
Fall 2012
impactadvancing health care through philanthropy
THE GIFTOF LIFE
As Swedish’s chief executive, I am extremely pleased to report that The Campaign for Swedishhas successfully reached its $100 million milestone.Surpassing our initial goal with over a year left untilthe Campaign’s official end in 2013 is the result of a remarkable outpouring of support from generousindividuals, foundations and corporations in our community. It is also a deeply gratifying acknowl-edgment that Swedish is an important and valued resource for the people we serve.
The Campaign’s success is especially remarkablebecause it occurred during such a challenging time
for our nation’s economy. Once again, let me say how grateful we are to you,our donors and volunteers, for your support. By making yourselves part ofthis great institution, you have had a profound impact on our ability tocontinue providing the kind of world-class care that Swedish has long stood for.
Although we have reached this milestone, we are not yet finished. We will, as planned, continue the seven-year Campaign until December 31, 2013.During this “homestretch” period, we will continue seeking the philan-thropic support needed to develop and sustain key projects and activities throughout Swedish. We still have a list of critical unmet needs, and we arecommitted to making sure that the enhancements to Swedish that were made possible by the Campaign remain strong and vital resources for our community well into the future.
In this issue of IMPACT, you will learn about recent programs and activities that have been launched at Swedish thanks to philanthropic support.The Swedish RN Residency program, for example, provides training and mentorship to newly graduated nurses, building their competencies andconfidence, and strengthening their commitment to nursing careers. This issue also features the Swedish Organ Transplant program. Celebrating its 40th anniversary in 2012, this program has been growing and expanding its services in exciting ways in the past few years. In these pages you willlearn how this dedicated team of transplant physicians and caregivers isdramatically changing the lives of patients from our community and beyond.
On behalf of everyone at Swedish, thank you once again for your extra-ordinary support and ongoing commitment. The community’s generosityand belief in Swedish that enabled us to reach our $100 million milestone area source of pride and inspiration to everyone who works here. We lookforward to continuing this partnership and working together with you toimprove the lives of the patients and families we serve.
from the TOP
Warmest regards,
Kevin BrownChief Executive
EDITOR
DESIGNER
FEATURE WRITER
CONTRIBUTINGWRITERS
FEATUREPHOTOGRAPHERS
CONTRIBUTINGPHOTOGRAPHERS
Lindsay Hopkins
Angela Bogdanovich Turk
Jennifer Schaefer
Colleen BromenMary HackettGaynor HillsBob HinckRandy Mann
Rosanne Olson, Rosanne Olson PhotographyBen VanHouten, VanHouten Photography, Inc.
Swedish Medical Photography and VideoThor Radford PhotographyBen VanHouten, VanHouten Photography, Inc.
Swedish Medical CenterFall 2012
Volume 4, Issue 3
Welcome to Swedish Medical Center’s IMPACT magazine. This publication is designed to provide you with the latest information about Swedish services and events, health care andmedical topics, and the activities of the SwedishMedical Center Foundation and its supporters.IMPACT is published as a community serviceby Swedish Medical Center. Any questions orcomments may be addressed to Lindsay Hopkins,editor, Swedish Medical Center, 747 Broadway,Seattle, WA 98122-4307.
Thanks to your support, The Campaign for Swedish exceeds expectations
impactadvancing health care through philanthropy
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ON THE COVERSwedish transplant patient
Albert Behar, with his daughter —and kidney donor — Lea Hanan.
Here they pose with her kindergartenstudents after story time.
Cover photo by Rosanne Olson
$100 millionand counting
The Campaign for Swedishsurpasses initial goal
Organ Transplantprogram celebrates40 years
Fall 2012
impactadvancing health care through philanthropy
THE GIFTOF LIFE
CONTENTS
FALL2012
Feature
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16 Pedal powerCross-country ride generates $50,000 gift for Swedish MS Center
www.facebook.com/swedishmedicalcenter
www.twitter.com/swedish
www.youtube.com/swedishseattle
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2012 SummeRun recapFundraising continues through year-end
For additional content and information on waysto give, visit us at www.swedishfoundation.org
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To learn more about The Campaign for Swedish,visit www.campaignforswedish.org
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FoundationNews
A gift beyond compareSwedish’s Organ Transplant programcelebrates 40 years of changing lives
Achieving — and surpassing —a milestoneInitial $100 million Campaign goal reached,making a dramatic impact on patients at Swedish
Nurse Residency programSwedish creates program to ensuresuccess of new nurses
Leaving a legacyRuth and Milt Shindell makegenerous gift to the Rivkin Center
Introducingthe Turner SocietyNew group honors longtimeSwedish donors
1415 5th annual Brain Cancer Walk
Event inspires record-breaking attendance
Thanks to the Swedish Organ Transplant program, Albert Behar has resumed the activities he loves — like volunteering in his daugher’s kindergarten classroom.
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Photo by Rosanne Olson
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The Campaign for Swedishsurpasses initial $100 millionfundraising goal
March 2007First Campaign gift
of $1 million received from Bill and CherylGossman to advance
care in pediatrics through simulation
training
CAMPAIGN
January 2007The Campaign
for Swedish begins
$0
December 2007McDonald/Jonsson familiesmake $3 million investment
to launch Stellar Club programto inspire additional philanthropy
from the community
May 2008David and Sandra Sabey pledge
$2 million to help establishcomprehensive brain cancer program
April 2009The True Family makes
a $2 million gift tolaunch an $11 million effort
to open the True Family Women’s Cancer Center
July 2009$3 million research grant from
The Ben & Catherine Ivy Foundation creates the Ben & Catherine Ivy Center forAdvanced Brain Tumor Treatment
May 2010Swedish Heart & Vascular Institute
receives two generous gifts to advanceresearch and patient care: $1.5 million from the John L. Locke Jr. Charitable Trust and
$1million from Joe Clark
January 2010Campaign reaches
half-way point; over 39,000donors have participated
$50M
CANCER INSTITUTE:$18,853,636
OTHER SWEDISH PRIORITIES:(includes Rivkin Center) $17,794,150
NEUROSCIENCE INSTITUTE:$17,377,743
UNRESTRICTED:$12,081,190
COMMUNITY HEALTH PROGRAMS:$10,413,718
WOMEN & INFANTS:$4,946,359
CAMPUS SPECIFICINITIATIVES: $4,609,348
SYSTEM WIDEINITIATIVES: $3,315,010
January 2007Jonassen andTurner familieseach establish
$100,000endowed fundsto support art at
Swedish
HEART & VASCULAR INSTITUTE:$11,985,659
Today, Swedish benefits from nearly $20,000,000 annually in community support.
While we are grateful for the over-whelming support we have received, we are not yet declaring victory. Wewill continue to rely on supportfrom the community to meetsome of our most pressing needs.Over the course of the next 15 months — through December 31, 2013 — we have entered the “Campaign Homestretch.” Gifts generated during the Home-stretch period will be used to support a wide variety of pro-grams throughout the health-care system. Additional support is needed to achieve remaining pri-orities, as well as to meet the increasedpatient volumes generated thanks to newprograms and services created duringthe Campaign.
On behalf of all of us at Swedish whobenefit from your generosity — the doctors,nurses, and patients — thank you for help-ing us reach our initial $100,000,000 goal.Together, we’ll continue to make a lastingimpact on the health of our community.
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Thanks to more than 50,000 community members who made gifts to help improvethe health and well-being of our region, Swedish Medical Center Foundation is proud toreport that The Campaign for Swedish has reached its initial $100,000,000 fundraising goal,nearly 17 months early. On behalf of the 2,000,000 patients who have benefited, thank you.
T he Campaign for Swedish began over five years ago on January 1,2007, with an ambitious goal of
improving the care we provide to patientsin some of the most important areas ofhealth care, including Women & Infantsprograms, cardiovascular care, cancer and the neurosciences. The response fromthe community has been overwhelming. Below are just a few facts and figures that highlight how much our friends and neighbors value the important role Swedish plays in the overall health of our region:
– There were more than 50,000 donorsto the Campaign, with gifts ranging from$1 to $3,000,000.
– Generous donors gave 26 gifts of$1,000,000 or more.
– The average gift size to the Campaignwas $350.
– Over $11,800,000 was donated bySwedish’s own physicians and physician groups.
– Before The Campaign for Swedish began, community members contributed $8,000,000–$10,000,000 a year.
May 2010Swedish Heart & Vascular Institute
receives two generous gifts to advanceresearch and patient care: $1.5 million from the John L. Locke Jr. Charitable Trust and
$1million from Joe Clark
August 2010$1.5 million given by
450 donors to expand theNeonatal Intensive
Care UnitJanuary 2010
Campaign reacheshalf-way point; over 39,000
donors have participated
August 2011Bob and Pattie Arnold
endow newmedical director for
Heart Failure Programwith $2 million gift
November 2011Swedish/Edmonds
gala raises $420,000to support the
funding of charitycare and a
major expansionof cancer services
April 2012The MS Center atSwedish opens
thanks to $3.6 millionin generous gifts
July 2012Initial Campaign
goal reached
$100M
December 2011Child life specialistsat Swedish/Issaquah
are funded bygenerous support from
Mary Pigott
June 2012The True Family
Women’s Cancer Centeropens, funded entirely from $11,000,000
in community support from2,500 donors
October 2012Lytle family gives
$1 million to create The Lytle Center for
Pregnancy & Newborns
Fundraising to continue during the “Campaign Homestretch.”
October 2012 throughDecember 31, 2013The Campaign enters
the “Homestretch”as we continueto seek gifts forcritical needs
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Intensive orientation period ensures successful transition for new grads into hospital setting.
RN Residency program ensuresa bright future for Swedish nursing
As the largest professional group in our national health-care system, nurses are poised to play an in-creasingly important role in improving health-care delivery in America. Unfortunately, the aging of
America’s registered nurse (RN) workforce and the high rate at which younger nurses drop out of their demanding pro-fession — estimated to be 35 to 60 percent during the first year of employment — are forcing hospitals across the country to preparefor a serious impending shortage of skilled RNs in the next decade.
The good news is that Swedish has moved to address this looming problem with an inno-vative new program that, since its start-up in 2010, has become a model for turning newly- hired nursing graduates into skilled and com-mitted career nurses.
The Swedish RN Residency program provides recently graduated RNs with an intensive 12- to 16-week orientation period of instruction, simulation, evalua-tion, and mentoring from senior nurses while they transition to working in a hospital setting. The program, which started out training new RNs for assignment to Medical/Surgical and Adult Critical Care departments at Cherry Hill and First Hill, is currently serving four Swedish campuses and provid-ing training in a growing list of specialties that now includes Neonatal Intensive Care, Telemetry, Labor and Delivery, Post-partum Care and Emergency Care.
Following assignment to a Swedish department after their orientation period, residents continue to receive mentoring, support and training from the program’s nurse educators dur-ing their first year at Swedish. “The goal is to build compe-tency, confidence, professionalism and commitment to nurs-ing through a growth experience that is comparable to the training physicians receive during their residencies,” says June Altaras, Swedish’s chief nursing officer. Altaras led a team of
senior Swedish nurses who spent months studying national best practices for training new RNs before designing the pro-gram to fit Swedish’s needs and resources.
So far, the program is meeting this goal. “We are excited by what a difference it is making,” Altaras says. “Nurses who have com-pleted their residencies haven’t had to cope with much of the stress
that can arise during a sudden transition from nursing school to a job in a hospital like Swedish, where nurses work with seriously ill patients and routinely face life-threatening situations. Retention is up, and we think it’s because the morale of these residents is way up. Their confidence is way up. The senior nurses keep telling us how impressed they are by the level of professionalism the residents show after just a few months on the job.”
Annika Pisciotta, a new nurse who came to Swedish in November 2011, par-
ticipated in the RN Residency program after receiving her de-gree from the University of San Francisco and echoes Altaras’ enthusiasm for the program. “It’s one of the reasons I came to Swedish,” she says. Pisciotta is now working in the Inten-sive Care Unit at First Hill. “It could have been overwhelming to start fresh in an ICU after college,” she says. “There is so much information you need to have, so many things you need to know to give these patients the care they need. The instructors in the RN Residency program made it manage-able and made sure we were up to speed and comfortable before we took on all that responsibility.”
Altaras is confident that the Swedish RN Residency pro-gram will continue to expand its ability to prepare more nurses in more specialties. “This is important to our future,” she says. “Thanks to this program, we are recruiting some of the best new RNs out there, and more of them are becoming the kind of nurses we will need to keep providing the kind of care that Swedish stands for.”
“Thanks to this program,
we are recruiting some of
the best new RNs
out there....”
JUNE ALTARAS Chief Nursing Officer
On Monday, February 11, 2013, the first annual Destination Swedish luncheon will be held at the Sheraton
Seattle Hotel. This new event will raise critical funds to support the RN Residency program. To learn more about how philanthropy will make an impact on this program or to make a gift in support of nursing excellence, please contact Becca Kelly at (206) 386-2138 or [email protected].
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Swedish shatters any vestige of a glass ceilingglass ceiling for women in medicine has existed throughout history. Lower
acceptance rates at medical schools trans-lated into lower graduation rates. Fewerpracticing physicians created a smaller poolof eligible women for leadership positions and fewer mentors for women considering a medical career.
There has been considerable progress since the first woman graduated from aU.S. medical school in 1849, withwomen accounting for 48 percentof medical school graduates in 2011.(1) Nevertheless, women re-main underrepresented in the ranks of senior academic and hospital leadership in many health-care organizations.
At Swedish Medical Center, however, the glass ceiling has beenshattered. In addition to Nancy Auer, M.D., an emergency-medicine phy-sician serving as chairwoman of the Swedish Community Board, Swedish currently has three female chiefs of staff. This is not the first time a woman physician has beenelected chief of staff at Swedish, but it is the first time women have filled all three positions at the same time.
This unique benchmark has gone largelyunnoticed at Swedish — a testament to the medical center’s progressive nature and history of being at the forefront of positive change. Dr. Auer has been a trailblazer atSwedish. Throughout previous tenures as
chief of staff, chief medical officer, and VP ofMedical Affairs, Dr. Auer was a role model formany women physicians. They were fortun-ate to witness firsthand her ability to juggle herpersonal and professional life, while assumingdemanding leadership responsibilities.
Lily Jung Henson, M.D., a neurologistand one of the three current chiefs of staff, acknowledges Dr. Auer as her mentor and role model. “This very strong and articulatewoman took a special interest in me when I first came to Swedish,” says Dr. Jung Henson.
“She was our pioneer — a tremen-dous role model for all of us.”
Dr. Jung Henson is the first chief of staff at Swedish/Issaquah, which opened in late 2011. Rath-er than taking the helm of an ex-isting medical staff, she has been responsible for unifying disparate groups. Dr. Jung Henson calls Issaquah a “laboratory” for bestpractices. She has used her cog-
nitive skills, as well as her passion forpatient care, to engage physicians in devel-oping a medical-staff culture that embodiesthe essence of Issaquah.
In January 2011, three months afterStevens Hospital in Edmonds affiliated withSwedish, Michelle Sinnett, M.D., assumedthe chief of staff position of the newly-created Swedish/Edmonds campus. She knew physicians were supportive of affili-ation, but also anxious to retain their inde-pendence. It fell on Dr. Sinnett to guide them through the challenges that naturallyoccur during mergers.
“It was comforting to meet the other Swedish chiefs of staff,” says Dr. Sinnett. “Iwas instantly reassured that we shared a visionto provide exceptional care for our patients.”
In addition to being chief of staff, Dr.Sinnett is a full-time surgeon and mother.Despite never been gender focused, she brings to her job some of the best charac-teristics commonly associated with women — setting clear expectations and conse-quences, and leading through gentle per-suasion and a sense of fairness.
In Seattle, Mary Weiss, M.D., is com-pleting her second year as chief of staff of the hospitals at Swedish’s Ballard, CherryHill and First Hill campuses. The collegialityand multispecialty collaborations she relieson and fosters as a family-medicine physicianhas earned her the confidence of her peers.
“As a practicing physician I wanted things to work better,” says Dr. Weiss. “Itwas a natural step to accept leadershippositions, so I could help improve the practice environment and patient care.”
Dr. Weiss’s leadership style blends out-reach to seek input from those most affectedby an issue with the desire to keep meetingslively and physicians engaged. Diplomacyand extensive leadership experience havemade her an effective change agent.
At Swedish, these four exceptionalwomen have replaced the glass ceiling witha higher bar for all physicians.
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Left to right: Michelle Sinnett, M.D., chief of staff, Swedish/Edmonds; Lily Jung Henson, M.D., chief of staff, Swedish/Issaquah; and Mary Weiss, M.D., chief of staff, Swedish/Ballard, Swedish/Cherry Hill and Swedish/First Hill.
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Nancy Auer, M.D., Chairwoman, Swedish Community Board.
By John H. Vassall II, M.D.Chief Medical Officer, Swedish Medical Center
John Vassall, M.D, a board-certified internist, oversees patient safety, regulatory compliance and other medical affairs matters.Reprinted with permission from the Washington Healthcare News. To learn more about Washington Healthcare News visit wahcnews.com.(1) Association of American Medical Colleges, “U.S. Medical School Applicants and Students 1982-83 to 2011-12.”
an upbeat 46-year-old who lives with
her husband and three sons in Renton,
is the first to admit that she’s a daddy’s
girl. It’s obvious to all who meet them
that the kindergarten teacher at Seattle
Hebrew Academy and her dad, Albert
Behar, share a special bond. As the
firstborn daughter (she has three older
brothers and a younger sister), Lea has
always been known to Albert — a one-
time vice president at Pierce County
Medical — as “Princess No. 1.”
“As a child, I was quite the tomboy,
and it felt special to have one person
see me as others did not,” says Lea, who
benefited along with her siblings from
many significant life lessons imparted
by Albert, including the importance of
giving back to her community. From
encouraging his children to bring gifts to
a home for disabled kids in rural Pierce
County each holiday season to serving
as a longtime volunteer in Lea’s kinder-
garten classroom (where he’s known as
“Grandpa Albert”), “he taught me from
a very early age to help people less for-
tunate than myself, and about the joy
found in giving to others.”
Lea had a chance to put this lesson
into practice in June 2010, when, a week
after Father’s Day, she gave her dad a
very special gift — one of her own
kidneys, a donation that saved his life.
Lea Hanan,
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Daughter and donor,Lea Hanan, with her father andkidney recipient, Albert Behar.
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THe GIFTthat
KeePS ONGIvING
Words by
Jennifer SchaeferPictures by
Rosanne OlsonContributing photography by Ben VanHouten
lbert learned that his kidneys weren’t functioning prop-
erly during a routine checkup in 2006 — a discovery that
surprised her very active father, says Lea. Since he learned
about the condition at an early stage, he was able to manage
it with regular visits to a nephrologist and also by making
healthy changes to his diet to improve his overall health. “My
father is very proactive — whenever
the need for care presents itself, he
confronts the issue and takes the
necessary medical steps to address
and hopefully resolve it,” Lea reflects
on her dad, who has beaten basal
cell carcinoma, prostate cancer and
thyroid cancer in the past 15 years.
By 2008, however, Albert’s kid-
ney function had declined to the
point where he had a crucial decision
to make: to begin dialysis or start the
process to receive a kidney transplant.
His response was to ask doctors to
place him on the U.S. Organ Trans-
plant Waiting List, where he joined more than 80,000 men,
women and children suffering from end-stage kidney failure
(including 1,400 in Washington) awaiting transplants.
“My dad never asked any of his children to donate a
kidney,” says Lea. “He’s a matter-of-fact kind of man — he simply
explained the situation to us.” But when they discovered how
long the waiting list was, as well as a few other key facts —
such as that the chances of a successful transplant are higher
for patients who have the surgery before starting dialysis,
and that receiving a kidney from a family member carries the
best chance of compatibility — Lea and her brother, Michael,
decided to be tested. “It’s so important to all of us that our
father has a long, healthy life,” says Lea.
Initial tests determined that Lea was the best match for
Albert. It took her a year to prepare for the surgery, which
requires that donors be in top physical condition. She tackled
the challenge head-on by improving her diet and working
out five to six days a week. “I became a gym rat,” she says of
her workout program at the Renton Community Center, which,
along with regular walking, she con-
tinues today.
Despite the inherent risks of
donating an organ, Lea’s husband,
Kevin, and three sons — Jacob, then
15; Albert (named after her father),
then 13; and Joey, then 9 — were
supportive of her decision from day
one. “Their encouragement and com-
fort made me realize that this was
a true family affair and that every
person played a role in healing my
father,” says Lea. “I believe my sons
learned a valuable lesson from this
experience: that we as a family would
do anything to support each other, and that we have the capa-
bility to share our good health with others.”
Since Lea is a teacher, it was decided that the surgery
would take place on June 28, 2010, to allow her to finish the
school year and spend the summer recovering. Albert — who
has said he is “humbled by his daughter’s generosity” — “was
very much looking forward to the surgery so he could begin
the process of healing,” says Lea.
With Swedish’s Andrew Precht, M.D., performing Albert’s
surgery and Marquis Hart, M.D., performing Lea’s, both pro-
cedures were a success. “I had no complications, and neither
did my father, which is a real blessing,” says Lea. “I remember
walking into his room the day after the surgery, and the enor-
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mity of it all hit me — I thought, ‘Wow, my kidney is inside my
father’s body right now, keeping him alive.’ I felt so lucky that
I could give something so important to such an amazing man.”
Celebrating 40 years of transplants
lbert and Lea’s experience is just one of thousands
of happy outcomes brought about by Swedish’s Organ
Transplant program, celebrating its 40th anniversary this
year. Part of only a handful of such programs in the Pacific
Northwest, the world-class Transplant Center on Swedish’s
First Hill campus serves as an invaluable community re-
source and also provides
transplants to patients
from as far away as Wyo-
ming, Alaska, Montana
and Idaho — states that
do not have transplant
programs of their own
— thanks to physician
outreach.
“T h e S w e d i s h
Transplant program —
one of the first in the
state — has a long, good
standing in this com-
munity,” says Dr. Hart,
the Organ Transplant program director. “It’s always been at
the forefront of innovations, from adopting the less-invasive
laparoscopic procedure for kidney transplantation to devising
different strategies for steroid withdrawal after kidney trans-
plants, so that patients don’t have to take steroids for the rest
of their lives.”
He adds, “We’re also one of the few medical centers where
the transplant team all belongs to the same department. We’re
all aligned in the same clinic, which is helpful for patients.”
The program’s highly skilled surgeons and multidisci-
plinary staff — ranging from hematologists to nutritionists to
social workers who focus on the emotional needs of donors
and recipients — specialize in three types of transplantation:• KIDNeY TRANSPLANTS. The most common of all
solid-organ transplants, kidney transplants offer patients
with kidney failure the opportunity to lead healthy, more nor-
mal lives. The procedure has an excellent one-year post-sur-
gery survival rate: 97 percent for those who receive a kidney
from a living donor and 92 percent for those who receive a
kidney from a deceased donor.
• PANCReAS TRANSPLANTS. Most pancreas trans-
plants — usually performed on patients with type 1, and
occasionally type 2, diabetes who require lifelong insulin
therapy — are performed at the same time as kidney trans-
plants. Recipients are often battling advanced chronic renal
failure or end-stage renal disease, and/or are on dialysis. The
surgery can improve the quality of life for diabetics by pro-
viding them with a healthy pancreas that can produce insulin
from a donor who has been declared brain-dead but is still
on life support. • LIveR TRANSPLANTS. Swedish’s newest transplant
procedure, started in
2 010, prolongs life for
patients suffering from
end-stage liver disease
and acute liver failure.
The treatment is highly
successful, with more
than 80 percent of pa-
tients going on to be-
come long-term survi-
vors, and the quality of
life for these patients is
excellent.
The vast majority
of transplants performed
at Swedish are kidney transplants — doctors have done
nearly 2,000 of these surgeries in the past 40 years and cur-
rently perform 80 to 100 annually. Comparatively, only four
to five pancreas transplants a year take place at Swedish.
In the 18 months since the medical center’s Liver Transplant
program was introduced, doctors have completed 11 of these
surgeries, with the number expected to rise to 50 to 60 trans-
plants annually as the program continues to grow and new
doctors are recruited, says Dr. Hart.
“We’re excited by the liver program’s initial success and
hope to soon be able to care for many more transplant patients
throughout the Pacific Northwest,” he says.
New developments in kidney transplants
ince the first kidney transplant was performed at Swed-
ish in 1972, the medical center’s growing program has
benefited from many innovations. Two of the most signifi-
cant, the Benevolent Community Donor program and the
Paired Kidney exchange, are designed to increase the
number of kidneys available from living donors, and thus
Marquis Hart, M.D., director of the Organ Transplant program at Swedish.
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Kidney transplant patient,Chenta Chen.
the transplant surgery’s success rate.
As its name implies, the Benevolent Community Donor
program matches patients on the national donor waiting list
with altruistic individuals from the community who volunteer
to anonymously donate a kidney, without having a specific
recipient in mind. “The program is celebrating its 10th anni-
versary this year,” says Lisa Florence, M.D., director of the
Kidney Transplant program. “Swedish was the first in the
Northwest to offer this type of program, which is now grow-
ing around the nation.”
Rather than soliciting organ donors, says Dr. Florence,
the Benevolent Donor Program simply acts as a resource for
people who want to help, many of whom are longtime blood
donors and/or are on the bone-marrow donor list, or have
known someone who died waiting for a transplant. Since the
program’s launch, it has matched nearly 30 people in need of
a kidney with a donor. Potential donors are required to undergo
a rigorous screening process, both physical and psychological,
with only one out of every 10 meeting all the necessary re-
quirements (those who don’t are counseled about other ways
they can help).
who experienced firsthand the profound significance of the
gift of a kidney from an individual he didn’t know previously is
Redmond resident Chenta Chen, who received a kidney trans-
plant at Swedish in November 1998. Born in Taiwan in 1953,
Chenta — father of three daughters with wife Su Ling —
is the founder and president of Protrade International Corpo-
ration, a multinational trading company based in Redmond
and Asia. After being diagnosed with chronic kidney disease
in the early 1990s, Chenta added his name to the national
donor waiting list and also started dialysis. “I felt good on
dialysis,” he says.
“A lot of dialysis
patients don’t
choose to pursue
a transplant; they
depend on dialy-
sis for the rest
of their lives be-
cause it becomes
a daily routine
and makes them
comfortable. But the longer you spend on dialysis, the riskier
a transplant becomes.”
In time, daily dialysis started to wear on Chenta, and
The Chen family (left to right): Jamie, wife Su Ling, Edenne and Chenta.
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Another Swedish program
Marquis Hart, M.D. is theOrgan Transplant program director,and Lisa Florence, M.D. serves as theKidney Transplant program director.
he began losing weight and feeling tired. It was at that point
that a client put him in touch with a friend from church who
was interested in donating a kidney. “The donor believed in
doing something good for others,” says Chenta, who met the
29-year-old a few times during the months-long screening
process. The two even exchanged gifts — Chenta presented
him with a sweater, and the donor gave Chenta a Pink Floyd
CD, a band they both liked. After their successful surgeries,
the two talked on the phone a few times. “I thanked him, and
he told me, ‘I’m OK’ and to take care,” says Chenta.
He continues, “To me, organ donation is about appreci-
ating the belief that a person can do good and come out and
help society. It shows the beautiful side of the human spirit.”
Since his transplant, Chenta — who has made the most
of his clean bill of health by traveling to destinations from
Antarctica to Japan — has become a major donor to Swedish’s
Organ Transplant program. His gifts have helped fund innova-
tions such as the creation of a robotic kidney transplant pro-
cedure that results in a smaller surgical incision, says Dr. Hart.
Giving back to the program that helped save his life
feels good, says Chenta. “I was lucky to get this kidney, and
now I want to carry on and help others suffering from organ
failure — to extend the luck.”
that’s saving lives, the Paired Kidney exchange, was intro-
duced in 2006 for friends and relatives willing to donate a
kidney to a loved one in need, but who subsequently discover
that their blood or tissue type is incompatible with that
person’s. Sometimes, another potential donor finds himself
or herself in a similar situation, and the two donors might
be compatible with each other’s intended recipient. In this
event, they can donate their kidneys to one another’s loved
one — a win-win situation that, on average, occurs at Swedish
at least once a year.
“To increase the chance that compatible recipient/
donor pairs are found, the Swedish Transplant program
has partnered with other transplant centers in the state and
across the nation,” says Dr. Florence.
What’s more, she continues, the Paired Kidney exchange
and the Benevolent Donor program can work together to
create a domino effect, benefiting more patients than either
would independently. Dr. Florence cites a recent example
where a kidney donation through the Benevolent Donor
program went to a patient with an incompatible donor in
the Paired Kidney exchange. The incompatible donor, in
turn, gave a kidney to another patient in the Paired Kidney
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Gould, RN, Swedish’s living donor clinical transplant coordi-
nator. “Most living donors who have gone through the pro-
cess are happy they did it, and if they had another kidney to
give, they would do it in a heartbeat,” she says. “Despite the
effort and pain, donating a kidney gives them such a good feel-
ing that they want to spread the word and don’t have any regrets.”
Both Lea and Albert were discharged from the hospital
within a week of their surgeries and spent the next few weeks
growing stronger at home, with help
from their family. That fall, Lea was
able to return to her classroom with-
out difficulty, and she’s successfully
kept off the weight she lost for the
surgery. “I feel strong, healthy and
ready for anything,” she says.
As for Albert, he continues to
live life to the fullest and “goes a
mile a minute, as he always has,” says
Lea. “He stops for nobody — his days
are always jam-packed. He’s in
impeccable shape, always owning
his health.” These days, Albert is
only required to get his kidneys
checked once a year, although he’ll
be on immunosuppressant drugs
for the rest of his life.
“My father and I are indebted to the staff at Swedish,”
says Lea, reflecting on her dad’s good health. “The role they
played in our lives is nothing short of a miracle.”
She adds, “My dad’s doctors tell him, ‘Albert, your daughter
sure gave you a good kidney.’ Nothing could make me happier
than hearing that.”
exchange, whose own loved one, in turn, donated a kidney
to another patient in the program. That patient’s loved one, in
turn, donated to a patient on the waiting list. As a result, four
patients received the kidneys they so desperately needed.
The role of philanthropyOf course, not everyone can donate a kidney, but the
financial donors who support the Swedish Organ Transplant
program help provide a multitude of
other essential services. “Donations
are used in several ways, such as to
help provide medication for those
who can’t afford it post-surgery or
lose their insurance,” says Dr. Flor-
ence. In addition, “Some of the
patients who come to Swedish for
a transplant from outside the Wash-
ington area don’t have the money to
stay here for as long as they need
to, and philanthropy can help with
that,” says Dr. Hart.
The promotion of donor aware-
ness and the funding of research are
two other areas where charitable
contributions make a difference.
Philanthropy also helps support the program’s future goals,
including increasing and enhancing outreach services to
Northwest states that do not have transplant programs, so
more patients can benefit from Swedish’s expert care.
A new lease on lifeLea Hanan says that the removal of her kidney was, in
some ways, tougher than she expected. “Thinking back on the
entire kidney donation experience, the positives outweighed
any difficulties a thousand to one.”
This positive reaction from donors is typical, says Diane
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Patients around the world come to Swedish for the pioneering expertise, highly-skilled surgeons, state-of-the-art facilities, and patient-centered care we offer.
Because Swedish is a nonprofit medical center, philanthropic support is vital to sustaining and advancing critical programs, including Organ Transplant. If you would like to learn more about the program,or to make a gift in support of high-quality care and cutting-edge services, please contact Ellen Kuo at (206) 386-6928 or [email protected].
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LEGACY
Rivkin Center receivesgenerous estate gift
aring, humble and altruistic are just a few words family members use to describe the late Ruth and Milt Shindell, longtime residents of Seattle. Clint Burwell, executive director of the Marsha Rivkin Center for Ovarian Cancer
Research, adds extremely generous to that list. Ruth and Milt met and married in Seattle before World War II.
A watchmaker and jeweler by profession, Milt went into business with Ruth’s brother Joe Berol. Throughout several decades, the two had three separate jewelry stores in downtown Seattle, the last of which closed in the late ’90s when the building it was housed in was demolished to make way for Benaroya Hall. Milt was known for his watch repair expertise and his willingness to help everyone, even people who could not pay. Ruth and Milt were married for 61 years.
During their long lives, Ruth and Milt gave generously to numer-ous charities, taking time to think about their impact in the greater community. They founded the Berol-Shindell Scholarship Fund at the University of Washington Hillel. When Ruth passed away in July 2011 at the age of 97, her estate plan included several significant bequests, including one for the Rivkin Center. At her request, this extraordinary gift will be put to use funding ovarian cancer research.
“Donor generosity, like that of the Shindells, has allowed us toincrease our annual investment in research from just $200,000 five years ago to more than $1.2 million this year,” says Saul Rivkin M.D.,founder and chairman of the Rivkin Center. “I am moved and over-whelmed by the trust the Shindells have placed in us by making such a significant gift through their estate plan.”
The Shindells’ nephew, Steve Hone, and his wife, Kate, are proud of the impact that this generous gift will make, adding: “We would be extremely pleased if their story inspired others to follow their lead in supporting the Rivkin Center’s very important mission.”
Since its inception in 1996, the Rivkin Center has beena principal catalyst for national and international research efforts aimed at find-ing solutions to ovarian cancer. In addition to funding research pilot studies andscholar grants to up-and-coming investigators, the Rivkin Center conducts early-detection screening and produces an internationally attended biennial research symposium.
Shindells make a huge impact on the Rivkin Center,ovarian cancer research.
Have you considered making a gift to the Rivkin Center through your estate plans? Making a planned gift is a
generous and thoughtful way to impact the future health of people in our community and beyond. To learn more
about the Rivkin Center and for more information about planned gifts, please contact Gaynor Hills, development
director, at (206) 215-2204 or [email protected].
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The Turner Society is named for Ned and Joyce Turner,whose extraordinary commitment to Swedish spans more than 40 years.
Celebrating loyalty:Swedish Foundation announces
the Turner Societyto honor longtime donors
When Ned Turner walked into the first day of fresh-man English at the Uni-versity of Washington, he
didn’t know he would be meeting his future wife. As the professor arranged the s tudents inalphabetical or-der, luck would have it that Joyce (née Tye) was placedright beside Ned. That chance en-counter would leadto what is now a 56-year marriage.
Joyce learned of the Turner fam-ily’s affinity and loyalty to Swed-ish early on, and when it was time to have children, there was no ques-tion where they would be born. Ned’s grandfatherwas one o f theoriginal 11 Swedeswho started Swed-ish Medical Center, and like his father and grandfather, Ned served on the hos-pital’s board, his term spanning 40 years. “It’s a family business, but we didn’t get paid,” a smiling Ned says.
After raising three children born and cared for at Swedish, Joyce decided she wanted to give back. An ardent believer
in the importance of art in the healing environment, she started the Art Com-mittee with Nancy Auer, M.D., and Marlene Dorsett as a means of enhanc-ing the patient experience and bring-ing staff and volunteers together. The
Committee has stewarded andenriched Swed-ish’s art collec-tion since 1988.Joyce also finds time and energyto volunteer atthe Corner Shopeach week andserves on the Des-tination Swedishevent committee.
“ N e d a n d Joyce truly em-body the word loyalty and how impactful it can be over time foran institution,”says Don Theo-philus, executivedirector of the Swedish Medical
Center Foundation. “When I think of ourmost devoted donors and volunteers, Ned and Joyce are always at the top of that list.”
The Foundation is honored to celebratethe loyalty of donors who have con-sistently supported the work of SwedishMedical Center.
Established in 2012, the Turner Societyrecognizes donors who have demonstratedtheir commitment to Swedish and the healthof our community through 25 consecutive years of giving. This society is named inhonor of Ned and Joyce Turner, whose long-standing support of Swedish is un-paralleled.
2012 InducteesDr. and Mrs. Kenneth N. Anderson (Sylvia)
Nancy Auer, M.D.
Dr. and Mrs. Robert C. Bain (Diane)
Janet and Glenn Edwards
Elizabeth Flett and Tommer Peterson
Mrs. Ruth Genauer
Donald G. Graham, Jr.
Dr. Martin Greene and Ms. Toby Saks
Marilyn and James Jonassen
Cynthia and Joe Kearney
Mrs. Frances Lindquist
Elizabeth Miller
Ms. Sharon Ogmundson
Mr. Robert Resta
Dr. and Mrs. Floyd A. Short (Faye)
Dr. and Mrs. Martin S. Siegel (Mimi)
Ned and Joyce Turner
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Society namesakes, Ned and Joyce Turner.
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Wanda Jankelson Foundation’s challenge to match SummeRun gifts lasts through year’s end.
2012 SummeRun & Walk is a huge success.
Ovarian cancer survivors being honored from the stage at the 2012 SummeRun & Walk. More than 3,000 individuals participated in this year’s event.
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Gray skies and cool breezes did not dull the spirits of the 3,000-plus participants in this year’s SummeRun & Walk for Ovarian Cancer. The mood of the event was
one of camaraderie and honor.On the morning of the event, the Marsha Rivkin Center for
Ovarian Cancer Research received a huge boost from longtimesupporter Roland Jankelson, who offered a challenge fromthe Wanda Jankelson Foundation for Health Care and Researchto match all gifts raised post-event — up to $100,000. Attend-ees were encouraged to give or raise an additional $30 to help meet the goal. To date, more than $500,000 has been raised through this event. Gifts can be made until the end of 2012 to take advantage of this challenge, either through the Rivkin Center website, www.rivkin.org, or by check sent directly to the Swedish Medical Center Foundation.
This year’s theme was “Celebrate the Teal.” The teal rib-bon is the symbol for ovarian cancer, and participants wore teal shirts as a reminder to onlookers that ovarian cancer is a devastating disease that needs strong support. The waves of runners and walkers moving through the Capitol Hill neigh-borhood made a powerful statement.
An emotional and heartfelt tribute to ovarian cancer survivorsstarted the event. A survivor of both breast and ovarian cancer,this year’s honoree, Joan Elvin, eloquently shared her movingstory and passionate commitment to advocacy. Carol’s Cause wasrecognized as the lead fundraising team (more than $48,000raised). Team Leslie once again brought an army of supportersand was awarded for having the largest team for the fourth yearin a row. The Rivkin Center’s wonderful partner, glassybaby,helped thank team leaders with gifts of beautiful aquamarine votives. The glassybaby goodwill program donates 10 percentto the Rivkin Center from the sale of each aquamarine votive.
With 100 percent underwriting by Swedish, all event pro-ceeds directly benefit the Rivkin Center and its mission: to save lives and reduce suffering through improved treatment, early detection and prevention of ovarian cancer.
Special thanks to BDA, the presenting sponsor, and all the other event sponsors, including Alaska Airlines, Aquafina, Celgene, Click 98.9, Free Road Films, glassybaby, HCP, 1150 AM KKNW, LUNA Bar, Seattle Nuclear Medicine, Skacel Collection, Inc., Swedish Medical Center Auxiliary/First Hill and Whole Foods Market.
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5th annual SeattleBrain Cancer Walk breaks records
ith more than 2,700 partici-pants and a fundraising total of over $675,000, the 2012
Seattle Brain Cancer Walk enjoyed a fifth consecutive year of success. Proceeds benefit the Ben and Cathe-rine Ivy Center for Advanced Brain Tumor Treatment and its partner institutions in the Seattle area. Funds raised through community support and sponsorships are used for clinical trials, immunotherapy research and genetic classification to improve predictive therapies. They also bring hope to families, friends and the 220,000 Americans — 1,200 here in the Pacific North-west — who are diagnosed annu-ally with a malignant brain tumor.
“Five years ago, we started the SeattleBrain Cancer Walk to bring hope and inspiration to patients and their loved ones. After years of tackling this disease, I’ve come to learn that it takes more than a purely medical approach,” says Greg
Foltz, M.D., director of the Ivy Center. “Patients who have brain cancer have needs that transcend those of patients suf-
fering from other diseases. The goal isto bring together brain cancer survivors, their families and friends, and walk to-gether to provide support and love for all who are going through a very hard time.”
The event was held on Saturday, Sep-tember 22nd at the Seattle Center’s
Attendance totals reach all-time high for fifth straight year.
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2011, when she was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor after experiencing a seizure on a family camping trip.
Fortunately, within days of her diagnosis, Holly, her husband, Eric, and their two
young children were sur-rounded by family, friends
and colleagues who offered encouragement and helpful advice, including
the recommendation that Holly seek specialized treatment at the Ben and Catherine Ivy Center for Advanced Brain Tumor Treatment at Swedish. Ivy Center director and neurosurgeon Greg Foltz, M.D., removed Holly’s tumor on June 29, 2011, and Holly began radiation and chemotherapy soon after.
“Dr. Foltz and his team keep my spirits buoyed with hope, data, research innovation and a shared passion that
Turning a difficult diagnosis into progress toward a curebetter options for brain cancer treatment — and even a cure — are within reach,” says Holly.
In Dr. Foltz’s good hands, Holly returned to the tenniscourts 17 days after surgery and returned to her job at Amazon13 weeks later. Besides treatment, Dr. Foltz connected Holly to the Seattle Brain Cancer Walk in September to take an activepart in raising funds and improving outcomes for brain cancerpatients in the Pacific Northwest.
Holly and Eric quickly rallied a team of more than 80 family members, friends and colleagues — Holly’s Heroes — who became the top individual fundraising team their very first year, raising more than $31,000 in 2011.
This year, Holly and Eric set the bar even higher, raising over $43,000 at the 2012 Walk, in addition to making a personal pledge of $50,000 to establish the Holly G.Zimmerman Fund for Advanced Brain Tumor Research.
“I am excited for all the advances, breakthroughs and treatment options on the horizon that move brain cancer from the orphan disease it is to one that reaches for and receives the hope-based funding it deserves,” says Holly.
The Zimmermans: Eric, Holly,
Jill, Cal — and “Paddy” the dog.
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Founder’s Court and featured a walkingpath through the Fountain lawns, livemusical performances, activities for children,
a Patient & Survivor area wherethose with brain cancer were given “gifts of experiences” donated by the community, and a memorable Tent of Honor, where participants shared stories of those who inspire the fight for a cure.
Honorary event chairs AndreaMillikan and Mike O’Brien sharedtheir personal experiences, high-lighting the importance of philan-thropy in the fight against brain cancer.
Special thanks to corporatesponsors Bonneville Seattle,
Northwestern Mutual, Seattle Radiolo-gists, Snoqualmie Tribe, Swedish Medical Center Auxiliary/First Hill, Talking Rain, United Healthcare, US Bank, Wells Fargo Home Mortgage, Wenatchee Valley MedicalCenter and Westlake Associates, Inc. for their outstanding leadership.
Emotions run high as survivors, families and friends join together for an important cause.
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Cyclists deliver $50,000 giftto Swedish MS Center
Don Fraser founded Bike the US for MS in 2007, in honor of his mother, who has been living with MS for most of her life. Since the organization’s found-ing, Don and his colleagues have raised $610,000 for the cause, in addition to completing more than 50 service projects in the homes of people living with MS throughout the country.
“We were happy to make the MS Center at Swedish one of our beneficia-ries this year,” says Fraser. “It is exciting to contribute to such a state-of-the-art Center in its first year and to know that our gift will impact such a large group of MS patients.”
When the 11,700-square-foot spaceopened at the Cherry Hill campus in April 2012, it became one of the larg-est MS centers in the country, offering medical and wellness spaces specially de-signed to meet the unique needs of the 2,000-plus MS patients who will receive care there this year alone.
With support from Bike the US and many other generous donors, nearly $3.6 million in philanthropic support has been raised to date for the MS Center at Swedish. Swedish Medical Center Foundation is committed to raising an additional $1.4 million to expand the array of programs and providers available to help patients live their best lives with MS.
he afternoon of Saturday, August 4th saw an enthusiastic group of
Swedish employees, family and friends gathered outside the Cherry Hill campus to welcome more than 30 cyclists who were wrapping up a 68-day, 4,295-mile ride that began in Bar Harbor, Maine, and culminated at the Swedish Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Center.
The ride was coordinated by Bike the US for MS, a Virginia-based nonprofit that organizes cross-country bike trips to raise money and awareness for MS re-search and treatment. The group selected the MS Center at Swedish as one of three sites in the nation to receive a 2012 grant.
Teva Neuroscience, one of the group’s key sponsors, hosted a reception at theSwedish MS Center following the riders’ arrival. Bike the US for MS programdirector, Don Fraser, presented a $50,000 check to Jim Bowen, M.D., the Center’s medical director, to support MS wellness programming and research at Swedish.
“This group’s commitment in supportof MS patients is fantastic,” says Dr. Bowen. “Very few of the riders in this group have MS, and yet what they have accomplished for MS patients around the country is quite inspirational. I am thrilled that Bike the US chose the MS Center at Swedish as a recipient of their hard-earned funds.”
TSwedish MS Center beneficiary of cross-country ride.
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The cyclists, pictured here with Dr. Jim Bowen, started their 68-day, 4,295-mile journey in Bar Harbor Maine.
glassybaby supportsCancer PatientAssistance fund
atients in need at the Swedish Can-cer Institute (SCI) will benefit from
the support of glassybaby throughout the month of December. The local com-pany, which creates handmade glass vo-tives, has generously committed 10 per-cent of all proceeds from their Bellevue store during December to Swedish’s Cancer Patient Assistance fund. Sup-ported entirely through philanthropy, this critical fund offers financial assis-tance to patients for nonmedical needs — including help with child-care costs, rent, or groceries, for example — to pa-tients undergoing cancer treatment.
“This fund is a safety net for our pa-tients who might otherwise forgo lifesav-ing treatment because they struggle to af-ford basic costs,” says SCI social worker, Sandi Johnson. “We are so grateful for the generous support from glassybaby.”
Founded by cancer survivor Lee Rhodes, glassybaby is committed to giv-ing back to the community, particularly to those affected by cancer. “When I was fighting cancer, I shared the wait-ing room with many patients that were struggling with the financial chaos thatcancer can create,” she recalls. “Every-one is fighting for the same thing: to live another day. Even the best medical insurance doesn’t cover all the costsassociated with getting well.”
On behalf of the Swedish Cancer In-stitute and the patients who will benefit, we thank glassybaby for their generous support. The Bellevue glassybaby store is located at 10230 Main Street, and is open seven days a week.
Local company to donateportion of sales from Bellevue store during month of December.
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FoundationBoard of GovernorsCheryl GossmanChair
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Lucius A.D. Andrew IIIPattie ArnoldAnita BrakerKevin BrownBarbara BuchmanLida BucknerSarah EverittTom GoresJ. Scott HarrisonRod Hochman, M.D.Jessica Jensen HughesGwendolyn Grim JohnsonLorna KneelandWilliam W. Krippaehne, Jr.Todd LeeRae LemberskyEric LiuCharles S. LytleDan MadsenMolly McCulloughKirby McDonaldTracy MorrisMichael Peters, M.D.Diane SabeyJanet TrueJane Uhlir, M.D.John H. Vassall II, M.D.Jean Baur Viereck
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