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Steven Schroeder, MD, received a $2 million donation from the Truth Initiative for the Smoking Cessation Leadership Center (SCLC). The SCLC takes a broad and collaborative approach to reducing the burden of smoking on health. Lloyd Damon, MD, received a $1 million donation from Barbara and Philip O’Hay to establish the Nicole O’Hay Endowed Fellowship in Hematologic Malignancies Research. This gift was made in memory of their daughter Nicole, who passed away from leukemia at age 45. Alka Kanaya, MD, received a $1 million donation from the family of a grateful patient to support her research on South Asian cardiovascular health. She plans to use this gift to expand the MASALA cohort study by enrolling second-generation young adults to determine the effects of acculturation on lifestyle factors and cardiometabolic risk. Charles Ryan, MD, received a donation of $1 million from a patient and his wife. The gift will be used to establish the Mr. and Mrs. Chow Kwen-Lim Fund for Advanced Cancer Therapeutics in the Genitourinary Medical Oncology Program.
Each year, the Department of Medicine recognizes outstanding physicians who have exceptional knowledge, superior teaching and communication skills, and an ability to provide compassionate, appropriate, effective, and high-quality patient care. The 2017 Master Clinicians were rheumatologist David Daikh, MD, endocrinologist Umesh Masharani, MD, MB, and gastroenterologist Francis Yao, MD.
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