September 1, 2023 - August 31, 2024
For more than 130 years, the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB Health) has relied on generous support to advance our mission to train the next generation of health care professionals, to push forward the boundaries of biomedical research and to provide compassionate and patient-centered care.
Through your generosity, UTMB Health recorded a successful 2024 fiscal year.
UTMB Health raised a total of $33,309,515 in gifts from foundations, corporations, alumni and other individual contributors. In all, 2,060 contributors gave us 3,739 gifts. Among the contributors were 676 who had not previously given to the university.
Your investment in the university and its mission is behind every aspect of our success. We offer our thanks to you as we eagerly look to our future and all that might be possible through your further engagement and advocacy.
Noteworthy gifts to UTMB Health include:
• For decades, Mr. Jerry Mohn and his wife Mrs. Rowena “Winkie” Mohn have funded Alzheimer’s disease and diabetes research at UTMB Health. Last fiscal year, the Galveston couple reinforced their giving with another remarkable investment for these areas of research.
• The Moody Endowment remains stalwart in its support of Dr. David Brown’s post-brain injury rehabilitation research. Last fiscal year, the Moody Endowment provided $421,719 to underwrite the second phase of Dr. Brown’s project, Post Brain Injury Walking and Balance Recovery Program. The project aims to develop intervention strategies to improve balance and walking among patients who have suffered brain injury from trauma or neurological disease.
• The Ed Rachal Foundation furthered its giving to the university with its $75,000 gift in support of UTMB Health’s ABC Child Safety and Protection Program and the Physician Healer Scholarly Concentration. The program provides comprehensive evaluations of children who may have been victims of abuse or neglect in partnership with area law enforcement agencies. The Healer Track is designed to mentor students as they develop their professional identity as doctors and healers.
• The Sealy & Smith Foundation’s recent gift toward the John Sealy Hospital Modernization Project made possible the opening of a new Women’s and Children’s Wing in January of 2024. The more spacious and modern birthing suites and mother-baby rooms further enhance every aspect of the hospital’s family-centered environment. The Sealy & Smith Foundation’s generous support of the project ensures the John Sealy Hospital remains a source of compassionate, leading-edge care for its patients.
• The Harris and Eliza Kempner Fund has long supported the Jeane B. Kempner Scholar Award at UTMB Health. The Kempner Fund provided an additional $276,533 to sustain the Jeane B. Kempner Fellowship. Through the one year fellowship, our students possess the resources to pursue their novel research while working alongside their mentors and building the expertise that will shape their future careers.
• Dr. Dale Brown, Jr. and his wife Mrs. Eleanor Brown of Houston recently established an endowment in his name and in their late son Stephen’s name. Both father and son graduated from UTMB Health. The Stephen D. Brown, MD and Dale Brown, Jr., MD Presidential Scholarship is awarded to deserving students interested in pursuing careers in either obstetrics and gynecology or orthopaedic surgery.
A Message from James D. Gallo, Vice President and Chief Development Officer
Since assuming my leadership role at UTMB Health six months ago, I have learned much about the university that confirmed my first impressions. The most compelling are the history, connection and sense of family that draws so many to the university. In the months and years ahead, we will look to you to continue to help build and reinforce the university’s mission in education, patient care, innovation and research.
From my experience, philanthropic support, alumni engagement and community ties are essential lifelines for academic health centers like UTMB Health. Your involvement, your advocacy and your support are also key in making further advances possible at the university. You have my gratitude for your warm welcome along with my enthusiasm and eagerness to make even more successes possible for UTMB Health.