Spark Discovery, Illuminate Life
Campaign Update: As of October 1, 2003, gifts to the BSD and the Hospitals during our campaign-Spark Discovery, Illuminate Life-totaled $348 million, 63 percent of the way to the $550 million goal.

Several events this fall were held to introduce BSD physicians and scientists to the Chicago community and to potential philanthropists:

* On September 23, Hospitals board member Craig Duchossois and Andrew Filipowski hosted Adventures in Discovery: Finding the Ancient Salamander, Early Humans, and Lost Dinosaurs. Fifty guests heard remarks by Neil Shubin, Ph.D., Professor and Chairman of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, Tim White, Ph.D., Professor of Integrative Biology and Co-director of the Laboratory for Human Evolutionary Studies at UC, Berkeley, and Paul Sereno, Ph.D., in China at the time of the event, gave his perspective in the form of a taped video presentation.

* A September 25 appreciation dinner spotlighted surgical and therapeutic advances in urology. Charles Brendler, M.D., Professor and Chief of Neurology, and Arieh Shalhav, M.D., Associate Professor and Director of Minimally Invasive Urology, presented their work to more than fifty guests invited by donors Ron Chez and Fritz Duda.

* The Jack Miller Center for Peripheral Neuropathy was dedicated on September 21. Dean James Madara; President Don Randel; and Brian Popko, the Jack Miller Professor in Neurological Diseases and Center Director, hosted Miller family members and friends at tours of the Center and dinner at the Randel home.

* Fifty friends and donors of General Surgery attended a dinner on October 1. Presentations by John Alverdy, M.D., Associate Professor and Chief of the Surgical Obesity Program, and surgical oncology fellow Eric Kimchi, the Section's Dennis Nardoni Fellow, emphasized the importance of philanthropy for research.

* On October 25, the first annual Comer Kids' Classic, a 5K run/walk and kids' dash along Chicago's lakefront, helped raise money for the Comer Children's Hospital.

More to come:

* On November 20 Jim Frank and Dennis Keller will host Keeping Hearts Healthy at the Gleacher Center. This year's event will feature presentations by David Faxon, M.D., Chief of the Section of Cardiology; Valluvan Jeevanandam, M.D., Chief of the Section of Cardiac and Thoracic Surgery; Elizabeth McNally, M.D., Ph.D., Director of the Cardiovascular Genetics Clinic; Lance Becker, M.D., Director of the Emergency Resuscitation Center; and Bradley Knight, M.D., Director of the Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology Section.

For more information on Spark Discovery, Illuminate Life and on philanthropy and fundraising for the biological sciences, please call or e-mail Michele Schiele, VP and Associate Dean for Development, at 773-702-4767, mschiele@mcdmail.uchicago.edu.

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