Momentum Spring 2016

SPRING 2016 » VOL. 2, NO. 1

BUILD THE VISION CAMPAIGN, UB MEDICINE

Construction Milestone for New Medical School ON MARCH 22, the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences celebrated a major milestone in the construction of its new downtown medical school building: the signing and raising of one of the structure’s final steel beams.

“We are building a physical and symbolic landmark on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus”

Speakers at the Topping Out ceremony included New York State Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo; UB President Satish K. Tripathi; Michael E. Cain, MD, vice president for health sciences and dean, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences; Jeremy M. Jacobs, chairman of Delaware North and chairman of the UB Council; and Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown.

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“We are building a physical and symbolic landmark on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus, establishing the region’s first comprehensive academic medical center, transforming Buffalo into a destination for the best medical research, education and patient care,” Dean Cain told a large gathering.

The 628,000-square-foot facility is scheduled to open in 2017.

—DEAN MICHAEL E. CAIN

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Campaign Committee Members Rose Berkun, MD ’92 John J. Bodkin II, MD ’76 Jeremy M. Jacobs, AAS ’60, LHD ’96

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Nancy H. Nielsen, MD ’76, PhD Charles R. Niles, MD ’83 Kenneth J. Roth, MD ’83 Robert G. Wilmers, LHD ’04

11 1 Governor Andrew Cuomo and President Satish Tripathi signing the last beam. 2 Dean Michael E. Cain, MD, at construction site. 3 Nancy Nielsen, MD ’76, PhD, senior associate dean for health policy, and Teresa Quattrin, MD, A. Conger Goodyear Professor and Chair, Department of Pediatrics.

4 Frank Schreck, MD ’79, and Mary Schreck. 5 Jonathan Daniels, MD ’98, immediate past president of the Medical Alumni Association. 6 David Milling, MD ’93, senior associate dean for student and academic affairs. 7 Steve Fliesler, PhD, Meyer H. Riwchun Professor, Department of Opthalmology.

8 One of many medical school students who signed the beam. 9 Philip Glick, MD, professor of surgery.

10 Jeremy and Margaret Jacobs. 11 Anne B. Curtis, MD, Charles and Mary Bauer Professor and Chair, Department of Medicine.

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Eugene Mindell, MD, Endows Research Award EUGENE R. MINDELL, MD, CHAIR EMERITUS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ORTHOPAEDICS, is honoring and memorializing his colleague and friend Harold Brody, PhD, MD ’61, by endowing a fund that recognizes their shared passion for research and its power to advance care.

Mindell’s support of the Eugene R. Mindell, MD and Harold Brody, PhD, MD ’61 Clinical Translational Research Award, qualifies him for membership in the Circle of Leaders giving society. g Eu

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WE ARE PLEASED TO ACKNOWLEDGE: The 111 members of the Circle of Visionaries donor society, who have made gifts totaling $100,000 or more to the Build the Vision campaign, qualifying them for special recognition in the atrium and main lecture hall of the new school.

“One of the great needs in medical education today is to increase the number of physician-scientists,” says Mindell. “Funding by the NIH and other external sources is vanishing. As a result, physician-scientists risk becoming an endangered

species. Yet it is these individuals who will take a clinical problem to the laboratory, develop a solution, then return to the patient with improved treatments.”

Mindell points out that the new UB medical school being built on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus and its concomitant growth in faculty “create an ideal setting for clinical translational research.”

Mindell was named the school’s first full-time professor and chair of the Division of Orthopaedic Surgery in 1964. He is highly regarded for building the unit into a world-class department, recruiting esteemed faculty members, developing the Orthopaedic Bone Pathology Laboratory, encouraging research and training residents.

Brody, who died in 2008, was a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor and long-time chair of the Department of Anatomy.

He had a productive teaching and research career at UB and, like Mindell, was a strong advocate for translational research.

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THE NEW JACOBS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES, now under construction on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus, will prominently feature a premiere 400-seat Lecture Hall.

Dedicating a LEARNING STATION in the Lecture Hall is a distinctive way to support your community’s medical school, as well as a way to honor or memorialize an individual or group.

Of the 400 Learning Stations in the Jacobs School of Medicine Lecture Hall, a limited number remain available for naming.

Learning Station donors will be recognized on a plaque in the lecture hall and with a nameplate on one of the hall’s 400 learning stations.

LEAVE A LEGACY… Name a Signature Learning Station IN THE JACOBS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE LECTURE HALL

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To learn more about sponsoring a Signature Learning Station, or to reserve one today, call the UB Office of Medical Philanthropy and Alumni Engagement at:

(716) 829-2773 or visit www.giving.buffalo.edu/leaders

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Answering the Call GRATEFUL ALUMNI ACROSS THE COUNTRY ARE GIVING BACK TO THE SCHOOL THAT SET THEM ON THE PATH TO THEIR CAREERS…HELPING TO BUILD THE VISION FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS OF PHYSICIANS AND SCIENTISTS.

“It’s a time of great change for the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and, as a proud alumnus, I wanted to be a part of this impactful change,” says Rony Y. Shimony, MD ’84, who recently contributed to the school’s Build the Vision campaign by making a bequest gift that qualifies him for membership in the Hayes Society and the Circle of Visionaries giving society.

“The time seemed right to give back to a school and a city that have given me so much personally and professionally,” Shimony says. “I wanted to invest in this bright future.”

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Rony Y. Shimony, MD ’84, joins Circle of Visionaries and Hayes Society

After attending several events in New York City that were hosted by the Jacobs School of Medicine, Shimony learned more about Dean Cain’s vision for the future and hosted an event himself.

WANTED TO BE A PART OF THIS

An internationally recognized cardiologist, Shimony serves as associate professor of medicine and cardiology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and director of clinical cardiology at Mount Sinai West Hospital.

To learn more about the Circle of Visionaries, visit www.giving.buffalo.edu/visionaries.

HONORING HIS PARENTS WHILE HELPING OTHERS

Ulatowski is one of the world’s leading investigators into the regulatory mechanisms of cerebral blood flow and oxygen delivery to the brain. His research has resulted in development of techniques for monitoring brain function, fluid management and sedation in patients with brain injury; use of novel oxygen carriers in blood; and new therapies for stroke.

John Ulatowski, MD ’84, PhD ’80, names Signature Learning Station

John A. Ulatowski, MD ’84, PhD ’80, has made a gift to the Build the Vision Campaign in support of a Signature Learning Station in the main lecture hall of the new UB medical school.

His gift, which designates that the Learning Station be named in honor of his parents, Anthony and Estelle Ulatowski, qualifies him for membership in the Circle of Leaders Giving Society.

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A native of Buffalo, Ulatowski is vice president and executive medical director for Johns Hopkins Medicine International, and distinguished service professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine in The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

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“I am very grateful for the opportunities that have been afforded me by the excellent basic science and clinical training I received at UB medical school,” Ulatowski says.

Count Us In BUILDING A NEW MEDICAL SCHOOL IS A ONCE-IN-ALIFETIME OPPORTUNITY!

Meet some Friends of the School and Alumni who are seizing this chance to transform medical education and health care in Western New York…

“I am not so much concerned about my name being remembered, as I am about my parents being honored in this way. And I would like to contribute to opportunities for others—to pass along to future students the same wish and hope for a great career that my parents had for me.”

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To learn more about the Circle of Leaders, visit www.giving.buffalo.edu/leaders.

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Dr. Gerald L. Logue Memorial Fund Established

1 Jeremy M. Jacobs; 2 Roger Walcott, MD ’02, and Karen Walcott, MD ’02.

GENEROUS GIFT FROM THE LOGUE FAMILY AND FRIENDS

FAMILY AND FRIENDS OF GERALD L. LOGUE, MD, have established a memorial fund in his name that will help support research and added professional educational opportunities for hematology/oncology students, residents and fellows.

Logue had been a professor at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences for 32 years at the time of his death in 2015. He served as chief of the Division of Hematology in the Department of Medicine and vice chair of medicine, as well as chief of medicine at the Buffalo VA Medical Center. He also was a clinician with UBMD Internal Medicine.

“His passion for teaching knew no bounds and was evidenced in his role of mentor to many,” says his son, Christopher Logue, MD ’02, who is director of hyperbaric medicine at Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis, MN.

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“My family and I are honored to create a fund that celebrates—and perpetuates— what my husband dedicated his career to: medical education at UB. We hope this fund will help support those students who aspire to change the world in as many positive ways as he did.”

If you wish to make a gift to the Dr. Gerald L. Logue Memorial Fund, please send your donation to: UB Foundation, Post Office Box 900, Buffalo, NY 14226, indicating the name of the fund.

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In 1985, Logue received a White Coat Award for outstanding teaching and contributions to house staff, and in 1993 he was awarded a Commendation for Teaching Excellence.

Having shared her life with such an accomplished physicianeducator, Logue’s wife, Joelle, says she knows the value of scholarly work and understands that participation in conferences is a vital stepping stone for medical students and trainees.

To learn more about these supporters and why they are giving to the Build the Vision campaign, go to giving.buffalo.edu/build and click on “Count Us In.”

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BUILD THE VISION CAMPAIGN, UB MEDICINE

Momentum is published twice a year to highlight the tremendous impact our dedicated supporters are having on the Build the Vision campaign for the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo.

Every gift and volunteer effort counts!

To learn more about how you can help, call (716) 829-2773 email medicine@devmail.buffalo.edu, or visit giving.buffalo.edu/medicine.

A Son Honors His Mother MARK C. NIELSEN AND ROBERT CRAWFORD HAVE MADE A GIFT OF $35,000 to the Build the Vision Campaign in honor of Mark’s mother, Nancy C. Nielsen, MD ’76, PhD, senior associate dean for health policy in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.

The gift qualifies them for membership in the Circle of Leaders giving society.

“While many people have had an impact on my life, none has had a stronger positive influence than my mother,” says Mark, an attorney with Groom Law Group in Washington, D.C. “While raising five children, she completed her medical degree at UB and then embarked on a remarkable career as a n se el Ni cy an t, N , lef lsen Mark Nie

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physician-leader. In 2008, she served as president of the American Medical Association, and in 2011 she was asked by the Obama Administration to come to Washington for two years to work on implementation of the Affordable Care Act.” In addition to her role as senior associate dean for health policy in the Jacobs School of Medicine, Nielsen serves as a co-chair for the school’s Build the Vision campaign. “By taking on this role, my mother is doing everything in her power to help future generations of medical students, faculty and patients in Buffalo,” says Mark, a graduate of the UB School of Law. “So when she told us about a program to name learning stations in the main lecture hall in the new medical school, I knew right away that it was an ideal way to honor her many accomplishments, while also supporting the university, which has been so important to our family.”

“…my mother is doing everything in her power to help future generations of medical students, faculty and patients in Buffalo.”

—MARK C. NIELSEN

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