Your New University Hospital by UC Irvine

Hospital of the Future UC IRVINE ADMINISTRATION

UC Irvine’s new University Hospital will dazzle you.

Michael V. Drake, M.D., Chancellor

y any measure, whether it is physician quality, technological sophistication or patient care and safety, University Hospital will set the standard for excellence in healthcare.

David N. Bailey, M.D. Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs Dean, School of Medicine

Take our doctors. More than 90 of them were recently selected to the prestigious Best Doctors in America list.

Maureen Zehntner CEO, UC Irvine Medical Center

Thomas J. Mitchell Vice Chancellor for University Advancement

CAMPAIGN STAFF Marc Ballon, Health Affairs Communications Manager Heather Cadarette, Associate Director Pat Carew, Executive Director of Development Nancy Deutsch, Executive Director of Development Debra Finster, Director of Development Mary Gagliardo, Senior Director of Development Mary Smith, Associate Director Jessie Steward, Health Affairs Special Events Manager Suzanne Teer, Senior Executive Director Donna Wick, Director of Development Samantha Zipp, Director of Development

FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT: University of California, Irvine Health Affairs Advancement 333 City Boulevard West, Suite 605 Orange, California 92868-2990 714.456.3768 Fax: 714.456.3703 E-mail: newhospital@uci.edu

Our esteemed physicians include a pioneer in minimally invasive surgery, which leads to smaller incisions, shorter hospital stays and quicker recoveries; a surgeon whose research has helped improve intravenous resuscitation fluids, including one in clinical trials that might prevent multiple organ failure in trauma patients; a doctor who cofounded the nation’s first elder abuse forensic center to combat elder abuse; and a cancer expert who has done groundbreaking work in cancer prevention. At University Hospital, our physicians will have access to some of the most advanced medical technologies. For instance, one of the operating rooms will house the region’s only intraoperative MRI, which greatly improves outcomes for patients with brain tumors by producing highly detailed, three-dimensional pictures of the brain during all phases of an operation. Then there’s our unrivaled care. Our award-winning nurses will offer University Hospital patients the compassion and attention they so deserve. Our spacious hospital rooms will feature such amenities as flat-screen TVs, cable, wireless Internet connection and room service. To promote healing, rooms will also include built-in overnight beds for friends and family members. For eight consecutive years, U.S. News & World Report has recognized our existing medical center as one of America’s Best Hospitals. University Hospital will be even better. Should the need ever arise, we at University Hospital are here for you, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Thank you for your support over the years. And welcome to the future of healthcare.

Editor: Marc Ballon

For more information about making a gift to the new University Hospital, please contact Mary Gagliardo at 714.456.6226 or visit www.uadv.uci.edu/hospital/

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A Doctor Making A Difference n the 1960s, Dr. Rudolph Baldoni, a newly minted physician, sent patients to the old county hospital in Orange for treatment. Even then, the hospital seemed tired and bedraggled to him.

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When he learned of plans for the new University Hospital, a project he had long dreamed of, Baldoni could barely contain his enthusiasm. A new hospital would make a real contribution by providing, in his words, “local residents with the best medical care possible right here in our own community.”

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A graduate of a medical school that later merged with UC Irvine’s School of Medicine, Baldoni became more interested in the hospital after UC Irvine acquired it in the 1970s. To Baldoni, the old county hospital was nothing more than an eyesore that needed to be torn down. He envisioned a facility with the most sophisticated technology and built with patient safety and comfort in mind.

A successful anesthesiologist who later branched out into real estate and banking, Baldoni decided to contribute $100,000 to the hospital. He also solicited support from other School of Medicine alumni. Baldoni believed he had a moral obligation to help improve the quality of area healthcare and medical education, and to give back to the place that had given him so much. Ever the savvy businessman, Baldoni decided to take advantage of a new opportunity to increase his giving to the hospital by another $200,000. Utilizing an IRA Rollover Gift, he was able to make a gift, avoid paying taxes on the annual required distribution amount from his IRA, and free up resources for other charitable giving. “UC Irvine is finally going to have the hospital it has always deserved,” Baldoni said. “It will be the crown jewel of Orange County.”

Dr. Rudolph and Dorothy Baldoni

For more information on IRA Rollover Gifts (including tax law changes for 2009) and other giving options, please call 949.824.6454, e-mail legacyplan@uci.edu, or visit www.giftlegacy.uci.edu

SPECIAL EDITION

YOUR NEW UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL

Thank You!

Winter 2009

Dear Friends,

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Michael V. Drake, M.D. Chancellor

News Flashes DR. FRANK MEYSKENS JR. Dr. Frank Meyskens Jr. has received the prestigious American Association for Cancer Research-Prevent Cancer Foundation Award for Excellence in Cancer Prevention. The director of the Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center has helped develop treatments that may reduce the risk of developing colorectal and cervical cancer in some patients. Meyskens is considered a pioneer in chemoprevention, which uses vitamins, minerals and nontoxic chemicals to treat healthy individuals who may be at increased risk for cancer.

UC Irvine is grateful to the following individuals who graciously made gifts to University Hospital in response to our special year-end appeal. Thank you!* Mr. Charles Abate Mr. Seyed Alavi Mrs. Jean Aldrich Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Alfieri Mr. Manuel Angulo Ms. Teresa Bartens Mr. Alvin Beal Mr. Dean Bessette Mr. and Mrs. Gary Braham Mrs. Aurora Brandelli Mrs. Barbara Call Ms. Pearl Nurczyk & Mr. and Mrs. Castelluccio Ms. Carolyn Chambers Mr. and Mrs. Cheng-Yi Chang Ms. Catalina Cortez Mr. and Mrs. John Craven Ms. Ivy Delmundo

Mr. Gary Dudley Mrs. Esther Friedman Mr. Robert Giordano Ms. Lois Glenn Mrs. Janice Grant Mr. Harry Gray Mr. and Mrs. Sanford Greenberg Dr. Joan Guilford Ms. Shanisha Harris Dr. Arthur Helfat Ms. Vanna Hem Ms. Linda Hoff Ms. Samantha Holgate Ms. Kumiko Katsuda Mr. and Mrs. Paul Kim Ms. Penny Kistler Mr. Steven Kittinger Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Alvin & Joanne Kravitz Ms. Kyoko Kremp Mr. Fung Chi Kung Mr. Gary Kunze Mr. John Littleton Mr. Anthony Lopiccolo Mr. and Mrs. Milton & Amelia Madole Mrs. Buliammayi Mallipudi Mr. and Mrs. Noel Manton Ms. La Verne Maresh Ms. Jeanette Marshall Ms. Wanda Martin Mr. and Mrs. Marcus Matlock Jr. Mr. and Mrs. James McGillivray Mr. Alex McNeill Ms. Bethany Mendenhall Ms. Beverlee D. Mitsch Mrs. Dorothy Moffett Ms. Lesbia Molina Mr. and Mrs. John Moser Mr. Miklos Munkacsi Mr. Joseph Nemeth Mr. Thang Nguyen

EXCELLENCE IN NURSING In recognition of nursing excellence, UC Irvine Medical Center recently won a second designation as a Magnet hospital by the American Nurses Credentialing Center. Only about 5 percent of the nation’s 5,100 hospitals earn the prestigious designation.

LEAPFROG The Leapfrog Group, an independent consortium of Fortune 500 companies focused on empowering consumers to make informed healthcare decisions, again named UC Irvine Medical Center to its prestigious “Leapfrog Top Hospitals” list for quality and patient safety. The medical center was one of only 33 hospitals nationally to make the honor roll, placing it in the top 3 percent of the 1,200 hospitals surveyed by Leapfrog.

CHOC — UC IRVINE ALLIANCE Children’s Hospital of Orange County and UC Irvine Healthcare have agreed to form a strategic alliance to better serve children and families. CHOC will provide inpatient and outpatient specialty care to patients. UC Irvine Medical Center will continue to provide pediatric emergency services, burn care and neonatal intensive care, among other services. The arrangement will benefit UC Irvine researchers by giving them access to CHOC’s wider variety of pediatric patients. UC Irvine resident physicians will have the opportunity to train at CHOC, a leader in pediatric care.

NEW UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL WEBSITE To take a virtual tour of the new University Hospital and access other interesting hospital information, please visit www.ucihealth.com

DR. LOUIS A. GOTTSCHALK Dr. Louis A. Gottschalk, a pioneering neuroscientist who became founding chair of the UC Irvine Department of Psychiatry and Human behavior in 1967, has passed away from respiratory failure. He was 92. Gottschalk, who left an indelible mark as a researcher, teacher and philanthropist, received the university’s highest honor, the UCI Medal. In 1997, the university renamed the UC Irvine Medical Plaza as the Louis A. and Helen C. Gottschalk Medical Plaza after him and his late wife, a UC Irvine professor of dermatology.

Ms. Khanh Huy Cong Nguyen Mr. and Mrs. Teodosio Pacheco Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Pickering Mr. and Mrs. William Pine Mr. and Mrs. Walter Plummer Ms. Alida Poencet Ms. Alessandra Re Mrs. Mary Roosevelt Ms. Delphine Ruey Mr. Donald Scarlett Mrs. Bernice Schnoor Mr. and Mrs. Duane Shaffer Mr. Aman and Saleem Shaik Mr. and Mrs. Donald Slocum Ms. Sandra Smith Mr. and Mrs. Robert Smith Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Spurgeon Ms. Ann Summers Ms. Rosemary Tabb Mr. Paul Tang Mr. and Mrs. James & Janine Tarpley Mr. John Thompson Mrs. Kay Thomsen Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Torio Mrs. Dorothy Townsend Mrs. Angela Walsh Ms. Amy Fung-Ming Wan Yu Ms. Mary Webber Mrs. Susan Westrum Mr. David Whistler Mr. Keegan Wilcox Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Wilson Ms. Mary Wood Mrs. Mitsue Yamachika Mr. and Mrs. Shelah & David Young Mr. James Young Ms. Ann Yueh-O Wu Ms. Betty Zeug Mrs. Katherine Zolezzi Mr. Thuan Huynh and Mrs. My Le

*Includes all gifts made at the time of this publication’s printing

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John Butler, M.D.: Distinguished Researcher, Dexterous Surgeon When Dr. John Butler began practicing medicine more than 30 years ago, breast cancer all too often meant an automatic death sentence for a woman. hanks to Butler — chief of UC Irvine’s Surgical Oncology division — and others who have dedicated themselves to improving treatments and finding a cure for breast cancer, today a woman diagnosed with the disease has a dramatically better chance of survival.

Butler has spent the past 15 years refining, improving and testing a laser for the early detection of breast cancer. Invented by Bruce Tromberg, Ph.D., director of the Beckman Laser Institute at UC Irvine, the Laser Breast Scanner [LBS] can reveal tumors and lesions that might otherwise go undetected. The LBS also helps cancer specialists predict how patients respond to chemotherapy. Early clinical trials suggest that the LBS could be effective for pre-menopausal women, whose dense breast tissue makes it sometimes difficult for mammograms to pick up cancerous growths. Unlike mammography, the ability of the LBS to evaluate the breast’s biochemical composition, including water content, oxygen levels and fat content, might one day allow physicians to further customize breast cancer treatments for the best possible outcomes. “Working with John is fantastic,” Tromberg said. “His special combination of clinical and technical skills has really helped us take the LBS from an idea on a blackboard to the reality of the patient’s bedside.” Butler, a math and science whiz, initially majored in engineering at Columbia University before switching to medicine. After successfully performing his first operation, the removal of an 18-year-old’s appendix, Butler knew he had found his calling. “The very next day, the patient felt great and I felt great. I said to myself, ‘This is it,”’ said Butler, who went on to specialize in cancer surgery. With a reputation as a compassionate listener and dexterous surgeon, Butler has performed more than 10,000 operations and saved scores of lives. In 2006, he received “The Golden Scalpel,” a prestigious university teaching award for surgical instruction at UC Irvine. Butler was recently named as one of Orange County’s top doctors. The awards are nice but little compared to the joy of caring for patients. “I appreciate the trust patients put in me and try to return it by doing the best I can to correct whatever problem they have,” Butler said.

Levity, gossip and idle chit-chat have no place in Dr. Ralph Clayman’s operating room. The

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pioneer in minimally invasive surgery once even asked a chatterbox to leave in the middle of an operation because of a lack of focus.

Ralph Clayman, M.D.: Nothing Matters But the Patient layman makes no apologies for his no-nonsense attitude. The stakes are simply too high. “As soon as you walk into my room, there’s only one thing that exists in your world. And that’s the person on the table,” said Clayman, a urologist who gives his patients his pager and home phone numbers. “Everything else is of zero importance.”

For more than 30 years, Clayman has refined and improved minimally invasive surgery, which results in smaller incisions, less pain and quicker recoveries. Tens of thousands of patients worldwide have benefitted from his work. In 1990, Clayman led a team at Washington University in St. Louis that performed the world’s first removal of a cancerous kidney employing a laparoscope, a tube-like instrument that permits surgery through a small incision. Recently, Clayman has led efforts by UC Irvine researchers to treat renal cancer by inserting a small needle into the diseased kidney and freezing the tumor. “He has revolutionized how we approach many urologic diseases, including stones, kidney tumors, kidney diseases,” said Dr. Richard Williams, chair of the Department of Urology at the University of Iowa who did residency training with Clayman in the mid-1970s at the University of Minnesota. Clayman, who joined UC Irvine in 2002 as founding director of the urology department, has left an indelible mark. Under his direction, U.S. News & World Report recently named UC Irvine’s urology department as the 18th best in the country. In 2004, Clayman and fellow urology Professor Elspeth McDougall helped establish at UC Irvine the nation’s first five-day mini-residency program for practicing urologists. To date, about 250 urologists from 35 states and nine countries have received advanced training in robotic, laparoscopic and other minimally invasive surgeries of the kidney and prostate. Growing up as the son and grandson of physicians, Clayman said it was “ordained” that he would follow their example. Despite the challenges that come with 70-hour work weeks, Clayman feels exhilarated by his profession. “The opportunity to take care of other people, to have a positive impact, is a privilege,” he said.

One Patient’s Story When a small lesion appeared on Dr. Michael Arquilla’s back, he decided to have a physician look at it, even though the 57-year-old Santa Ana resident felt fine and had no symptoms. he lesion turned out to be benign. However, a precautionary CAT scan delivered devastating news: Arquilla had a cancerous tumor on his right kidney.

hree simple yet powerful words that together are moving the University of California, Irvine to even greater heights in healthcare.

In many ways, your new University Hospital reflects our commitment to Discover. Teach. Heal. At the hospital, physician/scientists treating patients will make Discoveries about diseases that will allow them to improve or modify their lifesaving research. Live broadcasts from operating rooms to off-site locations will Teach aspiring surgeons, medical students and nurses about advances in minimally invasive surgery and other gold-standard best practices. Patients, attended to by our award-winning physicians and nurses, will Heal in an environment that puts safety and compassion first. Your support has accelerated the successful construction of Orange County’s hospital of the future. Your continued support will help us reach our goal of providing superior health and vitality for everyone. Tomorrow, with your assistance, we’ll be even better. That is a promise. Your continued support will allow UC Irvine Medical Center researchers, ranging from cancer experts to stem cell specialists, to Discover improved treatments and possible cures for debilitating diseases such as breast cancer and Alzheimer’s disease. Your continued support will help us Teach the nurses of the future at our distinguished Program in Nursing Science and underwrite seminars that educate the public about important medical issues. Your continued support will help us to better Heal the sick. It will also help us strengthen the quality of our care, which has been recognized for excellence by U.S. News & World Report and the Leapfrog Group. The opening of the new University Hospital represents an exciting new era at UC Irvine, and an opportunity for you to renew your commitment to Orange County’s best healthcare. The dedication is January 30. We look forward to seeing you there. Together, we can accomplish great things! Tom and Elizabeth Tierney, Campaign Co-Chairs.

A kidney specialist at St. Joseph Hospital in Orange, Arquilla understood better than anybody the seriousness of his condition which, if left untreated, could kill him. How ironic, he thought, a kidney expert with kidney cancer. Just one hour after receiving his diagnosis, Arquilla went into action. A graduate of the UC Irvine School of Medicine’s internal medicine and nephrology programs, Arquilla called Dr. Ralph Clayman, the internationally Dr. Ralph Clayman (L) with Dr. Michael Arquilla respected chair of UC Irvine’s Department of Urology. Clayman, an expert in minimally invasive surgery — which leads to smaller incisions, shorter hospital stays and quicker recoveries, told Arquilla to drop by his office immediately, even though it was a late Friday afternoon. Within 10 minutes, the two physicians were sitting face-to-face discussing Arquilla’s case. Clayman, sensing his new patient’s distress, turned to Arquilla and told him not to worry, that he would take care of him. Clayman’s compassion, in conjunction with his reputation for excellence, helped allay some of Arquilla’s fears. “My job is to do the worrying for my patients,” Clayman said. On April 18, 2008, Clayman removed Arquilla’s cancerous right kidney in a successful four-hour surgery. Arquilla went home just one day later, back to work 10 days later and played a round of golf with his mother about three weeks after the operation. “I wanted Ralph Clayman to operate on me, and he met my high expectations,” said Arquilla, who is now cancer-free. “I was smart enough to put myself entirely in his hands.”

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Elizabeth and Tom Tierney