Your Gift at Work
Our donors make it possible for our physicians, researchers, nurses, and administrators—everyone at BIDMC—to provide the kind of care we each want for our own family members. Their support is helping us transform medicine in Boston and around the world.
The Office of Development at BIDMC is dedicated to raising the critical funds that enable BIDMC’s signature patient-centered care, state-of-the-art research, and world-renowned medical education. We invite you to learn more about the many ways we put your generosity to work with programs, patients, and research projects at BIDMC that matter to you. Please click on any of the headlines below to read the full story.
Howard and Carol Anderson
When Carol Anderson learned that Beth Israel Deaconess was in the planning stages of a transformative philanthropic campaign, she knew that she and her husband, Howard, would be at the head of the line to do their part. The Andersons immediately settled on a $1 million gift to the Medical Center to support its strategic objectives. Click here for more.
Alvaro Pascual Leone, MD, PhD
All doctors believe that providing the best treatment possible, regardless of cost, is essential, and neurologist Alvaro Pascual-Leone, MD, PhD, is no exception. As director of the Berenson-Allen Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation at BIDMC, Pascual-Leone is making transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)—a revolutionary noninvasive technique with potential therapeutic applications for a host of neurological disorders—more accessible to the masses. Click here for more.
Carol Mayer
If there is ever a good day to receive chemotherapy, BIDMC’s patients know that Tuesday is the day. Part of what makes Tuesdays so special is the presence of Carol Mayer. She has been volunteering on Shapiro 9, the chemotherapy floor, every week on this particular day for more than 17 years. She knows all the volunteers, doctors, and nurses by name. Patients know her for her warm smile, compassionate word, understanding ear, and of course, her cheese and crackers platter and a freshly baked array of cookies, breads, and lemon squares, which have become a favorite on the floor. Click here for more.
Deb Nagle, MD
Although gastrointestinal disease may not be the subject of polite dinner conversation, colorectal surgeon Deborah Nagle, MD, has no trouble getting her patients to open up about these kinds of problems, which can be some of the most debilitating in medicine. “The reason why is that we’re comfortable with it ourselves,” says Nagle of fellow experts in her field. “We know what the issues are, and we know what to ask. With a little experience under your belt, you can communicate to patients that you’re comfortable and confident, and they respond.” Click here for more.
Toby and Carl Sloane
If you build a better mouse trap, the world will beat a path to your door. This literary adaptation of an Emerson adage sums up an idea that Professor Carl S. Sloane, chair of the BIDMC Board of Directors from 2002 to 2005, would probably agree with. He says that if we uphold the notion that Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center can always improve, we will maintain premier staff, conduct the most advanced research, offer superb patient care, and attract new patients. He and his wife, Toby, recently made a $1 million gift to help BIDMC do just that. Click here for more.
