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NON-PROFIT ORG.
Catalyst
U.S. POSTAGE
PAID
PERMIT NO. 22328
LOS ANGELES, CA
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
8700 Beverly Boulevard, Suite 2416
Los Angeles, California 90048
Kevin Keating
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A Father Makes a
Serious Commitment
to Heart Valve Research
A Meeting
of the Mınds
The Major Catalyst
Kevin and Masha Keating’s son, Nathaniel, was born with
a congenital heart defect. When he was only 2 months old, he
underwent a procedure to repair his aortic valve. Today, Nathaniel
is an active, healthy 5-year-old who likes to build intricate LEGO®
structures and play with his two brothers.
Like any parent, Kevin experienced the intense fear and anguish
that come with knowing your child’s health is compromised. But the
young and gifted former attorney decided to deal with it his own
way. He began a journey of scientific discovery; he immersed
himself in cardiac research; he read countless articles and academic
papers; he kept watch on scientific advancements.
That work led him to Alfredo Trento, MD, a veteran surgeon who
came to Cedars-Sinai from the University of Pittsburgh School of
Medicine in 1988 to spearhead the Heart Transplantation and
Pediatric Cardiac Surgery programs, and now heads the Division of
Cardiothoracic Surgery. His advancements in the science of heart
transplantation, valve repair, and robotic surgery, his masterful skill
in the operating room, and the compassionate and dedicated care
he gives to all his patients are known worldwide. Focused on the
potential of new valve replacement procedures, gene therapy, and
stem cells, his research seeks to improve patients’ quality of life by
eliminating organ rejection and the need for additional surgery.
Kevin Keating had found the man and the team he wanted to
support, whose research could one day make valve surgery less
invasive and replacement valves longer-lasting. Catalyst offered
Kevin the opportunity to take the lead again—this time as an
interviewer—and to ask Dr. Trento about valves, his research into
new surgical technologies ... and umbrellas.
KK | You are a very accomplished surgeon who is also
focusing on research. This seems like a rare combination.
How did you end up doing both?
AT | Well, you know, my research really
originates from my clinical experience: what I
see when I take care of my patients. Sometimes
we aren’t satisfied with the results that we get
with the present technology and the present
devices. We start asking ourselves ‘Why, and
how can we make them better?’ Right now the
biggest part of our practice here is repair or
replacement of defective heart valves.
KK | As opposed to coronary bypass surgery and the like?
AT | Exactly. Today we do more valve surgery
than coronary artery bypasses. The technology
for management of coronary artery disease, or
blocked arteries, has reached a point where
surgery is not the first line of treatment. We use
stents infused with medications. I would say that
here at Cedars-Sinai, about 70 to 80 percent of the
patients that need to have treatment for a blocked
artery don’t go through surgery anymore.
KK | Right now the gold standard in valve surgery is the
open heart procedure, but I see that you are starting to use
more minimally invasive procedures. Could these eventually
replace open surgery?
AT | Potentially, yes. There are new technologies
in development. We typically use surgery to
repair or replace heart valves. We are using a
new procedure to repair mitral valve defects
such as regurgitation, or leaking, that is much
less invasive than surgery. It allows us to insert
a clip in the valve via a catheter from the groin,
and repair the leakage. This technique is still
new and under investigation, but it has a
promising future. For aortic valve replacement
in children and young adults, we use another
method called the Ross procedure: We replace
the defective aortic valve with the patient’s own
pulmonary valve. There’s no risk of rejection,
no need for anticoagulation drugs like
Coumadin®, and the new valve lasts a very long
time. We have used the Ross procedure with
more than 150 patients in the past 16 years
with very good results.
KK | Why is there a difference between valve repair
procedures for mitral or aortic valves? Is it because the
mitral valve is under less pressure?
AT | No, they sustain the same pressure. But the
leakage of the mitral valve is more likely amenable
to repair than the aortic valve. With the aortic
valve, we see two main pathologies: the valve
may be too narrow, or it’s leaking. Sometimes we
can repair a leaky valve, and we have fairly good
results in specific situations. But I would say that
the great majority of the patients requiring aortic
valve surgery will require a new valve.
KK | What kind of issues do you encounter with artificial valves?
AT | Generally, when we use a mechanical
valve, a completely man-made valve, the
patients have to take a blood thinner for the
rest of their lives. In addition, these mechanical
valves aren’t going to last the rest of the
patient’s life. Many patients need another valve
after 20 or 30 years. The valves that come either
from a cow or from a pig are slowly rejected.
This limits the durability of the valve. In an
older patient, the valve will last longer than the
same valve in a younger patient because the
older patient’s metabolism is a little slower, and
the immune system is a little less active. In a
young adult, they will last 10 years; in a
teenager, it will last even less than 10 years.
Kevin Keating and
Dr. Alfredo Trento
hold research close
to the heart
KK | Could you some day create a valve that is man-made,
but strong and lasts longer?
AT | It’s quite complex to create a valve which
is biologically very close to the human valve.
It’s not only the surface of the valve we need
to create, it’s also the structure. It cannot be
artificial. And if it comes from another human,
you have to eliminate all risks of rejection. One
way to do that is to eliminate all the cells and
keep just the frame and then repopulate it with
the patient’s own cells.
KK | That’s where Dr. Marbán’s work on heart stem cells*
comes in, right?
AT | Exactly. You know, it’s absolutely magic
how this structure, the human heart valve,
works. It is very weak-looking and delicate,
but it can withstand such a high pressure …
it’s quite amazing. So, to think that we can
reconstruct this in a permanent way—it’s quite
a major task. We could use heart stem cells,
these are the patient’s own cells! If it works, the
valve could work forever, and there is no issue
of rejection. Now, how long is it going take to
do this, and is your son going to benefit from
this research? It’s hard to tell. But the
technology we have today is good.
KK | Let’s say a valve lasts 20 years or 25 years—is it a
more complex procedure to put a new valve in place? Is it
more challenging to do a second operation?
CONTINUED ON PAGE 2
*The Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute, under the direction of
Eduardo Marbán, MD, PhD, is leading a groundbreaking clinical
trial that studies the use of a patient’s own stem cells in an
effort to repair and re-grow healthy muscle in a
heart that had been injured by a heart attack.
For more information, visit cedars-sinai.edu/heart
CATALYST SUMMER 2010 1
Catalyst
President’s Letter
Healthcare Reform Brings New Challenges and Opportunities
INSIDE:
The Philanthropic Spark
Saul and Joyce Brandman:
Making Room for One More
Lenore and Bernard Greenberg:
Blood Lines
I to Eye: Anabelle Liu
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Forward Motion
Appointments, Dedications, and Events
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Dynamic Energy
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Board of Governors
The Fashion Industries Guild
The Thalians
The Heart Foundation
Helping Hand
Sports Spectacular
Women’s Guild
Sheryl Weissberg Lymphoma Research Foundation
The Pink Party
run for her
Community Pulse
17
‘My Good Constant’
Illuminations
Philanthropic Tributes
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Honor Roll
24 Upcoming Events
18
T
he passage of healthcare reform
collaborative manner with their patients. At
legislation is a significant milestone in the
Cedars-Sinai, we welcome this evolution: Our
effort to improve the American healthcare
teams are skilled, committed, and strong—crucial
system. Indeed, it is a vital step forward: With one
qualities in a healthcare environment where
of every four Californians living without health
collaboration will become even more important.
insurance, reform
We know that the new legislation will bring
is crucial.
significant new fiscal challenges. Chief among
The new healthcare
them: As new payment models are introduced
legislation is a starting
and public and private payors become ever
point towards reform,
more focused on controlling costs, they will be
not an endpoint. It
less concerned with supporting research and
builds a foundation
education—two arenas that are crucial to
for extending coverage
Cedars-Sinai’s mission. Again, Cedars-Sinai has
to many Americans
strong traditions that will serve us well. We
and improves the
“Cedars-Sinai has strong traditions that will serve us well.
way health insurance
companies determine
We have a donor community that continuously looks to the future
and continue coverage.
to make certain each generation receives the best possible care.”
It also sets in motion
changes in the way
healthcare is paid for, to control cost increases
have a donor community that continuously
while improving quality of care and the health
looks to the future to make certain each
status of Americans.
generation receives the best possible care. With
In recent years, the rising cost of healthcare
guidance from our Board of Directors and
has been a major focus of public concern and
passionate support from our community,
attention. Not surprisingly, there has been
Cedars-Sinai will meet the challenges and
much finger-pointing about what is causing
opportunities of our changing environment.
costs to rise. The reality is that there are
Indeed, philanthropy will be even more vital to
multiple causes.
our mission: As new models are introduced that
The new legislation will change the way
change the way healthcare is paid for, donor
doctors and hospitals are paid. There will be a
support will be essential to innovation,
shift from fee-for-service payment to forms of
outreach and growth.
payment where doctors and hospitals will
Thomas M. Priselac President and CEO
manage both the cost and quality of care in a
|
Kevin and Masha Keating with their sons
Jacob, Aryeh, and Nathaniel
“This is important support, because it’s seed money. Ten years from now,
we will have a research structure that really has benefited from Kevin’s
support and has brought up good results.”
—Dr. Alfredo Trento
“A MEETING OF THE MINDS” CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
AT | Yes, every second operation is more difficult
than a first operation. There is in general an
increased risk of damaging cardiac structures when
you reopen, because you have to find your way in,
millimeter by millimeter. But second operations are
very common and performed daily at Cedars-Sinai.
also do a new procedure called transapical valve
replacement. We go through the tip of the heart,
through the apex of the ventricle, because in older
patients the arteries through which to pass the
catheter aren’t flexible enough. These catheters
are big because the valve inside is still big.
KK | And with percutaneous valve replacement you would
sidestep that issue?
KK | This is amazing. So where is the technology heading?
AT | Exactly. What we have been doing for the
incredibly promising technology because it
avoids surgery completely. You are still requiring
anesthesia, but you wake up and basically you
can go home the next day. The issue is still: ‘How
long is this valve going to last?’ I think that the
research into valve material, into how to create a
valve that resembles the patient’s valve as closely
as possible is still extremely important.
past several years for patients who are too young
or too old for valve replacement surgery, is to put
an inflatable balloon at the tip of a catheter, guide
the catheter inside their valve, and then inflate
the balloon and stretch the valve open. Then we
thought: ‘Why don’t we build a valve that can be
squeezed down into a small cylinder?’ We can put
it in the tip of a catheter, and then we can insert
it from the artery in the groin and when we are
inside the old valve, we deploy the new valve.
KK | Like an umbrella.
AT | Like opening up an umbrella, exactly! That’s a
great concept, and it has been performed now on
several thousand patients. In Europe, the procedure
is widely used; in the U.S. it is still under investigation.
KK | Are there studies at Cedars-Sinai for that procedure?
AT | I think we are the biggest center for this
trial. We have done over 100 cases for this study
protocol. It’s a study done in a cooperative
fashion between surgeons and cardiologists. We
2 CATALYST SUMMER 2010
AT | Percutaneous valve replacement is an
Catalyst | Kevin, you are obviously very curious and
knowledgeable about this research. What made you think:
‘This is the work I want to support, right here, this group of
people’—not Cleveland Clinic, Johns Hopkins, UCLA, or some
other institution?
KK | Well, it’s two things. One is that my family has
had the good fortune to be treated at Cedars-Sinai.
My children were born here and I have good
associations with that. Beyond that, the hospital
has a great academic, research, and clinical
reputation. I also was interested in my own son’s
case, the possibility that one day his aortic valve
could be replaced with a new, permanent one.
That’s the dream. Dr. Trento has a great
combination of abilities as a clinician—obviously
caring about the patients—paired with being able
to interface with the public. He’s the type of
person who can talk with funders and instill
confidence. That’s terrific. He also has good
managerial skills in that he’s able to pick the right
research associates. I see him as a great CEO, but
he’s actually doing the work, and he’s also able
to really get other people working with him.
AT | The funding we receive from Kevin’s family
foundation allows us to create an infrastructure.
It’s expensive to do research. We need to get to
the point where we are going to be able to ask
for multimillion dollar grants from the federal
government or from other agencies that have
these funds. This is important support, because
it’s seed money. Ten years from now, we will have
a research structure that really has benefited from
Kevin’s support and has brought up good results.
KK | We want to get things as quickly as possible
through the next phase of clinical trials and make
it more widely available to patients. It seems to me
that research is really going somewhere fast, and
that’s very fulfilling. Dr. Trento has been doing this
for 30 years. He’s got two researchers who are
dedicated to this—they came all the way from Italy
to study under him, so there’s an affinity there. I see
that they’re always pushing the envelope, pushing
forward, and 10 years from now that effort will bring
rewards. I do feel comfortable that I’ve made the
right decision and I’ve made a good investment. ■
‘We’re Going to Be Healthy’
BY SHERRY ANGEL
M
arch… Knees up… Higher!” Aleli Neal shouts over the upbeat
dance music. Neal, a remarkably fit grandmother, leads a group
of about 20 women in exercise, working as hard as the much
younger women who follow her every move. It’s 8 a.m. and the one-hour
exercise session is in the most unexpected of locations: a classroom at
St. Paul Catholic Church in Los Angeles’ Mid-City.
Aleli and the women in her class all know each other: a few months
ago they all attended a free, 10-week workshop led by Cedars-Sinai at
Arlington Heights Elementary School. Neal has a grandson at Arlington
Heights, but most of the workshop participants were parents. The
workshop, Healthy Habits for Families, offered hands-on lessons and
educational activities that engaged parents—and their kids—in learning
about healthy eating and exercise.
Throughout the school year, Cedars-Sinai brings Healthy Habits outreach
programs to eight elementary schools in low-income Mid-City Los Angeles
neighborhoods, with lessons focused on healthy eating and physical activity.
Claudia Gutierrez, the Cedars-Sinai community health liaison who led
the workshop in Arlington Heights, encouraged participants last spring to
arrive a half-hour early to exercise together. They walked laps around the
playground, and when the workshop ended in May, they decided to
continue on their own over the summer.
“We encourage parents to exercise together and to make healthy meal,
snack, and beverage choices for themselves and their families because it
has a lasting impact,” explains Cindy Levey, MPH, associate director of
Community Health Initiatives at Cedars-Sinai. “It not only lowers the risks
of chronic diseases like diabetes and heart disease, but it also affects the
choices children make around exercise and eating as they grow up. This
program builds parents’ capacity to be role models for healthy habits. This
is a very powerful tool in reducing childhood obesity.”
Cedars-Sinai partners with community-based organizations each year to
offer over 5,800 community activities such as Healthy Habits for Families.
The other programs include free or low-cost care for the needy, screenings
for a variety of medical conditions, health lectures, exercise classes, support
groups, and flu-shot clinics.
Putting Out the Fire
C
edars-Sinai is moving to a completely smoke-free
environment by July 2010.
The transition to a smoke-free campus began in January, with
the elimination of smoking on the North Tower Plaza Level. Starting in
July, the entire campus became smoke-free. The smoking ban applies
to any buildings owned or completely occupied by the Medical
Center and applies to passengers inside their vehicles on campus.
“Initially, physicians can offer nicotine replacement therapies,
such as gum and patches, to patients who smoke to minimize
withdrawal symptoms,” says Itai Danovitch, MD, director of
Addiction Psychiatry Services and associate director of the
Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship Program in the Department of
Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences.
California, along with 26 other states, enacted statewide bans
on smoking in all enclosed public places in
May of this year. Cedars-Sinai seized the
opportunity to further protect its patients
and employees from the dangers of secondhand smoke.
Currently, physician training opportunities and
drug protocols to help patients and employees kick
their smoking habit are in the planning process.
“We will be holding training targeted for
busy physicians to introduce simple
smoking-cessation interventions for patients
who want to quit,” Dr. Danovitch says.
“We are also going
to provide nicotine
replacement protocols
so physicians know
how much of a drug
to prescribe based
on a patient’s level
of dependency.”
Participants in
Cedars-Sinai’s Healthy
Habits workshop met
regularly on their
own over the summer
at St. Paul’s Church
in Los Angeles for
exercise sessions led
by Aleli Neal (above).
Julia Ayala (right)
went to St. Paul’s with
other young mothers.
Her two children,
ages 2 and 6, watched
and sometimes
even participated.
“It’s exciting to see how motivated the parents are—and to see that
they are feeling better as they exercise more,” says Gutierrez, who
made arrangements for the group to exercise on weekday mornings at
St. Paul’s once school closed for the summer. Gutierrez also continued
to support their efforts, providing T-shirts and exercise mats from
Cedars-Sinai and occasionally offering instruction on topics such as how
to cook healthy meals.
“I have more energy now,” says Julia Ayala, whose children, ages 2
and 6, watched her exercise and sometimes joined in. She finds it difficult
to exercise regularly on her own. “It’s a lot more exciting with more
people,” she says.
Aleli Neal has the women working every muscle group over the course
of an hour, keeping their interest by integrating dance moves into the
calisthenics. At the end of the session, the women gather in a huddle and
reach toward the center to touch hands. Neal offers parting words
encouraging them to keep exercising every day. “We’re going to be
healthy,” she says. “We’re going to be beautiful.”
■
Bypassing the Competition:
Worth the Heart Battle
Worth magazine has selected Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute as one
of the top 25 in the U.S. for cardiac bypass surgery.
Cedars-Sinai is one of only three hospitals on the West Coast
included on the list, which appeared in the December/January
issue. Worth chose the top centers based on factors including
outcome measures and quality rankings.
“Our entire team in bypass surgery, led by Dr. Alfredo Trento,
is honored to be recognized for providing our patients with the
highest quality care,” says Eduardo Marbán, MD, PhD, director
of the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute. “We strive to give our
patients the best available treatments today while developing
the leading-edge treatments of tomorrow.”
In addition to the ranking, the magazine highlighted Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute’s
groundbreaking cardiac stem cell clinical trial, directed by Dr. Marbán. The trial aims to
revolutionize treatment of heart failure with a patient’s own stem cells.
The Heart Institute’s leading teams, investigators, physicians, nurses, and clinicians are
dedicated to staying at the top of the list and at the forefront of cardiac research and treatments.
“Since I’ve been in practice here, I’ve
developed real relationships with my
patients. I hear their stories—it’s
interesting to me to know what they’re
doing and see how I can help them do their
job better ... by helping them stay healthy.”
—Ilan Kedan, MD, Cardiologist,
honored by one of his patients through the Circle of Friends program
By making a gift through Circle of Friends, you will help CedarsSinai make advances in biomedical research, educate tomorrow's
physicians, and continue serving the community for years to
come. For more information about Circle of Friends and how
you can say “thank you,” visit www.csmc.edu/circleoffriends
Profile | Saul and Joyce Brandman
When a couple shares a belief in giving back,
together they can impact countless lives—
for generations to come.
BY CANDACE PEARSON
Making Room for One More
G
rowing up in the immigrant neighborhood of Boyle Heights in
1930s Los Angeles, Saul Brandman learned the importance of
helping others. Even when times are hard, his mother taught him,
“there’s always room for one more at the table.”
Many years later, around their own dinner table, he and his wife, Joyce,
would talk late into the evening about the causes they wanted to support.
Their exchanges were often spirited. “He had his list of favorites, and I had
mine,” she recalls fondly. “I learned a great deal from my husband,” she adds.
“Most of all, I learned about giving.”
In 1973, Saul established the Saul Brandman Foundation to put into action
the principles his mother instilled in him. With his passing in 2008, Joyce
now oversees the charitable mission of the Joyce and Saul Brandman
Foundation, and its generous funding since 1998 of the institution closest to
the Brandmans’ hearts: Cedars-Sinai. “Saul believed in this Medical Center
and made it one of his priorities,” she says.
In 1999, as Joyce underwent treatment for breast cancer, she envisioned
what the ideal cancer facility would look like. Joyce had faced down cancer
once before: in her late 20s, she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. “It
changes you,” she notes quietly. “For me, that change was for the best.”
She imagined a place where women could receive comprehensive support
services and the latest treatments backed by research in a warm,
compassionate setting. Saul embraced that vision and helped make it a
reality with the Saul and Joyce Brandman Breast Center—A Project of
Women’s Guild at the Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute.
Joyce, who has been a dedicated volunteer at Cedars-Sinai, often counsels
women at the Medical Center who’ve been diagnosed with breast cancer.
“I tell each new person I talk to, ‘You don’t have a single doctor. You have
an entire team taking care of you.’”
At the helm of that team is Edward H. Phillips, MD, director of the Saul and
Joyce Brandman Breast Center. “From the start, Joyce and Saul cared about
ensuring that our center was designed in a way that is sensitive to our patients’
needs,” he says. “Their involved philanthropy has been an inspiration.”
B
orn in Brooklyn in 1925, Saul attended Fairfax High and UCLA. After
serving in World War II, he returned to Los Angeles and made his
name in the garment industry, then entered finance and real estate.
The impact of the Brandmans’ philanthropy is evidenced throughout
Southern California and beyond. “Saul and Joyce Brandman exemplify the
kind of giving that extends to a deep-felt commitment to our mission
as a whole,” says Cedars-Sinai president and CEO Thomas M. Priselac. “We
are immensely grateful for their longstanding generosity.”
The Foundation supports more than 100 causes, primarily focused on
Jewish services, healthcare, scientific research, secondary education, and
youth and veterans programs. “Saul and Joyce have been critical partners in
ensuring our ability to better serve an aging population,” says Molly Forrest,
chief executive officer and president of the Los Angeles Jewish Home,
where the Foundation recently provided
start-up funding for the Brandman
Centers for Senior Care. “Their giving has
made a huge difference in helping more
seniors live independently.”
At Cedars-Sinai, the Brandman
“This Foundation makes me
Foundation also is carrying out one of
the proudest of anything
Saul’s final wishes by contributing
significant funding for research into acute
I’ve done in my life. I’m
nutritional deprivation in critically ill
patients. Fueled by that philanthropy,
especially pleased because
pulmonary specialist Michael I. Lewis, MD,
it means Saul is with me
has made important discoveries in the
laboratory about the role played by EPA
every day.”
(eicosapentaenoic acid, an omega-3 fatty
acid found in fish oil) in counteracting
—Joyce Brandman
muscle wasting. This condition can have
a disastrous impact on patients with
pulmonary disorders, cancer, heart
disease, and other conditions.
“I could not have gotten this far in my
investigations without the Brandman
Foundation’s support,” says Dr. Lewis,
who is director of the Respiratory
Intensive Care Unit and co-director of the
Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Fellowship Program at Cedars-Sinai.
T
ogether, Joyce and Saul visited
all Seven Wonders of the World.
Now, she says, she doesn’t need
to travel—though she made time last year
to participate in a medical mission to
Guatemala with a team from Cedars-Sinai.
She plans to continue her philanthropic
involvement with the hospital she and her
husband considered their medical home.
She is happy to focus on “the best job
in town” as head of the charity Saul
established 37 years ago. “This Foundation
makes me the proudest of anything I’ve
done in my life,” says Joyce. “I’m especially
pleased because it means Saul is with me
every day.”
■
Profile | Lenore and Bernard Greenberg
A routine surgery with a tragic outcome
inspired the Greenbergs to take action and
Blood
Lines
work to make blood transfusions safer.
BY KIM KOWSKY
Anabelle Liu
I
n the fall of 1976, MCA executive
Taft Schreiber, a dedicated family
man and avid art collector who
played an important role in Republican
politics, checked into a Los Angeles
hospital to undergo routine prostate
surgery.
A top talent agent who counted
Jack Benny, George Burns, Alfred
Hitchcock, and Ronald Reagan among
his clients, Taft received two blood
transfusions of mismatched blood. He
went into shock and died 10 days
later, just after his 68th birthday.
This harrowing experience
prompted his family to turn to
Cedars-Sinai to seek its help in
developing programs that would
ensure blood safety. “We wanted to do
something positive. It really started as
a simple question,” says his daughter
Lenore Greenberg. “How could
mismatched blood transfusion be
avoided? Human error is unfortunately part of
the problem—what can we do about it?”
Mismatched blood transfusions are rare but
very dangerous and have occurred at steady rates
over the past 35 years. While most cases today
result from undetected antibodies in the donor’s
blood, the kind of preventable error that killed
Taft Schreiber, sadly, still occurs.
A solution may be in the hands of Eleftherios
C.Vamvakas, MD, PhD, a world authority on
blood transfusion medicine who serves as
professor and vice-chair in clinical pathology at
Cedars-Sinai. A recent $2 million endowment gift
from Lenore and her husband, estate and trust
attorney Bernard Greenberg, established Dr.
Vamvakas as the Rita and Taft Schreiber Chair in
Transfusion Medicine.
For the chair donors, this endowment is the
culmination of more than three decades of
continued financial support of Cedars-Sinai.
Shortly after Taft died in 1976, his family made a
significant gift to establish what is now known as
the Rita and Taft Schreiber Blood Donor Facility,
a state-of-the-art center that collects about 25,000
units of blood, platelets, and plasma for CedarsSinai’s patients. The family also established an
annual lecture series that attracts the world’s
leading experts in blood transfusion medicine.
The Rita and Taft Schreiber Division of
Transfusion Medicine bears their names as well.
L
enore is a private but deeply engaging
woman who has clearly inherited her
father’s energy and enthusiasm for art and
philanthropic causes. A Los Angeles native, she
is a member of the board of directors for the
Los Angeles Philharmonic Association and a life
trustee of The Museum of Contemporary Art in
Los Angeles. Bernard, also a Los Angeles native,
was a member of the faculty of the UCLA
School of Law. He is the former chairman of the
Los Angeles Opera, a long-time Music Center
board member, and serves on the Cedars-Sinai
Board of Governors.
to
Cedars-Sinai Tribute Gallery Baby
My world debut | I made my first appearance at
| 6:30 p.m. on the evening of
| February 10, 2009, in Cedars-Sinai’s
| labor and delivery unit. Tepei Liu,
| my mom, remembers how helpful
| the nurses were. I had a lot of
| competitors though! There were
| 24 other babies born that day—
| trying to upstage me—but mom
| says we still got all of the attention
| we needed.
Dr. Vamvakas became interested in transfusion
medicine after surviving a month-long coma
following a blood transfusion. He had suffered
transfusion-related acute lung injury, which is
caused by donated blood that contains
antibodies to the recipient’s white blood cells.
Until recently, efforts to improve blood safety
had concentrated on transfusion-transmitted
infections such as hepatitis and AIDS, which
together caused tens of thousands of deaths
before 1990. Now that screening procedures have
nearly eliminated these transfusion-transmitted
infections, researchers are concentrating on the
other causes of transfusion-related deaths,
including those caused by mismatched blood.
Dr. Vamvakas’ research focuses on quantifying
and ranking the various risks of blood transfusion,
“what we should or should not do now as
opposed to five years from now,” in order to guide
public policy on blood safety measures, he says.
“Because this is not basic-science research, it is
difficult to find funding for this kind of work,” Dr.
Vamvakas says. “What Mr. and Mrs. Greenberg did
is very special because they funded an endeavor
for which there are not many alternative sources
of support.”
Although Lenore is modest and reserved, she
acknowledges her father would be proud to
know what his family has done to improve
blood safety over the past 34 years. But, she
says, “He wouldn’t want any speeches. If he saw
something that needed to be done, he would
simply step forward and do it. It’s something he
instilled in us.”
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My name | After I was born, my dad walked down
in lights | the hallway outside Labor and Delivery
| and noticed the Baby Tribute Gallery.
| Colorful tiles with names and
| birthdates covered the wall, celebrating
| babies like me born at Cedars-Sinai.
| Each tribute tile represents a gift made
| by a baby’s parents or family to the
| Department of Ob/Gyn. My parents had
| such a great experience at Cedars| Sinai, they decided to return the favor
| and help the hospital take good care of
| moms and babies yet to come. My
| name and birthday are permanently
| displayed on a vibrant, coral-colored
| tile on the wall.
My personality | As my mom often says, ‘She’s got
trait | sass!’ She says she saw it as soon as
| I was born.
My interests | When I’m not busy people-watching,
| I spend my downtime with books.
| My dad Rich loves to watch my
| learning process; I think I’m also
| teaching him a thing or two...
My guilty | Tags! I love the tags on clothing,
pleasure | stuffed animals, and toys. I can’t get
| enough! My parents even buy me
| special toys covered in baby-safe tags.
My inspiration | My mom and dad! They didn’t take
| my successful and positive debut for
| granted, they showed me that helping
| other families and babies who might
| not be as lucky as I was is important,
| too. They tell me that instead of
| making a gift to save lives, they made
| a gift to help create lives. And I’m not
| worried one bit about the competition.
My hospital | Cedars-Sinai
Cedars-Sinai requires that all patients scheduled to receive a
transfusion have their blood drawn and tested twice, to reduce
the possibility of mismatching. Yet, such procedures are
voluntary and by no means enforced by all blood banks. New
technology, such as scan readers that could prevent a transfusion
unless the donor blood unit and recipient’s wrist band contain
matching bar codes, could go a long way toward solving the
problem of mismatched blood, and will hopefully soon be
required by accrediting agencies, according to Dr. Vamvakas.
Forward Motion
Conversations about Cancer
Conversations about Cancer
Dr. Howard Sandler, discussed trends in radiation
therapies and treatment programs in a conversation
moderated by radio personality Larry Mantle. This
was the first installment of a series of events offered
by leading Cedars-Sinai researchers and clinicians
as a resource to the community.
1 RonandCookieMarkowitz,andLois and Ron Bloom
2 Larry Mantle and Dr. Sandler
Passport to Discovery / La Dolce Vita
Dr. Alfredo Trento was already a renowned surgeon
when he arrived at Cedars-Sinai 20 years ago. He
first led Cedars-Sinai’s Heart Transplantation and
Pediatric Cardiac Surgery programs and now directs
the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery. Patients,
colleagues, and friends gathered to celebrate his
long-lasting commitment to advancing the science
of heart transplantation and valve repair.
3 Fay and Frank Mancuso, who played a leadership
role in the 20th anniversary celebration for Dr. Alfredo
Trento (left), present him with a hand-blown Murano
glass vase. The gift is a symbol of the gratitude that
Cedars-Sinai and his patients hold for Dr. Trento’s
dedication, skill, and talent as a surgeon, researcher,
teacher, and humanitarian.
4 Dr. Alfredo Trento, Alvaro and Linda Pascotto,
and Robin Trento
5 Actress Florence Henderson presents her
surgeon, Dr. Alfredo Trento, with a 20-year
commemorative book containing hundreds of
anniversary messages and testimonials from his
patients, their families, as well as his staff and friends.
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Passport to Discovery / La Dolce Vita
From the Barber’s Chair to the
Burns and Allen Chair
Dr. Ronald G. Victor, a cardiologist renowned for
his expertise in hypertensive mechanisms—the
contributing factors that lead to high blood
pressure—was named the Burns and Allen Chair in
Cardiology Research at Cedars-Sinai. Prior to joining
the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute, Dr. Victor led a
landmark study in Dallas, where barbers were trained
to screen their clients for high blood pressure, in an
attempt to reduce the high prevalence of untreated
hypertension in the African-American community.
6 Dr.EduardoMarbánwithVickiandDr.RonaldVictor
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From the Barber’s Chair to the Burns and Allen Chair
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Art from the Heart
Prodigal Svendsen
Acclaimed stem cell researcher Dr. Clive Svendsen,
recently joined the Cedars-Sinai faculty as director of the
new Regenerative Medicine Institute (RMI). The RMI
labs are currently developing novel ways to reprogram
adult skin cells back to an embryonic-like state which
are then transplanted to regenerate diseased or aging
tissue. Dr. Svendsen is using these cells to treat neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s, ALS,
Huntington’s disease, and Alzheimer’s disease.
7 James and Judy Hirsch and Dr. Clive Svendsen
Art from the Heart
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Prodigal Svendsen
Shelley Lazarus held a benefit reception at TAG
Gallery in Santa Monica with all proceeds from
art sales going to the Robert David Lazarus
Pulmonary Fund, named in memory of her son.
8 Shelley Lazarus in her art studio, photographed
by her late son, Robert.
Turning Up the Volumes
Dr. Bernard Strauss, a neurologist at Cedars-Sinai
for over 50 years, spent much of his downtime
poring over the volumes in the medical library.
When he passed away at the age of 103, his wife,
Lena, made a generous gift in his honor to renovate
the Medical Center’s library, which now boasts
upgraded computer stations and reference desk,
improved lighting, and an additional display case.
9 Dr. Shlomo Melmed, Janet Hobbs (manager of
the medical library), Lena Strauss, and Kevin
Motschall (architect of the redesign)
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Turning Up the Volumes
Living Through Legacy
The Legacy Society—whose members have
named Cedars-Sinai as the ultimate beneficiary
of a planned gift—held its annual appreciation
luncheon in the bucolic setting of the Four Seasons
Hotel. Author and guest lecturer Dr. Eric T. Haskell,
professor of French Studies and Humanities and
the director of the Clark Humanities Museum at
Scripps College, shared his knowledge and
expertise on the history of ornamental gardening—
drawing strong connections between philanthropy
and gardening by emphasizing the importance of
“planting” today for the generations of tomorrow.
Dr. Eric T. Haskell, with Mark Siegel, chairman
of the Cedars-Sinai Board of Directors
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Living Through Legacy
A Concrete Promise
A Concrete Promise
The 450,000 square-foot Advanced Health
Sciences Pavilion (AHSP), currently under
construction, will be home to one of the most
innovative translational research and state-of-theart patient care facilities in the world. To celebrate
the building’s groundbreaking, Cedars-Sinai and
Los Angeles community members gathered in
Harvey Morse Auditorium, which was
transformed for the occasion into a spectacular
space that mirrored the look of the AHSP.
1 Tom Priselac and Fay and Frank Mancuso
2 Dr. Patrick Lyden, Dr. Bruce Gewertz,
Dr. Eduardo Marbán, and Dr. Keith Black
3 Dr. Shlomo Melmed
4 Former LA City Councilman Jack Weiss
and John Law
Stepping into the Circle of Friends
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Patients and the members of the medical staff they
honored with a donation to the hospital gathered
to celebrate the power of saying “thank you,” and
to learn more about the Circle of Friends program.
5 Dr. Leo Gordon and Julie Salamon, guest speaker
and award-winning journalist, writer, and critic
Monty Hall Tennis Event
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Stepping into the Circle of Friends
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Monty Hall Tennis Event
Monty Hall and the Diabetes Center Associates
were honored at a ribbon-cutting ceremony
and celebration of their philanthropic efforts to
cure diabetes and improve treatment methods.
The annual three-day tennis tournament they
conceived in the 1970s has been attended by
celebrities, athletes, and dedicated supporters,
and raised millions of dollars to support the
Anna and Max Webb and Family Diabetes
Outpatient Treatment and Education Center at
Cedars-Sinai, and more recently, the Lucien
Abenhaim Memorial Fund for Pancreatic Cancer
Research at the Samuel Oschin Comprehensive
Cancer Institute.
6 Art Ochoa, Mark Siegel, Monty Hall, Larry Platt,
and Hal Foonberg
10 Years Down the GI Tract
Dr. Simon Lo’s passion for discovery in the field of
gastroenterology is unyielding. His implementation
of the latest endoscopic technologies have
transformed patient care at Cedars-Sinai and
around the world. His 10-year anniversary at
Cedars-Sinai coincided with the 17,000 square
foot expansion of the endoscopy laboratories.
7 Dr. Stephan Targan, Dr. Simon Lo, and
Dr. Glenn Braunstein
Celebration of Life
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10 Years Down the GI Tract
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Celebration of Life
Just 101 days post-transplant and all smiles,
Michelle Maria expresses her profound gratitude
to Dr. Michael Lill at the Celebration of Life event.
Now in remission, the mother of two received a
lifesaving treatment from the Blood and Marrow
Transplant Program. The object of blood or bone
marrow transplantation is to rid the body of
cancerous cells and replace them with healthy
blood cells.
8 Dr. Stephen Lim (associate director, Blood and
Marrow Transplant Program), the Maria family
(Michelle, husband Vito, daughters Valentina and
Francesca), and Dr. Michael Lill (medical director,
Blood and Marrow Transplant Program)
A Good Gut Feeling
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A Good Gut Feeling
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TLC for Pediatric IBD
Dr. David Underhill, whose research focuses on
identifying genetic variances that make certain
individuals susceptible to inflammation and
infection, was named the Janis and William
Wetsman Family Chair in Inflammatory Bowel
Disease. Dr. Underhill and the chair’s namesakes
were celebrated at a dedication ceremony.
9 Janis and William Wetsman with Dr. David
M. Underhill
TLC for Pediatric IBD
After seeing her daughter struggle with Crohn’s
disease, Claire Levine dedicated herself to raising
awareness about IBD and to helping other children
who suffer from these debilitating disorders.
Equally dedicated to this cause is Dr. Marla
Dubinsky, who was named the Abe and Claire Levine
Chair in Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease.
Larry Platt, Dr. Marla Dubinsky, Claire Levine,
and Dr. Stephan Targan
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Dynamic Energy
Board of Governors
What: Board of Governors Gala,
benefiting the Board of Governors
Heart Stem Cell Center. The event
was sponsored by Lexus. The auto
maker has now contributed more
than $1 million to Cedars-Sinai.
The evening was sponsored by the
Lili and Jon Bosse Family Foundation.
Who: Entertainer Justin Timberlake
was the recipient of this year’s “Heart
of Hollywood” award. Honorees also
included Sam, Younes, and David
Nazarian for their contributions
to Los Angeles- and Israel-based
communities; and Sandy and Larry
Post, recipients of the Philanthropic
Leadership Award for their support
of the Medical Center and dedication
to their community.
When: November 4, 2009
Where: Hyatt Regency Century
Plaza, Los Angeles
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1 Justin Timberlake
2 Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa
(2nd from left) with Sam, Younes, and
David Nazarian
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3 Larry and Sandy Post with Rick Powell (right)
4 Michael Rouse , Vice President of
Philanthropy and Community Affairs, Lexus
5 Singer songwriter Brian McKnight
6 Singer Charice
7 TV host and emcee Billy Bush
8 Michael and Cindy Flagg, Sara and
Steve Fortner
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What: Ribbon-cutting ceremony
for the Board of Governors Center
for Cancer Research
Who: Members of the Board of
Governors were recognized and
celebrated for their triumphant
success raising $15 million to
establish the Center.
When: October 15, 2009
Where: Saperstein Plaza, Cedars-Sinai
1 Tom Priselac, Rick Powell, Mark Siegel
2 Michael Rouse (Lexus), Annette Shapiro,
Celia Davidson Farkas, and Nancy
Hubbell (Lexus)
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In 2009, the Board of Governors
made the visionary pledge to raise
$20 million for the Heart Stem Cell
Center. The record-setting $2.6 million
raised by the 2009 gala brings them
one step closer to that goal. The
Center, under the leadership of Dr.
Eduardo Marbán, MD, PhD, director
of the Heart Institute, focuses on
cutting-edge heart stem cell
research and treatment. Last year,
researchers at the Heart Institute
completed the first procedure of its
kind, in which they used a patient’s
own heart tissue to grow specialized
heart stem cells, and injected them
back into his heart. This groundbreaking clinical trial aims to identify
whether stem cells could grow new
healthy tissue to repair and regenerate
muscle after a heart attack.
"All of our honorees
have contributed to
their communities in
a significant way.
We are thankful that
they have lent their
support to raise such
vital funds"
—Rick Powell, Board of
Governors Chair, 2008–2009
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What: The Lapidus and Lapidus
2009 Goin’ for the Green Charity
Golf Tournament organized by
new Board of Governors member
Dan Lapidus to benefit the COACH
for Kids and their Families® program
Who: With a low score of 11 under
par, The Wisdom Companies, LLC,
foursome of Tim Edwards, Jim
Lambert, Tom Dunbabin, and Greg
Smith took home first prize and
a golf flag from Augusta National
Golf Club signed and donated by
2003 Masters champion Mike Weir.
Where: Malibu Country Club, Malibu
1 Brothers Dan and Ryan Lapidus with Board
of Governors Chairman John Coleman in
front of the COACH for Kids® mobile
medical unit.
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Dynamic Energy
What: For the 53rd year, the
Fashion Industries Guild hosted their
Black-Tie Gala and Dinner Dance
to support the pediatric patients at
Cedars-Sinai, proving they have
more than just an enduring passion
for fashion.
Who: Fashion Industries Guild
members and fashionistas danced
and dined around the 2009
“People of the Year” award recipients
Sandy Richman and Tony Litman.
True veterans of the field, Richman
(president of Directives West, a
division of The Doneger Group)
is the strongest fashion and
forecasting force in the industry
today, and Litman is the co-owner
of Stony Apparel, a popular
manufacturer of junior, plus-sized,
and girls’ garments.
Where: Beverly Wilshire Hotel,
Beverly Hills
The Fashion Industries Guild
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2 Jessica and Lior Lewensztain
3 Diana and Steve Marienhoff
4 Honoree Sandy Richman, Dr. Charles
Simmons, honoree Tony Litman
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The Thalians
What: The 54th Annual Thalians
Ball and black-tie dinner event
to benefit the Department of
Psychiatry and Behavioral
Neurosciences at Cedars-Sinai.
Who: This year’s event paid homage
to the USO shows supporting
America’s Armed Forces around the
world and honored legendary film,
stage, and TV star— and USO
regular— Mickey Rooney, recipient
of The Thalians “Mr. Wonderful
Award.” Thalians founders Debbie
Reynolds and Ruta Lee boosted
morale and performed with 25 of
Hollywood’s best-known female
performers, including Nancy Sinatra,
Shirley Jones, Connie Stevens, Ann
Blyth, and Cybil Shepard.
Where: The Beverly Hilton Hotel,
Beverly Hills
1 Recipient of the ”Mr. Wonderful Award,"
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2 Dr. P.K. Shah with wife Kimberly Shah
(left), and Margie Petersen
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1 Honoree Tony Litman and his wife Paula
Mickey Rooney, Debbie Reynolds (left),
and Ruta Lee
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The Fashion Industries Guild (FIG) is
made up of fashion-savy and
dedicated individuals representing
varied areas of the business —
manufacturers, buying offices, sales
reps and publicity organizations—
who all share one common goal:
supporting the programs that help the
Medical Center’s neonatal and
pediatric patients. Over the past half
century, the Guild has contributed
more than $20 million toward projects at
Cedars-Sinai. Their current campaign
is the Fashion Industries Guild
Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, which
will cater to children who are too sick
to be in the hospital with other patients,
but don’t require intensive care.
Specialized attention on these
patients will allow for more advanced
medical and nursing care in a focused—
and if the Fashion Industries Guild has
anything to do with it, stylish—setting.
5 Hank Pola, Ilse Metchek and past FIG
Executive Vice President, Hal Kaltman
6 Art Ochoa, his wife Daniele, and
FIG President, Kenny Weinbaum
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7 Todd Kay and past honoree Steve Maiman
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8 Moshe and Gaby Tsabag
9 Allen Schwartz and Honoree Sandy
Richman
Barbara and Kenny Weinbaum with
their niece, Shanna Weiss
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3 The National Anthem… "Wounded Warriors"
4 Dean Martin’s The Golddiggers
The Thalians was founded
in the 1950s by a group
of young actors and
professionals in the
entertainment industry who
wanted to give back to the
community that supported
them — and the first
“celebrity” charity was born.
With a focus on pediatric
mental health they pledged
$1 million towards the
construction of the first
building on the current
Cedars-Sinai campus —
The Thalian’s Mental Health
Center. Since then, they
have continued to lend their
support to the Department
of Psychiatry and Behavioral
Neurosciences, which is
dedicated to research and
treatment of complicated
and often difficult diseases
of the brain in adults and
children. Research studies
currently under way include
examining the efficacy of
omega-3 fatty acids in the
treatment of major
depression, genetic
research on Schizophrenia,
and clinical trials focusing
on bipolar depression.
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Dynamic Energy
What: The Galpin Motors Golf
Classic benefiting The Heart
Foundation
Who: Galpin Motors owner and
president Bert Boeckman and his
wife Jean joined special guest
and automotive industry icon
Lee Iacocca to present the
tournament’s first and second
place prizes: the key to a brand
new, hand-crafted 45th
Anniversary Limited Edition
Iacocca Mustang
Where: Sherwood Country Club,
Thousand Oaks
1 Steve Hartunian and Ross Kemperocinco
2 Glenn and Gregg Cobarr
3 The Heart Foundation Board of
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Directors members Dr. Stan Steinberg
and Lisa Sapiro, committee member
Mark Sapiro
4 Galpin Motors President and Owner
Bert Boeckmann, George Chiu, Dr. P.K.
Shah, and David Solomon
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The Helping Hand
Volunteers from The Helping Hand
of Los Angeles brought holiday
cheer to the hospital’s youngest
patients, transforming their rooms
with balloons, presents and cookies
during the annual Hanukkah Party.
The Helping Hand of Los Angeles
is the longest active support group
at the medical center, entering
their 9th decade of dedication to
Cedars-Sinai. Their volunteer-run
gift shop and two endowed chairs
support the Department of
Obstetrics and Gynecology.
1 Helping Hand volunteer, Bobbi Scherr,
delivers a Hanukah present to a young
pediatric patient.
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The Galpin Motors Golf
Classic tournaments have
netted almost $1.5 million to
support the research of Dr.
P.K. Shah, director of the
Division of Cardiology and the
Oppenheimer Atherosclerosis
Research Center at CedarsSinai. The Heart Foundation
began in 1995 to increase
awareness about heart
disease after founder Mark
Litman’s friend Steve Cohen
unexpectedly died of sudden
cardiac death (or SCD). Every
33 seconds, someone in the
United States dies of
cardiovascular disease. Dr.
Shah’s genetic discoveries are
aiming to eradicate that trend
and save lives. His team is
also examining the role of the
immune system in
atherosclerosis in hopes of
developing a vaccine.
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5 Lee Iacocca, The Heart Foundation
Advisory Board member Albert Nassi,
and Michael Leone
6 Bert Boeckmann, Jane Boeckmann,
and The Heart Foundation Chairman
Mark Litman
7 Krista and Glen Strauss
8 Henry Weingarten, Lee Iacocca, and
The Heart Foundation committee
member Barry Rudin
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Sports Spectacular
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The Sum
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Twenty five years ago, John Kissick
and Bernard Briskin created the
Sports Spectacular to raise funds
for the Medical Genetics Birth
Defects Center, now the Medical
Genetics Institute. This partnership,
paired with the support of many
committed volunteers and
generous donors, has generated
spectacularly successful fund
raising. Since the first event in
1986, the Sports Spectacular has
raised more than $20 million to
benefit medical genetic research
and treatments at Cedars-Sinai.
Today, thanks in part to this longlasting partnership, patients have
access to programs like GenRISK.
Under the direction of Dr. Ora
Gordon, it offers genetic testing
and screening to women, allowing
them to make proactive health
choices that could stop battles
with ovarian and breast cancer
before they start.
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What: The Women’s Luncheon
served as a glamorous kick-off event
for the 25th anniversary Sports
Spectacular. The luncheon is a
favorite spring celebration for the
many women who contribute to
Sports Spectacular’s ongoing support
of the world-renowned Cedars-Sinai
Medical Genetics Institute.
Who: Jenny Craig sponsored the
luncheon hosted by Valerie Bertinelli.
Eight courageous women shared their
life-saving and life-changing stories
of weight loss and the benefits of
genetic testing before strutting down
the runway in designer Tory Burch’s
new spring apparel. Executive
Director of the Sports Spectacular
Women's Luncheon Julie Harelson
and event chairpersons Sharon
Hernandez, Linda Rambis, and
Tonya Winfield joined celebrities,
female athletes, and prominent
members of the community to raise
funds and gather auction items for
the annual Sports Spectacular
dinner event on May 23 (see
coverage in next edition of Catalyst).
When: March 23, 2010
Where: Montage, Beverly Hills
1 Women’s Luncheon Co-Chair Tonya
Winfield, Women’s Luncheon
Executive Director Julie Harelson,
Women’s Luncheon Co-Chair Linda
Rambis, and Women’s Luncheon
Co-Chair Sharon Hernandez
2 Luncheon host Valerie Bertinelli
3 Judy Briskin, Beth Moskowitz, and
Bernard Briskin
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Dynamic Energy
What: The Women’s Guild Donor
Recognition High Tea was held
to acknowledge major donors’
gracious support of the Women’s
Guild Lung Institute through their
recent Non-Event.
Who: President Judy Briskin
announced the tremendous
fundraising success of the
$20 million Women’s Guild Lung
Institute project. To date, the
group has raised 80 percent of the
project’s total in cash and pledges.
Dr. Mark Greene, the Vera and
Paul Guerin Chair in Pulmonary
Disease Research newly-recruited
director of Basic Science and
visiting distinguished scientist in
the Samuel Oschin Comprehensive
Cancer Institute, shared
accomplishments and goals with
the group over high tea. His current
research focuses on targeted
therapies for lung cancer. Dr.
Greene’s finding 25 years ago led
to the development of targeted
drugs that treat certain forms of
breast cancer.
When: January 20, 2010
Where: Founders Room, Cedars-Sinai
Women’s Guild
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In 2007, Women’s Guild
made an unprecedented
pledge in Cedars-Sinai's
history: $20 million to create
the Women's Guild Lung
Institute. Led by nationally
recognized specialists in
three areas—medicine,
surgery, and research—the
Institute is giving new hope
to those who suffer from
asthma, pneumonia,
emphysema, cystic fibrosis,
lung cancer, and other
debilitating diseases.
To date, Women’s Guild
members have contributed
more than $40 million to
Cedars-Sinai, inspiring
innovation that has improved
quality of life for patients
everywhere with the Lung
Institute, the Saul and Joyce
Brandman Breast Center and
the Women’s Guild Chair in
Women's Health.
1 Judy Briskin, Art Ochoa, and Tom Priselac
2 Bernard Briskin, Vera Guerin, Dr. Shlomo
Melmed, Judy Briskin, Dr. Mark Greene,
and Geri Brawerman
3 Abby and Alan Levy, Sandra Post, Judy
Briskin, Tom Priselac, Beverly Firestein,
and Mark Siegel
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Sheryl Weissberg Lymphoma Research Foundation
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What: The Goddess Party is a
shopaholic’s dream come true
with jewelry, handbags, shoes, and
pampering treatments, with all
proceeds funding lymphoma
research at the Medical Center.
Who: 250 women from the Los
Angeles area joined lymphoma
survivor Sheryl Weissberg to raise
funds for her Lymphoma Research
Foundation.
When: September 25, 2009
Where: Teresa McNamara’s
residence in Encino, California
The Sum
Substance
Between manicures,
massages, boutique
shopping, psychic readings,
and foot reflexology, the
women at the Goddess Party
raised $40,000 to benefit
the lymphoma research of
Dr. Phillip Koeffler at CedarsSinai. Proceeds help Koeffler
and his team identify genetic
components and new drugs
that will help treat
lymphoma. Lymphoma is one
of the most common causes
of death from cancer in the
United States: about 48,000
new cases are diagnosed
every year. Koeffler is at the
forefront of research to
combat the disease.
1 Susan Berger, Sheryl Weissberg, and
Cindy Persky
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Pink Party
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Under the leadership of
Dr. Beth Y. Karlan, an
internationally recognized
gynecologic cancer surgeon
and scientist, researchers
at the Samuel Oschin
Comprehensive Cancer
Institute and the Division of
Gynecologic Oncology are
integrating innovative research
into a wide spectrum of
programs devoted to
preventing, diagnosing and
treating women's cancers.
Current research efforts are
focusing on cancer genetics
and personalized,
biomarkerdriven treatments
that could lead to better
outcomes for women
diagnosed with certain breast
and ovarian cancers.
What: The 5th annual Pink Party
to benefit the research of Beth Y.
Karlan, MD, director of the Division
of Gynecologic Oncology in the
Department of Obstetrics and
Gynecology.
Who: Celebrity guests Marcia Cross,
Brooke Burke, Lori Loughlin, and
Aaron Carter joined Elyse Walker,
the fashion and philanthropic force
behind the Pink Party.
When: September 12, 2009
Where: La Cachette Bistro, Santa
Monica
1 Edward Israel, Debbie Laub
2 Dr. Beth Karlan, Marcia Cross
3 Michael Chiklis, Elyse Walker, Michelle
Morán–Chiklis
4 Jim and Linda Lippman, David and
Elyse Walker
5 Celebrity chef Giada De Laurentiis
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Dynamic Energy
run for her
What: The run for her® 5K run
and Friendship Walk generated
nearly $750,000 to raise
awareness about ovarian cancer
and fuel the research of Beth Y.
Karlan, MD, director of the Division
of Gynecologic Oncology in the
Department of Obstetrics and
Gynecology, and director of the
Gilda Radner Hereditary Cancer
Detection Program.
Who: Food Network celebrity chef
Giada De Laurentiis and
Los Angeles County Supervisor,
Zev Yaroslavsky hit the pavement
surrounding The Grove in Los
Angeles with 4,000 other
participants.
Where: Pan Pacific Park, Los
Angeles in addition to walks that
took place in New York, Miami,
Chicago, and Austin
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1 The 2009 run for her Committee:
Jennifer Brown, Cami Leff, Charlie Caspary,
Alicia Trocker, Sandy Quigley, Connie
Firring, Rhonda Pieracci, Patty Armacost,
Nancy Houser, Bonnie Sloan, Sheri
Gilreath, Randi Gianotti, Barbara Winkler
2 The inspiration behind run for her
3 Los Angeles County Supervisor Zev
Yaroslavsky, Mike Sargent, Dr. Beth Y.
Karlan, Nicole Sargent, and Kelli Sargent
4 General Hospital’s Jackie Zeman
5 Heart Pocket Posse team members
Gigi Woobert-Hart, April Pistole,
Marsha Servetnick, and Jacqui Berry
6 Marie Ambrosino, awarded top
individual fundraiser, and Debbi
Singer-Fuerstein, 2nd place award for
top individual fundraiser
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7 The 2010 run for her® start line
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5
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Pet visits bring precious moments of joy
to Cedars-Sinai patients. While lifting
spirits, well-trained dogs in the Medical
Center’s volunteer POOCH program can
also help reduce pain and anxiety and
lower blood pressure.
BY SHERRY ANGEL
Community Pulse
W
hile fighting for his life in the HIV/
AIDS unit at Cedars-Sinai, Andy
Martin felt cut off from the outside
world and found it difficult to focus on anything
but the pain that came with every movement. But
when a gentle golden retriever named Chase
walked into his room with owner Barbara
Berkowitz, the pain receded and Andy instantly
felt reconnected with life.
“Chase was real. He was sweet. He was giving.
He was like an angel to me,” Andy recalls.
Barbara and Chase are volunteers with the
hospital’s pet visitation program. POOCH (Pets
Offer Ongoing Care and Healing) was brought
to the HIV/AIDS unit in 1992 by Women’s Guild
as part of its support for the HIV/AIDS and
Immune Disorders Center at Cedars-Sinai.
After being launched in the HIV/AIDS unit, the
POOCH program gradually expanded to include
regular pet visits in medical surgical, cardiology,
and pediatrics, among other parts of the hospital.
The program now involves more than 40 welltrained pets and their owners. The dogs range
from tiny chihuahuas that can rest in patients’ laps
to those as large as Chase—nearly 120 pounds.
Dogs must have the right temperament—
calm, comfortable with strangers, and not easily
distracted—to be admitted to the POOCH
program. Chase was a natural. And he seemed to
form an instant connection with Andy, a strong
but gentle, soft-spoken man who is inspiring to
be around as he embraces life with openness
and gratitude.
Chase made a series of visits to Andy’s room
when Andy was hospitalized for a month in
2005. “He would jump halfway on the bed and
put his head on my arm, and I’d just relax. It was
like he’d set me free,” Andy says.
‘My Good Constant’
B
arbara Berkowitz, an entertainment lawyer
who has had Chase since he was “a big
ball of fur,” would stand back and watch
as Andy and Chase bonded. Then she’d move on
to the next patient. “He’s a lovely dog, kind and
sweet. Everyone wants to touch him. He has a
soothing presence that’s very healing,” she says.
POOCH program volunteer coordinator
Barbara Cowen says the dogs give joy to
everyone they encounter, lifting the spirits not
only of patients but also visitors and staff. For
patients, they bring a “piece of home” to the
hospital, she says. “It’s wonderful for patients to
have their unconditional love and affection.”
Barbara Leanse, Cedars-Sinai’s director of
Volunteer Services, adds, “These pooches have
the uncanny ability to help patients forget their
But against all odds, as he was preparing to
die, he suddenly started to improve. Eventually,
he told the hospice team it was time for them to
leave so he could prepare to live. Andy was so
weak that he was bedridden for two years and
had to learn to walk again. But he gradually
gained strength and began rebuilding his life.
At the end of 2009, he was walking with a
cane and preparing to take a driver’s test. And
then came an unexpected invitation from Barbara
Berkowitz—a chance to be reunited with Chase
at her home.
C
hase went through his own health crisis in
the fall of 2009, when he was diagnosed
with cancer. He responded well to treatment
and resumed his hospital visits after recuperating.
“Patients find him even more inspiring when they
hear about his experience as a patient,” Barbara says.
Chase had just completed his last radiation
treatment when the reunion took place. Andy, who
was to celebrate his 55th birthday the next day,
embraced his former hospital companion and, with
tears in his eyes, said, “It’s nice to see him looking
so good.” Barbara had the same reaction to seeing
Andy. And Chase, calm as ever, took it all in stride.
Andy recently reflected on how much that
reunion meant to him: “I couldn’t believe the
moment was happening. The way Chase wrapped
himself around me and hugged me reassured me
that he knew who I was. It was like meeting an
old friend. He was my hero; he helped me
through, and I have a feeling he sensed how far
I’ve come because I was standing in front of him
instead of lying in a hospital bed.”
Andy looks forward to the day when he will
be well enough to follow in Chase’s footsteps and
volunteer to offer support to AIDS patients, “I
know there are a lot of people in my situation
who don’t have anyone. It would be helpful if
they had someone to visit them. Chase was my
good constant. Everyone needs that.”
■
“Chase is a lovely dog, kind and sweet. Everyone wants to
touch him. He has a soothing presence that’s very healing.”
—Barbara Berkowitz
pain, reduce their anxiety levels, and lower
blood pressure.”
Sometimes the results of POOCH visits are
even more dramatic. For example, there are
stories of a stroke survivor starting to speak
again and another awakening after being in a
coma for several days. Both responded to the
quiet presence of a dog at the edge of the bed.
For Andy, the visits from Chase were an
affirmation of life at a time when it seemed the end
was near. When he left Cedars-Sinai in 2005, he
went to his mother’s North Hollywood apartment
for hospice care. Over the next six months, Andy put
his affairs in order and never imagined a time would
come when he would see his canine friend again.
Barbara Berkowitz, Chase, and Andy Martin
reunite at Barbara’s home in December 2009.
Cedars-Sinai
Medical Center
Honor Roll
April 1, 2009–
October 31, 2009
INDEX TO DONORS
Cedars-Sinai Medical
Center General Fund . . . .18
Samuel Oschin
Comprehensive Cancer
Institute Funds . . . . . . . . .18
Funds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19
Support Groups . . . . . . . .22
The Brain Trust . . . . . . . . .22
Good Beginnings . . . . . . .22
The Heart Foundation . . .22
The Helping Hand of
Los Angeles . . . . . . . . . . . . .22
Psychological
Trauma Center . . . . . . . . .23
TEEN LINE . . . . . . . . . . . . .23
The Thalians . . . . . . . . . . .23
United Hostesses’
Charities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23
Women’s Guild . . . . . . . . .23
Illuminations
CEDARS-SINAI
MEDICAL CENTER
GENERAL FUND
Comerica
Ms. Elizabeth L. Cooper
Mr. and Mrs. Craig Gilcrease
Mrs. Dorothy E. Kaplan
Mr. and Mrs. Steven Le Duff
In honor of Courtney Green
In memory of Lee Babbitt
In honor of Ed and Susan Isenberg’s
anniversary
In honor of Sheila McCoy
In honor of Dr. Kaz and Megumi
Nehira’s anniversary
In honor of Mimi Rotter
In honor of Mark Le Duff
Ms. Sally Glovata
Mr. Ernest Cornolo
Estate of Samuel Goldstein
Mr. Ernest Ach
Mrs. Gina M. Agostino-Manes In honor of Sister Florence Marchica Mr. and Mrs. Bruce G. Goren
In memory of Adele Olodort
In memory of Christopher Vicente Dr. Lawrence J. Danna
In memory of Marvin Gussman
Mr. Louis Goren
Ms. Debbi L. Alpert
Ms. Zoila Delgado
In honor of Art Turk’s speedy recovery Ms. Claudia Katz
Mrs. Janet Duff
Grant Associates
In honor of Elaine and Richard
Ms. Josephine Baker
In honor of Brittany Brooks’
In memory of Philip Zweig
Gross’ anniversary
Ms. Maria F. Bauer
speedy recovery
Mr. and Mrs. Gerald S. Gray Ms. Mary Kennally Clark
In honor of Dr. Barry Rosenbloom
Richard E. Eisendrath &
In honor of Michael Clark’s birthday
In honor of Dr. Stephen Sacks
Janice L. Eisendrath
Grenell Family Foundation
Ms. Parissa Kermani
Mr. and Mrs. Larry Baum
Revocable
Trust
Mr. and Mrs. Irwin Grossman In honor of Parissa Kermani’s
In memory of Marjorie Jacobs
Elman
Family
Foundation
In memory of Donna Siken
father’s good health
Mr. and Mrs. Allan Bausk
Mr. Ronald R. Gustafson
Dr. and Mrs. Mark E.
In memory of Christopher Vicente Mr. and Mrs. L. Engbar
Kozminsky
Ms. Dora Gutman-Kramer
Mr. and Mrs. Sam Benton
In memory of Christopher Vicente
In honor of Dione Fenning’s birthday Mr. and Ms. Aaron R. Eshman In honor of Amalia Gutman’s
In memory of Suzy Krakow
speedy recovery
Ms. Karen R. Kreutner
Mrs. Lanie Bernhard
Mr. Paul R. Esserman
Ms. Carla Hague
Sherry Lansing Foundation
In memory of Christopher Vicente In memory of Armand
Drs. Keith L. Black and
Ms.
Nan
E.
Fagan
“Army”
Archerd
Mr. and Mrs. Richard
Carol J. Bennett
In memory of Marie Banyan
Dr. Leo Pomerantz and
Hammerman
In memory of Simon Marciano
In memory of Eugene “Gene” Davis In memory of Dick Berg
Mr. and Mrs. Jacob A. Bloom Ms. Mimi Feldman
In
honor
of
Beverly
“Babe”
Bayer’s
InmemoryofWalter“Wally”MarksJr. In memory of Gary Boyle’s mother
Mr. Howard H. Bordbar
speedy recovery
In honor of Joan Nicholas’ birthday In memory of Arthur Canton
Mr. Dennis Bose
In memory of Charles Gwathmey
Mr. and Mrs. Gary J. Finkel
Ms. Lila Hauptman
In honor of Michael Clark
Mr. Tony Braswell and
Ms. Marilyn F. Werner
In memory of Harold Werner
Broadway School Faculty
Social Fund
In memory of Helen Sanchez
Mr. Carl Brown
In honor of Mr. and Mrs. Terry
Avchen’s anniversary
In honor of Jack Simon’s birthday
In honor of Debbie and Rick Powell
Mr. and Mrs. Roger Fischer
In memory of Wilford Arnovitz
Dr. and Mrs. Robert F. Foran
Ms. Syril Frank
In honor of Elaine Goldsmith’s
birthday
Mr. Maynard Franklin
In memory of Irving Karp
In honor of Alan Lowy’s birthday
Fred & Lucille Hirsch
Foundation
Mrs. Frances M. Hirsh
In honor of Robert Harrison’s
speedy recovery
Ms. Louise W. Calhoun
All gifts received after
October 31, 2009 will appear
in the next issue of Catalyst
SAMUEL OSCHIN
COMPREHENSIVE
CANCER INSTITUTE
Gifts made in memory of Roya
Geiderman, benefiting the
Samuel Oschin Comprehensive
Cancer Institute and the
Johnnie L. Cochran Jr. Brain
Tumor Center
Ms. Julie A. Aaron
Ms. Adelaida Ang
Ms. Judith L. Appelbaum
Mr. and Mrs. Neal Baseman
Bel Air Plaza, Ltd.
Daniel S. Berman MD
Dr. and Mrs. William F. Bierer
Mr. Ken Bloch
Mr. and Mrs. Ronald H. Bloom
Mr. Phillip D. Booth
Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Brent
Mr. Charles Briggs and
Mrs. Alice F. Holzman
Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Briskin
Mr. and Mrs. Elliott B. Broidy
Mr. and Mrs. Steven D. Broidy
Mr. Robert E. Collier and
Ms. Helen Hansen
Dr. Marc Collin
Dr. and Mrs. David Cooke
Mr. and Mrs. William J. Danhof
Mr. and Mrs. Jim I. Davidson
Ms. Celia Davidson Farkas
Ms. Catherine Douglas
Mr. and Mrs. Jerrold S.
Felsenthal
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Flores
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Folender
Mr. and Mrs. Myron L.
Freedman
General Anesthesia
Specialists Partnership
Medical Group
Drs. Julian and Michele Gold
Mrs. and Mr. Abner D.
Goldstine
Mr. and Mrs. Alan Greenberg
Mrs. Karel Guefen
Mr. and Mrs. Alexander L.
Haagen
Ms. Michelle Hackbarth
Hawthorne Staff Club
Mr. and Mrs. Larry Hochberg
James and Ada Horwich
Family Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth L. Kahan
Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Kallick
Drs. Beth and Scott Karlan
Mr. and Mrs. Ezra Kest
Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Kirk
In memory of William I. Young, MD
In honor of Gloria Mitchell
Mr. Michael K. Clark
Clif Bar & Company
Ms. Jodie D. Klein
La Follette, Johnson, De Haas,
Fesler & Ames
Ms. Marion Laurie
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Leanse
Ms. Sylvia J. Levi
Mr. Jerry J. Linkin and Mrs.
Lynn Klinenberg Linkin
Dr. and Mrs. Anthony J.
Loffredo
Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Lopaty
Mr. and Mrs. Ron Markowitz
Mr. and Mrs. Robert C.
Mayeron
Ms. Ann McBride
Mr. and Mrs. Edward J.
Meltzer Jr.
Ms. Frieda Meltzer
Ms. Lilya Miryem
Ms. Elizabeth S. Mokaya
Dr. Doris Moradzadeh and
Mr. Hamid Nourmand
Morris Family Foundation
Mrs. Marla S. Neufeld
Mr. and Mrs. John G. Nielsen
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Ochoa
Mr. and Mrs. James Ogawa
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence M.
Powell
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M.
Priselac
Mr. and Mrs. Graham
Rael-Brook
Robert and Anita Silverstein
Family Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Bernard B. Roth
Mr. and Mrs. Abraham S.
Rubin
Mr. and Mrs. Ronald T. Rubin
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Sambol
Mr. and Mrs. Lee C. Samson
Samuel Oschin Family
Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Sands
Mrs. Pamela SantoroCapitanini
Mr. and Mrs. David I.
Saperstein
Dr. and Mrs. Norman M.
Schulman
Mr. Barry Schuman
Ms. Linda Sebel
Ms. Florence Shapiro
Mr. and Mrs. Mark S. Siegel
Mr. and Mrs. Milton Slotkin
Dr. and Mrs. Mark Steele
Ms. Crystal Strickler
Mr. and Mrs. Joel Strom
Mr. Jeffrey H. Tamkin
Mr. Abbe I. Temkin
In honor of Jagger Lambert
Ms. Faye Gardenswartz
In honor of Sophie E. Brill’s birthday
Mr. and Mrs. Harold
Gardenswartz
Mrs. Ena Garmaise
In honor of Jennifer M. Garmaise
GE Foundation
Ms. Kathy Geathers
The Saul Brandman
Foundation
The Todd M. Morgan
Foundation
Thrifty Oil Co.
Ms. Marilyn Trattner
Mr. Sanford B. Weiss
Ms. Nancy Yada
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Zarnegin
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Zifkin
Mrs. Lori Baker-Schena
In memory of Marque Deveaux
Mr. Jock Casasus
Mr. Clarence E. Lutcher
Samuel Oschin Family
Foundation
In memory of Julie Brill
In memory of Ann Miles
In memory of Samuel Oschin
In memory of Shayna Oschin
In honor of Dr. David Agus
In honor of Dr. Robert Decker
In honor of Dr. Peter Julien
In honor of Dr. Dan Luthringer
In honor of Dr. and Mrs. Jack Matloff
In honor of Dr. and Mrs.
Brad Penenberg
In honor of Paula Rubin
In honor of Dr. Alan Shabo
In honor of Dr. Robert J. Siegel
Ms. Millicent E. Young
In memory of Dr. Elmer Eger
LUCIEN ABENHAIM
MEMORIAL FUND FOR
PANCREATIC CANCER
RESEARCH
Gifts made in memory of
Ben Sacco
Albert Bros., Inc.
Mr. and Mrs. Dean Carpenter
Mr. and Mrs. Donnie L. Craig
Ms. Joanne Davidge
Mr. and Mrs. Mario Di Molfetto
Electric Motor Works, Inc.
Jeffrey R. Mettler Farms Inc.
Klein, Denatale, Goldner,
Cooper, Rosenlieb &
Kimball, LLP
Law Office of Timothy J.
Lemucchi, Inc.
Lemucchi
Management Brokers, Inc.
Pacific Steel & Recycling
Mr. Jerry Simms
Mr. and Mrs. William T. Wiswall
Wool Growers Restaurant, Inc.
Diabetes Center Associates
Mrs. Bernice Levin
Mr. Aron Katsnelson and
Mrs. Basya Levina
Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Levins
In honor of Elaine Goldsmith’s
birthday
Ms. Delores K. Levitan
Long Beach Ramo
General Business
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Losk
In memory of Virginia Jones
In memory of Dr. Melvin Krevoy
Ms. Karen Stein
Mrs. Laurie Rice
In honor of Sue and Larry
Hochberg’s anniversary
Ms. Judith M. Riley
Mr. and Mrs. John L. Roberts
Robin Hillard Plumbing
and Heating
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Santos
In memory of Sidney Seligson
Major Appraisals, Inc.
Market Strategies, Inc.
Mrs. Bert Maron
Mr. and Mrs. Michael W. Sarka
In memory of Marie Hornstein’s sister
In memory of John West’s mother
In honor of Dione Fenning’s birthday
In honor of Mr. and Mrs. Sol Gindoff
In honor of Steve James
In honor of Les and Arlene
In memory of Edward “Ted” Kennedy Rothstein’s anniversary
Mr. and Ms. Stuart S. Hillman In memory of Bob Klein’s mother
In honor of Roman Silberfeld’s
birthday
In honor of Henry Kupperman’s
birthday
Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Spivak
In memory of Conner Sarka
Mr. Larry Sawyer
Mrs. Kelly Schiffer
In memory of Clifford Schiffer
Ms. Sandra J. Schlub
Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Massman Mr. and Mrs. Joel Schrier
Estate of Mary Ann Segal
In memory of Pearl Borinstein
Mr. and Mrs. Philip Shapiro
In honor of Sophie E. Brill’s birthday InmemoryofJaneHitchcock’s mother Dr. and Mrs. King M.
In memory of Pearl April Richlin
In memory of Robert J. Hoven
Mendelsohn
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Herz
In honor of Dr. Philip Yalowitz’s
In memory of John H. Kelly
Jeanne S. Friedman
Mrs. Joan Hornig
Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Browne Foundation
honor of Dione Fenning’s birthday Mr. Kevin Iga
Bucci Jewelry Company L.P. In
In memory of Christopher Vicente In honor of Lydia Gindoff’s birthday Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. Ivar
Dr. and Mrs. David M. Frisch Ms. Scarlett Johansson
Mr. and Mrs. Alan I. Byer
In memory of Shirle Mae Carter
In memory of Evelyn Goodstein
In memory of Walter B. Stone
In memory of Betty Wilson
Ms. Sandy Lee
Estate of Walter Oppenheimer
Mrs. Patricia Ostiller
Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin B. Park
Dr. and Mrs. Simon Ramo
Ms. Patricia L. Reiner
Ms. Lisa Josefsberg
Drs. Frederick H. Kahn and
Barbara Visscher
In honor of Dr. Philip Yalowitz
Ms. Gloria Kaine-Shatner
Donald & Joyce Kaplan
Foundation
In honor of Dr. Arthur Lipper
Mr. and Mrs. Jeff A. Green
Mr. and Mrs. Mike Graver
In memory of May Bierman
Rabbi and Mrs. James
Kaufman
In memory of Ida Gan
In memory of Dr. Eugene Gettelman
In memory of Alfred Gottschalk
In memory of Sheldon Kushner
In memory of Bill Parker
Mr. and Mrs. Steve Minsky
In memory of Joyce Goodman
In memory of Matt Hupp
In memory of Chris Northup
In memory of Elaine Ordower
In memory of Marvin Stein
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Naidorf
In memory of Renee Krieger
In memory of Kim Meglio
Mr. and Mrs. Geoff Silverman
Mr. and Mrs. Herb Silverman
In memory of Bernie Bernard
In memory of Mark Feldman’s
grandmother
In memory of Mike and Lois
Graver’s mother
In honor of Adam and Emily’s
engagement
In honor of Mr. and Mrs. Al Algaze’s
baby
In honor of Ingrid Birmingham’s
birthday
In honor of Judah Diamond’s birth
In honor of Jonah Eli
In honor of Baby Emerson
InhonorofBobGold’s speedyrecovery
In honor of Dianne Gorsey’s speedy
recovery
In honor of the birth of Emerson
Felix Hoffman
In honor of Susan and Jeff Jacobs’
speedy recovery
In memory of Jerry Decter
In honor of Jack and Sharon
Triguero’s 50th wedding anniversary Mrs. Judy B. Sher
Ms. Cheri Michelson
Mr. and Mrs. Zev L. Lapin
In memory of Pearl Borinstein
In memory of Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Friedman’s father
In honor of Mr. and Mrs. John
Jameson’s anniversary
In honor of Megan Mirisch’s
graduationIn honor of Walter
Mirisch’s granddaughter’s
graduation
In honor of Tracey’s birthday
Mr. V. A. Sternthal
Martin H. Sternstein, MD
In memory of Bud Robinson
Estate of Raymond Stotter
Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Temkin
Mr. and Mrs. Victor Temkin
Temple Emanuel of
Beverly Hills
The Entertainment Industry
Foundation
In honor of Cindy Margolis
Ms. Elizabeth J. Thomas
In memory of Hannah Isabella
Thomas
Mr. Wiliam Thompson
In memory of Phillip Stillian
Twentieth Century Fox
Film Corporation
Mr. Juan Tyberg
United Way of Southern
Nevada
Mr. and Mrs. William Shapiro In memory of Dr. Shadpur Yashar
Ms. Shizue Uyeno
Ms. Susan Vaughn
In memory of Wayne Llewellyn
In memory of Bob Manning
In memory of Ed McMahon
In memory of Phil Miller’s mother
In memory of David Nagler
In memory of Sidney David Pactor
In memory of Anne Paykos
In memory of Bobbi Popp
In memory of Maria Shriver’s mother
In memory of Bobby Shriver’s mother
anniversary
In honor of Julie’s wedding
In honor of Mike and Frieda’s
Mrs. Joan Green
Maiman’s anniversary
In memory of Esther Kaufman
Mr. and Mrs. Herb G. Walker In honor of Jan Nelson’s birthday
In honor of Irene Odjana’s speedy
In memory of Lucien E. Abenhaim
recovery
FREDERICK BERNE
In honor of Edie Perelson’s speedy
HEMATOLOGY ONCOLOGY
recovery
LIBRARY FUND
In honor of the birth of Reese and
Mr. Horst W. Baumberger and Jack Perelson
In honor of Sam Poirer’s bar mitzvah
Ms. Patricia Berne
In honor of Mr. and Mrs. Jerry
In honor of Joan Berne’s birthday
Raphael’s baby
Mrs. Joan F. Berne
In honor of Stanley Spancer’s
In memory of Fred Berne
speedy recovery
In memory of Sid Katz
In honor of Lynn and Arnie
Sperling’s anniversary
In memory of Adele Platt
In honor of Marvin Stein’s speedy
In honor of Mitzi Shield’s birthday
recovery
MICHAEL BIERMAN CANCER In honor of Mr. and Mrs. Howard
RESEARCH FUND
Wolff’s baby, Carni
Mr. Lowell Bramnick
In honor of Simone Zeldin’s speedy
In memory of John Duffy
recovery
In memory of Brian Meyer
In memory of Esther Kaufman
Mr. Maurice D. Meyers
In honor of Fred and Betty Hayman
In honor of John and Nickie
Kaufman’s wedding
In honor of Vicki and Murray
Pepper’s anniversary
In honor of Sophie E. Brill’s birthday
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Weiner
Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Mirvis Mr. and Mrs. Irving A. Shimer In memory of Mr. and Mrs. Paul
In honor of Mr. and Mrs. Warren
Breslow
In honor of Sadie Isaacson’s
birthday
Mrs. Gayle Moore
Silverton Friends Church
Mr. Scott S. Moorhouse and
Ms. Carmela A. Mezquita
Mr. and Mrs. Hyman Simon
Ms. Joan E. Singleton
In memory of Edgar Pash
InmemoryofMark“Mickey”Weisman In memory of Loran L. Lewis
Mr. and Mrs. Ronald L. Morris Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Slater
In memory of Ralph Mosikian
Mr. and Mrs. Victor Moss
In honor of Dorothy Factor’s birthday Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Snyder
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Mucha Mrs. Lillie B. Spires
In memory of Rebecca Lee’s father
In honor of Maura H. Spires’
Mr. and Mrs. George W. Muse Jr. speedy recovery
In honor of Mark Le Duff
ELLA BROWN MEMORIAL
FUND FOR LUNG CANCER
RESEARCH
Ms. Mary Watkins
CANCER CENTER SUPPORT
AND EDUCATION FUND
Schaeffer’s mother
Mrs. Evelyn Wiggins
In memory of Peter Shapiro
Mr. and Mrs. Gentry L. Winters
In memory of Melvin C. Hunt
Mr. Doo W. Wong
Ms. Dorothy Wright
In memory of Shirley McDonald
Writers Guild of America,
West, Inc.
Dr. and Mrs. Philip A.
Yalowitz
In memory of Larry Farris
In memory of David S. Rosenson
In memory of Miguel Garcia
Mr. and Mrs. Harold
Lieberman
Mr. Joe Ingber
In memory of Larry Farris
In memory of Judge Robert
M. Takasugi
In memory of Irvin Goldfarb
Ms. Kathleen G. Garcia
Ms. Jane Liepshutz
Mr. and Mrs. Allen L. Johnson In memory of Michael Shapiro
In honor of Bette Epstein’s birthday
Gifts made in memory of Jane Ms. Marilyn Kostry
Mrs. Margaret G. Morton
In memory of Mariela Arias
Conaway
In memory of Wilbert H. Phillips
Mr. and Mrs. Josef Moravek
Mr. David W. Chill
In memory of Clarice Diane
Ms. Bera Nevelskaya
Ms. Sofie Christoffersen
Sattiewhite
Ms. Sandra Noack
Mr. Bill Conaway
Ms. Lenora Oliff
In
honor
of
Howard
and
Iris
In memory of Frances Schiff
Ms. Judith A. Crassweller
Kornberg
In memory of Saul Simon
Mr. John Dahl
Mr. Ernie Ortiz
In honor of Shirley Block’s speedy
Ms. Verna R. Eighmy
In memory of Dick Beard
recovery
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Fidler
Dr. and Mrs. Richard Sherman Mrs. Elaine S. Peck
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Geis
In memory of Roya Geiderman
In memory of Elizabeth Anne
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Glass
Ms. Willie M. Walker
Bernstein
In memory of Philip Braeger
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence
Ms. Sharon Weisz
In memory of Alvin L. Gorlick
Grassedonio
In memory of Michael Straw
In honor of Roberta Grabell’s birthday
Mrs. Mildred Greenberg
Ms. Debra Zane
In honor of Bobby Peck’s birthday
Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Gresham In honor of Sophie E. Brill
In honor of Carol Perris, Esq.
Mrs. Betty K. Seale
BOARD OF GOVERNORS
CANCER RESEARCH FUND
In honor of Sheila Stein’s birthday
CENTER FOR CANCER
Mr. and Mrs. Deran Sedore
In honor of Dr. Philip Yalowitz’s
Dr. Herman Bernstein
RESEARCH
speedy
recovery
Ms. Keeley L. Swanson
In memory of Gerry Peck
CLFS Equities, LLP
Mr. and Mrs. Martin Warren Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Dennis Belle Price Charitable Fund
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Horowitz Mr. Herbert Wells
Roll Giving
In memory of Leah Isaac
Furs by Mannis
Mr. and Mrs. Ronald
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Lipstone Winkleman
In memory of Mrs. Ellie Senter
Mr. and Mrs. Loren Singer
In memory of Maxine Bendheim
Mr. Ronald R. Gastelum
In memory of Barbara Hellman’s
Mrs.
Ruth
M.
Goldman
Mr.
and
Mrs.
Douglas
sister-in-law
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Turner
In honor of Mr. and Mrs. Norman
Anderson
Mr. and Mrs. Philip S.
In memory of Bernie Bernard
Rips’ birthdays and anniversary
Magaram
Ms. Dorothy Wright
Mr.
Jeff
Goodman
Mr.
and
Mrs.
Peter
K.
Breum
Jr.
In memory of Marlis E. Kahmann
In memory of Gerald Lipsky
In honor of Lee Mink Barr
Mrs. Barbara Burton
SAUL AND JOYCE BRANDMAN
Mr. and Mrs. Jules Greenberg TOM COLLIER MEMORIAL
BV
Washington
Properties
LLC
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REGATTA ONCOLOGY
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ADVANCEMENT FUND
Perlstein’s daughter, Suzanne
PROJECT – PHILLIP
C.
L.
Ellico
Mr. and Mrs. Allan Marble
Ms. Esther S. Harris
KOEFFLER, MD
In
memory
of
Marque
Deveaux
In memory of Ruth Mayer
In honor of Lil Solomon’s birthday
Tom Collier Memorial Regatta
Mr. David S. Englehart
Mrs. Selma Hersh
SAUL AND JOYCE BRANDMAN In memory of Marque Deveaux
JUDITHAMSTERCOWANFUND
In
memory
of
Earl
Rosenstein
BREAST CENTER PROGRAM Mr. Joe Ingber
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Hess
SUPPORT FUND
Mrs. and Mrs. Ed Horowitz
In memory of Dorothy “Dottie”
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Mr. and Mrs. Mike Rothberg Grushow
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Horowitz
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Steven Sheanin’s marriage
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Los Angeles Lodge No. 126
In honor of Dr. and Mrs. Skip
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Sherwood
William Blair & Company, LLC Danish
Brotherhood
Holden’s son’s marriage
In memory of Joseph Sheldon
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Mrs. Deirdre Nicholas
Schwartz
Mrs. Dorothy E. Kaplan
BREAST CANCER
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Omansky In honor of Dr. and Mrs. Arnold
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RESEARCH FUND
Ms. Gladys R. Podos
Levee’s anniversary
Ms. Regina Steiner
Mr. Norman Brownstein
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Ms. Susan Kaplan
Ms. Laura M. Robinson
Mr. Edward Klein and
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Mr. Robert Heerdt
Ms. Sherrill Kushner
MEMORIAL FUND
Ms. Madeline Horner
In honor of Lee Mink’s birthday
DISCOVERING FOR LIFE
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Ms. Elaine Klein
CANCER FUND
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Heltzer’s anniversary
Mr. and Mrs. J.D. Boswell
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Mr. and Mrs. Duane Kofoed
Mr. and Mrs. Robert I.
Mr. David R. Evans
In memory of Annie Noradian
BREAST CANCER BASIC AND Ms. F. George and
Rosenberg
TRANSITIONAL SCIENCE
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Ms. Karen R. Kreutner
Ms. Mary Franz
RESEARCH PROJECT
In honor of Celia Davidson Farkas
In memory of Robert Cohen
In memory of Shirley Kaufmann
The Ahmanson Foundation
Ms. Myrna W. House
Mr. and Mrs. Danton R.
Keracher Sr.
Mr. John Osbourne
Mr. and Mrs. Duane D. Menke
Mr. Derek J. Poirier
PEDIATRIC HEMATOLOGY
In memory of Leonard “Lenny” Lipton In memory of Arlene K. Smith
AND ONCOLOGY PROGRAM Mr. Stephen L. Sebolsky
Ms. Sheryol L. Neill
In memory of Helen Feger
Gifts made in honor of Ben
Mr. and Mrs. Brian Nicholson
LINDA TALLEN & DAVID PAUL Mr. Zac Macmillon and
In memory of Ben Pivo
Pearson
KANE ANNUAL FELLOWSHIP Ms. Jessica Sipprell
Mr. Tim Patterson and
In honor of Barbara Rubenstein’s
IN GENE THERAPY CANCER Tofanelli, Inc.
Mr. Jake Draper
Ms. Jill M. Jones
birthday
RESEARCH
Dr. Lyra S. Gillette and
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Pieracci
SAMUEL OSCHIN
ONCOLOGY
SURGICAL
Lee and Herman Ostrow
COMPREHENSIVE CANCER Ms. Stephanie C. Gillette
Ms. Neva J. Scholtes
RESEARCH
AND
EDUCATION
Family Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Jones
INSTITUTE PROGRAM
Mr. and Mrs. Budd Shedd
FUND
Ms. Pamela Morgan
BEVERLY AND MORTON KAY Gifts made in honor of Lee
Mr. and Mrs. Martin S. Appel Mr. and Mrs. Stephen J. Sloane
ENDOWMENT FOR CANCER Mink’s birthday
Mr. and Mrs. Edward E.
In memory of John Sabet
Mr. and Mrs. Lynnville
RESEARCH
Saborio
Mr. and Mrs. Timothy G.
In honor of Drs. Charles Forscher
W. Smith
Clark
Mr. Morton M. Kay
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Terry
and Allan Silberman
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen T. Warner
In memory of Renee “Chickie” Cyril Mr. and Mrs. John R. Hall
Ms. Nancy Yaffe
Eloise Briskin Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. James L. Wright
In memory of Rene “Cook” Hegoas Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey K. Iko
Mr. Charles Beres-Wright
Drs. Merle and Audrey Hilliard Ms. Ann M. Zimmermaker
In honor of Myron and June
J.S. Property Management Co. In memory of Ben Peterson
Mr. and Mrs. Dan Merritt
Winkler’s anniversary
In honor of Charlotte Kamenir’s
1-10 Race Promotions, Inc.
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence B. Platt Mr. and Mrs. Jason C. Mink
85th birthday
Ms. Laurie Deyoung
Mr. and Mrs. J.H. Oliphant
In memory of Thomas R.
Accessories Marketing, Inc.
Mr.
and
Mrs.
Itay
Mevorakh
Mr. Ashish Kaul
Mr. and Mrs. William G.
Weinberger’s mother
Aei-Casc Consulting
In
memory
of
John
Sabet
Roberts
Mr. Yale Kim
Anderson’s Nu Power
Ms. Christine Santana
Dr. and Mrs. Mayo Stark
Mr. and Mrs. Robert
and Allan Silberman
Arizona West All Sport, Inc.
In memory of Beverly Kay
Nachshin
SYI Design, LLC
Mr.
and
Mrs.
Harry
Schultz
As Prescribed Pharmacy
In memory of Elaine Mason
In
honor
of
Paulette
P.
Cohen’s
Ms. Shannon H. Tucker
Drs. Payman and Rashin
Associated Electrics, Inc.
In honor of Mort Kay’s birthday
birthday
Ms. Edna Ulasewicz
Simoni
B & D Automotive
LEUKEMIA RESEARCH FUND CONFIDENCE FOUNDATION Mr. Steven Arrighi and
In memory of John Sabet
Mr. Michael J. Nystrom
Baker Electric, Inc.
Mr. Dean E. Riccioni
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert B. Klein In memory of Rosemary Hughes
Baker Family Foundation
In honor of Frank Uribe
and Allan Silberman
In honor of Dr. Behrooz Hakimian
Mr. and Mrs. Louis R. Barlow
GILDA RADNER OVARIAN
Dr. and Mrs. Dennis
United Cancer Research
Ms.
Beverly
P.
Morgan
CANCER DETECTION
Snyderman
Mr. and Mrs. Keith Barrett
Society, Inc.
In memory of Mariela Arias
PROGRAM
In memory of Barbara Klass
Ms. Wanda J. Bauer
Mr. Victor I. Reichman
ANTONY D. TRATTNER
Mr. Matthew Lasky and
Mr. John P. Behlmer
BARBARA LINKIN
MEMORIAL FUND
Mrs. Joan G. Wilner
Ms.
Susan
Grossman
MEMORIAL FUND IN
Mr. and Mrs. Mike D. Bevans
In memory of Roy Houston
Patton Design Studio
In
honor
of
Janet
Rapoport’s
speedy
SUPPORT OF THE WCRI
Big Fish Electric, Inc.
recovery
SAMUEL OSCHIN CANCER
THE LOUIS WARSCHAW
Mr. Tyler L. Linkin
Drs. Daniel and Sandy
CENTER
PROSTATE CANCER CENTER Big O Tires
Boies Schiller & Flexner LLP
LUNG CANCER EDUCATION Ms. Katherine C. Jannone
Geschwind
FUND
FUND
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Grycan Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Boren
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert B. Klein In honor of Gina Gore
In memory of Sara Sloan’s
Mrs. Claire Rexon
Valley Services
In memory of J. Lloyd Jacobs
In honor of Dr. Ronald Leuchter
grandmother
In memory of Rocio Pitman’s mother
In memory of Mary Ann Butler
Mrs. Margaret M. Howard
OVARIAN CANCER EARLY
In memory of Priscilla Powers
Bottlejockies, Inc.
In memory of Willis Gueringer
JACK ROSENBERG
DETECTION AND
Mr. and Mrs. David F. Brown
COOKIE AND RON
MEMORIAL FUND FOR
Ms. Francine E. Sanders
BIOMARKER DISCOVERY
MARKOWITZ ENDOWMENT The Entertainment Industry CANCER RESEARCH
Bud Eyre ChevroletIn honor of Mr. and Mrs. Carl
FOR CANCER RESEARCH
Buick-Toyota
Robertson
Mrs. Charlotte Rosenberg
Foundation
AND EDUCATION
Callaway Motorsports
Ms. Vicki Walters
OVARIAN CANCER
Mr. and Mrs. Allan Cutrow
In memory of Raul Walters
Central California Power
RESEARCH
FUND
Mr. and Mrs. Ron Markowitz
Mrs. Carmen H. Warschaw
Ms. Jodie A. Chapman
Ms.
Harriet
Brodsky
In memory of Stanley Adler
Mr. and Mrs. Seth W. Chase
In
honor
of
Mr.
and
Mrs.
Chuck
In memory of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Ms. Sylvia Canales
Ms. Ruth Ziegler
Ms. Sandra L. Chase and
Maltz
Lopaty’s son-in-law, Jimmy
In memory of Stacey E. Frederick
In memory of David Goldman
Ms. Mary L. Buyer
Ms. Jacqueline V. Frederick
NANCI M. SARGENT
WOMEN’S CANCER
Chromal Plating Company
In memory of Thomas R.
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MEMORIAL FUND
RESEARCH INSTITUTE
Weinberger’s mother
Coast Machinery Movers
Mr. and Mrs. David M. Paquet Mr. and Mrs. Richard K. Dunn ACTIVITIES FUND
Mr. and Mrs. Leslie C. Cochran
SHARON OSBOURNE COLON In memory of Wanda Shugart
In memory of Nanci M. Sargent
Gifts
made
in
memory
of
Ms. Debra S. Cohen
CANCER PROGRAM
Dr. Paul Rumsey
The Charles Schwab
Patricia “Patty” Wright
In memory of Tania Agalsoff
Ms. Angie Corradi and
A Room With a View, Inc.
Foundation
Ms. Donna Bellith
Ms. Lorne Corradi
In memory of Nanci M. Sargent
Art Center Gallery
PANCREATIC CANCER
Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. Clarke County Motor Parts Co., Inc.
Mr. and Mrs. Brian D. Baldelli RESEARCH FUND
RITA SEBOLSKY MEMORIAL Ms. Shirley A. Cullum
Mr. and Mrs. Sergio
FUND CANCER CENTER
Creator’s
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Covarrubias
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Ms. Sharon Luvisi
Ms. Christi CannonMr. Greg Crew
In memory of Sara Edelman
Mr. and Mrs. Scott M. Farkas Ms. Linda Gil
Westbrook
Ms. Arminta Guthrie and
Ms. Sally L. Crystal
In memory of Arlene K. Smith
Ms. Marla Gibson
HEMATOLOGY AND
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Estate of Doris Harris
Mrs. Lilli Zimet
The World Wings International
Los Angeles Chapter
Mr. Hubert Lum and Ms.
Ellen Ying
Mr. and Mrs. Gary B. Young
Mr. and Mrs. Todd Gelfand
In memory of Arlene K. Smith
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin
Baumann
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Reilly
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Rubenstein
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Mr. Theodore I. Cohen
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Ms. Arlene J. Friedman
Ms. Debby Barich
Mr. and Mrs. Gary D. Cohn
In honor of Dr. Raj Makkar
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In memory of Lorraine Nadian
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Mr. and Mrs. Paul Barlow
Ms. Gertrude Cooper
Ms. Gerri L. Frye
In honor of Paul David Barlow II
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Robin G. Fuld
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Mr. and Mrs. Howard S. Furst
Mr. and Mrs. Curt R. Behlmer Mr. and Mrs. Richard E.
FUND
Mr. Frank A. Fusari and Ms.
Ms.
Tobi
B.
Behr
Crocker
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Heather Macfarlane
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Ms. Cyndy Crogan
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Mr. and Mrs. Bruce W. Rabin Ms. Roberta Bennett
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LAWRENCE ADES FUND FOR In honor of Allison Rotter
Mr.and Mrs.Luis Miguel Garcia
HEART TRANSPLANT
Mr. Mori Ben-Nissan
Ms. Patricia A. D’Agostini
Mr. Eugene D. Gastelum
Ms. Annette Ades
Mr. and Mrs. Edward A. Berlin In memory of Laurie R. Kraus
Ms. Mildred Gavron
In memory of Anne Jacks
Ms.
Veeraphan
Daley
Mr. Patrick E. Bertagna
Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Gelfand
Ms. Mary Daniel
Mrs.
Wanda
Best
In honor of Dione Fenning’s birthday In memory of Darrell Ogletree
Ms. Susan H. Del Negro and In honor of Steve Wilson’s birthday
Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Gottlieb Mrs. Laxoni Bhakta
Mr. David G. Gierer
Ms. Terry L. Cahalan
In honor of Annette Ades
In memory of Kenneth Kohon
Mr. and Mrs. Jon E. Delfel
Ms. Alicia Bissinger
Ms. Doris R. Given
THE HOWARD N. ALLEN, MD In honor of Dr. Gabriel Hunt
Mr. Rodrigo Demendoza
LECTURESHIP IN
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Ms. Linda D. Black
Glassman
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Ms. Lulit Shiferaw and
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FUND
Mr. Fitsum Demissew
Mr. Jess B. Blake
Glassman
Dr. Howard N. Allen
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph S. Bloch Ms. Jeannie L. Dimter
Ms. Sally Glovata
In memory of Ernest Friedman
Ms.
Carole
Disenhof,
PhD
Mr. and Mrs. Jacob A. Bloom
In honor of Dr. Roy Nini
In memory of Dr. Bernard Siegel
Mr. and Mrs. John P. Di Tucci Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Golan
Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Bogstad
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Mr. and Mrs. Petar Djukic
In honor of Dr. Leslie Stricke
Dr. and Mrs. Bernard Sarnat Dr. Mary Ann Bond
Mrs. Katherine Dool
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert M. Gold
Mr. and Mrs. Edmond Stephan In memory of Greg Bond
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen A.
Mr. and Mrs. David Dor-El
In honor of Dr. Howard N. Allen
Mr. Leo Goldberg
Borges
Mr. Stephen J. Dowling and
Mr. Nathan Golden
ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE
Mrs. Alice Boys Smith
Ms. Toni D. Spencer
FUND
Mr. and Mrs. George
In memory of John W. Boys Smith
In honor of Dr. Irene Barnett
Goodman
Mrs. Maxine F. Pink
Mr. Oswald Bradshaw
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Duchin Mr. and Mrs. Bill B. Gordon
In memory of Gloria Small
In honor of Richard Sokolov
Mr. Lazaro Dunkelman
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth N.
AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL
Mr. Walter Brawer
In memory of Chaja C. Dunkelman Green, Esq.
SCLEROSIS (ALS) CLINIC
Mr. James W. Breedlove
Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Duran
Mr. and Mrs. Roman
Mrs. Phyllis Fries
Mr. Ralph Durazo
Greenbaum
In memory of Bryna “Bunny” Alper Mr. Frank Brill
In memory of Judy K. Durazo
Ms. Shirley Briskin
Mr. Arthur Greskoviak
ANNUAL FUND
Ms. Seda Ebrahamian
Ms. Fatima Brown
Ms. Marlene Griffith
Mr. Richard Adray
In honor of Dr. Andrew J. Li
Ms. Patricia A. Eckley, PhD
Ms. Gaylis W. Grob
Ms. Lucia Aldana
In honor of James C. Pavelka
Ms. Debby B. Edelsohn
Ms. Anne M. Gross
In honor of Roger L. Lerner, MD
Ms. Virtic E. Brown
Dr. and Mrs. Herman M. Eisen Mr. and Mrs. Allen Grossman
Mr. Lauro Aleman
Mr. Sam Bubrick
Mr. Stanley Eisenberg
Mr. and Mrs. Michael P.
Ms. Eileen Alpenia
Ms. Judy Byrd
Electronic Gizmos and
Gumpel
Mr. Victor M. Andujo
Mr. Wilbert Camp
Display Systems
Mr. Robert A. Haller
In honor of Fred Poordad, MD
Ms. Ruby Campbell
Ms. Margaret Espinoza
In honor of Dr. Kenneth Anger
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Apelbaum Ms. Birte Carlsen
Ms. Loann C. Fairweather
Ms. E. M. Hansen
Mr. and Mrs. Angel C. Apetrior Mr. Andres Carrillo
In memory of Andrew and Barbara In honor of Dr. Edward Wolin
Mr. and Mrs. Gerard L. Asch Mr. Alexander Carrington
Kolbe
Mr. Sanford S. Harris
Mr. and Mrs. Howard E. Auld Ms. Maya Castro-Macias
Mr. Shiferaw Fantaye
In memory of Harriet Rita Harris
Mr. and Mrs. Steve Austin
Mr. and Mrs. Stanley D.
Mr. and Mrs. George W.
Mr. Michael B. Chang
Fayman
Mr. Vigen H. Avanessians
Haskins III
Ms. Ana Chavez
Mr. and Mrs. Alan Bachman In honor of Dr. Robert M. Bernstein In memory of Eleanor Rudnitsky
Ms. Mojdeh R. Havashian
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Finley Mr. and Mrs. Andre G. Hayes
Mr. Jerry W. Bailey
Mr. and Mrs. Everett D. Chavez In honor of Jay Rudin
Ms. Jacqueline M. Ball
Ms. Ann M. Hennington
Ms. Viridiana Chavezsalinas Ms. Diana Forbes
Ms. Frances M. Ballew
Mr. Max Herstein
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Chu
In memory of Gay Forbes
Mr. Robert E. Bannick
Mr. Jeffrey Hess
Mrs. Claudia Cipriano
Ms. Vida Forouzeshnejad
Mrs. Gloria Hickerson
Ms. Olga E. Hidalgo
In memory of Renzo Hidalgo
Ms. Anne V. Hill
In honor of Edward Wolin, MD
Mrs. Eleanor G. Hirsh
In memory of Edgar Hirsh
Mrs. and Mr. Robert R.
Hollander
Mr. Robert L. Holmes
In honor of Wilma E. Holmes
Mr. David Horne
Mr. Bruce L. Houser
Mrs. Marcia Howard
Mr. and Mrs. Richard L.
Howell Jr.
Mr. Robert Hundtoft
Mr. Todd B. Hunter
Cure A Child, Inc.
Customs Creations
Daugherty Racing
DBA Electric, Inc.
Mrs. Janice M. Decker
In memory of Evelyn Emma
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Delisle
Dirt Mob Racing
Mr. and Mrs. Jack P. Ditto
Dixon Financial Services, Inc.
Ms. Talya L. Dodson
Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Jetton
Mr. and Mrs. Bob Dunn
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Emma
Enzed Construction, Inc.
F.A.I.R
Ms. Sarah J. Feller
Fiber Care Baths, Inc.
Ms. Rita Finchum
Mr. Eric C. Fiorino
Ms. Charlene C. Floren
Mr. Donald Fossum
Freeman’s Carpet Services, Inc.
Mr. and Mrs. Joshua J.
Friedman
Ms. Karyn Frisch and
Ms. Vickie Campbell
Gibraltar Steel Furniture, Inc.
Ms. Eula Jackson
Mr. James R. Jackson
Jaclyn & Sydney Rosenberg
Foundation
Mrs. Lorraine Jacobszorne
Ms. Diane L. James
Ms. Katherine C. Jannone
Mr. John R. Jaros
Ms. Juanette Jenkins
Mr. and Ms. Eradio T. Jimenez
Mr. and Mrs. John M. Johnston
Mr. and Mrs. James E. Jones Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. James T. Jones
In memory of Charles P. Emma
Motive Marketing, Inc.
Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Mugnaini
Mr. and Mrs. Tim Nelson
Nick Baldwin Motorsports
Mr. and Mrs. John G. Nielsen
Mr. and Mrs. David S. Nocera
North American Off Road
North Star Systems
Off Road Buggy Supply
OMF Performance Products,
Inc.
Pacific International
In honor of Beth Karlan, MD
Marketing
Ms. Erin N. Gipson
Mr. Sergio A. Palacios, Jr.
Girls Gone Active
Parcell Steel Co., Inc.
Mr. and Mrs. Brian C. Groff
Mr. and Mrs. Leroy F. Perfect III
Guy Evans Management, LLC Performance Design
Mr. and Mrs. Constantine
Group, Inc.
Hambas
Ms. Christine Peterson
In memory of Charles P. Emma
Mr. and Mrs. Robert L.
Peterson
Mr. and Mrs. Scott A. Hartman
Plastic Materials, Inc.
Mr. Robert T. Hartry
Poole Farms, LLC
Hayashi & Wayland
Pro-Line
Mr. Steven Herrera
Ms. Janis Prupes
Ms. Lara N. Hill
R & C Electrical, Inc
Hutchins Motorsports
Mr. Dan Raley
Estate of Steven Hutchison
Mr. Charles J. Ratigan and
John K. McCraw Electric
Ms. Deborah L. Adams
Mr. and Mrs. Mike Joiner
RBF Consulting Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. John B. Kawell Mr. and Mrs. Troy A. Ring
Mr. Ralph Keyes
Riverside Construction
King Shock Technology, Inc. Company, Inc.
Ms. Susan V. Kirchofer
RNP Advisory Services, Inc.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Koons
Rockstar Custom Motorsports
Kruger Ltd., Inc.
Rogers, Clem & Company
Ms. Donna Larmee
Mr. and Mrs. James C. Roland
Mr. and Mrs. Gary W. Lawson Rom Air, Inc.
Ms. Alice M. Leal
Royal Globe Travel
Liberation Management, LLC Ms. Julia Royer
Logicor Inc.
In memory of Susan Spiegel
Loveland’s Automotive
Ryan & McDonald, LLP
Service, Inc.
Ms. Linda M. Saddlemire
Mrs. Kalma Kosovsky
In honor of Dr. Thasana Nivatpumin
Mr. Jack Koszdin
Mr. and Mrs. Allan Kramer
Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Krantz
Ms. Ruth Krems
In memory of Drew Rodriguez
Ms. Dorothy L. Lindner
In honor of Dr. Keith L. Black
Mr. Craig Milburn and Ms.
Joanne Lipari
Mr. and Mrs. Giovanni
Lisciandro
Mr. Robert Lizotte
Ms. Leocadia Lucero
Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Lynn
In honor of Dr. Ronald J. Davidson
In memory of Sidney Lyons
Mr. Gennadiy Kachanov
Mr. Max Kakone
Mr. Philip A. Kal
Ms. Lisa Kallio
Ms. Sheri L. Kane
Ms. Melody D. Kanschat
Mr. Aron Katsnelson and
Ms. Basya Levina
Mr. and Mrs. Hyman Katz
Mrs. Revekka Magaril
Mr. and Mrs. Rolando V.
Manasan
Mr. Ned Manderino
Ms. Regine Mantoux
In honor of William Audeh, MD
Mr. and Mrs. Sergio
Marmolejo
Ms. Martha P. Marquez
Ms. Anita J. Marsten
In honor of Betty Katz
Mr. and Mrs. Dan Masoero
Mr. Sheppard Kaufman
In honor of Nina and Brandt Dveirin Mr. Richard Matsurra
Mr. Konstantin M. Kavutskiy Mr. and Mrs. Roger L. Mayer
Mr. and Mrs. David B.
Ms. Joyce A. Kay
McFadden
Mr. Sky Keegan
Mrs. Bettye McGhee
In memory of Tricia Keegan
Mr. and Mrs. Charles L.
Ms. Kathleen S. Kefauver
McKenzie
In honor of Travis Kefauver
In honor of Dr. Amin Mirhadi
Ms. Carol J. Kerkis
Mr. and Mrs. Jack R.
Ms. Candice Kim
McVeigh Jr.
In honor of Eli Baron, MD
Mr. John A. Melanson
Mr. Nehemiah King
The Factory Appliance, Inc.
The Swap Sheet, Inc.
Mr. Robert M. Tobin
Tommy T’s
Mr. and Mrs. Peter P. Tong
Topper Plastics, Inc.
Tru Built Customs, LLC
Twisted Tin Motorsports
US Southwest, LLC
Mr. and Mrs. Catalino R.
Villamor
Walker Evans Enterprises
Web-Cam, Inc.
Wells Fargo & Company Issuer
Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey S. Wertens
Mr. and Mrs. Ron Wertens
Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Wertens
Wheeler’s Flooring America
Wide Open Excursions
Mr. and Mrs. D. G. Williams
Mr. and Mrs. Jason Witten
Mr. Phillip J. Wolfe
Mr. and Mrs. C. Wolfson
Mr. and Mrs. Roger P.
Woodland
In memory of Charlene M. Brown
Mr. and Mrs. Carrol S.
Meyer, Jr.
Mr. Anthony Puchalski
Mr. Neil D. Purkey
Ms. Amy Quan
Ms. Tina Radburn
Mr. Philip Mikulak
Mr. and Mrs. Gregory A.
Milken
Mr. Basil Millan
Mr. Lance Lewis
Ms. Patricia R. Lewis
Ms. Coogie V. Lichterman
Mr. and Mrs. James M. Sones
Mr. and Mrs. Mark D.
Strahota
Sunset Oasis Landscaping, LLC
Sunshine Makers, Inc.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl A. Swanson
Mr. Victor G. Swanson
Taylor Fresh Foods, Inc.
Taylor Motorsports, Inc.
Ms. Brenda J. Taylor
Tech America Corp.
Terry Bedford Concrete
Construction, Inc.
The Coding Source, LLC
In memory of Rabbi Gerald Wolpe
In honor of Michael Wulfe
In honor of Ellen
In memory of Ron
Mr. and Mrs. Roger S. Price
Mr. Nicholas Proscia
Mr. Donovan F. Pruett
Mrs. Miriam Kurcfeld
Mr. Herbert LaGrange
Mr. and Mrs. John S. Landau
Mr. and Mrs. Harvey H. Landry
Mr. Steven Larsen
Mr. and Mrs. Alan Sands
Ms. Karen S. Sanford
Mr. Arthur Savedra
Mr. and Mrs. Edward A.
Scarberry
Scholte Motorsports
SDL Real Estate & Property
Management, Inc.
Serv-Rite, Inc.
The David and Linda
Shaheen Foundation, Inc.
Sigal Racing, LLC
Mr. Steven Wolf and
Ms. Karen Skirvin
Smith-Southwestern, Inc.
Dr. and Mrs. Dennis
Snyderman
Ms. Marilyn Meltzer
Mr. Tony Merzoian
Mr. and Mrs. Messinger
In memory of Bernard Steinberg
Ms. Eileen Lazarre
Mr. and Mrs. John E. Leas
Mr. and Mrs. Martin Lecca
Mrs. Mary Lee
Mr. and Mrs. Sung G. Lee
In memory of Elizabeth Griffin
Mr. and Mrs. Richard E. Husar Ms. Marie Lella
Mr. Jack Levin
Mr. Carl Hutchison
In honor of Maria Riachi’s speedy
Mr. Karl Hutter
recovery
Mr. Joe Ingber
Ms. Bernice U. Levine
In memory of Eileen Ingber
Mrs. Christine D. Marcheano
Mastercraft, Inc.
Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey McConnell
McCarthy Framing
Construction, Inc.
Ms. Heather McGee
Mike’s Automotive Repair
Mr. and Mrs. David R. Miranda
Mobile Radio
Communications, Inc.
Mojave Offroad Racing
Enthusiast
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Monroe
Mr. and Mrs. Michael G.
Moroney
In honor of Noam Z. Drazin, MD
Ms. Barbara J. Ralphs
Mr. Edward Ranno
Ms. Nadezhda Rashba
Mr. and Ms. John F. Miller
Mr. and Mrs. Arie Ravid
Mr. and Mrs. Martin S. Miller
Mr. and Mrs. Basil B.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Mirvis Raymond
Ms. Thelma Modisett
Mr. James Redix
Mrs. Mahvash Moghtader
Mr. and Mrs. R.F. Retzke
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Molina Mr. Raymond Reynolds
Mr. and Mrs. Josef Moravek
Mr. Shahrokh Rezvanipour
In honor of Dr. Edward Wolin
Mr. Dean E. Riccioni
Ms. Marilyn Morgenstern
In honor of Frank Uribe
Mr. and Mrs. Edward G. Morse Dr. and Mrs. Warren Richards
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Motley
Mr. Robert Richardson
Ms. Irene Nagaoka
In memory of Rebecca Eaton
Mr. and Mrs. Sig Nathan
In honor of Dr. John Yu
In honor of Doris Mason
Mr. and Mrs. James M.
Ridenour
Ms. Sima Navidi
Ms. Judith M. Riley
Ms. Douna T. Nguyen
Ms. Kimberly A. Riegel Dore
Ms. Rita Nigro
InhonorofWaltetLemankiewicz,RN Mr. Daniel S. Robbins
In honor of Dr. C. Noel Bairey Merz
Mr. and Mrs. John Nisley
Mr. Walter F. Rodin
Mr. Stanley Nissen and
In honor of Penny Kornbluth
Mrs. Lynn Lewis
Mr. and Mrs. John M.
Mr. Kenneth E. Norton
Rodriguez
Ms. Marie Okihara
Ms. Roberta Rodwell
Ms. Pacita Onglatco
Mr. Ralph W. Rogovin
Ms. Mimi B. Oster
Mr. and Mrs. Marc Rose
Ms. Mayo Overbeck
Mr. Jorge E. Rosenberg and
Dr. Patricia A. Pace
Ms. Maria Burbano
Ms. Mary L. Palladino
Ms. Joyce Rosenberg
Ms. Kay L. Park
Mr. and Mrs. Alex Rosenblatt
Mr. Alan W. Peabody
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Y.
Mrs. Alice A. Penn
Rosenblum
In memory of Samuel Penn
In memory of Marilyn Fortner
Mr. and Mrs. Chris Peppe
Mr. and Mrs. R. Rosenfield
Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Perera
Mr. Burton S. Rosky
Ms. Maria E. Perez
Mr. and Mrs. Tom J. Rotello
Mr. Daren C. Perlstein
Mr. Boris Rozengurtel and
In honor of Dr. Mark K. Urman
Mrs. Emiliya M. Gutman
Mr. William J. Perry
Mr. and Mrs. Mikhail
Ms. Eloise F. Peters
Rubinshteyn
Mr. Hugh Pierce III
Ms. Debra A. Saidel
Ms. Nena Pijuan
In honor of Susan Gruenberg’s
Mr. and Mrs. Leo B. Pina
speedy recovery
Mr. and Mrs. Anthony G.
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Sakata
Pirritano
Mr. and Mrs. Ignacio S.
Mr. and Ms. Allan B. Polin
Sanchez
Mr. Chester F. Sanders
Polonsky
Mr. Michael L. Sandler
In honor of Alex Millan
Mr. and Ms. Laurence B. Wirtz
Mr. and Mrs. Peter L. Wittich
Mr. and Mrs. Carl A. Swanson Ms. Valeria O. Wolf
In honor of Carmen Warschaw
Mr. Victor G. Swanson
Mr. Howard Wollman
Mr. and Mrs. Neal Schnall
Mr. and Mrs. Steven Switzer Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Wong
In memory of Joshua Getzel Berman In honor of Robert A. Vescio, MD
Mr. and Mrs. James K. Wong
Ms. Brenda Schonfeld
Mr. and Mrs. Bryan M. Sy
Mr. Quock Wong
Mr. and Mrs. Ronald H.
Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Szabo
Ms. Georgia Wyatt
Schweiger
Ms. Kathryn Tam
Mr. and Mrs. Seiji Yamauchi
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Searle Mr. Arthur Tannenbaum
Mr. and Mrs. M.A. Yannone
Mr. Ki Won Seo
Mr. Adkins Taylor
Dr. and Mrs. Daniel R. Young
Mr. and Mrs. Boone Seto
Mr. and Mrs. Milton Young
In memory of Tenaya Meyerhoff
Ms. Ann Teall
Mr. Amir Yousefi
Mr. and Mrs. Donald W. Sharp Mr. George Terry Jr.
Ms. Jennifer Zaccaro and
In memory of Andrew and
Mr. and Mrs. Phil Tersigni
Ms. Anna-Lina Zaccaro
Barbara Kolbe
Mr.
and
Mrs.
Charles
Thatcher
Ms. Janet Zalben
Ms. Diane F. Sherman
Ms.
Audrey
Tieger
Ms. Hasmik H. Zargarian
Mr. and Mrs. Earl L. Sherman
Mr. and Mrs. Ivan J. Tollman Ms. Frances M. Zell
In memory of Steven Sherman
Ms. Edith Traficante
Ms. Lynda Sherman
Ms. Louise A. Ziff
Ms. Fionna B. Truong
In memory of Steven Sherman
ART
PROGRAM
Mr. Thomas N. Shigekuni, Esq. Mr. Vladimir Tsarkov
Dr. and Mrs. Stuart E. Levin
Mr. and Mrs. David
Mrs. Dora Shimabukuro
In honor of Sidney Felsen’s birthday
Tseykinskiy
Ms. Maria L. Shohat
ATHEROSCLEROSIS
Dr.
Padmini
P.
Tummala
Ms. Svetlana Shpir
In honor of Dr. Y. Madhusudana Rao RESEARCH
Ms. Veva Siegel
Mr. and Mrs. Miroslaw M. Tuna Ms. Kelly M. Beecham
In honor of Dr. Leonel Hunt
Mr. and Mrs. Zoltan Turmezei In memory of Stanley Kamel
Mr. Gus Signater
Mr. and Mrs. Robert H.
Mr. and Mrs. Jose M. Sison, Jr. Mr. James G. Up De Graff
Blumenfield
Ms.
Shizue
Uyeno
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Slater
Mr. and Mrs. Bruce W. Rabin
In
honor
of
Dr.
Gregory
Sarna
In honor of Sandy and Stan Post’s
Strauss Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Mark F. Vallis
anniversary
AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE
Mr. Edgardo C. Vazquez
Mr. Paul Sloan
UNIT SUPPORT FUND
Mr. Greg A. Vie
Ms. Barbara S. Smalley
Dr. Boris Catz
Ms. Maria Villalvazo
Ms. Candace F. Smith
BABY TRIBUTE GALLERY
Ms. Rogelyn A. Villarama
Ms. Gloria A. Smith
Mr. and Mrs. Rich Liu
Ms. Dolores Villarino
In honor of Anabelle Liu
Dr. and Mrs. James O. Smith Ms. Ethel Vincent
In honor of The Kidney Transplant
Mr. Tamas Virag
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Santos
Mr. and Mrs. Harvey B.
Schechter
Ms. Joyce E. Swander
In honor of Dr. Alfredo Trento
Team
In memory of Peter Virag
Mr. Lotfollah Solooki
Gunther W. Sonnenfeld, MD
Mr. Mansour Soufer
Mr. Donald Spalding
Ms. Margot Spielmann
Mr. and Mrs. Natheput
Sridharan
Ms. Ruth Staub
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph C. Steins
Mr. and Mrs. Karl E. Stetter
Ms. Myrlee M. Walder
Mr. Clyde Wanless and
Ms. Bonnie Crane
Warren & Carolyn Richards
Charitable Foundation
Mr. Mark A. Watters and
Ms. Leanne Suter
Mr. and Mrs. James H. Way
Mr. Frank V. Weber
Mr. and Mrs. Walter M.
Weidenfeller
Mrs. Richard W. Weinberg
In memory of Phyllis Gutierrez
Ms. Roberta B. Stock
In honor of Dr. Ronald Leuchter
In honor of Dr. Robert McKenna Jr.
Ms. Sandra Stolle
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Straky
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Streeter
In honor of Allan W. Silberman, MD
In honor of Richard W. Weinberg
Mr. Jules Milton Weisberg
Ms. Lynn W. White
Ms. Rita A. White
Ms. Roberta Whiteman
In honor of Amin Mirhadi, MD
Ms. Mary E. Strote
Dr. Patricia Wilkes
Dr. and Mrs. Richard J. Sukov In memory of Michael Allen Wilkes
Ms. Nancy J. Williams
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Sutton
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Wior
GERI AND RICHARD
BRAWERMAN ENDOWMENT
FUND (SUPPORTING THE
WOMEN’S GUILD LUNG
INSTITUTE)
Mrs. Geri F. Brawerman
HAROLD C. BROOKS
ENDOWMENT FUND
Mrs. Evelyn S. Prell
Mr. and Mrs. David Bock
Mr. and Mrs. Medard Cronin
Mr.and Mrs.Dino De Laurentiis
The Eisner Foundation, Inc.
Mr. and Mrs. Fabrizio Fiumi
Furlotti Family Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Gelfand
Mr. and Mrs. Gary Gersh
In memory of Richard S. Brawerman Gould Paper Corporation
Dr. and Mrs. Stanley Heifetz
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence H.
YVONNE M. BROWN
Jacobson
RESEARCH FUND
Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Brown Mr. Alex Karras
Mr. and Mrs. Lear Levin
In memory of Armand “Army”
Mr. and Mrs. Frank G.
Archerd
In honor of Janet Birnkrant’s speedy Mancuso, Sr.
recovery
Offer Family Foundation
Stanley E. Brown Family
Linda & Alvaro Pascotto
Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Lowell Paxson
In memory of Scott Myers’
Mr. Lloyd D. Reed
grandmother, Sadie
Dr. Myron Samovitz
Mr. Chester F. Sanders
In honor of Walter Grauman’s
speedy recovery
George W. Schaeffer Family
Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Charnas Foundation
In honor of Stanley Brown’s
Ms. Karen R. Schetina
birthday
Carroll Shelby Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. William M.
Mr. Harvey L. Sklar
Fenning
Dr. Nellie B. Slaton and Mr.
William Slaton
Mr. and Mrs. Marc Myers
The Streisand Foundation
In memory of Mr. and Mrs. Steve
Mr. Elliot R. Wax
Fenster’s daughter
In memory of Jody Hendler
Mr. and Mrs. Robert H.
Blumenfield
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth N.
Green, Esq.
In memory of Genevieve Pergola
Mr. Joe Ingber
Mr. and Mrs. Hyman Katz
CARDIAC FUND
Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Krantz
Ms. Sarra Nastaskina
Ms. Marie Nahabedian
CARDIOLOGY EDUCATION
Mr. Bernard Nemiroff
FUND
Rabbi and Mrs. Harry Roth
Haytin Family Charitable
Mr. David S. Sheiner
Lead Annuity Trust
Dr. Nellie B. Slaton and
Mrs. Jean Rosenbaum Katz
Mr. William Slaton
Gunther W. Sonnenfeld, MD
In memory of Harold Price
Mr. Eric W. Tessler
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel
Ms. Carolyn Thomulka
Spaulding
Mr. and Mrs. Domingo
Dr. Hitoshi Tomizawa
Zapanta
CARDIOLOGY SPECIAL
CCEP FELLOWSHIP
PROJECTS
TRAINING PROGRAM
Estate of Sylvia Kantor
Boston Scientific
CARDIOTHORACIC SURGERY Foundation, Inc.
FUND
Medtronic, Inc.
Gifts made in honor of Dr.
CEDARS-SINAI HEART
Alfredo Trento’s anniversary
INSTITUTE
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Almond
Corday Family Foundation
CARDIAC CARE UNIT
Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Chanin
In honor of Sarah Siegel
In honor of Elizabeth P. Siegel
BURTON BASKIN HEART
FUND
MS. ELAINE B. LACHMAN
In honor of Samuel Halper
BENDER UROLOGY FUND
Ms. Jeanne Feligman
BOARD OF GOVERNORS
HEART STEM CELL CENTER
Mr. Saul Berley
Ceazan Family Charitable
Foundation
Cedars-Sinai Board of
Governors
Mr. and Mrs. Harold L. Cohen
Dr. Michael Corben and Ms.
Suzie Levin
Chris Angelo Word at
Rancho Park Golf Club
in Los Angeles.
Joseph Drown Foundation
Ms. Ruth W. Dunn
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Folender
In memory of Grace Lowell
Dr. and Mrs. Robert Gandin
In honor of Michael Flagg’s birthday
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel M. Gottlieb
Ms. Courtney Green
Mrs. Roslyn Green
Mr. and Mrs. Andy Greene
Mr. and Mrs. Rob Hoffman
In memory of Jeanne Berzner
In memory of Frances Forester
In memory of Lynette Kurtzman
Tom and Nancy Juda
Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Scott M. Klein
Mr. and Mrs. Howard C.
Kornberg
Ms. Donna Kronson
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel C. Lapidus
Mr. and Mrs. George Mihlsten
Ms. Andrea S. Pollack
How do you say thank you?
Meet CHRIS ANGELO WORD. Around Cedars-Sinai, he’s
known as “the walker.” Diagnosed elsewhere with colon
cancer, he came to Cedars-Sinai seeking the best possible
care. He walked the hospital halls from one appointment to
the next. After surgery, he walked the halls again to speed
up his recovery. Now he’s walking the fairway—grateful for
the hope of a normal life, and inspired to support others
who are facing cancer.
PublicIdentity, Inc.
Mr. and Mrs. Shlomo Rechnitz
Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan A.
Schreiber
Dr. Philip Trask and
In honor of Esther Bender’s birthday Ms. Janet Schulman
In honor of Arnie and Sue Kogen’s
MONTY BERNSTEIN
50th wedding anniversary
RESEARCH FUND
Estate of Peggy & Monty
Bernstein
BIOETHICS EDUCATION FUND
Dr. and Mrs. Herbert Gold
SLS Hotel at Beverly Hills
BOARD OF GOVERNORS
GENE THERAPEUTICS
RESEARCH INSTITUTE
Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Hoffman
In memory of Ronald Weiss
PEARL BORINSTEIN
RADIOLOGY RESEARCH FUND
Dr. and Ms. Dennis I. Borinstein
That’s why Chris joined CIRCLE OF FRIENDS.
In memory of Charles Snider
To read his story and learn how he and fellow patients,
families, and friends are saying “thank you,” visit
www.csmc.edu/circleoffriends—where you, too, can join
the circle. Call 310.248.6696 for information.
BRAINSTEM GLIOMA
VACCINE PROJECT
The Bradley Zankel
Foundation, Inc.
RANDYE BRABEC MEMORIAL
FUND
Mr. and Mrs. Eddie J. Poe
Individual results and experiences may vary.
In memory of Randye Brabec
THE CENTER FOR
INTERNATIONAL HEALTH
AND TELEMEDICINE
HealthNetwork Foundation
THE CENTER FOR
RHEUMATIC DISEASE
RESEARCH AT CEDARSSINAI MEDICAL CENTER
Bear Stearns Charitable
Gift Fund
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Micelli
In memory of Pamela E. Dunn
CENTER FOR SURGICAL
INNOVATION
Mentor Corporation
Pharmadura, LLC
CHAPLAINCY FUND
B’nai David Judea
Congregation
Ms. Cecilia K. Lam
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Brown
Ms. Joanne C. Klein
In honor of Gary Leach, MD
In honor of Adam N. Mamelak, MD
Mr. and Mrs. Donald K.
Caprio, Sr.
Mr. Riad Chahin
Mr. Stanley S. Choi
Mr. Michael Clifford
Mr. Marvin M. Lang
In memory of Eleanor Lang
In honor of David M. Hoffman, MD
Ms. Coogie V. Lichterman
In honor of Gregory Sarna, MD
In honor of John Enayati, MD
In honor of David Cossman, MD
In honor of Srinath Samudrala, MD
In honor of Patrick R. Rhoten, MD
Mrs. Sharon Lippman
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Cohen
In honor of Natalie Josephine
Salvador-Luna
In honor of Robert McKenna, MD
In honor of Gregory Fontana, MD
In honor of Raj Makkar, MD
In honor of Jay N. Schapira, MD
Ms. Ruth L. Cordish
Ms. Bella Erikson
Mr. Jose Espinosa
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Forbes
Mr. and Mrs. Patrick H. Fraley
In honor of Kimber Wheeler
Ms. Sheryl Livingston
Ms. Sandra Luna
Mrs. Barbara L. Mark
In honor of Keith L. Black, MD
Mary’s Country Kitchen By
The Beach, LLC
In memory of Beatrice Haenel
Mr. Harold McIntyre
In honor of Gregory Fontana, MD
In honor of Raj Makkar, MD
Mr. and Mrs. J. Wesley St. Clair Cedars-Sinai Volunteer
Services
Ms. Allison Swanteitel
Ms. Ellen B. Cheney
Ms. Dorothy J. Terman
Mr. Alex Hoseth
In honor of Farin Amersi, MD
In honor of William Schopf
The Kasdan Family
Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Charles S.
Tigerman
Ms. Kay W. Johnson
In honor of Ted Stein, MD
Mr. and Mrs. David M.
Poncetta
Mr. Juan Tyberg
Mr. and Mrs. Richard G.
Venable
Mrs. Elizabeth Wajnberg
In honor of Andrew Ippoliti
THE JOHNNIE L. COCHRAN
JR. BRAIN TUMOR CENTER
Gifts made in memory of Skip
Miller
Drs. Keith L. Black & Carol J.
Bennett
Mr. Bijan Modaressi
In memory of Yau Sieh Lam
In honor of Margaret Farrell
Mr. and Mrs. William Elperin
In memory of M. Wong
Dr. and Mrs. Robert Morris
Mr. and Mrs. Laurence
Mr. and Mrs. Ronald J.
In honor of Father Lester Avestruz
Ms. Christina Nunez
Friedman
Goldman
In honor of Mary Champagne
CHILD LIFE SERVICES FUND Ms. Carrie Gabriel
Ms. Susan Griffith
In
honor
of
Linh
Le,
RN
Pastor
Rachel
Ortiz
Mr. and Mrs. Messinger
Mr.
and Mrs. Thomas J.
Mr. and Mrs. Julian Galperson Mr. and Mrs. George W. Parker Leanse
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Toczek
Esq.
In honor of Emergency Room Staff In memory of William I. Young, MD
CIRCLE OF FRIENDS
Mr. Robert Gary
Mr. and Mrs. Napoleon Perdis Ms. Vicki Leben
Ms. Ann R. McBride
Ms. Claire R. Abelson
In honor of Leon I. Bender, MD
Ms. Nancy Phillips
In honor of Richard J. Metz, MD
Mr. Dave Novik
Mr. Robert A. Gershon
In honor of Steven S. Galen, MD
Mrs. Debra L. Allen
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence B.
Mr. and Mrs. Ira M. Goldberg Mr. and Mrs. Joel Pyne
Platt
Mr. and Mrs. John Amato
Ms.
Margarita
Granach
Mr.
and
Mrs.
Sixto
Revilla
In honor of Jamen Amato
Ms. Judy R. Smith
In honor of John Yu, MD
Mrs.
Lillian
Grodsky
Mr. George Andrews
In
memory
of
Joseph
Grodsky
Mr.
and
Mrs.
Richard
Rivers
In honor of Andrew Spitzer, MD
Ms. Karen Brenner
In honor of Robert Klapper, MD
and Mrs. Coleman W.
Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd L. Bailey Mr.
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Rodriguez In memory of Ronald J. Vannuki
In honor of Stephen R. Corday, MD Grosflam
In honor of Jason S. Cohen, MD
In honor of Shahab Mehdizadeh, MD Ms. Kris Conrad
Mrs. Hanna Benfield
In memory of Dorothy N. Lawrence
In honor of Leo Gordon, MD
Mr. Felipe Rosas, Jr.
In honor of Carmen Chavez, RN
In honor of Edward J. Feldman, MD In honor of Patricia O’connell, RN
Mrs. Marguerite W. Downing
Reverend David Berkedal and In honor of Harold L. Karpman, MD Ms. Ruth W. Rose
In memory of Jeanette C. Moore
Reverend Sally A. Welch
Mr. David S. Golokow
Mr.
and
Mrs.
Arnold
J.
Rotter
In honor of Jay N. Schapira, MD
Mr. and Mrs. Robert
In memory of Alex Jacob Wurtz
In honor of Eric Vasiliauskas, MD
Groswirth
Ms. Brenda F. Harbin-Forte
Mr. and Mrs. Philip Sacks
Mr. and Mrs. Dan A. Berkoff In honor of Sauchuen Yu
Mr.
and
Mrs.
Myron
C.
In honor of Jill Kort
Ms. Vivien Guanlao
Ms. Tracey Hightower
Scheinbaum
In honor of Marci Dulberg
In honor of David Matsumura, MD
In
honor
of
David
Kawashiri,
MD
Mr. James H. Berry
Ms. Schoenaker Guzman
Ms. Vicki Leben
Ms.
Maria
C.
Sevilla
In honor of Edward J. Feldman, MD In honor of Amy K. Weimer MD
In honor of Keith L. Black, MD
In
honor
of
Rodney
Gabriel,
MD
Mr. Joseph Biafora
Ms. Jacqueline Hirtz
Mr. and Mrs. Michael S.
Mr.
Richard
Sheinfeld
In honor of Steven Simons, MD
In honor of Stephanie Lau, RN
Miller
In honor of Rick Delamarter, MD
In honor of Teresa Huang, RN
Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Bien
Mr. Paul E. Siman
In memory of Richard Bien
Mr. Ronald H. Howard
The Schwab Fund For
In
honor
of
Burak
Ozgur,
MD
Ms. Gloria Bishop
Mr. Spencer J. Hutchens, Jr.
Charitable Giving
Ms. Jennifer M. Slabbinck
In honor of Jeremy D. Rudnick, MD
Mr. and Mrs. James B. Jones, Jr. In honor of Dr. Beth Karlan
Mr. and Mrs. David Bradfield, Jr. In honor of Jenna Rush, RN
Dr. Xiu Yu
Ms. Michele R. Smolen
In honor of Allan W. Silberman, MD Mr. Charles Kahn
In honor of Katherine Neumann, MD C.O.A.C.H. PROGRAM AND
In honor of Amy Weinberg, MD
Mr. Edwin B. Kanner and
SUPPORT FUND
Mr. and Mrs. Donald K.
Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Briggs Dr. S. Barbara Kanner
Speckhard
In honor of Herbert Kornfeld, MD
Ms. Jeanie J. Kim
Charles P. Emma
Mr. Wayne Squire
Mr. Danny Brin
In honor of David Fermelia, MD
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph M.
In honor of Linda O’ Connor
In honor of Joyce Spalding, RN
In honor of Jeffrey Goodman, MD
Augustyn
In honor of Andrew Wachtel, MD
Mr. Daniel B. Nation
In honor of Mayie Maitia’s birthday
Mr. Andrew G. Randak and
Ms. Laura Saborio
In honor of William Schopf and
Elizabeth Davies’ wedding
Mr. Bruce M. Robinson
THE COMMUNITY HEALTH
FUND
Evelyn Emma
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph M.
Augustyn
Ms. Ellen B. Cheney
Ms. Rose J. Emma
Mr. and Mrs. Pedro Gallegos
Ms. Kirsten A. Hopper
Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Jagolino
Dr. and Mrs. Robert J. Siegel
Charles P. Emma
Ms. Monica Acevedo
Mr. Steven Arrighi and Mr.
Michael J. Nystrom
Ms. Angela Belt
Ms. Shantel Brown
Ms. Lynne A. Emma
Mr. and Mrs. Kerry Fusaro
Mr. and Mrs. Pedro Gallegos
Mr. and Mrs. Todd M.
Goodnough
Mr. Richard F. Gordon
Ms. Linda C. Healy
Ms. Candice J. Hincks
Ms. Kirsten Hopper
Mr. and Ms. Elmer Jagolino
Ms. Guadalupe Lanuza
Mr. Frederick Riggs
Mr. and Mrs. Steven O. Weise
California Community
Foundation
Children’s Health Fund
The Annenberg Foundation
ARNOLD H. COOPERMAN, MD
MEMORIAL FUND FOR OB/GYN
Mrs. Caroline Cooperman
In honor of Adrian Cooperman’s
birthday
In honor of Chad Cooperman’s
birthday
In honor of Bill and Macy Dale’s
marriage
In honor of Adam Davis’ bar mitzvah
In honor of Arnold Derwin’s birthday
In honor of Paul and Scott Engler’s
birthdays
In honor of Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Glauberman
In honor of Erin Hampshire’s
graduation
In honor of Karen Hampshire’s
birthday
In honor of Brett Leibowitz’s
graduation
In honor of Jeremy Leibowitz’s
birthday
In honor of Shaine Leibowitz’s
birthday
In honor of Alec Lieberman’s
graduation
In honor of Zoe Lieberman’s birthday
In honor of Nima Long
In honor of Eileen Milstein’s
birthday
In honor of Doris, Heather and
William Oshinsky’s birthdays
In honor of Loden Ava and Ryan
Shaps’ birthdays
In honor of Dawn Sklar’s birthday
Mr. and Mrs. David Hampshire
In honor of Eric Lakin’s graduation
In honor of Alec Lieberman’s
graduation
In honor of Adam and Danny
Luber’s graduations
In honor of Courtney and Kelly
Silver’s graduations
In honor of Madison Singer’s
bat mitzvah
CRITICAL CARE
CONFERENCE FUND
Mehrnaz Hadian, MD
CHARLOTTE S. AND DAVRE J.
DAVIDSON MEMORIAL FUND
FOR CONGESTIVE HEART
FAILURE
Dr. and Mrs. Harold Davidson
Mr. and Mrs. Robert I.
Rosenberg
In honor of Madeline Lerman, RN
DIABETES PROGRAM
Gifts in memory of Sandra Hale
Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Brandt
Mrs. Brenda Calder
Ms. Nanette Cervantes
Mr. Paul Chen
Ms. Kathleen De Franco
Mr. Gerald Fenstermaker
Mr. Bhavik Gupta
Mr. Reginald Harpur
Mrs. Lisa Kas
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Kent
Ms. Laura Lau
Mr. George Al Newton and
Mr. Dean Lee
Ms. Phyllis Pastre
Mr. Steve Raynes
Mr. Paul Santello
Mr. Eric Sherman
Mr. Sean Swerdlow
Mr. Robert Walton
Mr. Jeff Zeitz
AMELIA DORFMAN AND
LAURENCE LAURIE
MEMORIAL FUND
Ms. Marion Laurie
In memory of Lynne Bider’s brother
In memory of Sidney Katz
In memory of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth
In memory of Ray Watt
In honor of Shelly Goldman’s
speedy recovery
In honor of Bob Gluckstein’s speedy
recovery
In honor of Fred Miller’s speedy
recovery
SUE AND ALBERT DORSKIND
AWARD FOR NURSING
EXCELLENCE
Dorskind Family
Foundation, Inc.
THE GERALD AND MAXINE
DUNITZ FELLOWSHIP FOR
THE DIVISION OF
CARDIOLOGY
Mrs. Maxine Dunitz
THE MAXINE DUNITZ
NEUROSURGICAL
INSTITUTE (KEITH BLACK,
MD, DIRECTOR)
Amy Corwin
Mr. Adrian Apodaca and
Ms. Karen Siatta
Ms. Kathleen M. Beuttler
Ms. Diana Corwin
Ms. Frances L. Elson
Mr. and Mrs. Stuart J.
Feldman
Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Ferber
Mr. and Mrs. Josh Frankel
Ms. Patricia S. Henjyoji
Mr. and Mrs. Eugene J. Jones
Ms. Kellee L. Kirkelis
Ms. Lisa L. Knapp O.D.
Ms. Janine M. Krevitz
Dr. Nancy Loman and Mr.
Geoffrey J. Loman
Dr. Gene Matzkin
Ms. Debbie Pechak
Dr. and Mrs. Mark Richman
Mr. and Mrs. Douglas M. Rouff
Ms. Chandra Schlee
Dr. and Mrs. Aron H.R.
Swerdlin
Mr. and Mrs. Marvin S. Swire
Dr. and Mrs. Paul H. Toomer
Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Truttman
Dr. W. L. Wan
Mrs. Kelly Wiere
Mr. Kelly Ciesielski
In honor of Ryan Cosgrove
Mr. and Mrs. Gary D. Cohn
In memory of Abe Myerson
Dr. and Mrs. Neal Cutler
David M. Joseph Estate Trust
Fenning
In honor of Maxine Dunitz
In honor of Mae Goodson
Ronald J. Vannuki
Mr. Jimmie W. Fleeman and
Ms. Georgetta Gregory
Ms. Barbara Bansmer
Mr. and Mrs. Richard A.
Bergman
Mr. and Mrs. Ronald C.
Betten
Ms. Michele Blair
Mr. and Mrs. Terry D. Chapin
Mr. Scott Henderson and
Ms. Ruth Abrams
Ms. Robyn B. Holmes and
Mr. Bruce Luchsinger
Mrs. Louise Horvitz
Mr. and Mrs. Shalom
R. Karny
The Liquid Assets Group
Investments Club
Mr. and Mrs. Frederick
G. NagelMr. and Mrs. Stephen
Quinn
Mr. and Mrs. Charles F.
Riedling
Mr. and Mrs. Keith Shishido
Mr. Ronnie Steinmetz
In memory of Thomas M. Kelly
Dorothy N. Lawrence
Mr. and Mrs. Jorge Brown
Dr. and Mrs. Stephen E. Brown
Dr. Carmen Calescibetta
Mr. and Mrs. Le Roy Goesel
Mr. and Mrs. William Knight
Ms. Bobbie J. Lawrence
Dr. Hyuk Lee and
Dr. Shin Y. Lee
Prosperity Missionary
Baptist Church
St. Timothy’s Tower &
Manor, Inc.
Ms. Stefanie Tokiyama
Mr. and Mrs. Yu Wang
Mr. and Mrs. Allard L. Cantor
Mrs. Irma M. Canzona
Mr. Duane Capizzi
In memory of Natalie Grace Ulstad
Mr. and Mrs. Leon Chalnick
Mrs. Rebekah Child
Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Garfinkel
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel S. Gierer
Mr. and Mrs. Sol Gindoff
Mr. and Mrs. Kyle Huebner
In honor of Margaret Huebner
Ms. Margaret Huebner
Indigo Productions, Inc.
In memory of Natalie Grace Ulstad
Mr. and Mrs. Mark Kall
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Lipstone
Mr. Socrate Loth
In memory of Dorothy N. Lawrence
Mr. and Mrs. Chuck Maltz
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Meisel
In memory of Amy Corwin
Mr. and Mrs. Robert R.
Orrico Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Payne
Mr. and Mrs. Alfonzo Rachel
Mr. and Mrs. Peter L. Ralph
In memory of Jennifer Collins
Ms. Beth A. Ray
Mr. and Mrs. Larry E. Shpiner
In memory of Ed Olinsky
In memory of Milo Oritz
In memory of Leatrice Sandler
In honor of Lynda Cohen’s birthday
In honor of Dr. Ronald Gilbert’s
speedy recovery
In honor of Ethan and Annie
Greene’s graduation
In honor of Walter Ohlmann’s
speedy recovery
In honor of Dr. Mory Summer
In honor of Jonathan and Tova’s
engagement
Mr. and Mrs. Ron Smith
Mr. and Mrs. Len J. Jacoby
Mr. Victor S. La Cagnina
Mr. C.V. Li
The Beck Family
Mr. Thomas S. Lyons and Ms.
Foundation, Inc.
Debra Dubow
Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Mansfield
Mr. Lawrence A. Mirisch
Mr. Rodney J. Olea
Ms. Nita K. Wright
Mr. Scott Poland and
Ms. Eddie Nestlebush
Mr. Michael A. Zuk
Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Raffel
ECHO CARDIAC RESEARCH Mr. Edward Rogoff and
Girl Scouts Troop - 60473
Ms. Perry-Lynn Moffitt
EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT Mr. and Mrs. Bob Schnell
Sheldon and Carol Appel
Mrs. Gail Davis
Family Foundation
In memory of Sima Somek
The Rehme Family
Foundation Trust
EMERGENCY MEDICINE
Ms. Gretchen Valentine
FUND
Ms. Patricia J. Wilson
Mrs. Gail Davis
In memory of Alan Fine
Mr. and Mrs. Robert J.
In memory of Al Rafiei
Wunsch
In honor of Dee Dee Dorskind
FRIENDS OF NURSING
In memory of Michael Kompaniez Ms. Janelle Burskey
Cedars-Sinai Medical Staff
Ms. Gertrude Wittenberg
Ms. Diane Chevalier
Ms. Phyllis Covarrubias
In honor of Arnie Cohen’s speedy
recovery
Ms. Amy J. Crumley
EMERITUS MEDICAL STAFF Dorskind Family
Foundation, Inc.
FUND
Dr. Henry and Lilian Nesburn Ms. Circe Tejada-Flores
Award Fund
THE MAX FACTOR FAMILY
FOUNDATION ENDOWED
ENDOWMENT FUND
LECTURESHIP IN LUNG
Estate of Marcus Loew
DISEASE
ENDOWMENT FOR
Max Factor Family
COMMUNITY HEALTH
Foundation
SERVICES
Mr. and Mrs. Larry Hochberg ALEXANDER XAVIER
GALLEGOS CHILDREN’S
ENDOWED RESEARCH
HEART FUND
FELLOWSHIP IN
NACC PTA
CARDIOTHORACIC SURGERY
James B. Ax Family Foundation THE DONNA AND JESSE
GARBER AWARD
JACK AND MARUSIA
Mrs. Donna E. Garber
ENYART FUND
Estate of Marusia Enyart
In memory of Dale Haskamp
EPILEPSY RESEARCH AND
GENE THERAPY RESEARCH
TREATMENT CENTER
Mrs. Lee S. Kapelovitz
Ms. Frances H. Prisk
In memory of Stephanie Lynn Wright
GENRISK PROGRAM
ERIS M. FIELD ENDOWED
Ms. Ann K. Brecker
CHAIR IN DIABETES
In memory of Anne Chase
RESEARCH
Ms. Marlene Chase
Ms. Jeryll W. Adler
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Chinski Crespi Carmelite High School
Confidence Foundation
The Los Angeles City Treasury
Mr. and Mrs. Jerrold L.
Mr. and Mrs. William P. Martin
Eberhardt
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Fadel
Mr. Matthew F. Maccoby and
Mrs. Roslyn Fox
Mrs. Joi L. Morris
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Y. Iser
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence
Spungin
In honor of Scott Spungin
Mr. and Mrs. Norman
Sklarewitz
Mr. and Mrs. Martin Sable
Mrs. Marcia Shaikin
In memory of Leonard Weller
In memory of Chaim Avrech
In honor of Jerry Handelsman
Dr. and Mrs. Marvin
Spiegelman
Mr. Jules M. Weisberg
Mrs. Shelby M. Tauber
Mr. and Mrs. Larry Baum
In memory of Sandra Carranza’s
father and grandfather
In memory of Jennifer Hurcombe
In memory of Annie Lee’s mother,
grandmother and great grandmother
In memory of Michel Lindquist
In memory of Winnie Margles’ sister
In memory of Rhoda L. Turbin
In honor of Beverly Freed
In honor of Michel Lindquist’s
speedy recovery
In honor of the birth Dr. and Mrs.
Edward Liu’s twin grandchildren
JEWISH CHAPLAINCY FUND
Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Avrech
In honor of Rabbi Jason Weiner
Dr. and Mrs. Leon I. Bender
In honor of Howard Walter’s
birthday
In honor of David G. Weisberg’s
Birthday
Ms. Maria C. Wida
Mr. and Mrs. Randall Benson Ms. Caryl E. Winter
Mr. and Mrs. Steven D. Broidy In memory of Eva Yellin
Dr. and Mrs. Burton N. Wixen
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cooper Ms. Diane Yaker
In honor of Paula Van Gelder
Covenant Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. William Elperin THE MYRTLE KARP /
ANTHONY L. ORGELL
Dr. and Mrs. Burton W. Fink MEMORIAL LIFELINE FUND
Ms. Karyn D. Wynne
Mr. and Mrs. Franklin
PATART KATES FOUNDATION
Fromer
FUND FOR MEDICAL SOCIAL
In memory of Rabbi Levi Meier
SERVICES
Dr. and Mrs. Gary Furman
Mr. Samuel Achs and
In memory of Arnold H.
Dr. Sharon Mass-Achs
Cooperman, MD
SARETTA LEE KATZ
Mrs. F. Dorothy Goldman
MEMORIAL FUND
In memory of Joseph Goldman
Mrs. Francine Ellman
In memory of Rose Hollenberg
In memory of William Hollenberg
In memory of Pearl Stieglitz
Mr. and Mrs. Marc E. Green
father
Mrs. Barbara Kahn
In memory of Julie Main
In honor of Sylvia Taxy’s speedy
recovery
REXFORD KENNAMER, MD
FELLOWSHIP FUND
Dana and Albert R. Broccoli
KIDNEY TRANSPLANT
CENTER PROGRAM FUND
In memory of Barbara Ellen Lerman
Ms. Florence Liebman
Ms. Lauren Lipsky
In memory of Rabbi Levi Meier
Mr. John A. Livingstone
In memory of Daniel Chaim
Livingstone
Mr. and Mrs. Ronald
Markman
In memory of Dr. Bill Lande
Ms. Deanne Meyers
Ms. Valerie A. O’Krent
Mr. and Mrs. Egor Olshansky
Robert and Anita Silverstein
Family Foundation
Dr. and Mrs. Steven Rubins
In memory of Albert A. Rubins
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Saks
In honor of Barbara Cowan
Mrs. Faye A. Schulman
Ms. Michele Shuman
In honor of Susan Shuman
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin P. Yates
In honor of Sel Gottlieb’s birthday
KIDNEY TRANSPLANT FUND
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth R.
Silverman
In honor of Bob and Marsha Lieb’s
birthdays
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Zakar
In honor of Bob and Marsha Lieb’s
birthdays
In honor of Bobby Mayers’ speedy
recovery
In honor of Mr. and Mrs. S. Singer
In honor of Mr. and Mrs. Hank Solny
In memory of Phyllis Factor’s mother In honor of Dr. Lou Zucker’s birthday
S. JON KREEDMAN
MEMORIAL FUND
Ms. Marlene Kreedman
MOLLIE RYKOFF LABEN’S
MEMORIAL FUND
Mrs. Ruth L. Tober
THE LINCY FOUNDATION
HYPERTENSION PROJECT
The Lincy Foundation
CRAIG LIPKIN, MD
ROBERT DAVID LAZARUS
MEMORIAL FUND
PULMONARY
Mrs. Elaine Hart
REHABILITATION EDUCATION In honor of Lyla Lipkin’s birthday
AND SUPPORT GROUP FUND Mr. and Mrs. Alan Lipkin
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Basile
In memory of Sally Laffer
In memory of Carlos Requejo’s father In memory of Louis “Lou” Ferraro
Mr. and Mrs. Milton B. Miller
In memory of Claire Thompson’s
In memory of Robert David Lazarus
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Mann
Ms. Toni Kern
Mr. William Kizner
Ms. Elyse N. Klein
Mr. Gerald E. Lerman
Gifts made in honor of Bob
and Marsha Lieb’s birthdays
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Lazarus
LIVER TRANSPLANT
RESEARCH FUND
Mr. and Mrs. Jason J. Barry
Mrs. Sandy Mulligan
Ms. Lynne Rosenthal and
Ms. Barbara Collins
Mr. Thomas A. Bencivengo
In memory of Robert David Lazarus
THE LEARNING TREE
ENDOWMENT OF
CEDARS-SINAI
Mr. Stephen R. Bickel
Mr. and Mrs. Michael S. Hope
JOSEPH R. LEE MEMORIAL
FUND FOR NEONATAL UNIT
Ms. Taffy Lee and Mr. Richard
Caldwell
Mr. and Mrs. Terry D. Chapin
Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm
Fienberg
Ms. Annajo Lefkowitz
Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Newfield
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence E.
Palmer
Dr. and Mrs. Peter Waldstein In memory of Joseph R. Lee
Mr. and Mrs. Mel Blumenthal THE ABE AND CLAIRE
LEVINE ENDOWED CHAIR IN
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Ms. Nancy E. Grosfeld
BOWEL DISEASE
Mrs. Claire Levine
Mr. and Mrs. Larry Jaffee
In honor of Dr. J. Shaw’s birthday
LIBRARY FUND
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Orley
Jeffrey Pomerance, MD
LIFELINE PROGRAM FUND
Dr. and Mrs. Deborah Smith
Estate of Sandra M. Silver
In honor of the Cedars-Sinai Liver
Mrs. Beverly A. Freed
Transplant Team
Mr. and Mrs. Spencer M.
Grand Charities, Inc.
Partrich
In memory of Frank Lipkin
In memory of Louis “Lou” Ferraro
In memory of Ethel Fleishman
In memory of Seymour Lishnoff
In memory of Thomas Rohrback
In memory of Anthonette “Toni” Salas
Mr. and Mrs. Vincent
Cervantes Jr.
Ms. Louise M. Chinnock
Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Corral
Mrs. Selma Hersh
In memory of Lawrence Abrams
Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Hunt
Mr. and Mrs. Randall W. Jewett
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth E. Jones
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Newman
Mr. John Salas
In memory of Anthonette “Toni” Salas In memory of Dr. Raymond Caren
Mr. and Mrs. Francisco X.
Pegueros
In memory of Dr. Raymond Caren
LORI GOLDHAMMER
MEMORIAL LUNG
TRANSPLANT FUND
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Edelson
Estate of Edward and
Rosalie Harmon Lipsett
Mrs. Adele Shapiro
In memory of Joseph J. Bendavid
In memory of Mona Fischer
In honor of Dr. Walter Graf’s
birthday
MoPOEd – MOBILE
In memory of Anthonette “Toni” Salas PEDIATRIC ORTHOPEDIC
EDUCATION PROGRAM
Mr. and Mrs. George Quinn
Dr. and Mrs. Robert M.
In honor of The CSMC Liver
Bernstein
Transplant Team
In honor of Carol Cozen
Mr. and Mrs. David A. Rost
In memory of Keith Kramer
Ms. Judith S. Mishkin
In memory of Hermien Lee
In honor of Charlotte Rosenberg
CEDARS-SINAI HEART
INSTITUTE
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Gold
HEART RESEARCH FUND
Lee A. Grover
Mr. and Mrs. Alan J. Crivaro
Ms. Francesca H. Redshaw
Mr. and Mrs. Michael S.
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Mucha
Sinkeldam
In memory of Cindy’s father
HEART FAILURE
Mr. David Sloss
In memory of Mona Feldman
FELLOWSHIP TRAINING
In memory of Audrey Scher’s mother PROGRAM
Mr. and Mrs. Paul E. Smith
Mr. and Mrs. Howard
Ms. Kathy Stear
Ms. Elaine Klein
Shulman
Ms. Joy Anne Theobald
In memory of Melvin Klein
In memory of Mona Selman
In memory of Bertha and Sidney Laks Mr. Lee M. Wertman and
Mrs. Kristine A. Dopera
Medtronic, Inc.
GOOD BEGINNINGS
NEONATAL LIBRARY
FAMILIES
PROGRAM
HEART
PROGRAM
Mrs. Rose April
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Bieler
In memory of Arthur L. Rubenstein
Mr. and Mrs. Charles
In memory of Lorretta Palmer
Friedlander
Mrs. Selma Hersh
Mrs. Roslyn Green
In memory of Zerrin Sabir
memory of Irving Harkavy
Mr. and Mrs. Hank J. Krakover In
In memory of Lillian Ullman
Mr. and Mrs. John W. Peto
Ms. Nilsa S. Sabir
Mr. David E. Sosa
GOODMAN FAMILY
ENDOWED CHAIR IN
IMMUNOLOGY/
RHEUMATOLOGY
Mr. and Mrs. Frank E. Raab, Jr.
GREENE MEMORIAL
LECTURESHIP FUND
Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Hoffman
In memory of Herman Lee Myers
Mr. and Mrs. Ivan L. Reed
In memory of Haim Barmack
Mrs. Sue K. Simon
In memory of Irving Harkavy
Mrs. Elaine Winters
In memory of Rae Levin
HEART FUND
Mrs. Marilyn Amundsen
GARY STEPHEN GROSS
FOUNDATION
Ms. Janet B. Gross
In memory of Marie C. Freda
Mr. and Mrs. Richard A.
Bergman
In memory of Armand “Army”
Archerd
In memory of Muriel Blankfort’s
sister, Barbara
In memory of Eugene “Gene” Davis
In memory of Mrs. Pam
Mendelsohn’s mother
In memory of Douglas Schwab
In honor of Frank Feder
In honor of Rabbi & Mrs. Sybil
Fields’ anniversary
In honor of Ellen Trujillo’s birthday
In memory of Jose Sigal’s parents
Mr. and Mrs. Saul M.
Ms. Kristina Iskander
Mr. and Mrs. Duane R. Wallace Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Besson
In memory of Anthonette “Toni” Salas Mr. and Mrs. Irwin Borovay
Ms. Ellen B. Cheney
LUNG TRANSPLANT
RESEARCH FUND
Mr. and Mrs. Myles Cohen
Mr. and Mrs. Kristin M. Paulus Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Cooper
In memory of Gerald Wayne Tippit Ms. Victoria Cortessis
Mr. Harold Cozen
LUPUS RESEARCH FUND
Ms. Gwendolyn Davis
Ms. Judith M. Philip
In memory of Bonnie Porter
Ms. Maria A. Decastro
Ms. Deborah M. Flynn
THE MEDALLION GROUP
ENDOWED CHAIR
Ms. Wendy Fonarow, PhD
RESEARCH
Ms. Susan J. Freeman
Mrs. Lee S. Kapelovitz
Mr. William J. Goldberg
In memory of Marian Poze
Mr. and Mrs. Les Granow
MEDICAL GENETICS BIRTH Mr. and Mrs. Steven M. Haddy
DEFECTS CENTER
Mr. and Mrs. Timothy S. Harris
Kaiser/Harris Family
Harry Ross Industries
Foundation
Ms. Shirley K. Holst
In honor of Quinn Edwards’
Dr. Charles Louy and
Bar Mitzvah
Mrs. Jeanne M. Weiss
RABBI LEVI MEIER
MDP Group, Inc.
MEMORIAL LECTURESHIP
Mr. and Mrs. Dennis
Ms. Irene R. Hougasian
Mochizuki
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Matloff
Mr. Bharat Nathwani
Mr. and Mrs. Steve Weinstock Mr. Scot Norred
FRIEDA MELTZER LIFELINE Ms. Mary Ann Priore
FUND
Mr. and Mrs. Michael
Mrs. Faye A. Schulman
Rasmussen
In honor of Frieda Meltzer
Ms. Linda H. Reinstein
MEMORY DISORDERS
Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan
PROGRAM FUND
Resnick
Mr. and Mrs. Elliott M. Caplow Drs. David Rimoin and
In honor of Roger Berg’s birthday
Ann Garber
Ms. Brindell Gottlieb
Ms. Jennifer L. Robedeaux
In honor of Elaine Caplow
and Ms. Courtney C.
Robedeaux
Harris Family Foundation
Dr. and Mrs. Harold Holland Mr. Richard Robertson
Rouse Asset Services, Inc.
Joyce & Lawrence Powell
Family Foundation
Mr. Michael J. Sarlo
Allen, Beatrice and Marc
Mr. and Mrs. Charles P.
Siegal Family Foundation
Toppino
Ms. Thuy T. Tran
METABOLIC DISEASE FUND Mr. and Mrs. Ronald A. Wise
Mr. and Mrs. Alex Brucker
NEUROLOGY AND
In memory of Raymond Caren, MD NEURODEVELOPMENT
Mr. and Mrs. Mark M. Gordon PROGRAM
Mr. James R. Worms and
Ms. Nina M. Sabban
Mrs. Judith A. Weston
Dr. and Mrs. Mark K. Urman
NICOLE A. HARROW
MEMORIAL TRANSPLANT
FUND
Ms. Marcia Harrow
The Michelle O’Neill
Foundation, Inc.
In memory of Rhea Coskey’s sister,
Sewanhaka Central High
Lynette
School District
Mr. and Mrs. Francis J. Shelley HEART AND CARDIOLOGY
FUND
Ms. Joanna Wogahn
Mrs. Lya G. Cordova-Latta
In memory of Anthonette “Toni” Salas Bernstein
In memory of Anthonette “Toni” Salas In memory of Dr. Raymond Caren
Mr. and Mrs. Calvin R. Nicho
Ms. Elsa G. Nanson
In honor of Patrick D. Lyden, MD
NEUROSCIENCE FUND
Mr. and Mrs. Gary E. Abrams
In honor of Drew Abrams
Ms. Jana Dittmer
In memory of Allen Shellenberger
Mr. David Hardwick
In honor of Jessica Hardwick
Bloomington Hospital
Medical Staff
In memory of Hermien Lee
Mrs. Linda Calhoun
Furs by Mannis
In memory of Ed McMahon
In honor of Arthur Rosenblum’s
birthday
Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin
Germain
In honor of Lidia Toledo, RN, MSN
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Horowitz
In honor of Elaine Gross’ birthday
In honor of Richard Gross’ birthday
Ms. Elaine Klein
Ms. Maral Markarian
In memory of Gilbert Castro
In memory of Evelyn Goodstein
HEART TRANSPLANT FUND
In honor of Judie and Bob Hilbert’s
birthday
Dr. and Mrs. Zeev Rav-Noy
STUDIES FOR THE
DIAGNOSIS OF
HIRSCHSPRUNG’S DISEASE
Heller Capital Resources
Financial & Insurance
Services, Inc.
INDIGENT CARE FUND
The Jewish Federation
Council of Greater Los Angeles
INFLAMMATORY BOWEL
DISEASE RESEARCH &
EDUCATION
Ms. Dawn Snyder
In honor of Stephan R. Targan, MD
Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Snyder
INTERNATIONAL
CHILDREN’S SURGICAL
CARE FUND
Mending Kids International
In honor of Mr. and Mrs. Alvin
Trenk’s wedding
In memory of Karim Iskander
Mr. and Mrs. Rickey Minor
S.A.K. Ventures, Inc.
Mr. Gregory Samuels
In honor of Sherkell Frye-Samuels
Ms. Lyudmila Yakubovskaya
NICU LACTATION ROOM
Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Carson
Ms. Diane Mann
NICU PROGRAM FUND
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Azaria
In honor of Hal Roy Azaria
Mr. and Mrs. Donald P. Wyse
NUCLEAR CARDIOLOGY
PROFESSIONAL
EDUCATION FUND
The Rav-Noy Family
Foundation, Inc.
OB/GYN POST GRADUATE
EDUCATION FUND
Sam Najmabadi MD, A
Professional Corporation
OLEIC ACID INTESTINAL
BACTERIAL OVERGROWTH
TREATMENT FUND
Beatrice & Samuel A. Seaver
Foundation
PALLIATIVE CARE FUND
PARKINSON’S DISEASE
FUND
Mr. and Mrs. Skip Sigel
PATIENT RELATIONS
PROGRAM FUND
Dr. and Mrs. Harold Davidson
In honor of Patient Relations Team
Mr. and Mrs. Mervyn
Mandelbaum
In honor of Patient Relations
Representatives
Mrs. Barbara W. Stern
Ms. Miriam S. Weiss
In honor of Cindy Margolis
PEDIATRIC AIDS CLINICAL
CARE CENTER
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Wilson
InmemoryofJudithDelafield’s mother
PEDIATRIC BRAIN TUMOR
STUDY
Mr. Stephen Berg and
Ms. Niki Horwitch
PEDIATRIC IBD CENTER
RESEARCH AND
EDUCATION FUND
Gifts made in honor of
Richard Wolpert
Accel Management Co., LLC
Ms. Lisa Blocksberg
Ms. Maryam Doroud
Elinor Lava
Gang Family Foundation
Ms. Emily Blaustein
Mr. and Mrs. Tyler J. Goldman
Ms. Linda Cohen
Admiral Mark Surfas
Mr. and Mrs. Roger Cowan
Swartz Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Elliott S.
The Lastfogel Foundation of
Edelson
the William Morris Agency
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Flier
Mr. Michael Yanover
Dr. and Mrs. Roger Friedman Ms. Laura Hamlett
In honor of Evan Norris
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Gross
Judith S. Leslie
Mrs. Selma Hersh
Management II
Mr. Daniel Koren and
In honor of Lee Leslie’s birthday
Ms. Linda Mitchell
In honor of Dylan Rudolph’s birthday
Mr. and Mrs. William Locher In honor of Hans Rudolph’s birthday
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard
Mr. and Mrs. Norman Leslie
McLaughlin
In honor of Pearl Fuller’s birthday
Ms. Myrna Schiffman
In honor of Norman Leslie’s birthday
In
honor of Denise and Hansi
Mrs. Rhoda J. Sharp
Rudolph’s
anniversary
Mrs. Fanya Soll
In honor of Dylan Rudolph’s
Ms. Debora H. Stein
graduation
Ms. Sharon S. Wahl
In honor of Hans Rudolph
Mr. and Mrs. Neil G. Ovsey
Elynor and Maury Hart
In honor of Arnie and Sue Kogen’s
In honor of Dr. and Mrs. Robert
Taub’s wedding anniversary
PANCREATIC EDUCATION
FUND
Mr. and Mrs. Arnold J. Rotter
In honor of Simon Lo, MD
50th wedding anniversary
Pediatrics IBD Support Group
PEDIATRIC INFECTIOUS
DISEASES AIDS RESEARCH
AND EDUCATION FUND
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew McIntyre
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POLIER ENDOWED CHAIR IN PRESS FAMILY AWARD FUND
SCHIZOPHRENIA
Morris and Mary Press
Ms. Ruth Ann Cowan
Foundation
In honor of Janet Zalben’s birthday
PULMONARY MEDICINE
In memory of Dr. Eugene Gettelman Ms. Annette R. Michaels
DEPARTMENT
Los Angeles Center for
In honor of Janet Zalben’s birthday
Mr. Dave Deno
Enriched Studies School
JEANETTE NAST POLLAND
In memory of Loran L. Lewis
Student Body
DIABETIC FUND
Ms. Lenora Oliff
Mr. and Mrs. Steve Richards Mrs. Babette Dizon
In memory of Joseph Sheldon
In memory of Dr. Eugene Gettelman
PEDIATRIC PRIMARY
CARE FUND
Dr. Jonathan Neyer and
Ms. Barbara Kingston
In memory of Michael Rosenhaur
PERSIAN JEWISH GENETICS
SCREENING PROGRAM
Mr. and Mrs. Shahin
Dardashty
Mr. Pedram Zaghi
In honor of Carol and Eddie
Bookstaff’s wedding
In honor of Gloria Harvey’s speedy
recovery
In honor of Maxine Heller’s speedy
recovery
PRESIDENT’S
DISCRETIONARY FUND
The Queen’s Medical Center
Schwartz
Mr. and Mrs. Allen Poland
In memory of Loran L. Lewis
THE CENTER FOR
RHEUMATIC DISEASE
RESEARCH AT CEDARSSINAI MEDICAL CENTER
Ms. Phyllis Tick
RHEUMATOLOGY FUND
Ms. Linda Ba
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin
Baumann
Mr. Howard H. Bordbar
Ms. Crystal J. Lockwood
Ms. Rachel Mannino
CAMILLA REVAH PEDIATRIC
INFECTIOUS DISEASES FUND In honor of Dr. Michael Weisman
Ms. Michelle M. Morovaty
Mr. and Mrs. Haim Revah
Mr. and Mrs. Lonnie J. Moskow
Ms. Elaine Palance
Ms. Bernadette M. Palomino
Mr. Sidney Schwartz
Mr. and Mrs. Errol H. Segal
Ms. Selma Shpall
In honor of Dr. Lawrence D. Platt
Mr. and Mrs. Norman
Townsend
Mr. and Mrs. David
Tseykinskiy
In honor of Maria Tseykinskiy
SANFORD ROSENBAUM
ENDOWMENT FUND FOR
VASCULAR RESEARCH
Sidney Katz
Ms. Gail Anderson
Mrs. Marian Bayard
Mrs. Joan F. Berne
Ms. Virginia Blywise
Mrs. Maxine Bookman
Mrs. Mona F. Brandler
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Brown
Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Charnas
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A. CHARLES WILSON AND
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ENDOWMENT FUND
Pepper’s wedding
A. Charles & Betty S. Wilson
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THE NATHAN AND BARBARA
In
honor
of
Marcie
Cochran’
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birthday
DR. SYDNEY J. AND
WINTERS HEART FAMILIES
STROKE RESEARCH AND
MARJORIE
Z.
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FUND
Cedars-Sinai
Volunteer
Services
EDUCATION AND PROGRAM
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Mark “Mickey” Weisman
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Korengold
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Mr.
Eire
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AMY LEVIN SYRETT
birthday
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Mr. and Mrs. Rubin Jurman WOMEN’S HEALTH FUND
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Mr. Neal Green
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memory
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Hillary
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SURGERY AND
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memory
of
Cleola
Postele
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Mrs. Monica Temperly
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Kathleen Gutierrez, MD
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InhonorofZacharySchroeter-Perrone
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Dr. Barbara Lee
DISCOVERING
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Mr.
Charles
L.
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mother, Rose
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Dana Ehrlich
speedy recovery
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Thomas
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STEVEN SPIELBERG
ENDOWED CHAIR IN
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Ms. Cyndy Atkins
GABRIEL STEGMAN
MEMORIAL FUND
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REBECCA SAKAI
TRANSPLANT RESEARCH
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Wood River Properties, LLC
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HARRY AND ELLEN
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Advanced Health Media
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STEM CELL FUNCTIONAL
IMAGING
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Frankel
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Janis Gurnick
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Claudia Harrison
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and Mitzi Henry
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Intrepid Pictures, LLC
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Televison
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Focus Features
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Holly C. Kully
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Lazard Capital Markets, LLC
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Ms.
Helen N. Lewis
Mr.
and
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Matthews
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honor
of
Barbara
Glucksman’s
birthday
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A. Frank
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Alex
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and
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J.
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THYROID DISEASE
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Jeane B. Garaon Greenbaum Mr. and Mrs. Clark and
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Beth Mathis
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Boris Catz, MD
BERNARD ZWEBEN
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Ms. Florence I. Megginson
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Genzyme Corporation
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TRAUMA EDUCATION
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GOOD BEGINNINGS
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Suzi Glushon
Sharen Y. Moghavem
In memory of Bijou Durden
Gifts
made
in
memory
of
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BENJAMIN TUCH, MD
Mr. Phillip Goldfarb
Mr. and Mrs. Steven R. and
Jonathan
A.
Furie
Mr.
Mitch
L.
Martens
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MEMORIAL FUND FOR
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In memory of Reid Swanson’s Diana Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Weiss
Doug and Marie
mother and grandmother
OB/GYN
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Mr.
Stanley Goldklang
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Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. Bayer BERNARD WEINBERG
Adriane Morrison
JANIS AND WILLIAM
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WETSMAN FAMILY
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Pictures Physical Production Randy and Eric Gordon
In honor of Mr. and Mrs. Alberto
Helen Walter
Mrs. Effie Weinberg
ENDOWED CHAIR IN
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Valner’s anniversary
Mr.
and
Mrs.
Sel
and
Anschutz
Film
Group/Walden
In
memory
of
Sadie
Gang
INFLAMMATORY BOWEL
VOLUNTEER SERVICES
In honor of Mikey Wapnick’s
Ms. Lisa Niedenthal
Roz Gottlieb
Media
DISEASE
FUND
graduation
Mr. Samuel Page
Ms. Jane A. Grant
Mr. and Mrs. Frank S. and
Dr. and Mrs. David L.
Dr. and Mrs. Burt Crausman Arlene Balkin
Mr. and Mrs. Jay and
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard
MARCIA SIMON WEISMAN
Rosenbaum
Harry Romanoff
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Nancy Pastor
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MEMORIAL ART FUND
In honor of Mrs. Janis Wetsman’s
Mr. G. Michael Alatorre
Yahrzeit
Ms. Margaret Pastor
Ms. Laura M. Greenlee
Ms. Karen Berch
birthday
Mr.
and
Mrs.
Frederick
M.
Dr. and Mrs. Alein T. Chun
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Mr. and Mrs. John Grossman Mr. Adam Pelzman
Nicholas
In memory of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Dr. and Ms. James Berenson
Dr. Bruce N. Davidson
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Mr. and Mrs. Peter Grossman Mr. and Mrs. Doug Peter
Mr. and Mrs. Mark and
Ms. Rekha Murthy
Banberger
Penny Berns
Ms. Pranav P. Popat
Mrs. Roselyn Grossman
In honor of Lana Brody’s speedy
In honor of Jerry Epstein’s birthday
Mr. Craig S. Bernstein
recovery
Ms. Evelynda Rivera
Ms. Rachel S. Grynberg
Mrs. Toni J. Blakeman
STEM CELL RESEARCH
PROJECT FUND
Cakes 4 a Cause
Mr. and Mrs. Michael W. Sarka
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– Logo apparel and hats
Dr. and Mrs. Dennis
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Mr. and Mrs. John Jameson
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Ms. Miriam Groman
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Dr. William N. Roddy
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond N.
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Mrs. Marjorie Sanger
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Ms. Marcia Solomon
Stanley E. Brown Family
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The Jameson Family
Partnership
The Stephen L. Gans
Foundation
Mrs. Ruth L. Tober
Ms. Etta Weisman
Mr. and Ms. Aaron R.
Eshman
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Audrey, Seth, Rebecca,
Stephan Rosew
Emily Rothstein
RPG & Company
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Mr. and Mrs. Ken and
Debbi Saunders
Mr. and Mrs. Bradley J.
and Julie Shames
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Mr. Paul R. Slight
Mr. David Snow
Ms. Dawn A. Snyder
Mr. Mylan M. Stepanovich
Ms. Mylan M. Stephan
Summit Entertainment, LLC
Mr. Mark Suponitsky
The Book Group
The Sage Family
Mr. Lawrence W. Timmins
Mr. Jon B. Torgeson
Twelve Foot Two
Productions, Inc.
Universal City Studios, LLP
Mr. and Mrs. Rudy Valner
Mr. and Mrs. Frederick J. and
Terrie Weeden Jr.
Helen Wendlinger
Mr. Larry Wiener
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B. Williams
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R. Winston
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In honor of Andrew “Harry”
Arganyan
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Mr. Tafari Alexander
Michael and Melissa Curtis
The Annenberg Foundation
Apex Energy Solutions of
Indiana, LLC
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Mediquest Therapeutics, Inc.
Ann Bader
The Drabinsky Family
In memory of Violet Sodetani
In memory of Marika O’Dell
In honor of Esther Degen
In honor of Relba Imerman’s speedy
recovery
In honor of Alex Nasch’s speedy
recovery
In honor of Betty and Ken Persion
In honor of Shirley and Edgie Phillips
In memory of the Birenbaum
family’s sister, Debbie
In memory of Florence Swartz
In memory of Colette Tobias’
mother, Anita
Mr. Theodore Moore
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Mr. and Mrs. Albert and
Angela Nassi
In memory of John S. Sondles
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anniversary
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In memory of Michael Krans
Susan and Branden Hunter
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Mr. and Mrs. Thomas F. Hunter In memory of William James Roth III
In memory of Hunter Persons Wyse The Eli and Edythe Broad
Mr. Richard Rhodes and
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Ms. Gwendoline L. Jones
Ms. Norma Bruscani
Ms. Kari Phelps
Mr. and Mrs. Eric A. Korman
In memory of Brandon Paul Billiot
In honor of Annie and Rachel Moyer In memory of Steve Fensel
In honor of Ben and Josh Skulsky’s
birthdays
Clea and Hannah Lerner
In honor of Ellen and Rebecca
Sugarman
Dr. and Mrs. Roger L. Lerner
In honor of Ellen and Rebecca
Sugarman
Ms. Carolina N. Pimentel
In honor of Gwen Rhodes’ birthday
Mr. and Mrs. Alan Raphael
birthdays
Mr. David A. Resnik and
Ms. Joyce Volk
birthdays
Mr. and Mrs. Donald R.
and Pam Rhodes
In honor of Gwen Rhodes’ 75th
birthday
Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Rogal
birthdays
Ms. Morisa Rosenberg
birthdays
The Pitt Group, LLC
birthdays
Truist
Mr. Joel A. Tuchman
In honor of Sari Edbar
Wells Fargo Community
Support Campaign
Mr. and Mrs. Brian D. Wynne
Ms. Courtney Buchan
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Mr. Arthur Cohen
Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Cohen
In memory of Steven S. Cohen
In memory of Lillian Singer
Mr. and Mrs. Keith and
Dawn Cressionnie
David May II - Dee May
Charitable Trust
Mr. and Mrs. E.J. and
Carol Delatt
Greater Los Angeles New Car
Dealers Association
Mr. Sawn Handwerker
In memory of Margo Welles
Ms. Pamela Healey
In memory of John S. Healey
Mr. Anthony R. Iorio
In memory of Jeffrey R. Iorio
birthdays
THE HEART FOUNDATION
Mr. Richard Adray
Air Conditioning Ambulance
Service
Innis Maggiore
Mr. and Mrs. Tony Litman
Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Wynne Louisiana State University
In honor of Ben and Josh Skulsky’s Flores MBA Program
In memory of John Sondles
Mr. Laurence Mandell
Mr. Robert Margolis
Myron Onike and Nancy Levin In honor of Nadine and Chuck
In memory of Don Ross
In honor of Betty Best’s 90th
birthday
In honor of Nadine and Chuck
Glauberman’s grandson, Henry
recovery
Shirley and Edgie Phillips
In honor of Ruth Karp’s birthday
In honor of Ken Persion’s speedy
recovery
In honor of Doreen Safier’s speedy
recovery
Harold and Roz Snyder
In memory of Albert Ezor
J. Edgar Spitz
In memory of Jerry Blatt
Judith and Gene Tuch
Shirley Ungerleider
Lois and Richard Reinis
In memory of Shirley Steinberg’s
mother
In honor of Joanne Kirshbaum’s
speedy recovery
In memory of Jerome Irwin Blatt
The Wald Family
Trudy (Gertrude) Rabiner
In memory of Ann Steinberg
In honor of Molly Halpern’s 100th
birthday
Mackey and Nat Revitz
In memory of John Dryden Phelps
Linnie Phelps
In memory of Bioll Franklin
Ms. Jaclyn Rosenberg
Rosenbohm
Mr. and Mrs. Jim and
Sharon Roth
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Ms. Edythe Schlosberg
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Mr. Thomas Shannahan
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Dr. and Mrs. Joseph and
Audrey Silverberg
Mr. and Mrs. Jason and
Lynda Stanecki
In memory of Norman Teter
The Donald T. Sterling
The Skirball Foundation
Trenton Administrators &
Supervisors Association
In memory of Charles Young
Helen Rosin
In memory of Morton Rogo
In memory of Linda Thieben and
Larry Gilbert’s father
Joyce and Carl Rudnick
In memory of Rosetta Ezrach
Julie and Dennis Saffro
Doreen and Ronnie Safier
In memory of Cori Moore
In honor of Esther Degen’s speedy
recovery
Ann Saltzman
In honor of Robert and Anita
Silverstein’s anniversary
In honor of Robert Silverstein’s
birthday
The Ralph M. Parsons
Foundation
Gail Tominaga
In honor of Mary Tominaga’s
birthday
Susan Wang
TEEN LINE
Dr. and Mrs. Charles Sawin
Brian Rose and in honor of
Dennis Rose’s 65th birthday
Bobbi Scherr
In memory of Phyllis Factor’s
mother
Glauberman’s grandson, Henry Lev
Daisy Schott
In honor of Esther Degen’s
speedy recovery
Ms. Rachel Andres
Mr. and Mrs. Derek Brown
Ms. Mary Cavalier
Mr. and Mrs. Jake Farber
Mr. and Mrs. Norman
Fishman
Mr. Stephen Forman
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Frydrych
In memory of Morris Greenbaum
In memory of Phyliss Levine
In memory of Robert Schneider
Judy and Jay Cooper
Lilliam Copelan
In memory of Mel Krevoy
Esther Degen
In memory of Alan Block’s mother
In honor of Esther Degen’s speedy and Harold Block’s wife, Jeanette
recovery
In memory of Trudi’s mother
In honor of Ann Bader’s birthday
Cindy and Ricardo Azziz
In memory of Phyllis Factor’s mother In honor of Edgie’s speedy recovery
In honor of Judith Ghesser’s birthday
In honor of Esther Degen’s speedy Glauberman’s grandson, Henry
In honor of Roberta and John
recovery
Goldberg
In honor of Dana Glauberman
In honor of Relba Imerman’s speedy In honor of Betty Persion
recovery
Mr. and Mrs. David Gill
Mr. Brian Jacob
Jewish Community
Foundation of Los Angeles
Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Kabrins
Ms. Bettina Kurowski
Mr. and Mrs. Luis Lainer
Mr. and Mrs. Mark Lainer
Mr. John Magoulas
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Marcus
Mr. and Mrs. Adamec Patel
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Mr. and Mrs. Karl Sussman
Marlon Nash
Ms. Barbara Brown
Ms. Renee Burns-Lonner
Mr. and Mrs. Gary Fine
Mr. and Mrs. Len Nancy
Ms. Joyce Swain
In memory of Dr. Terry D. Lipton
Dottie Frieband and
Ted Blumenfeld
Mae Goodson
Carol, Barry, Brandon and
Jonathan Kaufman
recovery
recovery
In memory of Al Ezor
Arny and Dee Dee Gooze
Julia Klein
Marilyn Matlin
Mr. and Mrs. Lester and
Kathleen Plaisance
Joan and Stuart Rosen
Barbara and Alvin Rosenfeld
Jerry Blatt
recovery
recovery
In memory of Jo Farber
In memory of Judith Frost’s
mother, Alice
Dr. Philip and Ellen Brooks
In memory of Ben Gordon
In memory of Jim Gordon
In memory of Rosetta Ezrach
In memory of David Korcheck
In memory of Mel Krevoy
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In memory of Dr. Leon Wallace
In memory of Shirley Sloan
In honor of Janine and Barry Abell
Elaine Brown
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In honor of Lynne Briskin’s 90th
In
honor of Sylvia Brown
birthday
In honor of Mr. and Mrs. Norman
Mina Brown
Rips’ anniversary
In honor of Bobbie Stern’s speedy
In honor of Judith Ghesser’s birthday recovery
In honor of Etta Weisman’s speedy
Norma and Earl Bubar
recovery
Friends at Western Toy and
Hobby Reps. Assn.
In memory of Bob Schneider
In honor of Lynne Briskin’s birthday In memory of Jerry Blatt
In honor of Esther Degen’s speedy Alberta and Clarence Gazin
In honor of Lynne Briskin’s birthday
recovery
Bernice and Phil Gershon
In honor of Relba Imerman’s
Jeanne Gerson and
speedy recovery
Linda Delaney
In honor of Julian Isen’s
speedy recovery
Jeanne Gerson
In honor of Edgie Phillips’
speedy recovery
Rozy Gersten
In honor of Elka Winer
In memory of Norma Joseph
Ellie Burke
In memory of Jerome Blatt
Mary Ann Canter
In honor of Judith Ghesser
recovery
In honor of Larry and Caren Ring’s
30th anniversary
Claire Love
recovery
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birthday
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In honor of Jerry Grimson
In honor of Peter Kaplan’s speedy
recovery
Lynnette Briskin
In honor of Dr. Stan Burton’s
Ellie Weisbaum
96th birthday
In honor of Sylvia Weiss
In honor of Relba Imerman’s birthday Richard Weitzman
Harriet Rice
In memory of Jerome Blatt
In memory of Adele
Helen Zimmelman
PSYCHOLOGICAL TRAUMA
CENTER
Peggy and David Ash
Daniel Pesso, Branch Service
Manager, Cal National Bank
Dr. King Mendelsohn
Nancy Neuchterlein
Robert & Anita Silverstein
Family Foundation
Joanne Sackheim
Hasan Shirazi
Rose Marie Smith
Cecile Bartman
Judy Kaplan
In memory of Charlene
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Hurwitz’s 50th anniversary
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Nancy Dubois
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birthday
Phyllis Factor
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Harriet Freund
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In memory of John Dryden Phelps
The Wallis Foundation
Wellpoint Foundation
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Mr. Jeffrey Wilson
Mr. Les Kallenberg
Mr. David Wolfson
In memory of Julius Ackroff
In memory of Kristen Hackler
Mr. and Mrs. Edward
Kamenir
THE HELPING HAND OF
In honor of Judge Ralph Amado’s
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Ruta Lee
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William Ahmanson
Bank of America
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Caryl Golden
The Shirley Baskin
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Ruth Lawson
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Maxine Bookman
Judy Briskin
Susan Levich
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Mimi Meltzer
Matthew P. Brubaker
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Dori Koonin
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Leona Miller
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Nan Krasne
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Bette Kristan
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Ron Nasch and Family
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Karen Levin
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Barbara Herman
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Pat and Gordon Hubbard
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