Anne Cross, MD, Manny & Rosalyn Rosenthal and Dr. John L. Trotter MS Center Chair in Neuroimmunology

Endowed chairs for Barnes-Jewish Hospital and nursing professorships for Goldfarb School of Nursing at Barnes-Jewish College are investments in hope and innovation that will help Barnes-Jewish remain one of America’s best hospitals.

When you endow a chair or professorship, the Foundation invests your gift as principal that remains untouched.  The annual income from investment is then used to support the research and clinical activities of the chair holder or the nursing professor, so that the impact of your gift will endure.
 
Your gift of $1.5 million to create an endowed chair for a Washington University Physician, or your gift of $500,000 to endow a nursing professorship for Goldfarb School of Nursing at Barnes-Jewish College, will forever:

• Did You Know? The Barnes-Jewish Hospital Foundation currently manages 25 endowed chairs, 1 deanship, 2 associate deanships, and 1 professorship through the generosity of donors. Each hospital chairholder is also a Washington University School of Medicine Physician Partner of Barnes-Jewish.

  Enable outstanding researchers and clinicians to make discoveries that change the face of medicine, both now and in the future.
• Provide the chairholder or professor with more time in the lab to develop ideas that leverage large-scale government and private funding.
• Help to attract, recruit, and retain the best faculty in academic medicine.
• Enrich collaboration that develops new technology and treatments that lead to better outcomes and cures for patients in St. Louis and beyond.

Gifts to endow a chair or a professorship may be payable over a 5 year period, or deferred as part of your estate.

To learn more about making a gift for an endowed chair or nursing professorship—a gift that will change lives and benefit the hospital forever—please contact (314) 286-0447 or givingbarnesjewish@bjc.org.

Recent Breakthroughs and Novel Research Supported by Gifts for Endowed Chairs to the Barnes-Jewish Hospital Foundation

Jeffrey Bradley, MD, the S. Lee Kling Endowed Chair in Radiation Oncology

The S. Lee Kling Endowed Chair in Radiation Oncology

Established through the gifts of many generous donors in honor of the late S. Lee Kling, past chairman of the Barnes-Jewish Hospital Foundation Board of Directors, the Kling Endowed Chair in Radiation Oncology will support research into applications of proton beam therapy, a new technology that targets tumors with greater precision without damaging healthy tissue.  

Proton beam therapy may revolutionize radiation therapy for certain cancer patients, such as those with cancer of the spine or central nervous system.  The Kling Center for Proton Therapy is scheduled to open in late 2010 or early 2011.