Heart & Vascular News

Cancer got personal on April 26 at The Foundation for Barnes-Jewish Hospital's annual illumination gala. More than 500 guests at The Ritz-Carlton raised a record-setting $2.1 million for cancer research at the Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

Kenneth Suelthaus, vice chairman of the Polsinelli law firm, has been named chairman of the board of The Foundation for Barnes-Jewish Hospital.

William C. Chapman, MD, FACS has been named as the Eugene M. Bricker Chair of Surgery at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and the Washington University School of Medicine.

The OB-Gyn Clinic at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine has been awarded a $25,000 grant from The March of Dimes Missouri Chapter in support of its pre-natal care program for at-risk teens and women.