In the News Archive

Gov. Jay Nixon appoints Barnes-Jewish Hospital Foundation Board Member Kenneth Suelthaus of St. Louis to Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission June 3, 2010.

More than 500 people gathered to raise over $1.6 million at the Barnes-Jewish Hospital Foundation’s “illumination10” gala on Saturday, May 15, 2010 at the Chase Park Plaza. All proceeds will benefit the Cancer Frontier Fund at the Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center.

Success really does bring more success. For 15 years, David Mutch, MD, a Washington University gynecologic oncologist at Barnes-Jewish Hospital, and Paul Goodfellow*, PhD, a Washington University geneticist, have collaborated on endometrial and ovarian cancer research.

Soon after Mario Schootman, PhD, an epidemiologist, came to Washington University in 1999, he reviewed data from the Missouri Cancer Registry and noticed a disturbing trend among patients with breast cancer:  from 1996 to 1998, women who were 50 and older were twice as likely to have late-stage breast cancer if they lived in certain ZIP codes in the northeastern part of St. Louis.

Bev Sodemann, 58, is living proof of how research brings hope to so many lives.

Pancreatic cancer was pushed to the forefront of the news last year when actor Patrick Swayze died from it. More than 35,000 other people in the United States also died from pancreatic cancer in 2009. 

In a decision that will benefit countless patients of Barnes-Jewish hospital, the auxiliaries of the former Barnes hospital and Jewish hospital, which have operated as separate chapters of the Barnes-Jewish hospital auxiliary since the hospitals merged in 1996, agreed in January 2010 to merge into one auxiliary.

On may 15, hundreds of generous ST. Louisans will “get their heads in the game” by joining host Kareem Abdul-Jabbar for the Barnes-Jewish hospital foundation’s illumination10 gala to benefit the Alvin J. Siteman cancer center at Barnes-Jewish hospital and Washington university school of medicine.

Lloyd Kleine Harvey, 77, grew up in St. Louis with a big sycamore tree adorning his front yard. He loved that tree, from the flaky texture of the mottled bark to the wide, veined leaves. This fascination and appreciation of nature became the root of the artwork he creates today.

"Giving Back"
By Bill Koman, Director,
Barnes-Jewish Hospital Foundation Board

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