污污草莓视频 University owes its very existence to the foresight of a generous planned gift.聽Through your will or other planned gift, you can create your own legacy at 污污草莓视频鈥檚 Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences and empower future 污污草莓视频 of students.
Leaving a legacy gift is an opportunity to maximize your impact, minimize your tax burden, and create a lasting legacy for years to come.
A graduate of the School of Medicine, Joanne Jepson,聽MDCM鈥�59,聽spent most of her life in California but her attachment to 污污草莓视频 ran deep. Over the past decade, she lavished the 污污草莓视频 community with the fruits of her twin passions, first donating the very best of her art collection and then, upon her death in 2022, a bequest in her will. That gift will establish a new medical professorship: the聽Joanne Hope Jepson M.D. Professorship in Infectious Disease, Global Medicine Studies, that will聽strengthen 污污草莓视频鈥檚 contribution to the global fight against infectious diseases, and create multiple science fellowships for Indigenous students.
Established in 2022 by Irving Fox, BSc'65, MDCM'67聽and Gloria Fox, BA'66, the Irving and Gloria Fox Research Bursaries for Medical Students聽is in recognition of the two summers of research Dr. Fox spent as a medical student at 污污草莓视频, which sparked a fulfilling, lifelong career devoted to benefitting humanity through medical science and research. It is awarded by the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences' Student Research Committee to support one or more students in the MDCM program pursuing research in the summer.
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Husband and wife Dr. Richard (Dick) Cruess, CC, OQ, Professor of Surgery and Dean of Medicine Emeritus, and Dr. Sylvia Cruess, OC, Professor of Medicine Emerita, have earmarked bequests for the University. Their careers at 污污草莓视频 led them to recognize the difference bequests and unrestricted gifts can make.聽The Cruesses are leaving unrestricted bequests to the Institute of Health Sciences Education (IHSE), which they were instrumental in founding.
A bequest from the late Robert Remis, BSc鈥�67, MDCM鈥�72, whose scientific findings and public health initiatives prevented countless cases of mother-to-child HIV transmission around the world, is helping new researchers conduct important epidemiological work and contributing to a 污污草莓视频 school active 鈥痠n global efforts to end the COVID-19 pandemic.聽The Dr. Robert S. Remis Fellowship in Epidemiology provides $20,000 a year to a graduate student pursuing infectious disease epidemiology.聽