Recent Gifts to the U-M Health System

Audio-Digest Foundation Supports CME Programs
The Audio-Digest Foundation has established an endowment to support continuing medical education at the University of Michigan. The foundation produces CME programs for physicians and other health-care professionals in partnership with CME providers across the country.

Gift Honors Two Generations of Darling Family Physicians
David P. Darling, of Berkeley, California, is establishing, through a charitable remainder trust, the Cyrenus G. Darling Sr. and Jr., M.D., Professorship in the Department of Surgery. The gift honors Darling’s father and grandfather, both of whom received their medical training at the University of Michigan. Darling’s grandfather served on the faculty of the Medical School, and his father went on to significant roles in medicine in the Detroit area.

Gratitude Prompts Kahn Gift
D. Dan Kahn, of Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, has made a $1-million gift supporting capital and construction needs in the Cardiovascular Center clinical building. Kahn’s generosity is in gratitude for the medical care provided by Kim Eagle, M.D., to Kahn’s wife, Betty. In recognition of the gift, the Ambulatory Care reception area on level three of the center will be named the D. Dan Kahn and Betty Kahn Patient and Family Reception.

Kligmans Support Cardiac Care
The cardiac surgery staff room is being funded through a gift from Gary and Karen Kligman of Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, in gratitude for surgery performed on their daughter, Amelia, by Edward Bove, M.D., the Helen F. and Marvin M. Kirsh Professor of Cardiac Surgery.

Ravitz Foundation Uses Presidential Match to Fund New Professorship
The Ravitz Foundation has made a gift of $1 million to establish a professorship in the Medical School. The gift amount will be matched by the University as part of President Mary Sue Coleman’s program to help create new professorships during The Michigan Difference Campaign, completing the $2-million endowment. The Ravitz Foundation was established as part of the estate of Edward Ravitz, a Kalamazoo native. During a 30-year period, he amassed a fortune as a residential developer in southeastern Michigan and elsewhere in the Midwest. The foundation has previously funded, for a renewable term of five years, the Ravitz Professorship in Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases.

George Schnetzer Honors U-M Training with Scholarship Gift
George W. Schnetzer III, M.D. (Residency 1972), and Mary H. Lhevine, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, have endowed the George W. Schnetzer III, M.D., and Mary H. Lhevine Scholarship Fund. The gift honors the impact faculty and staff had on Schnetzer’s career during six years of oncology training at the U-M.

The main entrance lobby of the new Cardiovascular Center is graced dramatically with a beautiful bronze sculpture, commissioned for the space by Doug and Laurie Valassis of Lake Bluff, Illinois. Created by artist Jane DeDecker in her studio in Colorado and entitled “My Heart Is in Your Hand,” the piece evokes the shape of a heart through the curved elongated bodies of a man and a woman connected by clasped hands. Photo: Martin Vloet

Patricia E. Schemm, of Sarasota, Florida, continues to support the Ferdinand Ripley Schemm Endowed Merit Scholarship Fund in memory of her late brother-in-law, who performed his surgery residency at the U-M Medical School and was a leading researcher in treatments for edema in the 1940s. The fund supports promising incoming medical students, and may be renewed by maintaining a “B” average or better. Pictured here are Schemm Scholars Dionesia Adraktas, Sarah Carlson, Tatnai Burnett, Roland Hernandez and Laura Chromy. Photo: Marie Frost

Looking down from a mezzanine, visitors to the new Cardiovascular Center have a unique view of the five-story circular atrium, and the garden it contains. The atrium garden is one of the many areas within the CVC that was funded by a private gift. Photo: Martin Vloet

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