For immediate release: May 19, 2009
Contact: Anne McMillin, APR
Health Science Communication
Office 775-682-9254
Mobile 702-292-4247
amcmillin@medicine.nevada.edu
School of Medicine receives monetary donations
from community organization, estates
Gifts to be used in support of programs and scholarships
RENO, Nev.— The University of Nevada School of Medicine has received several generous gifts from the community in the last several months to support various programs and departments on campus.
The School of Medicine’s Student Outreach Clinic recently received a $40,000 gift from the Redfield Foundation to help with clinic operations. Second-year student Hong Fa Yang and members of the Class of 2011 spearheaded the successful effort to seek additional funding for the clinic which provides free monthly medical services to the area’s underserved populations while providing valuable clinical experience for medical students.
The Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology received a bequest from the estate of Bill Richards, a former patient at its clinic. Tom Watterson, Ph.D., chair of the department, had treated Mr. Richards many years ago, and kept in touch with him since, but didn’t know that the speech pathology and audiology program would receive this $180,000 unrestricted gift. The gift will be used to support operating and research expenses and to establish an endowed scholarship fund in Mr. Richards’ name.
School of Medicine alumnus Joseph Bayless, M.D. ’81, recently facilitated a gift from the estate of his friend, Kirk Fay, to benefit future medical students. The Kirk Addison Fay medical scholarship endowment, in the amount of $200,000, was established to help provide resources for medical students at the University of Nevada.
As the state’s only public medical school, the University of Nevada School of Medicine has been a leader in healthcare, medical education and research in Nevada since 1969. The School of Medicine includes 16 clinical departments including family medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, internal medicine, surgery, and psychiatry and behavioral sciences, and five nationally recognized departments in basic science including microbiology and biomedical engineering. The more than 185 doctors of University Health System, the school’s clinical practice, offer care in more than 40 medical specialties and subspecialties with eight physician offices in the Reno/Sparks area and seven in Las Vegas. The school is committed to a best practices approach to medicine and is dedicated to exceptional healthcare for Nevada now and in the future. For more information visit www.medicine.nevada.edu.