Sick Children Receive Strong Support
from Dedicated Donors

Ann and Gordon Getty recently hosted a "Snuggly Soiree" in their home to raise donations for the Glogau Teddy Bear Rescue Fund at UCSF Children's Hospital. The fund was established by dermatologist Richard Glogau, MD, and his wife, Pamela Baj Glogau. It helps pay for the special needs of pediatric patients and their families that insurance and the government cannot provide – needs such as food, transportation, housing, medications, special medical equipment, interpreters, tutors and amenities. The "Snuggly Soiree" evening was a huge success with 350 guests and more than $240,000 raised.

Madison O'Brien with Mayor Gavin Newsom Barry Bonds and Kapi Coleman Joy Venturnini-Bianchi, Dede Wilsley, Jane and Sam Hawgood Ann and Gordon Getty, Pam and Richard Glogau

Global Health Sciences Dinner Series
Event Highlights Katrina Efforts

Friends and colleagues gathered at Farallon restaurant in downtown San Francisco on March 26 for the first 2008 Global Health Sciences Dinner. Launched in 2002, the Global Health Sciences Dinner Series convenes four times a year in the Bay Area to bring concerned individuals together to hear and talk about international health issues. Past speakers have included Lord Charles Guthrie, former chief of Defense Staff of the U.K.; Richard Carmona, former U.S. surgeon general; and David Ho, Time's Man of the Year in 1996 and director of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center in New York.

The keynote speaker for the evening was Tulane University Vice Dean of Community Health Karen Bollinger DeSalvo, MD, MPH, MSc. DeSalvo gave a first-hand account of the ongoing effort to rebuild New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Her talk illuminated the clinical and policy changes prompted by the disaster, highlighting the key interplay between grass roots groups and policy makers, and the need for New Orleans to shift from a hospital-based community to one with a preventive/primary care focus.

Prior to DeSalvo, George Rutherford, MD, director of the Prevention and Public Health Group, UCSF Global Health Sciences, spoke about eliminating congenital syphilis, an affliction present in approximately half a million newborns worldwide each year.

Left to right: Bill Martin; Haile Debas, executive director, Global Health Sciences; Helen Clausen; Kim Debas; Tom Clausen Karen Bollinger DeSalvo, keynote speaker for the evening Director of Prevention and Public Health Group, UCSF Global Health Sciences, George Rutherford Left to right: Drew Altman; Dave Chernoff; Paul Finkle; John Peabody, deputy director, Institute for Globabl Health

For more information on joining the Global Health Sciences Dinner Series, contact Leilynne Fong at 415/514-1646 or LFong@support.ucsf.edu.