Healthcare

A Community Legacy

As part of the Mapel family’s final wishes, an endowment of over $9.5 million was established through their estate, continuing support of pioneering research projects and establishing a new endowment to fund medical education scholarships for low-income students.

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Finding her Voice

Trang Truong, who’s enrolled in the UC Irvine master’s entry program in nursing, received the 2023-24 Carol A. Pierson MEPN Student Scholarship, which she says alleviates some of the stress that comes with being a first-generation, low-income student.

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UC Irvine Announces $50 Million Gift from Joe C. Wen and Family

A transformational gift of $50 million, following a $20 million donation to UCI Health in 2022, from Southern California businessman Joe C. Wen and his family will support the newly created School of Population & Public Health and the growth of cardiovascular research and care.

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Grateful Patient Makes Gift through Family Foundation

California and longtime Laguna Beach resident, Vicki Gumm, knows just how important it is to give back to organizations that enrich the community – for herself, her loved ones and her neighbors.

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Irvine Health Foundation’s $14 Million Grant to UC Irvine will Establish 7 Endowed Chairs

A $14 million grant will help establish a School of Population and Public Health and promote health equity for all O.C. residents.

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Giving the Gift of Sight

The Holland Foundation for Sight Restoration, with a $300,000 commitment, has selected the Gavin Herbert Eye Institute as the first of five planned centers of excellence for severe ocular disease care across the world to expand the availability of this complex treatment.

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Joe C. Wen and Family Donate $20 Million to Support the New UCI Health Center for Advanced Care

The Joe C. Wen & Family Center for Advanced Care at UCI Health – Irvine will offer adult and pediatric specialty care, urgent care, digestive health, neurosciences and comprehensive laboratory and radiology imaging services in one convenient location.

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Cancer Researcher’s Career and Recent Gift Create a Legacy

“I look at UCI as being a community. If you can, you need to give back to your community,” says professor emeritus Hung Fan who, with his husband Michael Feldman, made a bequest worth an estimated $1.5 million.

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Nurse’s New Scholarship Continues a Circle of Giving

When Maureen Chand Kotecki received the inaugural Elizabeth C. Tierney Nursing Scholarship, she appreciated the financial relief plus something else intangible yet just as invaluable: a sense of support and encouragement.

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Audrey Steele Burnand Estate Gifts $57.75 Million to UCI

“This gift provides a unique opportunity for UCI to establish a world-class research center focused on the area of depression, which is extremely important from a societal point of view,” says Pramod Khargonekar, vice chancellor for research.

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