AUXILIARY BOARD OF NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
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Mission Statement
The Auxiliary Board of Northwestern Memorial Hospital is a group of young professionals and community leaders who raise funds to support innovative research and patient care programs at Northwestern Medicine. Founded in 1987, The Auxiliary Board focuses on providing “seed money” to leading-edge initiatives that aim to enhance treatment and outcomes for patients and their families. Since the board was established three decades ago, it has committed more than $2 million to a broad array of Northwestern Medicine programs, including the Ambulatory Spine Program, Bone Marrow Transplant, Comprehensive Heart Failure Prevention and Treatment, Neurology and Neurological Surgery, Prostate Cancer Gene Therapy, Women’s Health, the Northwestern Brain Tumor Institute and novel research into type 1 diabetes.
About This Cause
The Auxiliary Board of Northwestern Memorial Hospital is a group of young professionals and community leaders who raise funds to support innovative research and patient care programs at Northwestern Medicine. Founded in 1987, The Auxiliary Board focuses on providing “seed money” to leading-edge initiatives that aim to enhance treatment and outcomes for patients and their families. Since the board was established three decades ago, it has committed more than $2 million to a broad array of Northwestern Medicine programs, including the Ambulatory Spine Program, Bone Marrow Transplant, Comprehensive Heart Failure Prevention and Treatment, Neurology and Neurological Surgery, Prostate Cancer Gene Therapy, Women’s Health, the Northwestern Brain Tumor Institute and novel research into type 1 diabetes. The Auxiliary Board recently pledged its support to a pivotal project that will explore cardiogenic shock (CS) and the potential role of multidisciplinary shock teams in improving outcomes and saving lives. This project will be led by three talented physician-scientists at Northwestern Medicine: Duc Thinh Pham, MD, in the Division of Cardiac Surgery; Esther Vorovich, MD, in the Division of Cardiology; and Arif Jivan, MD, PhD, a Cardiovascular Disease Fellow. A significant complication of both heart attack and acute decompensated heart failure, CS has a mortality rate of nearly 50 percent. Through their multi-faceted project, Drs. Pham, Vorovich and Jivan will: (1) develop multidisciplinary shock teams that will implement state-of-the-art CS therapies to improve patients’ near-term outcomes and future health, (2) analyze and advance today’s treatment of CS, (3) strive to develop better means of identifying vulnerable pre-shock and early shock patients and (4) contribute to national guidelines for the management of CS.