The Thoracic Surgery Foundation Honor Roll of Major Gift Donors 1988-2024
TSF gratefully acknowledges these generous donors who have contributed a total of $10,000 or more since 1988. TSF thrives due to the generosity of these individuals, foundations, and corporations.
Platinum
The Society of Thoracic Surgeons
Gold
Edwards Lifesciences Foundation
Silver
Eugene Braunwald, MD
William J. von Liebig Foundation
Partners
Baxter
Dupont Datascope Corporation (Maquet Cardiovascular)
The Estate of Dr. Graydon & Mrs. Virginia Long
The David S. and Janet R. Sheridan Foundation
Grand Benefactors
AstraZeneca
Arshad Quadri, MD
Lazlo N. Tauber Charitable Foundation
The Starr Foundation
Benefactors
American College of Cardiology Foundation (ACC)
American College of Surgeons (ACS)
Vinay Badhwar, MD
Joseph E. Bavaria, MD
The Chantal and Tommy Bagwell Foundation, Inc.
Elizabeth M. Colwell, MD and Ryan Colwell, MD
Cross-Jones Research & Education Fund
Foundation for Advancement of Cardiac Therapies, Inc.
Genentech, Inc.
Intuitive Surgical
Jewish Communal Fund
Richard A. Jonas, MD
Virginia R. Litle, MD
Thomas E. MacGillivray, MD
Martin F. McKneally, MD
Medtronic, Inc.
Memorial Hermann
Amit N. Patel, MD
Sibu P. Saha, MD
Richard N. and Norma Sarns
Southern Thoracic Surgical Association (STSA)
St. Jude Medical, Inc.
Terumo Cardiovascular Systems Corporation
The Roberts Foundation
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.
Patrons
Brigham & Women’s Hospital
CHMC Surgical Foundation, Inc.
Nancy D. Clark
Cleveland Clinic, Heart, Vascular, and Thoracic Institute
Lawrence H. Cohn, MD
Rick A. Esposito, MD
Anthony L. Estrera, MD
Ethicon Endo-Surgery
Heart & Lung Surgery Foundation
LUNGevity Foundation
Jack M. Matloff, MD
Massachusetts General Hospital - Department of Surgery
Douglas J. Mathisen, MD
G. Alexander Patterson, MD
Richard N. Pierson III, MD
W. Gerald Rainer, MD
Carol A. Replogle
The Robert W. Jamplis Charitable Trust
Sulzer Carbomedics, Inc.
Synovis Surgical Innovations
Betsey C. Urschel
Robert B. Wallace, MD
Western Thoracic Surgical Association
Douglas E. Wood, MD
Sponsors
Acelity
E. Pendleton Alexander, MD
American Lung Association
Manjit S. Bains, MD
Lenox D. Baker, MD
John H. Bell, MD
John R. Benfield, MD
Shanda H. Blackmon, MD
Lawrence I. Bonchek, MD
Gerald D. Buckberg, MD
John H. Calhoon, MD
Robert J. Cerfolio, MD
Columbia University
Melanie A. Edwards, MD
L. Penfield Faber, MD
Mark K. Ferguson, MD
James S. Gammie, MD
Kristopher M. George, MD
Fernando Gil
John W. Hammon Jr., MD
John Wiley & Sons Limited
Johns Hopkins University
Karen M. Kim, MD
Marvin M. Kirsh, MD
Robert L. Kormos, MD
Nicholas T. Kouchoukos, MD
George J. MaGovern Jr., MD
Constantine Mavroudis, MD
Keith S. Naunheim, MD
Northern Illinois Heart Institute
Christian Pizarro, MD
Richard L. Prager, MD
Respironics
W. Steves Ring, MD
Thomas G. Sharp, MD
Alfred J. Tector, MD
University of Pennsylvania - Division of Cardiovascular Surgery
James L. Zellner, MD
Life Members
Abbott Laboratories
Kevin D. Accola, MD
Michael A. Acker, MD
David H. Adams, MD
Arvind K. Agnihotri, MD
Shahab A. Akhter, MD
Cary W. Akins, MD
William C. Alford Jr., MD
James S. Allan, MD
Margaret D. Allen, MD
Mark S. Allen, MD
Nasser K. Altorki, MD
Abbas Ardehali, MD
Atrium Medical Corporation
W. Gerald Austen, MD
Erle H. Austin III, MD
Carl L. Backer, MD
Hendrick B. Barner, MD
William A. Baumgartner, MD
Thomas V. Bilfinger, MD
BioStable Science & Engineering, Inc.
David P. Blake, MD
R. Morton Bolman III, MD
Edward L. Bove, MD
Scott M. Bradley, MD
Jill Braunwald Porter
William T. Brinkman, MD
Paul S. Brown Jr., MD
John A. Burkholder, MD
David B. Campbell, MD
Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Inc.
Andrea J. Carpenter, MD, PhD
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
W. Randolph Chitwood Jr., MD
Joseph C. Cleveland Jr., MD
Congenital Heart Surgeons Society (CHSS)
John V. Conte, MD
Denton A. Cooley, MD
Coordinating Committee for Continuing Education
Joseph S. Coselli, MD
Delos M. Cosgrove, MD
James L. Cox, MD
Fred A. Crawford Jr., MD
Thomas A. D’Amico, MD
Pierre de Delva, MD
Joseph A. Dearani, MD
Todd L. Demmy, MD
Harry J. DePan, MD
James A. DeWeese, MD
Jessica S. Donington, MD
Richard N. Edie, MD
Elsevier Science, Inc.
Richard M. Engelman, MD
Victor A. Ferraris, MD, PhD
Raja M. Flores, MD
Thomas J. Fogarty, MD
Richard G. Fosburg, MD
William H. Frist, MD
Paul E. Fulchino Family
Thomas E. Gaines, MD
Timothy J. Gardner, MD
J. William Gaynor, MD
Giving | Grousbeck Fazzalari
Glaxo Wellcome, Inc.
Scott M. Goldman, MD
L. Michael Graver, MD
Frederick L. Grover, MD
Frank L. Hanley, MD
Bradley J. Harlan, MD
Alan R. Hartman, MD
George L. Hicks Jr., MD
Robert S.D. Higgins, MD
Charles B. Huddleston, MD
John S. Ikonomidis, MD PhD
Michel N. Ilbawi, MD
O. Wayne Isom, MD
Leigh I. Iverson, MD
Jeffrey P. Jacobs, MD
Stuart W. Jamieson, MD
Gilbert Johnston, MD
David R. Jones, MD
Lyle D. Joyce, MD, PhD
Joyce Foundation
George C. Kaiser, MD
Pandurang V. Kamat, MD
Kirk R. Kanter, MD
Kealy Family Foundation
Paul B. Kelly, MD
A. Hassan Khazei, MD
Leslie J. Kohman, MD
Irving L. Kron, MD
Hillel Laks, MD
John J. Lamberti, MD
Michael Lanuti, MD
Larry King Cardiac Foundation
Richard Lee, MD
Scott A. LeMaire, MD
James M. Levett, MD
Sidney Levitsky, MD
Joseph LoCicero, MD
James D. Luketich, MD
Bruce W. Lytle, MD
Michael J. Mack, MD
James W. Mackenzie, MD
Joren C. Madsen, MD
Yousuf Mahomed, MD
James R. Malm, MD
Christopher Maloney Sr., MD
William T. Maloney
James B. D. Mark, MD
M. Blair Marshall, MD
Mayo Clinic
Patrick M. McCarthy, MD
P. Michael McFadden, MD
Joseph S. McLaughlin, MD
Robert M. Mentzer, MD
Walter H. Merrill, MD
Lynda L. Mickleborough, MD
D. Craig Miller, MD
Joseph I. Miller Jr., MD
R. Scott Mitchell, MD
Robert L. Mitchell, MD
Steve Mourning
Gordon F. Murray, MD
Hassan Najafi, MD
Stanton P. Nolan, MD
Northern Trust Company
William C. Nugent, MD
John L. Ochsner, MD
Gordon N. Olinger, MD
Mark B. Orringer, MD
David Miller Overman, MD
Mehmet C. Oz, MD
Peter C. Pairolero, MD
Grant Van Siclen Parr, MD
Patricia Ann Penkoske, MD
D. Glenn Pennington, MD
Gosta B. Pettersson, MD
Edward J. Planz Jr., MD
Marvin Pomerantz, MD
Pratt Surgical Associates, Inc.
John D. Puskas, MD
Joe B. Putnam Jr., MD
Kathryn Quadracci Flores, MD
Ronald R. Quinton, MD
Michael J. Reardon, MD
Evelio Rodriguez, MD
Eric A. Rose, MD
Jack A. Roth, MD
Valerie W. Rusch, MD
William H. Ryan III, MD
Joseph F. Sabik III, MD
Robert M. Sade, MD
Frank W. Sellke, MD
Kuppe G. Shankar, MD
Baljit K. Sharma, MD
Richard J. Shemin, MD
Peter M. Sidell, MD
Mark S. Slaughter, MD
Herbert E. Sloan, MD
Craig R. Smith, MD
Frank C. Spencer, MD
Thomas L. Spray, MD
Robert D. Stewart, MD
Matthew A. Steliga, MD
Quentin R. Stiles, MD
Valavanur A. Subramanian, MD
Hon Chi Suen, MD
David J. Sugarbaker, MD
Thoralf M. Sundt, MD
Francis P. Sutter, DO
James F. Symes, MD
Stanley K. C. Tam, MD
Christo I. Tchervenkov, MD
Terumo Aortic
The Windhover Foundation
David F. Torchiana, MD
Gregory D. Trachiotis, MD
Alfredo Trento, MD
Bernard L. Tucker, MD
James S. Tweddell, MD
Paul N. Uhlig, MD
University of Iowa
University of Virginia
USC Cardiothoracic Surgeons
Gus J. Vlahakes, MD
Jennifer D. Walker, MD
William Wallace, DO
Henry L. Walters III, MD
Andrew S. Wechsler, MD
Women in Thoracic Surgery (WTS)
Joseph Woo, MD
J. Nilas Young, MD
George L. Zorn III, MD
TSF Heritage Society
John R. Benfield, MD
R. Morton Bolman III, MD
Eugene Braunwald, MD
Nancy D. Clark
Vincent R. Conti, MD
David A. Fullerton, MD
Dr. & Mrs. Martin F. McKneally
The David S. and Janet R. Sheridan Foundation
Dr. & Mrs. Robert B. Wallace
James M. Wilson, MD
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