Seymour Cohn Gives $5 Million to Support Cardiac Surgery and Research
laboratories, intensify cardiac surgery research, and help to solve the mysteries leading to congenital heart disease, blocked arteries, diseased heart valves, and impaired heart muscle function.
"Stephen Colvin is my nephew and I have always been very proud of his work and eager to support it," Mr. Cohn says. "I'm happy to be able to make this commitment and I'm looking forward to seeing the progress this initial gift will allow the School and the Divisions of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery to make."
"This is a particularly exciting time in medicine and we in the medical school are committed to playing an active role in these rapidly changing developments," adds Robert M. Glickman, M.D., Dean of the School of Medicine. "Generous donors are truly the lifeblood of our school." With his gift, Seymour Cohn has done a great deal to help the School of Medicine and NYU Hospitals meet the challenges ahead.
Strengthening Research and Education
Two million dollars of Seymour Cohn's gift will be used to name and endow the Seymour Cohn Chair in Cardiac Surgery. Income from the endowment will support research in cardiac surgery, which will be directed by Dr. Colvin.
"This endowment will enable us to continue a number of research projects on which my colleagues and I have been working, including robotic and minimally invasive heart surgery, gene therapy to prevent the development of atherosclerosis in bypass grafts, new techniques to repair defective heart valves, molecular methods to decrease abnormal blood vessels to tumors and to improve and increase blood flow to diseased heart muscle weakened from blocked arteries," says Dr. Colvin.
With $1 million of the gift, the School will establish and name the Seymour Cohn Pediatric Cardiology Catheterization Laboratory.
"When the new laboratory is complete, which we expect to be in 2001, we will be able to perform the most sophisticated angiographic evaluation of babies and children with congenital heart disease and to use non-surgical techniques to correct some congenital heart defects that in the past have required a surgical approach," says Dr. Colvin. "Many children with heart rhythm disorders will be able to have repair of their disorders with radiofrequency ablation techniques. This will be a totally digital state-of-the-art interventional pediatric heart catheterization laboratory."
Another $1 million of the gift will be used to set up a segregated endowment fund, the Seymour Cohn Fund in Cardiac Research, which will be used by the Division of Cardiac Surgery for research and educational purposes. The School's Pediatric Cardiology Research Fund, also known as the Leo M. Taran Visiting Fellowship, directed by Chief of Pediatric Cardiology Michael Artman, will receive $500,000. In addition, $500,000 will go to the Cardiovascular Research Fund. The cardiac surgery laboratory will be named for Seymour Cohn.
Mr. Cohn's magnificent gift, which will enable NYU Hospitals Center and the NYU School of Medicine to strengthen medical research and patient care is just one of the ways he has always tried to help others, Mr. Cohn recalls. For example, many years ago, the family established a summer camp for children on some of our property, and now about 250 kids still come to spend three weeks having fun there each summer," he says. He also has supported a number of New York City educational and religious institutions. Although he spends some of his time in Florida and New Jersey, Mr. Cohn lives for most of the year in Brookville, New York.
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For as long as he can remember, Seymour Cohn says, he and his family have "gotten a great deal of pleasure from helping others. We worked hard, and we tried to help." Continuing that long tradition of philanthropy, Mr. Cohn, Chairman of the Board of Sylvan Lawrence Company, a real estate investment company based in New York City, has made a $5 million gift to the New York University School of Medicine. Mr. Cohn's generous donation honors Dr. Stephen B. Colvin, Associate Professor of Clinical Surgery at the School and Chief of the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at NYU Medical Center, and his work in pediatric and adult cardiac surgery. Dr. Colvin's specialty is cardiothoracic surgery on children and adults and his main interests include minimally invasive heart surgery, repair and replacement of defective heart valves, and surgery for congenital heart disease. This gift will enable NYU Hospitals to expand its already strong cardiac surgery program, build a new Pediatric Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory, establish needed |
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"Stephen Colvin is my nephew and I have always been very proud of his work and eager to support it," Mr. Cohn says. "I'm happy to be able to make this commitment and I'm looking forward to seeing the progress this initial gift will allow the School and the Divisions of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery to make."
"This is a particularly exciting time in medicine and we in the medical school are committed to playing an active role in these rapidly changing developments," adds Robert M. Glickman, M.D., Dean of the School of Medicine. "Generous donors are truly the lifeblood of our school." With his gift, Seymour Cohn has done a great deal to help the School of Medicine and NYU Hospitals meet the challenges ahead.
Strengthening Research and Education
Two million dollars of Seymour Cohn's gift will be used to name and endow the Seymour Cohn Chair in Cardiac Surgery. Income from the endowment will support research in cardiac surgery, which will be directed by Dr. Colvin.
"This endowment will enable us to continue a number of research projects on which my colleagues and I have been working, including robotic and minimally invasive heart surgery, gene therapy to prevent the development of atherosclerosis in bypass grafts, new techniques to repair defective heart valves, molecular methods to decrease abnormal blood vessels to tumors and to improve and increase blood flow to diseased heart muscle weakened from blocked arteries," says Dr. Colvin.
With $1 million of the gift, the School will establish and name the Seymour Cohn Pediatric Cardiology Catheterization Laboratory.
"When the new laboratory is complete, which we expect to be in 2001, we will be able to perform the most sophisticated angiographic evaluation of babies and children with congenital heart disease and to use non-surgical techniques to correct some congenital heart defects that in the past have required a surgical approach," says Dr. Colvin. "Many children with heart rhythm disorders will be able to have repair of their disorders with radiofrequency ablation techniques. This will be a totally digital state-of-the-art interventional pediatric heart catheterization laboratory."
Another $1 million of the gift will be used to set up a segregated endowment fund, the Seymour Cohn Fund in Cardiac Research, which will be used by the Division of Cardiac Surgery for research and educational purposes. The School's Pediatric Cardiology Research Fund, also known as the Leo M. Taran Visiting Fellowship, directed by Chief of Pediatric Cardiology Michael Artman, will receive $500,000. In addition, $500,000 will go to the Cardiovascular Research Fund. The cardiac surgery laboratory will be named for Seymour Cohn.
Mr. Cohn's magnificent gift, which will enable NYU Hospitals Center and the NYU School of Medicine to strengthen medical research and patient care is just one of the ways he has always tried to help others, Mr. Cohn recalls. For example, many years ago, the family established a summer camp for children on some of our property, and now about 250 kids still come to spend three weeks having fun there each summer," he says. He also has supported a number of New York City educational and religious institutions. Although he spends some of his time in Florida and New Jersey, Mr. Cohn lives for most of the year in Brookville, New York.