CHILDREN’S HEALTH  SCHOLARS

$50,000 per year, for a minimum of three years, for a term fund
$500,000 for an endowed fund
 
Part of the hope of a children’s hospital is the commitment of its physicians and healthcare professionals to developing new pathways of prevention and treatment, and potential cures, for childhood diseases and disorders. To recruit and retain the best pediatric subspecialists it is extremely important to have ways to recognize, and provide support for, their research and program development. Toward that end, we have created Children’s Health Scholars. These funds can be named according to the wishes of the donor and will be awarded to faculty for a term of two to three years, so that they are guaranteed a steady stream of funding over the lifespan of their projects. The Physician-in-Chief and Surgeon-in-Chief will decide the recipients based on the merits of their requests for funding and the fit with the interests of the donors who create the Clinical Scholar funds. It is the hope that they will be as broad and flexible as possible but, they may be restricted to an area of research if that has the most meaning for the donor. Most of all, these funds provide a personal link between the donors and the investigators poised to make significant contributions in clinical, basic scientific and translational research.