UW Medicine has announced the instauration of a historical endowed deanship honoring retired dean, Dr. Paul G. Ramsey. The Paul G. Ramsey Endowed Deanship was established with enactment gifts from Steve and Connie Ballmer and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Each donated $10 cardinal to beforehand probe discoveries, bid aesculapian leaders and further excellence and equity successful healthcare.
Dr. Paul G. Ramsey served arsenic CEO of UW Medicine and dean of the UW School of Medicine from 1997 to 2022.
“We are profoundly grateful to Steve and Connie Ballmer and the Gates household for their visionary concern successful the UW School of Medicine,” said University of Washington President Ana Mari Cauce. “Through this endowment, aboriginal School of Medicine deans volition person invaluable resources to assistance amended wellness for everyone, present successful our assemblage and astir the world.”
Dr. Ramsey retired this past summertime aft 25 years of distinguished work arsenic CEO of UW Medicine and dean of the UW School of Medicine.
During his tenure, helium led the integration of the School’s clinical, probe and grooming programs, a determination that positioned UW Medicine to service arsenic a regional, nationalist and planetary person during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Dr. Ramsey has been an bonzer leader, a trusted physician, a dedicated mentor, and a cherished friend. We are pleased to beryllium capable to grant Paul’s contributions to advancing wellness equity successful our assemblage successful this way,” said Bill Gates.
The UW School of Medicine ranks No. 1 successful the federation for primary-care education. It has held the apical 2 spots for primary-care acquisition since 1995 successful the yearly U.S. News & World Report rankings. Additionally, the School has ranked successful the apical 2 successful household medicine acquisition for the past 30 years, and is presently ranked No. 1 successful the nation. The UW School of Medicine is besides location to 1 of the world’s largest and astir broad aesculapian probe programs. It is presently 2nd successful the federation for national probe assistance funding.
“Because of his heavy committedness to the ngo of UW Medicine, I tin deliberation of nary amended mode to grant my friend, Paul Ramsey, than to guarantee its aboriginal leaders person the resources they request to beforehand initiatives that marque a meaningful quality to the wellness of each people,” said Steve Ballmer, co-founder of Ballmer Group, a Bellevue, Wash.-based philanthropy.
The archetypal distributions from the endowment volition beryllium disposable starting June 30, 2023.The endowment volition supply a unchangeable root of backing to beforehand the mission, goals and estimation of the UW School of Medicine, including research projects, aesculapian acquisition and pupil enactment programs and initiatives that further excellence and equity successful healthcare. Several generous families successful the portion person made further philanthropic commitments to the deanship.
“The unthinkable generosity that led to the instauration of the Paul G. Ramsey Endowed Deanship is some a designation of Paul’s bonzer contributions to improving the wellness of the nationalist and a semipermanent concern successful the UW School of Medicine’s enactment to amended wellness outcomes for everyone,” said Jeremy Jaech, subordinate of the University of Washington Board of Regents and the UW Medicine advisory board.
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