Neurosurgery Department, UF College of Medicine
Neurosurgery Department: Make A Gift
For information on philanthropic opportunities in the Department of Neurosurgery, please contact Margaret Dermott, at 352-273-9000.
The Evelyn F. & William L. McKnight Brain Institute of the University of Florida (MBI-UF) is one of the world's largest research institutions devoted to the challenges resulting from brain and nervous system disorders. The MBI-UF's research and educational programs incorporate over 300 faculty from 57 academic departments and 11 colleges.
The Department of Neurosurgery research endeavors have been sustained by numerous private contributions. The R.D. Keene family made the first $1 million gift to the University of Florida. Many other individuals and foundations have subsequently contributed over $20 million. These gifts have endowed the following chairs, professorships and research funds:
- Albert E. & Birdie W.Einstein Professorship in computer assisted stereotactic neurosurgery
- Albert L. Rhoton, Jr., MD, Chairman's Professorship
- Birdie Einstein Parkinson's Disease Fund
- CM Overstreet Family research endowment for spinal cord injury
- Dunspaugh Dalton Professorship in brain and spinal surgery
- Eblen Research Endowment
- Edward Shedd Wells Eminent Scholar Chair in Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery
- L. D. Hupp Professorship for Pediatric Neurosurgery
- Michael Hauptman Laboratory Endowment
- Morley and Violet Gren endowment for movement disorders, Parkinson's disease
- Pamela Cahoon Fitch Research Endowment for Brain Aneurysms
- Phyllis K. Friedman Professorship
- Preston A. Wells, Jr. Center for Brain Tumor Therapy
- R.D. Keene Family Professorship of Neurosurgery
- Robert Z. and Nancy J. Greene research endowment in pediatric neurosurgery
- Stephen Harman Donahoe Research Endowment
- Tom and Susie Wasdin Research endowment for trigeminal neuralgia
- Wayne Densch Epilepsy Research Endowment
- William Merz Professorship in Neurosurgery
The Department of Neurosurgery is forever grateful to these donors. Their generosity has made possible research efforts which have led to better neurosurgical treatments for patients at UF and around the world.