UCLA will advance children ’s health with latest gift from Shapiro family

The  David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA has received $2.257 million from Ralph, Shirley, Peter and Alison Shapiro to support four endowed chairs in the department of pediatrics.The chairs will help UCLA recruit and retain faculty in pediatrics who are focused on enhancing quality of life for children with cerebral palsy, autism, and other developmental and behavioral challenges. The gift bolsters support for an endowed chair the Shapiros established earlier, and it will create three new additional term chairs that will benefit faculty for five-year terms.The original Shapiro Family Term Chair in Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics and Cerebral Palsy, currently held by assistant clinical professor Dr. Irene Koolwijk, helps strengthen training. The Peter Shapiro Term Chair for Enhancing Children ’s Developmental and Behavioral Health will support faculty in training health care providers, creating curricula and developmental screening tools, and leading national and international initiatives.The gift also will advance clinical care through the Alison Shapiro Term Chair for Children ’s Cognitive Development and support research through the Ronald and Susan Cohen Term Chair in Childhood Development and Cerebral Palsy. The latter was funded through a partnership between the Shapiros and United Cerebral Palsy of Los Angeles to honor Ronald Cohen, who is retiring after more than 30 years as UCPLA’s president and CEO.“UCLA is proud to continue collaborating with th...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news