Fall 2001

Comprehensive Campaign Fuels IUSM Future

The IU School of Medicine is participating in the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis comprehensive capital campaign. Indiana: The Future of Medicine is Here is a fundraising initiative which challenges the School to generate a minimum of $260 million in philanthropic support to secure and further its role as one of the nation's best research, academic and patient care centers.

Philanthropic support is vital because only fourteen percent of the School's operating budget is provided by the State of Indiana. The remaining eighty-six percent comes from faculty research grants and contracts, patient fees and philanthropy.

"In addition to attracting and retaining top faculty and students, philanthropy is needed to support nearly seventy percent of the construction costs of new research and educational facilities," says J. David Smith, EdD, associate dean for development. "The School has educated nearly two-thirds of the physicians practicing in Indiana, and people throughout the state rely on IUSM and its graduates for the best medical care."

The campaign kick-off event recently took place at Eli Lilly & Company. August M. Watanabe, MD, former chair of the IUSM Department of Medicine and current executive vice president of science and technology, Eli Lilly and Company, is general chairman of the campaign.

Indiana: The Future of Medicine is Here

Among the capital campaign's goals:

$40 million to endow faculty chairs, professorships, fellowships and research funds

$25 million to fund student scholarships to recruit and enroll Indiana's finest pre-medical students

$68 million to construct a new education/administration building and a new medical research facility

$92 million to advance medical education, biomedical research, and patient care.

$35 million for other campaign priorities, including the IU Center for Bioethics, the Department of Public Health, IU-Moi University (Kenya) Program and other programs.

For more information or to receive a copy of the campaign brochure, please contact J. David Smith or Elizabeth Elkas, Indiana University School of Medicine Office of Gift Development, 1110 West Michigan Street, LO 506, Indianapolis, IN 46202-5100. The office also can be reached toll free at (800) 643-6975.