The Thoracic Surgery Foundation Honor Roll of Major Gift Donors 1988-2023

TSF gratefully acknowledges these generous donors who have contributed a total of $10,000 or more since 1988. TSF thrives due to the generosity of these individuals, foundations, and corporations.

Platinum

$5,000,000+

The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Gold

$4,000,000+

Edwards Lifesciences Foundation

Silver

$2,000,000+

Eugene Braunwald, MD
William J. von Liebig Foundation

Partners

$1,000,000+

Baxter

Dupont Datascope Corporation (Maquet Cardiovascular)

The David S. and Janet R. Sheridan Foundation

Grand Benefactors

$500,000 - $999,999

Lazlo N. Tauber Charitable Foundation
The Starr Foundation

Benefactors

$100,000 - $499,999

American College of Cardiology Foundation (ACC)

American College of Surgeons (ACS)
AstraZeneca

Joseph E. Bavaria, MD
The Chantal and Tommy Bagwell Foundation, Inc.
Cross-Jones Research & Education Fund

Foundation for Advancement of Cardiac Therapies, Inc.

Genentech, Inc.
Intuitive Surgical

Jewish Communal Fund
Richard A. Jonas, MD

The Estate of Graydon & Virginia Long
Thomas E. MacGillivray, MD
Martin F. McKneally, MD
Medtronic, Inc.
Amit N. Patel, MD
Arshad Quadri, MD
The Roberts Foundation
Sibu P. Saha, MD
Richard N. and Norma Sarns
Southern Thoracic Surgical Association (STSA)

St. Jude Medical, Inc.
Terumo Cardiovascular Systems Corporation
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.

Patrons

$50,000 - $99,999

Vinay Badhwar, MD

Brigham & Women’s Hospital
CHMC Surgical Foundation, Inc.
Cleveland Clinic, Heart, Vascular, and Thoracic Institute

Nancy D. Clark

Lawrence H. Cohn, MD

Rick A. Esposito, MD

Anthony L. Estrera, MD
Ethicon Endo-Surgery
Heart & Lung Surgery Foundation

Virginia R. Litle, MD

LUNGevity Foundation

Jack M. Matloff, MD

Memorial Hermann
Massachusetts General Hospital - Department of Surgery
Richard N. Pierson III, MD

W. Gerald Rainer, MD

Carol A. Replogle

The Robert W. Jamplis Charitable Trust
Sulzer Carbomedics, Inc.
Synovis Surgical Innovations

Betsey C. Urschel

Robert B. Wallace, MD
Western Thoracic Surgical Association

Sponsors

$25,000 - $49,999

Acelity

E. Pendleton Alexander, MD

American Lung Association

Manjit S. Bains, MD

Lenox D. Baker, MD

John H. Bell, MD

John R. Benfield, MD

Shanda H. Blackmon, MD

Lawrence I. Bonchek, MD

Gerald D. Buckberg, MD

John H. Calhoon, MD

Robert J. Cerfolio, MD

Columbia University

L. Penfield Faber, MD

Mark K. Ferguson, MD

Kristopher M. George, MD

John W. Hammon Jr., MD

John Wiley & Sons Limited

Johns Hopkins University

Karen M. Kim, MD

Marvin M. Kirsh, MD

Nicholas T. Kouchoukos, MD

George J. MaGovern Jr., MD

Douglas J. Mathisen, MD

Constantine Mavroudis, MD

Keith S. Naunheim, MD

Northern Illinois Heart Institute

G. Alexander Patterson, MD

Christian Pizarro, MD

Richard L. Prager, MD

Respironics

W. Steves Ring, MD

Thomas G. Sharp, MD

Alfred J. Tector, MD

University of Pennsylvania - Division of Cardiovascular Surgery

Douglas E. Wood, MD

James L. Zellner, MD

Life Members

$10,000 - $24,999

Abbott Laboratories

Kevin D. Accola, MD

Michael A. Acker, MD

David H. Adams, MD

Arvind K. Agnihotri, MD

Shahab A. Akhter, MD

Cary W. Akins, MD

William C. Alford Jr., MD

James S. Allan, MD

Margaret D. Allen, MD

Mark S. Allen, MD

Nasser K. Altorki, MD

Abbas Ardehali, MD

Atrium Medical Corporation

W. Gerald Austen, MD

Erle H. Austin III, MD

Carl L. Backer, MD

Hendrick B. Barner, MD

William A. Baumgartner, MD

Thomas V. Bilfinger, MD

BioStable Science & Engineering, Inc.

David P. Blake, MD

R. Morton Bolman III, MD

Edward L. Bove, MD

Scott M. Bradley, MD

Jill Braunwald Porter

William T. Brinkman, MD

Paul S. Brown Jr., MD

John A. Burkholder, MD

David B. Campbell, MD

Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Inc.

Andrea J. Carpenter, MD, PhD

W. Randolph Chitwood Jr., MD

Joseph C. Cleveland Jr., MD

Congenital Heart Surgeons Society (CHSS)

John V. Conte, MD

Denton A. Cooley, MD

Coordinating Committee for Continuing Education

Joseph S. Coselli, MD

Delos M. Cosgrove, MD

James L. Cox, MD

Fred A. Crawford Jr., MD

Thomas A. D’Amico, MD

Pierre de Delva, MD

Joseph A. Dearani, MD

Todd L. Demmy, MD

Harry J. DePan. MD

James A. DeWeese, MD

Jessica S. Donington, MD

Richard N. Edie, MD

Melanie A. Edwards, MD

Elsevier Science, Inc.

Richard M. Engelman, MD

Victor A. Ferraris, Md, PhD

Raja M. Flores, MD

Thomas J. Fogarty, MD

Richard G. Fosburg, MD

William H. Frist, MD

Paul E. Fulchino Family

Thomas E. Gaines, MD

Timothy J. Gardner, MD

J. William Gaynor, MD

Fernando Gil

Giving | Grousbeck Fazzalari

Glaxo Wellcome, Inc.

Scott M. Goldman, MD

L. Michael Graver, MD

Frederick L. Grover, MD

Frank L. Hanley, MD

Bradley J. Harlan, MD

Alan R. Hartman, MD

George L. Hicks Jr., MD

Robert S.D. Higgins, MD

Charles B. Huddleston, MD

John S. Ikonomidis, MD PhD

Michel N. Ilbawi, MD

O. Wayne Isom, MD

Leigh I. Iverson, MD

Jeffrey P. Jacobs, MD

Stuart W. Jamieson, MD

Gilbert Johnston, MD

David R. Jones, MD

Lyle D. Joyce, MD PhD

Joyce Foundation

George C. Kaiser, MD

Pandurang V. Kamat, MD

Kirk R. Kanter, MD

Kealy Family Foundation

Paul B. Kelly, MD

A. Hassan Khazei, MD

Leslie J. Kohman, MD

Irving L. Kron, MD

Hillel Laks, MD

John J. Lamberti, MD

Michael Lanuti, MD

Larry King Cardiac Foundation

Richard Lee, MD

Scott A. LeMaire, MD

James M. Levett, MD

Sidney Levitsky, MD

Joseph LoCicero, MD

James D. Luketich, MD

Bruce W. Lytle, MD

Michael J. Mack, MD

James W. Mackenzie, MD

Joren C. Madsen, MD

Yousuf Mahomed, MD

James R. Malm, MD

Christopher Maloney Sr., MD

William T. Maloney

James B. D. Mark, MD

M. Blair Marshall, MD

Mayo Clinic

Patrick M. McCarthy, MD

P. Michael McFadden, MD

Joseph S. McLaughlin, MD

Robert M. Mentzer, MD

Walter H. Merrill, MD

Lynda L. Mickleborough, MD

D. Craig Miller, MD

Joseph I. Miller Jr., MD

R. Scott Mitchell, MD

Robert L. Mitchell, MD

Steve Mourning

Gordon F. Murray, MD

Hassan Najafi, MD

Stanton P. Nolan, MD

Northern Trust Company

William C. Nugent, MD

John L. Ochsner, MD

Gordon N. Olinger, MD

Mark B. Orringer, MD

David Miller Overman, MD

Mehmet C. Oz, MD

Peter C. Pairolero, MD

Grant Van Siclen Parr, MD

Patricia Ann Penkoske, MD

D. Glenn Pennington, MD

Gosta B. Pettersson, MD

Edward J. Planz Jr., MD

Marvin Pomerantz, MD

Pratt Surgical Associates, Inc.

John D. Puskas, MD

Joe B. Putnam Jr., MD

Kathryn Quadracci Flores, MD

Ronald R. Quinton, MD

Michael J. Reardon, MD

Evelio Rodriguez, MD

Eric A. Rose, MD

Jack A. Roth, MD

Valerie W. Rusch, MD

William H. Ryan III, MD

Joseph F. Sabik III, MD

Robert M. Sade, MD

Frank W. Sellke, MD

Kuppe G. Shankar, MD

Baljit K. Sharma, MD

Richard J. Shemin, MD

Peter M. Sidell, MD

Mark S. Slaughter, MD

Herbert E. Sloan, MD

Craig R. Smith, MD

Frank C. Spencer, MD

Thomas L. Spray, MD

Robert D. Stewart, MD

Quentin R. Stiles, MD

Valavanur A. Subramanian, MD

Hon Chi Suen, MD

David J. Sugarbaker, MD

Thoralf M. Sundt, MD

Francis P. Sutter, DO

James F. Symes, MD

Stanley K. C. Tam, MD

Christo I. Tchervenkov, MD

Terumo Aortic

The Windhover Foundation

David F. Torchiana, MD

Gregory D. Trachiotis, MD

Alfredo Trento, MD

Bernard L. Tucker, MD

James S. Tweddell, MD

Paul N. Uhlig, MD

University of Iowa

University of Virginia Thoracic & CV Surgery

USC Cardiothoracic Surgeons

Gus J. Vlahakes, MD

Jennifer D. Walker, MD

William Wallace, DO

Henry L. Walters III, MD

Andrew S. Wechsler, MD

Women in Thoracic Surgery (WTS)

J. Nilas Young, MD

George L. Zorn III, MD

TSF Heritage Society

These generous donors have planned for estate bequest gifts to The Thoracic Surgery Foundation

John R. Benfield, MD

R. Morton Bolman III, MD

Eugene Braunwald, MD

Nancy D. Clark

Vincent R. Conti, MD

David A. Fullerton, MD

Dr. & Mrs. Martin F. McKneally

The David S. and Janet R. Sheridan Foundation

Dr. & Mrs. Robert B. Wallace

James M. Wilson, MD

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