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April 1 2010
etroit Medical
Center has
unveiled the
newly renovated Charlotte
Failing Boardroom, locat-
ed inside DMC Kresge Eye
Institute. The boardroom
is a meeting area and was
named after the woman
who was a guiding force in
the development of DMC
Hutzel Women's Hospital.
The renovations include
a refurbished portrait of
Failing, done by artist
Patricia Hill Burnett, who
was in attendance at the
unveiling.
Failing assumed the
role of president and
chairman in 1946. For the
next 33 years, she helped
Hutzel become one of
Mike Duggan and Patricia Hill Burnett with
the leading hospitals and
Charlotte Failing's portrait
teaching facilities in the
nation. She was a pio-
The $125,000 boardroom project
neer in the formation of the Detroit
was supported solely from dona-
Medical Center in 1985. •
tions from the DMC Guild, physi-
"Charlotte was a wonderful
cians and individual donors. A donor
woman:' says the 90-year-old Burnett. wall located inside the boardroom
"She deserves this recognition."
proudly displays all the contribu-
Represented by galleries through-
tions. Funds were used to upgrade
out the United States, London, Paris
two adjoining restrooms and the ser-
and Rome, Burnett, has painted more vice kitchen.
than 1,000 portraits. Many of her por-
Prior to the unveiling, DMC Guild
traits are women leaders, including
held its general meeting in the
Margaret Thatcher, Gloria Steinem,
renovated boardroom and presented
Jackie Joyner Kersee and Betty Ford.
$200,000 to the DMC CardioVascular
John Engler, former governor of
Institute and $98,000 to the
Michigan, and Dennis Archer, former
Fluoroscopic Diagnostic Imaging
Detroit mayor, were subjects of her
Center at the DMC Rehabilitation
portraits.
Institute of Michigan.
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Heart Study Slated
The Sinai Guild, a supportive arm
of the Detroit Medical Center
announces a five-year national
women's heart study of 1,000 sub-
jects, with the study's initial stage to
be conducted at four Metro Detroit
sites beginning in April.
Dr. Theodore L. Schreiber, presi-
dent of the DMC Cardiovascular
Institute, designed the study's pro-
tocol. Any woman older than 40 will
be eligible for participation for the
study, which will examine biomark-
ers for prediction of cardiovascular
events. Enrollment will cover a one-
year period will follow-up over a
five-year period.
Jacqui Elkus is the event's co-
chair.The study will take place from
8 a.m.-noon each day at:
• Congregation Shaarey Zedek,
Southfield — April 25 and June 3;
• JCC in Oak Park — May 16 and
June 29
• Adat Shalom Synagogue,
Farmington Hills — June 13 and
July 21;
• Temple Israel, West Bloomfield
— July 11 and Aug. 4.
For information call (248) 538-
6501.