Endowing Our Ability to Attract Clinical, Research, and Teaching Superstars
One person can change the world. The addition of a single doctor with a unique passion for research, teaching, and clinical work in a focused therapeutic area can bring whole new competencies to our hospital and new hope for critically or chronically ill and injured children in our community and the world beyond. We witness this dynamic every day.
Currently, we have a shortage of doctors. The physicians we have do not enjoy the financial resources for discovery and innovation they might elsewhere. Sustaining the subspecialty services that must be in place to meet the demands of our market and the imperatives of our mission is very difficult, nearly impossible.
All of our nation’s elite children’s hospitals become great—and stay that way—by funding talented doctors and surrounding them with leadership, support, and resources in an environment where innovation may thrive. The average endowment of a leading children’s hospital is $265 million
(average age 111 years old). At just over 40 years old, CHOC Children’s is striving to become great while constrained by an endowment that is only five percent of this benchmark. To reach the top echelon of children’s hospitals, CHOC Children’s must substantially increase its endowment in parallel to building a new tower and leveraging an affiliation with an academic medical center. Annual income from an adequate endowment will supply the resources required to compete nationally for medical talent and sustain an environment that produces great outcomes and medical firsts. Sick children cannot wait.
Our community is gifted with some of the nation’s leading pediatric subspecialty doctors. On the following pages, you will meet just a few of CHOC Children’s doctors, outstanding professionals who exemplify the kind of talent we must continue to recruit.
