College of Dental Medicine Lasting Impressions Magazine

40 © NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY NSU is a step closer to fulfilling its vision to be the South Florida destination for health care education thanks to two significant financial gifts. One will support the allopathic medicine college, while the other will support the nursing college. Combined, these gifts helped the university achieve the $250-million goal for its Realizing Potential Campaign three years ahead of schedule. A $25-million gift from the Drs. Kiran & Pallavi Patel Family Foundation, Inc. resulted in the renaming of the College of Allopathic Medicine to the Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Allopathic Medicine. The gift will help provide scholarships for students needing financial support to attend medical school. This latest gift comes on the heels of the Patels’ previous financial commitment of $200 million in September com- prising a $50-million gift. The additional $150 million is funding a real estate investment to develop a new site for NSU’s Tampa Bay Regional Campus in Clearwater, Florida, which will provide an additional location for NSU’s osteo- pathic medicine program. “The cumulative generosity of the Patels’ contributions, and all the other philanthropic gifts we have received since 2016, brought us very close to our $250-million goal,” said George L. Hanbury II, Ph.D., NSU president and chief exec- utive officer. “Then, Ronald Assaf, our Board of Trustees chair, and his wife, Kathy, stepped up with their own gift, which put our Realizing Potential Campaign over the top three years ahead of our 2020 target date.” To honor the Assafs’ gift, the College of Nursing was renamed the Ron and Kathy Assaf College of Nursing. The $250-million Realizing Potential Campaign goal is the first philanthropic campaign in the university’s 54-year history. It is also, by far, the largest philanthropic campaign of any sort in Broward County. The Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Allopathic Medicine and the Ron and Kathy Assaf College of Nursing are two of eight distinctive colleges in NSU’s Health Professions Division. The others are the College of Dental Medicine, College of Medical Sciences, College of Optometry, College of Pharma- cy, Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Osteopathic Medicine, and Dr. Pallavi Patel College of Health Care Sciences. These colleges—with many of them producing the state’s largest number of graduates in their specialty each year— offer more than 60 degrees and provide myriad opportuni- ties for interprofessional interaction at the university. Upon receiving preliminary accreditation by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education in October 2017, the Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Allopathic Medicine began recruiting students for what is now the 8th M.D. program in Florida, and 1 of only 149 in the United States. The college’s charter class of 50 M.D. candidates will matri- culate in August 2018. The new college’s educational program will be taught in an interdisciplinary fashion in conjunction with the other colleges in NSU’s Health Professions Division, using exist- ing renovated space to accommodate the new M.D. student class and the college’s hybrid case- and problem-based learning curriculum. To meet demands in its medical, health care, and life science programs, NSU plans to build a 250,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art, integrated, medical- education building to complement its health professions facilities and health care centers. The Ron and Kathy Assaf College of Nursing offers B.S.N., M.S.N., and doctoral programs at NSU campuses in Fort Lauderdale/Davie, Fort Myers, Miami, Palm Beach, and Tampa. The unique clinical training provided in each of these programs gives NSU nursing graduates a definite advantage in the clinical workplace. u HPD IMPRESSIONS NSU SURPASSES $250-MILLION FUND-RAISING GOAL Drs.Pallavi and Kiran C.Patel Kathy and Ron Assaf