THE FOUNDATION FOR GENDER-SPECIFIC MEDICINE Annual Gala
HONORING
Thomas F. Secunda
Co-Founder, Vice Chairman, Bloomberg L.P.
Wednesday, May 1, 2019
Metropolitan Club
One East Sixtieth
$25,000 Catalyst for Change in Gender-Specific Medicine
Tax Deductible Amount: $23,520
• VIP Table for 10 guests
• Premium recognition at gala via signage and
promotional materials
• Permission to distribute approved promotional materials and gifts
• Donor listing in FGSM Annual Report
• Underwriter FGSM Scholarship Program supporting Gender-Specific research
• Double Page Journal Advertisement
$15,000 Innovator for Gender-Specific Advancement
Tax Deductible Amount: $13,520
• Premium Table for 10 guests
• Recognition at gala via signage and promotional materials
• Permission to distribute approved promotional materials and gifts
• Donor listing in FGSM Annual Report
• Full Page Journal Advertisement
$10,000 Promoter of Equality in Medical Research
Tax Deductible Amount: $8,520
• Table for 8 guests
• Recognition at gala via signage and promotional materials
• Donor listing in FGSM Annual Report
• Half Page Journal Advertisement
$1,000 Individual Ticket
Tax Deductible Amount: $815
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Academic Partners
Center For Gender-Specific Science
At The Karolinska Institute, Sweden
Fondazione Internazionale Menarini, Italy
International Society for Gender and Sex Specific Medicine
Programming Gendermedzin
Paracesus Medizinische Privatuniversitat, Austria
Rabin Medical Center
Tel Aviv, Israel
Benefit Committee
Chairwoman
Marlene Kurz
Committee (in formation)
Eugenie and Robert Birch
Tari Broderick
Harold Burson
Barry Chaiken, M.D.
Ann Curry
Michael Derchin
Morton Derchin
Gayatri Devi, M.D.
Rob DiLillo
Elyse and Parker Douglas
Zoe and Stuart Gerchick
Lee Grant
Dr. Kirsten and Michael Healy
Cheryl and Bruce Hirsch
Carine Joannou
Gail Katz
Justin Killian, Esq.
Patricia Klingenstein
Shelly and George Lazarus, M.D.
Cristina Matera, M.D.
Maria Meunier
Lisa Moran
Eileen Murray
Lillian and Sam Nole
Sylvia and Marcelo Olarte, M.D.
Michelle and Patricio Paez, M.D.
Amy and Martin Post, M.D.
Lewis Schneider, M.D.
Cindy and Thomas Secunda
Isobel and Marvin Slomowitz
Maria and Dean Yuzek
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Marianne J. Legato, MD, Ph. D. (hon. c.), FACP is an internationally renowned academic, physician, author, lecturer, and pioneer in the field of gender-specific medicine. She is a Professor Emerita of Clinical Medicine at Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons and an Adjunct Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins Medical School. Dr. Legato is also the Director of the Foundation for Gender-Specific Medicine, which she founded in 2006 as a continuation of her work with The Partnership for Gender-Specific Medicine at Columbia University. She received an honorary PhD from the University of Panama in 2015 for her work on the differences between men and women.
At its core, gender-specific medicine is the science of how normal human biology differs between men and women and how the diagnosis and treatment of disease differs as a function of gender. Dr. Legato’s discoveries and those of her colleagues have led to a personalization of medicine that assists doctors worldwide in understanding the difference in normal function of men and women and in their sex-specific experiences of the same diseases.
She began her work in gender-specific medicine by authoring the first book on women and heart disease, The Female Heart: The Truth About Women and Coronary Artery Disease, which won the Blakeslee Award of the American Heart Association in 1992. Because of this research, the cardiovascular community began to include women in clinical trials affirming the fact that the risk factors, symptoms, and treatment of the same disease can be significantly different between the sexes. Convinced that the sex-specific differences in coronary artery disease were not unique, Dr. Legato began a wide-ranging survey of all medical specialties and in 2004, published the first textbook on gender-specific medicine, The Principles of Gender-Specific Medicine. The second edition appeared in 2010 and the third edition, dedicated to explaining how gender impacts biomedical investigation in the genomic era, won the PROSE Award in Clinical Medicine from the Association of American Publishers in 2018. A fourth edition is forthcoming.
She also founded the first scientific journals publishing new studies in the field, The Journal of Gender-Specific Medicine, and a newer version, Gender Medicine, both listed in the Index Medicus of the National Library of Medicine. She has founded a third peer-reviewed, open access journal, Gender and the Genome, which focuses on the impact of biological sex on technology and its effects on human life.
Dr. Legato is the author of multiple works, including: What Women Need to Know (Simon & Schuster, 1997), Eve’s Rib (Harmony Books, 2002), Why Men Never Remember and Women Never Forget (Rodale, 2005), Why Men Die First (Palgrave, 2008), The International Society for Gender Medicine: History and Highlights (Academic Press, 2017), and most recently, The Plasticity of Sex (Academic Press, 2020). Her books have been translated into 28 languages to date.
As an internationally respected authority on gender medicine, Dr. Legato has chaired symposia and made keynote addresses to world congresses in gender-specific medicine in Berlin, Israel, Italy, Japan, Panama, South Korea, Stockholm, and Vienna. In collaboration with the Menarini Foundation, she is co-chairing a symposium on epigenetics, Sex, Gender and Epigenetics: From Molecule to Bedside, to be held in Spring 2021 in Italy. She maintains one of the only gender-specific private practice in New York City, and she has earned recognition as one of the “Top Doctors in New York.”