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Over the next 15 years, UC San Diego’s Hillcrest campus will undergo a remarkable revitalization. Philanthropy is fueling this transformation and empowering us to continue revolutionizing research, training and care. Your support can have a significant impact on shaping the future of UC San Diego Health in Hillcrest and set the stage for the decade of expansion coming up for our Hillcrest campus. Every gift to this effort is critically important.
Together, we can build a medical center that will continue to provide world-class health care for every member of our community.
Impacting Central San Diego and Beyond: A message from UC San Diego Health CEO Patty Maysent
UC San Diego Health has been providing complex medical and surgical care, training new physicians, and offering early access to innovative therapies and treatments since 1966. We do this by continuously asking, “What is the future of health care?” Our latest answers include a modern, more accessible destination for comprehensive health care … in Hillcrest.
Our reimagined Hillcrest Medical Campus will feature new services and expand core critical care. UC San Diego Health’s top-ranked medical and surgical services will combine cancer, orthopedic surgery, women’s health and other highly sought after academic medical specialties at our new Hillcrest Outpatient Pavilion in 2025.
In the years that follow, we will build a new hospital and workforce housing, improve wayfinding, and add community resources and educational opportunities that will launch San Diego into a healthier, more fulfilling future.
UC San Diego Health will continue to drive innovation and exploration, act as an educational and economic engine, and serve our community with the same compassion we always have in new facilities that afford our patients every advantage. We can’t wait for you to experience the future of health care at our transformed Hillcrest Medical Campus.
Patty Maysent
CEO, UC San Diego Health
FEATURED PHILANTHROPY
At the age of 11 months, my daughter Christine was diagnosed with a mitochondrial disease called Leigh syndrome, which causes damage to critical areas of the brain that control breathing, blood pressure, appetite and coordination. Our Christini lost her battle to the disease shortly after her second birthday. In memory of Christine, my family founded the Christini Fund to raise philanthropic support for research, increase public awareness of mitochondrial diseases, and inform people affected by these devastating diseases about the hope that can be found at UC San Diego’s Mitochondrial and Metabolic Disease Center (MMDC).
Over the past 25 years, the Christini Fund has supported the life-saving research conducted by Dr. Robert K. Naviaux, MD, PhD and his team at the MMDC. Their efforts have led to significant breakthroughs in mitochondrial disease research, and they continue to work tirelessly toward a cure. As Christine’s physician, Dr. Naviaux’s determination to help and give hope to those suffering from mitochondrial disease was exceeded only by the compassion he showed Christine and our family. Dr. Navaiux exemplifies the level of care provided at UC San Diego Health. In honor of Dr. Naviaux and the supporters of the Christini Fund over the last 25 years, my family and I are pleased to support the UC San Diego Hillcrest Redevelopment Project and UC San Diego Health’s growth with a bench in memory of our Christini at the new campus.
– Debbie Shimizu
FEATURED FACULTY SPOTLIGHT
Robert K. Naviaux, MD, PhD, and the Naviaux Lab
Robert K. Dr. Naviaux, MD, PhD, is a professor of genetics, in the Departments of Medicine, Pediatrics, and Pathology at UC San Diego (UCSD). He also directs a core laboratory for metabolomics at UCSD.
Dr. Naviaux is the co-founder and a former president of the Mitochondrial Medicine Society (MMS), and a founding associate editor of the journal Mitochondrion. He is an internationally known expert in human genetics, inborn errors of metabolism, metabolomics, and mitochondrial medicine. He is the discovererdiscovered of the cause of Alpers syndrome — the oldest Mendelian form of mitochondrial disease — and developed the developer of the first DNA test to diagnose it.
Dr. Naviaux's lab is devoted to exploring new perspectives in chronic diseases that have not been traditionally associated with genetics and metabolism. These discoveries have grown naturally from the care, diagnosis, treatment, and research efforts to help children with mitochondrial disease.
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The Outpatient Pavilion at UC San Diego Health in Hillcrest is the first of five major phases in the redevelopment of our Hillcrest campus. Support from our philanthropic partners will ensure our community has access to leading-edge health care specialties.
Read about the project's special clinical programs and explore project videos and renderings.
To learn more about making a gift to support the Outpatient Pavilion or one of our specialty services in Hillcrest, please contact us at supporthillcrest@ucsd.edu.
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Featured Philanthropy Archive
Featured Philanthropy - McGrath Outpatient Pavilion
The San Diego-based McGrath Family Foundation has pledged $25 million to support the new outpatient pavilion at UC San Diego Health – Hillcrest Medical Campus, slated to open in 2025. In recognition of the gift, the facility will be named the McGrath Family Foundation Outpatient Pavilion, commonly known as the McGrath Outpatient Pavilion.
The McGrath Outpatient Pavilion will address the growing demand for specialized diagnostic, treatment and surgical services. It will offer significant new space for multispecialty cancer clinics and infusion centers, allowing UC San Diego Health, and Moores Cancer Center, to greatly expand access to the region’s only National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center.
“We value the outstanding medical services that UC San Diego provides to the community,” said Laurie McGrath, president of the McGrath Family Foundation. “We are very excited to be a part of the revitalization of the UC San Diego Medical Center in Hillcrest, which we know will benefit patients and their families throughout the region.”
Featured Philanthropy - Price Philanthropies
In 2025, the UC San Diego Health – Hillcrest Medical Campus will be home to a new center named in honor of beloved physician and breast cancer expert, Barbara Parker, MD, thanks to a $10 million gift from Price Philanthropies and the Price family.
The Barbara Parker, MD, Breast Center will be located within the future Hillcrest Outpatient Pavilion, which will be a 250,000-square-foot outpatient pavilion that is part of a comprehensive revitalization of the UC San Diego Health – Hillcrest Medical Campus. In addition, the planned courtyard adjacent to the Barbara Parker, MD, Breast Center will be named Price Philanthropies Courtyard. Click here to read the full press release.
Featured Philanthropy - Laurie Black
In March of 2009, my now late husband became ill — diagnosed with stage IV malignant metastatic melanoma and was given two weeks to two months to live. Initially, he was at another local institution — they gave me their prognosis. It took me one phone call to know that my beloved needed to be at Moores Cancer Center. He lived almost three years, which was a miracle. I credit UC San Diego Health – Hillcrest Medical Campus, as well as Moores Cancer Center, for the excellent care that prolonged my husband’s life and the significant improvements to his quality of life for the additional years he survived.
I have spent more than 25 years advocating for UC San Diego, and I am a vocal supporter of the UC San Diego Hillcrest Redevelopment Project because of the excellent care my family received and UC San Diego Health’s commitment to providing the same care to every patient and every family — including uninsured patients and patients from under-resourced communities. I am proud to honor my husband and support UC San Diego Health’s growth with a bench in his memory at the new campus.
Featured Philanthropy - Honoring Lawrence “Larry” Friedman, MD: UC San Diego Professor, Physician, Brother
It is so meaningful to me to honor my brother Larry with a bench in his memory at the revitalized Hillcrest Medical Campus.
From 1994 to his death in 2021, Larry was dedicated to serving UC San Diego and his patients. He began as a professor of pediatrics and medicine, later becoming associate dean for clinical affairs. He oversaw a program for teens and young adults with HIV at the Owen Clinic and co-founded a mobile van collaborative providing free health care to homeless and runaway youth. Larry also founded the UC San Diego Clinical Telemedicine Program — these are just some of his many commitments to UC San Diego and our community. In addition to his medical accomplishments, he served on the boards of both the La Jolla Playhouse and the Museum of Photographic Arts.
I hope this bench brings comfort to all who rest upon it, whether a colleague, friend or patient. My brother’s caring and generosity will always be remembered.
- Margie Friedman