the giving effect 2025 19 What is an endowed chair — and why does it matter now? A permanent engine for innovation As Stuckey retires, the system is establishing the Dr. Thomas D. Stuckey Endowed Chair in Cardiovascular Medicine — not to commemorate one career, but to ensure the innovation continues long after he leaves the cath lab. An endowed chair is the highest honor a health system can offer a physician leader. Unlike annual funding or temporary grants, an endowed chair creates a permanent source of support — invested once and generating resources every year. The income from that investment provides physician-scientists with protected time to pursue the work that fuels breakthroughs. For Cone Health, the Stuckey Endowed Chair is more than a recognition of a career. It is the first endowed chair in Cone Health’s history — a public commitment to staying ahead of the curve and maintaining our position as a national leader in heart and vascular innovation. By fully funding the chair, donors make it possible to: Recruit and retain top physicians from leading programs nationwide Accelerate clinical trials that bring promising treatments to our community sooner Expand prevention and education programs that reduce heart disease across generations An endowed chair ensures that the future of heart and vascular care is led by visionaries — the next Tom Stuckey, drawn here not by chance, but by design. When you support the endowed chair, you invest in more than a leader. You invest in the lives of every neighbor whose heart beats stronger because world-class care exists right here, close to home. 2021–2024 Cone Health receives its largest philanthropic contribution to date, a $3 million leadership gift from Norman and Sylvia Samet in 2022, to lead a major expansion of heart and vascular care. A $200+ million heart and vascular investment fuels major expansions at Moses Cone Hospital and Alamance Regional Medical Center, adding new cath labs — including the Dr. Steven Klein Cath Lab — modernized care environments and a dedicated rehabilitation facility: the Cone Health Leonard J. Kaplan Center for Heart, Vascular & Lung Health. 2025 The Steven D. Bell Family Heart & Vascular Center opens on the Moses Cone campus, bringing diagnostics, clinic visits, imaging, procedures and pharmacy together in a five- story, 156,000-square-foot facility supported in part by the largest philanthropic gift in Cone Health history. The year also marks the dedication of the Norman & Sylvia Samet Family Lobby, recognizing the Samets’ leadership generosity.
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