Healthcare Notes: Couple gifts $1.5M to Belmont med school

Nashville health care industry veterans Rowena Dolor Cuffe and Michael Cuffe have committed $1.5 million to Belmont University Thomas F. Frist Jr. College of Medicine.

According to a release, the gift will help Belmont establish the Michael and Rowena Cuffe Endowed Professor of Health Research and Innovation. The philanthropic donation from the married couple will be matched through the Johnson Academic Challenge, part of Belmont's $700 million Hope Transforms campaign.

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From left: Dr. Amy Palubinsky, Dr. Elizabeth Phillips and Rama Gangula in the Phillips Lab in Medical Center North at Vanderbilt Health Main Campus.
Photo: Vanderbilt Health/Erin O. Smith

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