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Steven and Kathy Haley with Dr. Peter Black and Dr. Gary Gottlieb
Photo courtesy of Jeff Thiebauth
BWH Heritage Society Honors BSF Founders Steven and Kathy Haley
In honor of their exceptional giving and profound contributions to the neurosciences at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), Brain Science Foundation founders, Steven and Kathy Haley, received the 2007 Heritage Society Award. The November celebration was attended by over 250 of the Haley’s friends and family as well as donors, trustees, and Hospital leaders.
The Heritage Society Award is the hospital’s “Nobel Prize” and honors donors whose philanthropic leadership has made a significant impact in furthering the mission of patient care, education and research at BWH. Steven and Kathy’s support of the neurosciences field with a particular focus on research for meningioma and other primary brain tumors, has served as a catalyst for new research and improved technologies for surgical and non-surgical treatments as well as advancing our understanding of these tumors.
Steven and Kathy have supported the neurosciences through the Brain Science Foundation which they began seven years ago to expedite research, technology and improvements to patient care. The Haley’s commitment to developing the neurosciences field has been further demonstrated in the educational opportunities they provide to visiting fellows from other countries and through their private endowment of a Professorship at Harvard Medical School and BWH. Steven has expanded his commitment to the Hospital and to propelling the field forward by serving as Chair of the Neurosciences Institute at BWH, an institute designed to be the epicenter of cutting-edge research and innovation for the multi-disciplinary practices that focus on the brain including neurology, neurosurgery, radiology, psychiatry and neuro-oncology.
BWH President Gary Gottlieb, MD, MBA, presented Steven with the award and thanked the Haley’s for their innovative leadership and for being agents of change and progress for the Hospital and broader neurosciences field.
The brain is divided into two sides. The left side controls the right side of your body; the right side controls the left side of your body.