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Toronto General & Toronto Western Hospital Foundation

A world-first collaboration
makes history

History in the making: Martha Rogers,TGWHF Board Member Dr. Bernie Gosevitz, Rogers Communications Board Chair Alan Horn,
Loretta Rogers, Dr. Barry Rubin, Medical Director, Peter Munk Cardiac Centre and Edward Rogers at the announcement of a $130-million
gift to create the Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research. (Photo credit: John Loper)

On November 20, 2014, the Rogers was appointed Interim Director of historic donation,” said Tennys
Foundation announced a landmark the Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Hanson, President and CEO of
$130-million gift shared by UHN, Sick Research and he is tasked with TGWHF.“This announcement is
Kids and the University of Toronto setting a roadmap to ensure that wonderful news for our clinicians
to create the Ted Rogers Centre for the Centre moves forward with its and researchers within Peter Munk
Heart Research. The Centre is the goal of reducing hospitalizations Cardiac Centre and the McEwen
first in the world to bring together from heart failure by 50 per cent Centre for Regenerative Medicine,
research in individualized genomic within the next 10 years. and for Canada overall.”
medicine, stem cell research,
bioengineering, and cardiovascular “We are tremendously proud and The Rogers family’s support of UHN
treatment under one umbrella. tremendously grateful that the goes back over 15 years. Loretta
TGRI Director Dr. Mansoor Husain Rogers Foundation has chosen to Rogers has served on the TGWHF
honour Ted’s legacy through this Board of Directors since 2005 and

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