MCV Foundation

06/03/2026

The foundation’s annual MCV Society Garden Party honors the vision and generosity of planned giving donors. The impact of planned giving remains astonishing. Collectively, the society has documented the intention to provide more than $100 million in future support across the MCV Campus.

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The foundation’s annual MCV Society Garden Party honors the vision and generosity of planned giving donors.

06/02/2026

Philanthropy makes today's medical breakthroughs and tomorrow’s advances in lifesaving care possible, and at VCU Health and Virginia Commonwealth University, generous gifts support bringing care, research and education together under one roof at an academic medical center.

VCU Health is an academic medical center where care, research and teaching work as one, giving patients access to the best knowledge and innovations in health.

06/02/2026

06/01/2026

Congratulations to Charles Payne for being the first VCU School of Medicine student to receive a VCU Health TULIP Award, an honor that recognizes exceptional compassion and service by non-nursing team members. Payne's desire to invest in others and build his future on the MCV Campus was reinforced being a recipient of a McGlothlin Scholarship. VCU School of Medicine on the MCV Campus

M4 Charles Payne was recognized for extraordinary compassion during his OB-GYN rotation.

05/31/2026

"We considered lots of other causes. This is one I feel very strongly about because it will help folks who really need it by keeping first-rate doctors in the community." - Susan Sutton

Twenty-two years ago, cancer care in rural Southside Virginia was challenging for patients and their families. After experiencing these challenges herself when her own mother received a breast cancer diagnosis, Susan Sutton and her husband Leslie Sutton, M.D., have made gift plans in their estate to grow capacity for rural cancer care in South Hill, Va.

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Susan Sutton and Leslie Sutton, M.D., have made gift plans in their estate to grow capacity for rural cancer care in South Hill, Va.

05/30/2026

Anabeel Sen completed medical school in Bangladesh where he would see people from all walks of life and realized that social factors were a determinant of health. Inspired, he decided to pursue his Ph.D. in epidemiology. Now he is a VCU School of Public Health scholarship recipient.

"The scholarship gives you that academic encouragement, that inspiration. You can focus completely on your dissertation."

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05/29/2026

The VCU Annual Research Impact Awards last month honored outstanding academic and scientific research achievements by faculty and postdoctoral fellows, celebrating discoveries and innovative research at Virginia Commonwealth University and VCU Health that is improving society.

The inaugural VCU-ARIA ceremony honored outstanding academic and scientific research achievements by faculty and postdoctoral fellows, celebrating discoveries and innovative research that is improving society.

05/28/2026

A national transplantation leader for nearly 70 years, VCU Health Hume-Lee Transplant Center performed the first kidney transplant in Virginia in 1957. In 2025, Kevin Key became a living-donor kidney transplant recipient who is making the most of a second chance at life thanks to a family member and Hume-Lee.

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Living-donor kidney transplant recipient Kevin Key is making the most of a second chance at life thanks to a family member and the VCU Health Hume-Lee Transplant Center.

05/27/2026

An annual eye exam led to a surprise diagnosis. Now, Don and his wife, Michele Romano, M.D., a 1984 VCU School of Medicine alum and long-time board member of the MCV Foundation, are turning the positive experience that followed into support for the future of ophthalmology at the VCU School of Medicine on the MCV Campus. VCU Health

An annual eye exam led to a surprise diagnosis, but one couple is turning their experience into support for the future of ophthalmology at the VCU School of Medicine.