Current Stories

This year marks a transition in board leadership at the MCV Foundation. In one of his last acts as board chair at the June board meeting, Harry Thalhimer passed the gavel to Wyatt Beazley IV.

Alumnus Charlie Teaters, M.D., has found a unique way to give back to the MCV Campus that not only helps future doctors studying at his alma mater, but reignites the campus’s contributions to Charlie.

A unique and enduring bequest continues to support junior faculty research on the MCV Campus. The latest Blick Scholars are engaged in compelling research that will help advance the future of great patient care.

Since the facility opened in 2018, Keith Middleton and Rich Reinecke have supported VCU Health's Virginia Treatment Center for Children through fundraising and outreach at their business and beyond.

On Sept. 17, 2018, which would have been the couple's 30th wedding anniversary, Susan Nash established the Bob and Susan Nash Forever Heartfelt Bereavement Support Fund to help people like her who are facing grief after loosing a loved one.

A $1 million gift from the estate of Rebecca Peebles Bowen continues her and her husband’s legacy of supporting healthcare and healthcare education.

The board, staff and friends of the MCV Foundation are heartbroken to learn that Ken Wright, a donor, a friend, an inspiration and a generous human being, has passed away.

For the last 20 years of his career, Gary Rogliano was a partner at several successful private equity funds, and he never expected to retire. His nonstop lifestyle was upended in May 2018 when he was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. Read about what he is doing, along with his family, to gain power over Parkinson's.

A group of Brother Rats demonstrated their respect and admiration for one of their own this summer.

Virginia Military Institute’s Class of 1969 announced the Dr. Charles F. Bryan Jr. Parkinson’s Research Fund at a surprise reception in honor of Charlie Bryan, an MCV Foundation board member, on June 26.

This summer, seven students from the VCU School of Medicine traveled to Ghana in West Africa. They made the journey because they wanted to see, hear and experience global health — things they wouldn’t be able to extract from a book held in their hands here in Richmond.

Despite hopes that the difficulties he began feeling in his hands weren’t symptoms of ALS, Bobby Quinn was diagnosed with the disease on April 3, 2017.

Since that time, Bobby and the community around him have been working to raise funds for ALS patient care, research and family support.

Tina Bachas, who began working alongside Walter Lawrence Jr., M.D., in the 1960s and 1970s in the service area that became VCU Massey Cancer Center, has established the Tina L. Bachas Nursing Research Award with her husband.