A Gift For Others

After years in the suburbs, Peggy Scott is now a city person. She enjoys exploring new neighborhoods, riding her bike along the Esplanade and volunteering at Mass General. She is part of the ‘snow team.’ If someone cannot make a volunteer shift because of the weather, she laces up her boots, walks to the hospital and covers his or her shift.

Thanks from the Heart: Elaine and Hugh Barry

A lifelong runner, Hugh Barry realized at age 53 that the hills of southwestern Connecticut were taking more out of him. The results from a stress test at a local hospital appeared fine, but he still did not feel right. He researched the best places for cardiac care. Massachusetts General Hospital and Eric Isselbacher, MD, were on the top of an impressive list.

Pamela and F. Gardner Jackson: Creating a Legacy to Advance Women’s Health

“What makes the Vincent Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Mass General different is not just the vision and leadership of its chief, Dr. Isaac Schiff,” says F. Gardner Jackson. “It is the culture of teamwork that enables the department to implement the vision. This teamwork has created a successful record of executing the research and clinical care projects to which they commit.”

Jean Elrick, MD: Creating a Legacy as a Physician and a Donor

Jean Elrick, MD, remembers her first day at Massachusetts General Hospital. She was a third year Harvard Medical School student embarking on her first clinical rotation. “I remember leaving the hospital that first day, standing out front and thinking that this is the place to be. I do not need to be anywhere else for my career.”

A Fund Established Decades Ago to Honor One Man’s Memory Inspires Generosity Across Generations

Sifting through a stack of family papers after the death of her uncle in July 2005, North Carolina nurse Lori Campbell, RN, came across some items that piqued her curiosity — a letter from Massachusetts General Hospital, dated January 8, 1960, stuck to a few decades-old newspaper clippings paying tribute to the memory of Terry Shuman, a grandfather who had passed away when Mrs. Campbell was still an infant. To her surprise, both the letter and the clippings made note of the Terry Shuman Memorial Fund for Medical Research at Mass General.