History
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In 1991 St Vincent’s Private Hospital gave
St Vincent’s Clinic (as Trustee) $1,000 to establish a trust fund to be known as St Vincent’s Clinic Foundation. From this humble beginning the St Vincent’s Clinic Foundation has grown and prospered and by 2009 has provided over $7.79 million of research funding to St Vincent’s Campus as well as supporting a variety of education initiatives.
St Vincent’s Clinic Foundation was established in 1992 to strengthen the research and educational aims of St Vincent’s Clinic. The three aims of
St Vincent’s Clinic – patient care, medical teaching and clinical research – are symbolised by the three separate but interwoven triangles of equal size which make up St Vincent’s Clinic logo. This logo represents the concept that excellence in patient care cannot be achieved without excellence in medical teaching and research and vice versa.
Sr Mary Bernice Elphick RSC, the first President and Chairman of St Vincent’s Clinic Foundation .jpg)
said in her inaugural Foundation report: “The value of the latest developments on treatment and procedures can only be tested by clinical practitioners and based on their detailed outcome studies of actual patient care. However, although government and other research organisations provide financial support for basic laboratory work for full time investigators, there is little funding available for clinical studies conducted on the course of patient care. Yet it is this evaluation on which all new treatment modalities rely.”
The Foundation has enjoyed tremendous and valuable support from a wide range of people – including its Trustees, first patron Sir Roden Cutler, the Ladies’ Committee, the Friends of St Vincent’s Clinic Foundation, the doctors of St Vincent’s Clinic and St Vincent’s Private Hospital. St Vincent’s Clinic Foundation is committed to supporting research and assisting in helping to strengthen the reputation and quality of care on the St Vincent’s Campus. Over the years the Foundation has taken advantage of opportunities to widen its funding scope for research. For example in 2003, following a generous donation, the Foundation was able to provide over $1,000,000 for Adult Stem Cell Research Projects.Since, the Foundation has made funding available for Multi-disciplinary Patient- Focussed Research Projects.
From a $1,000 beginning, St Vincent’s Clinic Foundation now has assets of over $10,000,000 and a commitment to continue to fund researchon St Vincent’s Campus.
“The St Vincent’s Clinic Foundation grant enables me, as a clinician, to engage in research that is at the very coalface of clinical practice, the sort of research that marries science with clinical medicine. Funding of this sort for research is becoming harder to obtain and I am very grateful to the Foundation for its support of clinical scientific endeavour.”
A/Prof Katherine Samaras
2007 Recipient of the Ladies’ Committee
Sr Mary Bernice Grant
