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Brain Care
With over $32 million raised, including $17.5 million to support the
creation of the Gamma Knife and 3T MRI Centre at the University of

GIVING BACK

Alberta Hospital, the University Hospital Foundation’s Brain Centre

In 1993, Grant MacDonald, an
Edmonton-based Real Estate
Developer, began having headaches.
A CT scan and MR imaging revealed a
tumour the size of a golf ball growing
on his brain. “I was very fortunate. I
had two brain surgeries and they got
everything out.”

Campaign continues to build momentum as it enters its most
compelling phase.
Working closely in
partnership with Alberta
Health Services, the
future Brain Centre
will bring together all
brain-related care areas
within the University of
Alberta Hospital site.

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“Our vision is to
provide brain patients from across Alberta, Western and Northern
Canada access to the best brain patient care in the world,” says Jim
Brown, co-chair of the University Hospital Foundation’s Brain Centre
Campaign.
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News

Donors
make it

possible

Opening of the $6.2 million
Dan & Bunny Widney iMRI
Surgical Suite.

“We have some of the best and
brightest brain surgeons, neurologists,
researchers and specialists working
here. It’s important that we provide the
most efficient environment to work in,
with the most advanced technology.”
“I’ve seen my two kids, Zachary and
Jessica, grow up. My wife Patti and I
have a great home in this beautiful city.
It’s important that I give back to the
community that made it all possible.”

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GAMMA KNIFE COVERAGE
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2012

In making a leadership gift to the Brain
Centre Campaign, Grant is doing
what he can to ensure that Edmonton
becomes the home of a world-leading
Brain Centre, where patients with
debilitating brain conditions will receive
the most advanced care possible.

2012
$1.5 million in donor-funded research
leveraged into $11 million reinvestment in
the Peter S. Allen MR Research Centre

2015
Ground-breaking for the
donor-funded $17.5 million
Gamma Knife and 3T MRI Centre.
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