Charter Members of the College of Medicine

Nelson L. Adams, MD

Michael M. Adler

Richard Amundsen and Claudia Puig

Jose and Ada Armas

Carmel J. and Carmel P. Barrau

Beraja Medical Institute

BlueCross and BlueShield of Florida

Joseph L. Caruncho

Stephen and Abby Dresnick

Emergency Room Medical Associates at Mercy Hospital Miami: John Marshall, MD, Jorge Amada, MD, Xavier Anton, MD

Luis Guillermo Fernandez-Leal, MD

FIU Alumni Association

Dany Garcia

Julio M. Garcia, MD

Justo M. Garcia

Guerra Family Foundation

Guillama, Inc.

Rodolfo Hernandez, MD/Psychare, LLC

Jeffrey L. Horstmyer, MD and Professor Tille Fox

S. Lawrence Kahn, III

Christopher G. Korge

R. Kirk Landon

Donald E. Lefton

Orlando Lopez-Fernandez, MD

Modesto A. Maidique

Mercy Hospital Medical Staff

Tamara Meyerson

NMA/James Wilson Bridges Medical Society and Association of Haitian Physicians Abroad, South Florida Chapter

David R. Parker and Marian E. Davis

Phycare Medical Group

Jose E. Portuondo, MD

Dr. and Mrs. John A. Rock

Steven Scott, MD

Drs. Joe Leigh Simpson and Sandra Carson

Jorge L. Sosa, MD

South Florida Medical Imaging, PA

Theodore Spak

Gregg Steinberg

Perla Tabares Hantman

VITAS Innovative Hospice Care

Dr. Herbert A. Wertheim

Isaac and Loly Zelcer

The FIU College of Medicine Founders Program
provides an opportunity for South Florida's leading
individuals, families, corporations and foundations to
provide significant financial operational support for the
College of Medicine. College of Medicine Founder
commitments provide the University with essential,
flexible funding for planning and implementing all aspects of opening and operating a new College of Medicine.

Membership in the College of Medicine Founders Program

College of Medicine Founders agree to commit $50,000 or more, which can be paid in annual installments over a period of up to five years, to the College of Medicine Education Fund.

Fund will provide unrestricted funding to the College, which can be directed to the College's most immediate and pressing needs. Some of the many uses of the Education Fund will include recruitment of key instructional and research faculty, development and implementation of curricula, recruitment of the inaugural class of students, initiation of activities that cement relationships with leading local hospitals and other health care providers, and equipping teaching and research laboratories.

Recognition and Benefits for College of Medicine Founders

Individuals and organizations making a College of Medicine Founders commitment will be recognized permanently as College of Medicine Founders and as members of the University-wide Society of Founders.

In honor of their important contribution to the start of a new era at FIU, additional recognition for College of Medicine Founders will include:

• Access to the Dean of the College of Medicine and College faculty and administrators through participation in College of Medicine events and briefings and other presentations exclusively for College of Medicine Founders.
• Invitation to selected University events as well as to College of Medicine events, including those exclusively for Founders;
• Listing as a College of Medicine Founder in various College of Medicine and University publications and web sites;
• Listing on a Wall of Honor to be installed in a prominent place in the building housing the College of Medicine;
• A plaque commemorating membership in the College of Medicine Founders; and
• The satisfaction of taking leadership in the development of an institution that will play an important role in providing high quality health care for our community.