Donor Stories
Friends Help Create the Baumel-Eisner Endowed Alzheimer's/Dementia Research Fund
Larry Eisner, MD, FAAN,
and his wife Gail
The AAN Foundation has established a new endowment fund, the Baumel-Eisner Endowed Alzheimer's/Dementia Research Fund, with a $50,000 donation by Barry Baumel, MD, and Gail Eisner in memory of Larry Eisner, MD, FAAN, who passed away in March 2008. The fund was created in celebration of their longtime friendship and partnership. Interest income from the endowment will support Alzheimer's disease/Dementia Clinical Research Training Fellowships.
Barry Baumel and Larry Eisner met when they were residents at the University of Miami Jackson Memorial Hospital and went into practice together after residency. The two founded the Baumel-Eisner Neuromedical Institute in Miami Beach, FL, which grew to become the largest dementia clinical research site in the country before they sold the business in 1999.
After Eisner passed away, his wife, Gail, and Baumel and his wife, Carolyn, sought a way to honor his memory and celebrate their longtime friendship and partnership.
Barry Baumel, MD,
and his wife Carolyn
"This is one way to say thank you to the Academy and to the field of Alzheimer's research and to in some way help and give back for everything good that had happened to us in our careers," said Baumel, now chair of the Board of Trustees of the Mind Research Network, a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing the diagnosis and treatment of mental illness and brain injury. "This is a wonderful opportunity that the Academy has given people to fund a named endowment and participate in a way you're proud of and that benefits the whole medical community."
How You Can Contribute
Choose "Alzheimer's / Dementia Research" on the Foundation's donation page and contribute to this important research.
For information about creating a named endowed fund, contact Susan Dunlop, AAN Foundation Director of Development, at sdunlop@aan.com or (866) 770-7570.