INSPIRING INNOVATION
Women’s Guild has been inspiring innovation at Cedars‑Sinai Medical Center for more than a half-century. Its members share a powerful commitment to supporting world-class healthcare, research and innovation. Since 1957, Women’s Guild has been making a difference in the lives of patients, raising over $70 million in support of Cedars‑Sinai’s most critical work, including projects such as the Women’s Guild Distinguished Chair in Pediatrics, Women’s Guild Neurology Project, Women’s Guild Simulation Center for Advanced Clinical Skills, Women’s Guild Chair in Gastroenterology, Women’s Guild Lung Institute, and the Saul and Joyce Brandman Breast Center–A Project of Women’s Guild at Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute.
FUNDRAISING EVENTS
Every year, we hold a gala with the objective of raising funds for the programs we support.
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We also hold a luncheon and offer other opportunities for our members to get together throughout the year to socialize and learn. We bring in experts to talk about topics of interest to our members, and we take excursions.
Our members have busy lives, so we go for quality over quantity when it comes to planning events, whether our goal is to raise funds or just to bring people together for an interesting and fun experience
CURRENT PROJECTS
Women’s Guild Distinguished Chair in Pediatrics
Inspiring innovation at Cedars-Sinai for more than 50 years, Women’s Guild is pledging $5 million to establish a distinguished chair in pediatrics at Cedars-Sinai Guerin Children’s.
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Established in 2022, Guerin Children’s provides a continuum of advanced clinical care for Cedars-Sinai’s youngest patients as they grow from newborns to adolescents to adults. Our innovative research and forward-thinking physician education provide the most promising and groundbreaking treatments available today, with the ultimate goal of developing leading-edge treatments of the future.
Women’s Guild Neurology Project
In 2019, Women’s Guild extended its far-reaching partnership with the medical center by establishing the Women’s Guild Distinguished Chair in Neurology and launching the Women’s Guild Neurology Project—an ambitious, $15 million initiative to drive innovative research and education to advance understanding of complex neurological disorders. Led by Women’s Guild Distinguished Chair in Neurology Nancy L. Sicotte, MD, the project will enable physicians and researchers to identify ways to diagnose, treat, prevent and perhaps even cure Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias, Parkinson’s disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, migraine and more.