Helping us envision this hospital and doing a lot of the hard work on many fronts to enable us to get to this really magnificent day which is a landmark day for health care in not just the city of San Francisco but in the greater bay area and tluts the United States and some places globally. It is truly a remarkable building but as mark said while we are celebrating the completion of the facilities today, what will happen on sunday is really the event we are looking forward to and that is welcoming families and patients into these facilities to enhance their care, provide care, healing and world class medicine and technology. Just to the north of us for those of us who arent familiar with the Mission Bay Campus lies more than 2 million square feet of state of the art Research Space unquestionably the best research now and this hospital will compliment that so we could not only provide state of the art care but we can reinvent the future of medicine as we know it over the next decade. T
Lynn benny hoff by establishing the Childrens Hospital, not just here but they made that similar commitment to Oakland Health care. It has no boundaries. It shouldnt just happen in mission bay. It has to happen for the entire region. Im happy to see this happening in our mission bay. I think not only great leaders, but they lead with commitment to improve peoples lives and their health. For a Childrens Hospital in a most modern facility here that is ultimately the gold rush attraction. To have gerson and Barbara Baker Cancer Center here. Yet again another demonstration of people who are not only in the business community, but have matched up what they truly believe in, in helping improve peoples lives. Cancer has yet to be solved, but i know somewhere in mission bay, some kid working in some laboratory now in addition to making the right chromosomes to make me taller in the future, they will solve the serious cancers of today. I want to acknowledge bob gers on and barbara for their hel
To understand how you take under utilized land and transform it. You have to lead with a talent. I often thought when i was in my earlier years that ucsf was kind of the camelot campus there. A lot of things were happening. We didnt know whether or not this was going to be able to flower as it has been done. They didnt do it alone. It was a partnership that had to be really cemented with a strong vision of all the Different Things that we wanted to have happen because you can imagine 10 years ago, i think a lot of people would have doubted whether or not stem cell was the right thing and Biotech Research and all the things that uc was talking to us about whether we could embrace it in a way in which it has demonstrated itself today. Well, not only did they cause belief in the city but they also got fantastic partners to do the same, Business Leaders from this incredible city. Today on this medical campus, its three Outpatient Facilities established here. Wonderful collaboration with ou
Member cabinet. Thank you, dick. [ applause ] next to dick is dede and shes a great supporter of this city and improvements and particular projects. They dede for your support. [ applause ]. Next to dede is bill who is the chair of the ucf foundation. Thank you, bill. And in the front row i will introduce, there is one beautiful young woman in the middle there, thats Barbara Baker. Barbara also served on the Campaign Cabinet and she has also supported us. Thank you barbara. [ applause ]. Next to barbara to her left is ron conaway who the ron conaway family has been extremely generous to us and ron also served on our Campaign Cabinet for years. Thank you in particular to our supporters. I do want to acknowledge chuck phinney, a philanthropyist and betty moore who are major supporters and for the betty irene hospital is made. Why did we build this hospital . It was stimulated by seismic requirements to update our facilities. That was just the beginning for us. We wanted to have on this s
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