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Thank you for your inquiry indicating your interest in donating your body to the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Enclosed are three intent forms, an application for cremation and a questionnaire, which are to be completed by you or your next of kin. One copy of the intent forms is to be kept for your records, one copy is to be given to next of kin, attorney, or physician and one copy, along with the cremation application, which is to be signed by the next of kin, and questionnaire are to be returned to us immediately for our files.
If you have a will or are planning to have one, then in addition to filling out the enclosed forms, the following provision should be included in the will or in a codicil made to the will:
"I hereby direct that after my death, my body shall be delivered to the Albert Einstein College of Medicine for purposes of medical study or research. I further direct that my body will be delivered to said Medical School as soon as possible after my death without autopsy or embalming".
If the donor expires on a weekend or after our mortuary is closed for the day, the deceased should be kept in the hospital morgue or transported to the nearest funeral home or morgue, without autopsy or embalming, until the Albert Einstein College of Medicine can make arrangements for transportation. The Albert Einstein College of Medicine has the right to decline acceptance of the body if it is not suitable for use in medical education or research, therefore it would be wise to have an alternate plan in the event we are unable to accept the donation. The Albert Einstein College of Medicine will pay for transporting the body within a ten-mile radius of the borough of the Bronx.
It should be understood that the donated body would have to remain at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine for a minimum of one year to two years. The enclosed cards should be filled out by you and should be carried with you at all times.
We do appreciate your interest in the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and your desire to contribute in this important way to medical science. If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to call on us.
Sincerely,
Vincent L. Ruggiero III
Supervisor
Department of Anatomy & Structural Biology
Daytime Phone: 718.430.3142
Night & Weekends: 347.219.3413
Fax: 718.430.8996
Vincent.Ruggiero@Einstein.YU.edu
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Graduate Student Scholarship and Research Fund
Department of Anatomy and Structural Biology
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Since you belong to a group of highly concerned public-spirited citizens who are considering willing their bodies to the Department of Anatomy and Structural Biology of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, you may be interested to learn of other ways to contribute to medical education and research. One form of assistance that is highly appreciated is a tax deductible donation or bequest to the Department of Anatomy and Structural Biology, either unrestricted or directed specifically towards the support of biomedical research. Another possibility, which is appealing both in terms of the immediate good achieved and of the long-range contribution to health care, is to contribute to scholarship aid or research support for graduate students.
Each year young men and women who have demonstrated high intellectual achievement in college science courses are selected for advanced training in research in our graduate program in biomedical science. Upon acceptance into our program the student takes additional advanced course work and conducts original research leading to Ph.D. degree. In our department, graduate students do research pertaining to respiratory disease, infertility, hormones and their secretion, vision and other sensory phenomena, basic cell and tissue response to drugs, and to a variety of other structural or functional problems relating to human health. Much of future biomedical research and education results with such students.
Our Ph.D. program takes about five years, during which period full time must be devoted to advanced study and laboratory work. Federal and university grants for graduate study are very limited and commercial loan programs for medical students are not available to graduate students. Thus, many students must make financial and personal sacrifices to complete their education. One serious consequence for the future of the country and for biomedical research is that many of the most talented students are attracted to other fields which appear more lucrative.
To assist our graduate students, and to help attract to Albert Einstein College of Medicine and to science the most promising Ph.D. students, a Graduate Student Scholarship and Research Fund has been established within our department. Since the fund is perpetuating, any size gift is valuable. If a gift is substantial enough to support a full scholarship, a specific designation of that scholarship in the name of the benefactor can be arranged.
If you are or become interested in making such a gift, please use the following address:
Department of Anatomy and Structural Biology
Graduate Student Scholarship and Research Fund
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
1300 Morris Park Avenue
Bronx, New York 10461
Checks should be made payable to the Department of Anatomy and Structural Biology/AECOM to insure their tax deductibility.
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