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EFTA R1 01997927 A20 Monday, March 28, 2011 • • THE WALL srREgr JOURNAL ' CITY NEWS DONOR OF THE DAY I By Laura Landro r Survivor's Prescription for Care As both cancer survivor and physician, Eva Andersson-Du- bin is all too familiar with the lack of access to coordinated, seamless patient care for pa- tients confronting breast can- cer. That's why she and her hus- band, philanthropist and hedge-fund executive Glenn Dubin, donated $15 million and helped raise another 87.4 mil- lion to create the Dubin Breast Center at the Mount Sinai Medical Center, which will be completed next week. The center, in a L5,000- square-foot space carved out of some old offices on the first floor of the Fifth Avenue IGin- genstein Pavillion, is a compre- hensive state-of-the-art facility that promises integrated care for women in one place from the time they are diagnosed through recovery and after- care. Dr. Andersson-Dubin, a for- mer Miss Sweden and model for the Ford agency, left the glamorous life to attend medi- cal school at the Karolinicsa In- stitute School of Medicine in Stockholm, and then at UCLA School of Medicine, where she received her MD. She com- pleted her medical residency at Lenox Hill Hospital, then worked in corporate medical clinics, finding time along the way to marry Mr. Dubin, a co- founder and chief executive of Highbridge Capital, the multi- billion dollar hedge fund owned by J.P. Morgan Chase & Ca The couple have three chil- dren. They have been active in many charities, and Mr. Dubin was a founding board member of the Robin Hood Foundation, and joined the Mount Sinai Board of Trustees in 2004. But 31/2 years ago, they faced a medical crisis of their own when Dr. Andersson-Dubin was diagnosed with Stage One breast cancer. Despite her pro- fessional savvy and connec- tions, she found herself navi- gating the fragmented world of cancer care, dealing with sev- eral doctors who were rarely in communication with each other. •I had to lug my charts around everywhere and be re- sponsible for everything, and everyone taking care of me was in a different location," she says. That won't be the case at Mount Sinai, where Dr. Ander- sson-Dubin was intimately in- volved in every aspect of the new center's design, picking out fabrics and photographs in the welcoming reception area and private chemotherapy in- fusion rooms, she says. She says she chose Mount Sinai be- cause of its commitment to building up its cancer care and its recruitment of George Rap- tis, a top oncologist who came from Columbia University Col- lege of Physicians and Sur- geons and formerly worked at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Can- cer Center. Dr. Andersson-Dubin fre- quently confers with Dr. Raptis and surgeon Elisa Port, who will serve as co-directors of the center. In addition to pa- tient care, the center will have weekly meetings on transla- tional medicine—the incorpo- ration of the latest research findings into treatment. In addition to clinicians for radiology, medical oncology, surgery, and radiation, the cen- ter will provide psychosocial support—including holistic therapies such as massage, nu- trition, and patient counseling. With doctors, nurses, and so- cial workers under one roof, Dr. Andersson-Dubin expects communication and teamwork to be easier, making for seam- less transitions of care. But most importantly, she says, "the patient's needs are going to come first." EFTA02682709