McGill University owes its very existence to the foresight of a generous planned gift. Through your will or other planned gift, you can create your own legacy at McGill’s Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences and empower future generations of students.
Leaving a legacy gift is an opportunity to maximize your impact, minimize your tax burden, and create a lasting legacy for years to come.
A graduate of the School of Medicine, Joanne Jepson, MDCM’59, spent most of her life in California but her attachment to McGill ran deep. Over the past decade, she lavished the McGill community with the fruits of her twin passions, first donating the very best of her art collection and then, upon her death in 2022, a bequest in her will. That gift will establish a new medical professorship: the Joanne Hope Jepson M.D. Professorship in Infectious Disease, Global Medicine Studies, that will strengthen McGill’s contribution to the global fight against infectious diseases, and create multiple science fellowships for Indigenous students.
Established in 2022 by Irving Fox, BSc'65, MDCM'67 and Gloria Fox, BA'66, the Irving and Gloria Fox Research Bursaries for Medical Students is in recognition of the two summers of research Dr. Fox spent as a medical student at McGill, which sparked a fulfilling, lifelong career devoted to benefitting humanity through medical science and research. It is awarded by the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences' Student Research Committee to support one or more students in the MDCM program pursuing research in the summer.
"It is a show of gratitude to the people we worked with and to our university.”
Husband and wife Dr. Richard (Dick) Cruess, CC, OQ, Professor of Surgery and Dean of Medicine Emeritus, and Dr. Sylvia Cruess, OC, Professor of Medicine Emerita, have earmarked bequests for the University. Their careers at McGill led them to recognize the difference bequests and unrestricted gifts can make. The Cruesses are leaving unrestricted bequests to the Institute of Health Sciences Education (IHSE), which they were instrumental in founding.
A bequest from the late Robert Remis, BSc’67, MDCM’72, whose scientific findings and public health initiatives prevented countless cases of mother-to-child HIV transmission around the world, is helping new researchers conduct important epidemiological work and contributing to a McGill school active in global efforts to end the COVID-19 pandemic. The Dr. Robert S. Remis Fellowship in Epidemiology provides $20,000 a year to a graduate student pursuing infectious disease epidemiology.