The Role of the Jack Martin Fund
The current commitment of the Jack Martin Fund is to name and endow a new program in Pediatric Oncology at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. The Department will be located in the Hospital and will include areas in the outpatient building, faculty practice area and the Mount Sinai Children's Center. The Jack Martin Fund Program in Pediatric Oncology will be established to consolidate, coordinate, and expand clinical services for children with leukemia and cancer. It will consist of examination, treatment, and consultation rooms. The facility will also include an outpatient play area for children with leukemia and cancer being treated with an infusion of chemotherapy and blood products.
Mount Sinai has entered a new era of prominence. With a new state-of-the-art hospital and a vigorous and productive medical school, Mount Sinai is determined to remain in the forefront of modern science and medicine and to assume the leadership in confronting the major public health issues of our time. The Jack Martin Fund continues to play a pivotal role consistent with it's original mission and timely response to new priorities.
Our History
An Extraordinary Volunteer Organization
The Jack Martin Fund, now marking it's 56th Anniversary, is one of the most remarkable stories of volunteer support of medical care, research and education. In terms of outright generosity, faith in the promise of research to prevent and treat life-threatening diseases and commitment to one institution, the fund has few equals. Since it's inception in 1950, the Fund has contributed more than $25 million to Mount Sinai to further progress in human health through education, research and technology.
It all began when the family, friends and associates of Jack Martin, a beloved business executive who died of Polio at the age of 34, established The Jack Martin Fund in his memory. The initial purpose was to create an appropriate memorial by building and maintaining a respiratory center at Mount Sinai, where Jack Martin was treated.
Through the timeless efforts of a small number of dedicated volunteers, bolstered by thousands of contributors, the Jack Martin Fund has made possible a host of achievements at Mount Sinai.
Pioneering Support
Grants from The Jack Martin Fund enabled Mount Sinai to:
- Establish the largest children's diabetes clinic in New York City.
- Develop a new heart-assist device that eliminates the need for a second major open-heart surgical procedure.
- Conduct seminal research in, among many areas, heart failure, Parkinson's disease, ileitis and colitis, occupational lung disease and the effectiveness of certain drugs and chemical compounds in patients with Cancer.
- Establish a permanent student financial aid program so that the brightest students can pursue a medical education regardless of their financial status.
- Create a special clinic for early detection of cancer of the cervix.
- Renovate the Blood Bank.
- Establish a $2 million Jack Martin Endowment Fund to assure a perpetual source of support for medical research and education.
- Establish and name The Jack Martin Fund Clinic, to provide out-patient care for HIV sufferers.
The scope of support provided by The Jack Martin Fund has included: pediatric neurology, pediatric endocrinology, medicine psychiatry, surgery, speech and hearing, otolaryngology , liver disease, diabetes, head and neck surgery, renal dialysis and kidney transplant, neoplastic diseases, endocrinology, proctology, plastic surgery, orthopedics, radiology, hypoglycemia, chemotherapy ad radiation therapy, geriatrics and adult development, nuclear medicine, alcoholism , hematology, dentistry, arteriosclerosis, pharmacology, thyroid disease, ophthalmology and rheumatology.