Gifts to Enhance Treatment and Find a Cure
UC San Diego is home to one of the world's leading research and treatment facilities for eating disorders, which affect an estimated nine million Americans and claim more lives than any other psychiatric disorder.
The UC San Diego Eating Disorders Program Center for Treatment and Research (EDC) focuses on researching genetics and brain imaging to learn more about the causes of eating disorders and developing therapies to effectively treat patients. The center offers one of the nation's only outpatient treatment programs specifically designed to involve family members in the treatment of a child with and eating disorder.
Private gifts of any size have a great impact in accelerating the translation of discoveries into solutions for those suffering from eating disorders. Your support will assist the program with its most urgent needs, including research costs, purchasing and maintaining study equipment and assisting families cover the cost of treatment. Click here support the program's greatest needs with a secure online gift.
The Impact of Gifts: Saving a Daughter
"My daughter, like so many diagnosed with anorexia nervosa, is beautiful, intelligent and artistic. I'll never forget the feeling of panic as I watched her literally start to disappear."
With a child so ill that a hospital stay seemed inevitable, Janice and her husband were hoping to save their daughter Marylin when they brought her to UC San Diego's Eating Disorders Center for an intensive, week-long outpatient regimen.
Under the direction of internationally renowned eating disorders specialist and founder of the EDC, Walter Kaye, M.D., Marylin's family learned the necessary skills to manage and support her disease at home through intensive training in Maudsley Family Therapy.
After undergoing treatment and with her family's continued guidance, Marilyn gained several pounds toward her goal weight. As her mother expressed, "In one week, the EDC empowered us with the information and skills necessary to save our daughter."
Ways to Give
The UC San Diego Eating Disorders Center has earned an international reputation as a leader in research and treatment of eating disorders. We are committed to finding the root causes of eating disorders to effectively treat and ultimately cure such debilitating disorders.
With your help, we can more rapidly transform research into innovative treatments that will change and improve the quality of life for countless individuals. Even modest contributions, pooled with gifts from other friends, can achieve big results with vast impact. It's as easy as 1-2-3:
Step 1: Choose Your Area of Impact
Assist in supporting the greatest needs of the UC San Diego Eating Disorders Center, direct your gift to the Patient Support Fund, or contact our office to establish a new fund for earmarked research, clinical care, or training and education.
Step 2: Designate an Amount
You can make a difference with a gift of any amount, whether it's $50, $500, $5,000 or $5 million.
Step 3: Choose Your Philanthropic Tools
- Gift of cash via secure online credit card transaction
- Appreciated stocks or securities
- Pledge (a gift over time)
- Matching gift through your employer
- Or consider a planned gift
Matching Gifts
Matching gift programs can dramatically increase the impact of your gift to UC San Diego. Many employers sponsor matching gift programs and may double or triple any charitable contributions made by their employees.
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