b'HonorHealth Research and Innovation Institute is increasingly a destination and beacon of hope for those facing rare and hard to treat diseases.Michael S. Gordon, MD, Chief Medical OfficerThe Steads were drawn to the Institutes mission to improve medicine and change the future. They recently committed to a generous $5 million gift to establish the Stead Family Innovation Fund, which will give patients access to groundbreaking therapies and the latest medical devices, along with a great deal of much-needed hope.With more than 220 active clinical trials and illness in 2013. After making several gifts asanother 70 under review or consideration, the grateful patients, the Steads met with HonorHealthInstitute is helping to advance the science needed doctors and researchers to learn more aboutto make breakthrough treatments a reality. The the groundbreaking research taking place atSteads admire this vision and drive to innovate.HonorHealth Research and Innovation Institute.HonorHealth was the first hospital in the United They left that meeting believing the work beingStates to implant the Abbott leadless pacemaker done here paired well with their giving priorities. as part of a clinical study on heart arrhythmia. The The Research Institute is discovering new drugs,Institute also reviewed 110 COVID-19 study projects developing novel treatments and technologiesfrom around the world in 2020, then rapidly and expanding scientific knowledge. This life- developed potentially lifesaving therapies less than changing work benefits patients and familiesa year later. More than 1,500 patients were treated here in our community and around the worldthrough COVID-19 clinical trials. This rapid bench who are battling everything from cancerto bedside research is a hallmark of the Institute and cardiovascular disease to neurologicaland ensures patients benefit more quickly.conditions. The Institute is home to someHonorHealth Research and Innovation Institute of the nations foremost investigatorsbothis increasingly a destination and beacon of hope compassionate physicians and dedicatedfor those facing rare and hard to treat diseases, scientistswho are committed to pushing thesaid Michael S. Gordon, MD, Chief Medical boundaries of medical knowledge every day. Officer. Advances against them cannot be made 6 HonorHealth Foundation Magazine'