Our Society of Friends
Our work would not be possible without your support
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Support from the Society of Friends helps fund important research on women's health.
For over two decades, Women's Health Research at Yale has led national efforts to translate new scientific knowledge into medical and personal practice to benefit public health. We must continue to evolve and advance.
But we can’t do it alone. We are grateful to have such generous and loyal supporters who share our goals.
WHRY is pleased to acknowledge gifts in support of the endowment fund and annual operating fund. We hope you will consider joining our Society of Friends to ensure that this center continues to drive great science forward. And to help and improve the lives of everyone.
The 2024-2025 Society of Friends
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Visionaries ($100,000 & above)
The Jaffe Family Foundation ^*
The Rice Family Foundation ^*
The Seedlings Foundation
Partners ($25,000 - $99,999)
ANONYMOUS (1)
Laurie and David Benjamin ^*
Wendy U. and Thomas C. Naratil ^*
Eve Hart Rice, M.D. *
The Werth Family Foundation *
Investors ($10,000 - $24,999)
ANONYMOUS (1)
Elisa Spungen Bildner and Robert L. Bildner
Grace and Jay Bright *
Virginia Brody *
Linda and Vincent Calarco
Grace J. Fippinger Foundation *
Mildred L. Cannon Trust *
Carol L. Sirot Foundation
Advocates ($5,000 - $9,999)
Diane F. Ariker *
Katharine B. Arnstein*
The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven *
Dr. Alice Welt Cunningham^*
The Jane and William Curran Foundation*
Jane P. Donaldson*
Mary W. Harriman Foundation*
Sponsors ($2,500 - $4,999)
Susan and Jonathan Katz*
Ellen Gibson McGinnis *
Barbara M. Riley^*
Friends ($1000 - $2,499)
ANONYMOUS (3)
Barbara and Chip Angle*
Joanne Bailey*
David and Sharon Bender Family Foundation*
Valerie Naratil Benfield*
Peggy Mann Berenblum*
Anne Boucher^*
Helen Y. Chang
Anne McBride Curtis*
The Eder Family Foundation
Dianne M. Edgar and Terry Platt*
Lois Fishman
Dr. Susan Forster and William Riley
Elizabeth R. Polsky and Samuel S. Glass*
Kim A. Healey*
Sharon and Doug Karp*
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas B. Ketchum*
Susanna Krentz *
Ruth L. Lansner ^*
The Ethel & Abe Lapides Foundation *
Anne H. Magoun
Christine and Kevin McCann
Cynthia A. McCraven, M.D. ^*
Stephanie C. Naratil *
The Rona and Randolph M. Nelson Foundation
Fran R. Quittel
Carol F. Ross *†
Deborah J. Rothman *
Dovelet Shashou
Elizabeth Sledge
Julia and Sean Stephens
Diane Young Turner*
Patricia F. Vegnani *
Dinny Seton Wakerley*
Byron Walker
Elisse Walter and Ronald Stern*
Associates ($500 - $999)
Skippy Banker
Susan E. Bender*
Jo Brooks*
Anne and Judge Guido Calabresi*
Elizabeth A. Demir*
Susan Ehrenkranz *
Jody P. Ellant
Eugenie and Bradford Gentry
Mona and Glenn Gregg *
Marsha H. Levy-Warren
George and Carol Milne *
Sara Huntington Ohly *
Paula J. Olsiewski
Diane Daskal Ruben *
Pietrina Luciani Saxton
Ruth Simon and Thomas Polton *
Stephanie Spangler and Robert Shulman *
Cindy Underwood *
Esme Usdan
Barbara Wagner *
Beth Elfman Wallace *
Affiliates (Gifts up to $499)
Nina R. Adams and Moreson H. Kaplan
Marissa Ain
Bruce Alexander
Robert Alvine*
Elissa B. Arons*
Dr. Carey August*
Taliser Avery
Madge Baker*
Brenda Baldwin-Marshall
Joan Beranbaum*
Dr. Berger and Mrs. Ethel Berger
Katherine D. Berges*
Nan M. Birdwhistell and David A. Rothberg*
Judy Birke*
Dr. Sally Bloom-Feshbach and Mr. Evans
Lucy Bosch
Jean S. Brenner*
Patricia F. Brett*
Janet Brunwin
Deborah Bullock
Linda Burt
Jeannette O. Byers
Polly Byers*
Ying Cai
Honorable Susan L. Carney*
Kathleen Carney-Godley*
Elsie B. Chapman
Mary Glen Chitty
Shannon Clarkson*
Lawrence and Jane Cohen *
James P. Comer
Jennifer and Peter Cowie
Gay Daly*
John N. Deming
Connie and Peter Dickinson*
William J. Donahoe*
Thomas K. Emmons*
Ellen G. Estes*
Rebecca Eury
Daphne Foreman*
Shannon Foucault*
Julia B. Frank, M.D.*
Geraldine Frankel*
Carol and Hod French *
Linda and Gary Friedlaender*
Cheryl Funaro
Patricia and Nathan Garland *
Tony George
Dr. Richard and Patricia Gibbs*
Nancy W. Gladstone
Barbara Goren
Betsy Gribble and Doug Baldwin*
Carolyn Grillo
Jacqueline Guerriero
Elizabeth Haas*
Judith D. Hackman*
Kristin Hale
Elizabeth Hodapp*
Holly Holter*
Carla and Robert Horwitz
Ellen M. Iseman
Caren Jacobson and Blair Roberts *
Marjorie G. Jones*
Carolyn Kenady*
Nina Kimball
Barbara Klatchko, M.D.*
Sarah L. Knutson
Jacqueline R. Koral *
Wendy Evans Kravitz*
Nancy Kuziemski
Diane J. Kyker
Susan E. Lennon and Robert N. Merritt *
Molly LeVan*
Kaye Maggart*
Barbara B. Mann
Marc and Margaret Mann*
Peggy Ann Marks*
Marilyn and Charles Marsden*
Lynne Melcher
Hillary Michaels
Shirley McCarthy
Lise A. Pearlman
Carol Petschek
Lauren Pinzka *
Dr. Jane Porcelan *
Alexander Purves*
Lupi Phillips Robinson
Dr. Jan L. Roth*
Dr. and Mrs. Robert Scalettar
Elissa J. Schpero
Lynne and Mark Schpero *
Betsey and Arthur Selkowitz
Sarah T. Shapiro*
Nandita Shenoy*
Martha Virginia Sherman*
D. Ellen Shuman
Ilene Singh
Jamie Stern*
Drs. Sandra and Harold Stern
Susan S. Stevens*
Elizabeth Stewart*
Elsa Stone and Steven Wolfson*
Wendy Walden
Tamesha Walker
Christine Walsh
May Yung-Fun Woo Wang*
Katharine and Nicholas Weber*
Vera F. Wells*
Diane L. Wishnafski
Jessica Wolf*
Susie Zimmerman
Gifts Were Made in Honor of
Natalie Ain
Joy Alexander
Diane Ariker
Mary B. Arnstein
Stuart Elizabeth Baldwin
Claudette Beamon
Robin Beckett
Valerie Naratil Benfield
Laurie M. Benjamin
Whitney Bernard
Teasie Blassingame
Sylvia Ardyn Boone
Maureen Bouris
Grace Bright
Emmy Bright
Taliser A. Bright
Ines Carrasquillo
Simona Clark
Jayna Cobbs
Stephanie Naratil Colonna
Mary Conway
Lauren Cosulich
Daniel P. Cunningham
Sharon Digioia-Daskal
Marcia Edgar
Johana Edgar
Shirley Edwards
Sylvia Sher Fishman
Hilda G. Foreman
Jenna Francis
Maggie C. Free
Norma Freeman
Paula George
Lily George
Gerry Gomperts
Mary Mitchell Guler
Susan Helm
Rebecca Helman
Carolyn Holleran
Marianne Jacobbi
Genevieve Jensen
Beth Lawson Kalt
Sharon Karp
Mary Kelly
Sandra Kent
Susan Kintner
Helen Jean Klatchko
Ann Kneisel
Gail Korman
Susanna Krentz
Marion Krentz
Ruth Lansner
Skye W. Lee
Autumn Leonard
Roselyn Leonhart
Joanne Lowney
Joanna Lydgate
Janice Maffei
Judy Markes
Carolyn Mazure, Ph.D.
Marguerite McCraven
Diana Mitchell
Alice Mitchell
Wendy Naratil
Melanie Naratil
Priya Nori
Trina Paige
Carrie Perez
Etta Pisano
Tammela Platt
Dina Pruzansky
Colette Richelle
Nancy Richie
Barbara Riley
Carol F. Ross
Kate Roth
Poly Rounds
Nan Ruben
Lorraine Saulino
Phyllis Z. Seton
Roseann Shaiman
Jina Shashou
Gwyneth Shaw
Carroll Short
Carroll Short
Iris Smith
Sarah Steinhause
Florence Sabin Stern
Kelly Brett Stutzer
Ann Luciani Tomici
Lisa Totman
Emily Trambert
Kyra Turner-Zogbekor
Erica G. Walden
Sarah Walker
Lenoria Walker
Trudie Webster
Deloris Williams
Rosalie J. Woof
Jane Case Wollstein
Helen Lansner Wool
Legacy Society
Women’s Health Research at Yale is tremendously grateful to the members of our Legacy Society, who have included WHRY in their estate plans or have made planned gifts through a will or trust.
Sally Brotton and Mark L. Barra
Daphne Foreman
Rosemary Hudson
Gretchen Kingsley
Phyllis Z. Seton†
WHRY would also like to acknowledge our Founding Members
ANONYMOUS (8)
Melinda Agsten
Walter & Diane Ariker
Mary B. Arnstein †
Sherry Banks-Cohn
Edna Beaudette
Ruthann Beckerman
Ethel Berger
Rita D. Berkson
Grace G. Bright
Mary Jane Burt
Priscilla F. Canny
Helen Y. Chang, M.D., M.P.H.
Roxanne Coady
Jane A. Cohen, LCSW
Kate Collins
Cynthia Conrad, M.D., Ph.D.
Susan W. Crosby †
Carolyn D’Ambrosio, M.D.
Mary Graham Davis
Valerie G. Dugan
Pamela Ehrenkranz, J.D.
Barbara E. Feldman
Anne-Marie Foltz
Marjorie Northrop Friedman, J.D.
Priscilla Gaines
Donna Galluzzo, Ph.D.
Shelley Geballe
Edith P. Gengras
Evelyn Q. Getman
Melanie A. Ginter, Ph.D.
Elaine Glass
Susan Glasspiegel
Mrs. Harry J. Gray
Jane W. Griffith
Betsy Henley-Cohn
Etha Henry
Rosemary Hudson
Megan Ifill-Haney
Carolyn R. Kahn, Ph.D.
Susan Lustman Katz, J.D.
Paulette Kessler, J.D.
Charlotte M. Kinlock
Eileen S. Kraus †
Ruth Lyon Lasell, M.D.
Hadassah Lieberman
Katharine Lustman-Findling †
Janet Madigan, M.D.
Cynthia F. Mann, M.D.
Roslyn Milstein Meyer, Ph.D.
Sharon Milikowsky
Lesley Mills
Alice S. Miskimin, Esq.
Barbara F. Nordhaus
Barbara L. Pearce
Alice Poole
Katherine S. Prokop
Ellen Rabina
Carol F. Ross
Sheilah B. Rostow
Patricia E. Sabosik
Lynne Jacobson Schpero
Rochelle Schreibman, M.D.
Sara Lee Schupf
Martha Shattuck †
Susan Fromm Shimelman
Claire B. Simon
Carol Sirot
Anne Stanback
Barbara C. Wareck
Mrs. William H. White
Julia Whiteside-de Vos, M.D.
Mary Lou Winnick
Claire Wiseman, Ph.D.
Muriel D. Wolf, M.D.
Susan Wong, M.D.
^ indicates multi-year pledge
* indicates consecutive donations over past three years
† deceased
Women’s Health Research at Yale makes every effort to report gift information to the community accurately. Even so, omissions and errors may occur. In such cases, we will promptly update information. Please contact us at whresearch@yale.edu. This listing was last updated in September 2025.