Ruth Levy Gottesman is an American educator. She is the chair of the board of trustees of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine (AECOM) in the Bronx, New York, and a long-time Professor there. In February 2024, she donated $1 billion to AECOM to ensure that tuition would be free in perpetuity to all future students. It is the largest gift ever made to any medical school in the country.
With her husband, David, she donated $25 million to the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 2008, which was used to found the Ruth L. and David S. Gottesman Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Research, the Ruth L. Gottesman Clinical Skills Center, and the Faculty Scholar in Epigenetics at the College. When David died in 2022, he bequeathed a portfolio of stock in Berkshire Hathaway to Ruth, with the instructions for her to do with it as she pleased. She’s changing lives, and the future, for BETTER, by giving massively to philanthropy.
Phillip Ozuah was born in Lagos. He obtained his medical degree from the University of Ibadan in 1995. He emigrated shortly after to the USA to continue his studies. He is described as a man who has dedicated his working life to improving healthcare for the most vulnerable citizens in New York and elsewhere. A paediatrician in the South Bronx, a dedicated researcher focused on solving children’s issues unique to the environment, which is known for low income, high crime, and a preponderant black population, a professor and university chairman in paediatrics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and a physician-in-chief of Children’s Hospital at Montefiore.
Currently, he is the CEO and President of Montefiore Einstein, overseeing 13 hospitals, 300 ambulatory sites (clinics), and 7.5 million patient encounters a year. Phillip is proud of his country of origin and his adoptive country. He is a detribalized Nigerian philanthropist who has donated the princely sum of one million dollars for the upliftment of his alma mater, the College of Medicine, University of Ibadan. He might have indirectly encouraged Ruth Gottesman’s one billion dollars donation to AECOM by his dedication to duty and kindness to her husband, David, when he had covid in 2020.
Akon (Aliaune Thiam – Senegalese American) provides solar power to over 600 million Africans, in more than 14 different countries. Akon Lighting Africa is a project started in 2014 by music artist Akon with Samba Bathily and Thione Niang, which aims to provide electricity by solar energy in Africa. Floyd Mayweather, on the other hand, buys a 4.8m dollar car so he can be one of only three owners of such in the world. Unfortunately, there are many more of Mayweather and far less of Akon in the world today.
Are you like Ruth Gottesman, Philip Ozuah and Akon; or you’re like Floyd Mayweather and the rest of the showoffs loitering all over the world? I belong to only ONE CLASS – THE GIVING CLASS! GOD bless the Ruths, Phillips, Akons, and DAs of our time.
SHALOM.
DA