$15 million for UCD wellness center
By Joanne Kelley, Rocky Mountain News (Contact)
Thursday, May 8, 2008
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The Anschutz Foundation donated $15 million to the University of Colorado Denver for the creation of a health and wellness center.
The facility, to be built soon on the Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora, aims to "foster a new culture of health prevention and disease prevention," the school announced Thursday.
"The University of Colorado Denver has a long history of being at the forefront of disease management," UCD Chancellor M. Roy Wilson said in a statement.
The medical campus, located at the site of the former Fitzsimons Army base, has received more than $107 million in all from the foundation, which was established by Denver financier Phil Anschutz.
The wellness center will house the centers for integrative medicine, human nutrition and women's health research. It also will include research labs and community programs.
Research and care will focus on alternative and complementary medicine, holistic wellness and counseling, weight management, and improving nutrition and physical fitness.
Its interim director will be James O. Hill, director of the UCD School of Medicine's Center for Human Nutrition and co- founder of America On the Move.
Hill said the center will help in "breaking down the silos and bringing people together in Colorado to improve health, combat obesity and prevent chronic diseases such as diabetes."
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