Corporate Partners Program

Corporate Partners Program

The Corporate Partners Program connects Alpert Medical School with local corporate leadership. Such relationships are essential for progress and growth in health care, biomedical research, and education, all of which directly enhance the overall quality of life for Rhode Islanders and residents of southeastern Massachusetts.

By becoming a member, your company will join a growing community of industry leaders invested in the region's socioeconomic development and committed to mutual goals and objectives, including:

  • providing the highest-quality patient care to the people of Rhode Island and southeastern Massachusetts;
  • increasing access to education through medical scholarships for deserving students;
  • promoting economic development and entrepreneurship through groundbreaking research in biotechnology and the life sciences.

Alpert Medical School and Health Care in Rhode Island: Investing in Healthy Communities

Alpert Medical School (AMS) is ranked in the top 25 percent of American medical schools and attracts students who want to be outstanding physicians, health care leaders, and change agents. In the nearly 40 years since its founding, Alpert Medical School has transformed the health-care landscape in Rhode Island. It has established the infrastructure for an academic medical center, employing high-caliber faculty who serve the medical needs of the state, attract vital research funding, and implement programs that have broad community impact. Alpert Medical School is preparing the next generation of physicians to meet acute health care needs in Rhode Island communities and nationally:

  • In response to the projected national physician shortage, Alpert Medical School is increasing the medical student body from 384 to 480. The new building will enable the School to accommodate the 25 percent expansion.
  • Alpert Medical School has incorporated geriatric training into the basic curriculum to prepare for the imminent spike in the number of senior citizens.
  • Alumni, faculty, and residents play a vital role in the delivery of health services in the community:
    • Nearly half of Rhode Island’s physicians are on the faculty of Alpert Medical School, and 13 percent are alumni. 
    • Over 23 percent of AMS alumni have chosen to make New England their home.
    • In 2012, 12 percent of graduates chose to remain in the state for their residency training.
    • Residents in Brown training programs provide the bulk of uncompensated care, shouldering over 78 percent of the state's $124 million costs. Together, AMS medical students, faculty members, and residents deliver health care services to the neediest Rhode Islanders, including children living in poverty, and regularly apply their time and expertise to many resource-poor settings across the region, working as activists and advocates for the underserved and filling the gaps in our health care system.

Economic impact

Academic medicine has a significant impact on Rhode Island. The Medical School and its teaching hospitals attract close to $213 million in external research funding annually. The state government revenue attributable to academic medicine in 2008 was $218 million. In addition:

  • More than 20 Rhode Island biotech firms have been founded by physicians and scientists based at Brown and its teaching hospitals.
  • Rhode Island ranks third among leading technology states in per capita investment in both biotechnology and medical devices.
  • Rhode Island ranks fourth in the country in National Institutes of Health grants per capita, thanks principally to Alpert Medical School.

Become a Corporate Partner

With membership at the Partner level or above, your company will be honored in a number of highly visible venues: it will be recognized in the Honor Roll of Donors and invited to special events. In addition, you, your colleagues, and your employees can enjoy the Corporate Partners Faculty Speaking Program, where experts from Brown visit your company to give helpful presentations on wellness topics like nutrition, fitness, and other timely issues that encourage healthy choices among your employees.

As a Benefactor, your company can name a Term Scholarship to support one Brown medical student for one year. Scholarship donors will receive a report about the student and will be recognized during our annual Scholarship Celebration where, if possible, they will be introduced to their student.

Gifts under $1,000 are also appreciated and qualify your company as a Program Supporter.

Corporate Partner Giving:

  • $1,000 - 2,499: Partner
  • $2,500 - 4,999: Senior Partner
  • $5,000 - 14,999: Distinguished Partner
  • $15,000 or more: Benefactor

Contact

Assistant Director of Corporate and Foundation Relations, Division of Biology and Medicine
William Wemer  
Box G-ADV
Providence, RI 02912
(401) 863-3259 
William_Wemer@brown.edu