Marcia Stenn Remembered Through Investiture of Professorship at Northwestern University
Press Release, 04/22/2010Marcia Stenn, the late wife of Chicago lawyer Irving Stenn, Jr., will be remembered on April 30, 2010, when the first Marcia Stenn Professor of Gynecologic Oncology chair will be bestowed on Dr. John Robert Lurain III at Northwestern University.
Marcia was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 1987. In 1991, together with her husband and family, the Stenn Fund for Ovarian Cancer Research was created to support the Division of Gynecologic Oncology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and to help patients and their families suffering with ovarian cancer. Marcia succumbed to the disease in 1999.
Robert A. Clifford, senior partner at Clifford Law Offices, has been a significant supporter of this fund throughout the years. Through his generous support and that of many other lawyers and others throughout the Chicago community, Dr. Lurain is the inaugural recipient or this honor. He has been on staff at Northwestern Hospital since 1979.
The Marcia Stenn Professorship in Gynecologic Oncology also funds the Nancy Anderson Award for Excellence in Gynecologic Oncology Nursing to acknowledge outstanding nurses, nurse clinicians and nurse practitioners at the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University who exemplify the spirit of Anderson’s excellence in care and commitment to her patients. Anderson demonstrated her compassionate care and friendship to the Stenn family and Marcia throughout her battle with cancer.
