Grand Donation Opens Door For New Cancer Clinic at Lake Forest Hospital

Lake Forest residents Guy and Janice Arvia played a significant role in bringing a new Northwestern Medicine Developmental Therapeutics Institute (NMDTI) clinic location to Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital.

The pair’s contribution is part of a $2 million philanthropic pledge by the Women’s Board of Lake Forest Hospital in support of the campaign for the new Lake Forest Hospital campus (set to open in 2017), according to a community post on the Lake County News-Sun.

“We wanted to help increase the number of treatment options available for cancer patients living in the northern suburbs,” said Guy Arvia. “It is very exciting to know that NMDTI will be able to provide exactly that here in Lake Forest through high quality clinical trials.”

Set to open this summer, the new clinic will offer cancer patients in the North Chicago suburbs easier access to novel clinical trials.

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NMDTI was established in downtown Chicago in 2013 with a focus on accelerating the translation of preclinical medical breakthroughs into better therapies for patients through support from the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and Northwestern Memorial Hospital.

“Bringing NMDTI to Lake Forest Hospital will allow us to offer patients in the suburbs new options for their cancer care that aren’t available anywhere else in the Chicago area,” said Valerie Nelson, MD, medical oncologist and director of the NMDTI clinic being created at Lake Forest Hospital. “Our Lake Forest patients can expect not only the best standard of care cancer treatments but also cutting edge therapies available through the clinical trials at our NMDTI clinic.”

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