“Seek those…who fan your flames"
- Dr. Khatib had many patients who were diagnosed with Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM), and the eradication of this illness remained his highest priority. The Khatib Foundation has provided funds to three major medical universities to work together toward one single goal – finding the cure for GBM. Funds are provided to Johns Hopkins University, Case Western Reserve, and the Cleveland Clinic in light of hope for a cure for GBM in perpetuity.
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At each university, the top scholars of the department of neurology & neurosurgery are in charge of a research program, with Dr. Henry Brem of Johns Hopkins administering overall project coordination and reporting.
As the most common brain tumor in adults. Glioblastoma tumors are malignant, and diagnosed patients have very poor survival rates. Dr Khatib says: as a neurosurgeon with 45 years of experience, Treating Glioblastoma caused me the greatest frustration and anguish of my Dr.Khatib his greatest frustrations. Surgical removal, chemotherapy, and radiation were at most only palliative. Death is all but a certain outcome. Families are devastated. This illness must be halted!
The projects of the Khatib Foundation that are searching for glioblastoma's cure share an important characteristic with Dr. Khatib's projects in Iran, and his other humanitarian projects. All are non-political, aimed at purely humanitarian goals, and all have been built to function in perpetuity. The Khatib medical research positions, the Clinic and School for the Indigent, Mashhad's first Hospice, his engineering endowment to the University of Miami and his support for comparative religion studies have all been designed to carry on their important missions today, and to continue performing well into the future.
These elements are at the heart of the Khatib Foundation Legacy.
Dr. Henry Brem of Johns Hopkins also serves as a trustee of the Khatib Foundation, and continued to be hightly instrumental in the implamentation of the foundation, hopefully well into the future.
Dr. John Weingarten was recently welcomed to his new position in the Endowed Professorship in Neurosurgery supported by the Khatib Foundation. Dr Weingarten brings his distiguished record of accomplishment in his field.
We welcome him!
Dr. Justin Durla Lathia, PHD is formally appointed as inaugural holder of the Reza Khatib Endowed chair in Neurosurgery at Case Western University.
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“We simply could not do it without you! Your greatly enhance the Case Wester Reserve University School of Medicine as a destinationfor medical education, innovative research and its translation to patients in our community and beyond. Your collective contributions, supporting both an endowed professorship and fellowship in brain health, enale us to strive ever forward toward our critically important mission…. We are, as always, grateful for your shared interest in our strategic goals, and honored by your ongoing phianthropic investment into our institution.Thank you once again for your partnership and generosity."
Dr.Stan Gerson
Case Wester Reserve University
Dr. Alireza Mohammadi is formally appointed as the chair holder of the reza Khatib endowed chair in Neurosurgery department of Cleveland Clinic.
In celebrating Cleveland Clinic's this Reza Khatib MD Endowed Chair in Neurosurgery and the partnership it represents, Cleveland Clinic celebrated the primary goal shared – to find the cure for Glioblastoma Multiforme, or GBM.
MEET DR. MOHAMMADI
Luis Ruiz Pestana
Awarded Endowed Chair
The Khatib lifelong commitment to improving the lives of others is embodied in the Dr. Reza and Georgianna Khatib Endowed Chair, recently presented to Luis Ruiz Pestana, assistant professor, in the Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering at the College of Engineering during an evening ceremony in 2022 at the Kislak Center in Miami.
“An endowed chair symbolizes the intersection of a donor’s generosity and a scholar’s talent,” said President Julio Frenk. “Visionary donors, such as Dr. Reza Khatib and his late wife Georgianna Khatib, ensure bright futures for generations of scholars through permanent investments"
Recapping the Legacy
Projects Funded in Perpetuity by the Khatib Foundation
Johns Hopkins
Establishment of the Dr. Reza Khatib Brain Tumor Research Center
Endowed Professorship, Dr. John Weingart, March 2024
Endowed Chair in Neurosurgery & the International Followship Program
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Case Western Reserve
Endowed Chair for the Treatment of GBM & Fellowship Program
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The Cleveland Clinic
Endowed Chair for Treatment of GBM and Fellowship Program
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University of California, San Francisco
The Reza & Gergianna Khatib Endowed Chair for Dr. Andy Parsa in Skull-Based Tumors
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University of Miami
The Reza & Georgianna Khatib Endowed Chair in Civil Engineering
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Legacy Humanitarian Projects in the Islamic Republic of Iran
The Clinic for Poor and Indigent, Holy City of Mashad
The Mashad Hospice
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Other Cultural Endowments
The Reza & Georgianna Khatib Continuing Endowment for the
Comparative Study of Religions, University of Mary Washington