The Goss Family Establishes a Major Research Award

Devera and Jerry Goss, community philanthropists and a grateful family, support the Dr. Charles M. Smith Medical Physics Program with a strong passion to advance the fight against cancer with an understanding that research is key to our mission. As a cancer survivor, Mr. Goss is driven to provide the best quality treatment for patients, and Mrs. Goss, a retired nurse and hospice volunteer, is compelled to do her part to help lessen the burden of cancer through compassion and her support of science and medicine. A philanthropist and business leader, Mr. Goss has been a long-serving member of the Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center Board and the Foundation Board since 2007 and served as Chairman of the Foundation’s Board from 2014 to 2016.

Deeply committed to the health and well-being of our community, the Goss family made a charitable gift from their IRA utilizing their required minimum distribution to support the medical physics program. Mr. Goss stated that a charitable gift from his IRA enabled his family to make a meaningful and impactful gift today. In addition, through their dedication to education and up and coming cancer-fighting professionals, they created the Goss Family Medical Physics Research Award to be given to an outstanding medical physics graduate student making significant strides in cancer research.

To learn how you, too, can use your estate plan to advance our important mission, please contact Carter Rose Stone at (225) 215-1298 or cstone@marybird.com today.