Clinic renamed for Boston-born actress Eliza Dushku Palandjian and husband after $7.5 mil donation to Brigham & Ladies’s

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The couple’s donation will assist the clinic, in addition to analysis into new therapies for substance use issues.

A group of people poses in front of a sign for the newly-renamed Eliza Dushku Palandjian and Peter Palandjian Bridge Clinic.
(From left to proper) Robert S.D. Higgins, MD, MSHA, President, Brigham and Ladies’s Hospital and Govt Vice President, Mass Common Brigham; Samata Sharma, MD, Medical Director, Eliza Dushku Palandjian and Peter Palandjian Bridge Clinic; Joji Suzuki, MD, Director, Division of Habit Psychiatry and Program Director, Habit Medication Fellowship Program; Eliza Dushku Palandjian; Peter Palandjian. Angela Rowlings

Brigham and Ladies’s hospital introduced a $7.5 million donation from actress Eliza Dushku Palandjian and her husband Peter Palandjian on Tuesday.

$5 million of the Palandjians’ donation will assist remedy for substance use issues, in addition to The Brigham Fund, a normal fund that helps maintain the hospital. 

The remaining $2.5 million can be used to determine the brand new Palandjian Household Distinguished Chair in Medication place, which Charles A. Morris — the hospital’s interim chief medical officer and senior vp of medical affairs, and the Palandjians’ longtime doctor — will inaugurate.

The Palandjians have been donating to Brigham and Ladies’s since 2018, after they gave $1.25 million to the hospital’s Bridge Clinic, an inpatient and outpatient clinic for sufferers with substance use issues. The clinic can be renamed the Eliza Dushku Palandjian and Peter Palandjian Bridge Clinic in recognition of the couple’s newest donation.

“Peter and Eliza hope having their names related to the clinic will reduce the stigma round substance use issues,” the hospital wrote in its announcement.

Dushku Palandjian is a Boston-born actress greatest recognized for her position as Religion within the cult basic collection “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” In line with a press launch from Brigham and Ladies’s, she is at the moment finishing a graduate program in counseling and scientific psychological well being, with a focus in psychedelic-assisted therapies for dependancy and psychological well being issues.

“Our reward is about honoring, supporting, and alluring in everybody who would possibly come to the clinic,” Dushku Palandjian mentioned within the launch. “We’re thrilled to assist the dedicated professionals who deal with dependancy with a multidisciplinary strategy utilizing evidence-based sciences along with holistic integration.”

“These ideas have benefited me in my very own restoration,” added Dushku Palandjian, who has spoken publicly about her experiences with dependancy and restoration.

The Palandjians’ donation can be utilized in half to assist analysis by Joji Suzuki, MD, director of the Division of Habit Psychiatry, into the usage of psychedelic therapies in dependancy remedy.

“Scientific research are displaying that psychedelic-assisted remedy can considerably cut back struggling in measurable methods,” Dushku Palandjian mentioned. “Trauma, treatment-resistant despair, dependancy, end-of-life palliative care — psychological well being typically — this scientific subject holds unbelievable promise.”