Annual Planned Giving Luncheon 2025

Planned Giving Luncheon

Thank you for joining us on Thursday, May 29th, to honor and celebrate your generous support and commitment to Doheny’s mission.

Special Guest Speakers:

Alfredo A. Sadun, MD, PhD
Doheny Eye Institute
Structure Reveals Function: How the Retina can be used to disclose neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s

Henri L. Cancio-Fitzgerald, CTFA, CAP
PNC Institutional Asset Management
Philanthropic Planning in Times of Uncertainty

Date: Thursday, May 29, 2025
Time: 10:30 am (PT) Guided Tours, 11:30 am – 1:30 pm (PT) Lunch and Seminar
Location: Guided Tours: Doheny Eye Institute, 150 N. Orange Grove Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91103
Lunch and Seminar: The Valley Hunt Club, 520 S. Orange Grove Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91105

About the Speakers:

Alfredo A. Sadun, MD, PhD joined Doheny Eye Institute in 1984 and has been a physician, researcher, and educator for nearly his entire career and for half of Doheny’s lifetime. Dr. Sadun holds the Flora Thornton Endowed Chair of Vision Research, is Chief of Ophthalmology at Doheny Eye Centers/UCLA and is a Vice Chair and Professor of Ophthalmology at UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine.

Recognized as an international authority in neuro-ophthalmology, Dr. Sadun’s expertise centers upon diseases of the optic nerve. He and a team of researchers at Doheny Eye Institute were the first to show that Alzheimer’s disease significantly affects the optic nerve, retinal cells, and retinal nerve fibers.

Henri L. Cancio-Fitzgeraldis, CTFA, CAP® is the national managing director of Nonprofit Strategy and Solutions for PNC Institutional Asset Management™. He directs the overall strategy for PNC nonprofit asset management business and provides advice and solutions for nonprofit clients. Henri has many years of experience in the financial services industry serving the nonprofit sector.

Prior to PNC he was the director of philanthropic planning at Wells Fargo Bank, where he managed the planned giving offering and headed up the Wells Fargo donor-advised fund. He also worked as a senior trust and fiduciary specialist and senior planned giving advisor at Wells Fargo Bank.