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Alumnus Donates $2 Million to MCPHS

The College has received a gift of $2 million from Richard E. Griffin, a graduate in the Class of 1971 and a member of the College’s Board of Trustees. “I am happy to be in a position to give back to the institution that launched my career,” Griffin told a surprised and jubilant audience at the College’s annual President’s Leadership Gala on December 19. President Charles F. Monahan, Jr. thanked Mr. Griffin for his generosity and announced that the College’s new building on Huntington Avenue in Boston will be named the “Richard E. Griffin Academic Center” in his honor. “This gift will help us create a state-of-the-art facility for educating nurses and physician assistants,” the President said.

The son of a pharmacist and MCPHS graduate, Mr. Griffin grew up in Northfield, Massachusetts, where he attended Pioneer Valley Regional High School. As a student at MCPHS, he received several scholarships and was active in the Academy of Students of Pharmacy and Kappa Psi Professional Fraternity. After graduating in 1971, he taught at Kabaa High School in Kenya before beginning his career in hospital pharmacy. An expert in enternal nutrition and infusion therapy, he held leadership positions in the American Society for Parentral and Enternal Nutrition and the American Society of Health System Pharmacists. He founded and subsequently sold Critical Care Systems, Inc., which provides specialty infusion therapies to both pediatric and adult patients either at home or at special ambulatory sites across the country. A resident of New Hampshire, Mr. Griffin is married and has two children.

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