Our team is the ideal option to coach
high-achieving leaders in
academic medical development.
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Our experience includes:
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​direct involvement in fundraising through 2023
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more than $6 billion raised
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more than 30 cumulative years in medical development specifically
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fundraising for two Nobel Laureates
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multiple, successful, multi-million dollar proposals
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international fundraising in North America, Europe, and the Middle East
OUR TEAM
STEVE RUM, MPA
Founder and Principal
For the past eighteen years, Steve Rum has served as Vice President for Development and Alumni Affairs at Johns Hopkins Medicine, where he has led the development organization – the Fund for Johns Hopkins Medicine (FJHM) – that has generated, on average, more than $1 billion in philanthropy every three years (annual five-year average, $380 million). Comprising approximately 200 staff who fundraise for four affiliated hospitals, sixteen clinical departments, basic sciences, and alumni affairs, FJHM is one of the largest academic medical development departments in the US.
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Across his 32-year career in medical development, Steve has led medical institutions in raising, cumulatively, more than $7 billion – more than any other single individual in the country.
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Mr. Rum is known for his success in leadership philanthropy – including $475 million raised for the Sheikh Zayed Tower and the Bloomberg Children’s Center, and gifts of $100 million, $75 million, $65 million, and $50 million secured for capital projects, new institutes, research and operational funds, and medical student scholarships. He directed the medical development effort for the Johns Hopkins University’s Knowledge for the World campaign, in which Johns Hopkins became the first academic medical center to reach the $2 billion mark, and the subsequent Rising to the Challenge campaign, in which the University raised more than $6 billion ($2.8 billion raised by FJHM). In 2020, recognizing the need to develop leadership skills in development, Steve earned his Leadership Coach certification from Georgetown University.
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In 2014, Steve Rum founded the Johns Hopkins Medicine Philanthropy Institute (JHMPI) to address the compelling need to enhance the professional skills of senior development officers in Medicine, and to create a research platform for rigorous studies relevant to the medical development profession. He co-authored, with a leading member of the Hopkins medical faculty, a landmark paper that was published in a peer-reviewed medical journal (Academic Medicine), reporting on the results of a randomized controlled trial of methods of new faculty engagement in grateful patient fundraising. The publication has been cited in top-tier journals including Science and Nature, and the methods it described are now incorporated as best practice at medical centers around the country. Recently he initiated and co-led a national Summit on the Ethics of Grateful Patient Fundraising, a two-day event that resulted in recommendations published in Academic Medicine and JAMA in 2018 – a first in the field.
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The JHMPI research agenda and its signature Summer Institute demonstrate Steve’s capacity to think beyond the walls of his own institution and the bounds of his own career; they embody his desire to advance the effectiveness, quality, and stature of medical development as a credible profession.
JANE WHEELER, MSPH
Senior Associate
Jane Wheeler has served in various roles for academic medical center development over the past 22 years, most recently as a member of the Senior Management Team of the Fund for Johns Hopkins Medicine (FJHM) and its Senior Director of Business Development and Communication. At Duke and Johns Hopkins, she helped faculty secure funding for clinical programs, research, and education from philanthropy, foundations, professional associations, and federal agencies including the NIH, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. In addition to design and development of large-scale philanthropic initiatives, her responsibilities at FJHM included oversight of internal communications, communication training, strategic planning, and principal gift proposal development.
Jane received her bachelor’s degree in Politics magna cum laude from Princeton University and her master of science in Health Policy and Management from Harvard School of Public Health where she was named the Charles F. Wilensky Scholar for Outstanding Academic Achievement. She has worked to continuously improve her skills relevant to organizational development with courses in management, business psychology, public speaking, strategy, and leadership; she is accredited in Structural Dynamics training through the International Coaching Federation, and earned a Certificate in Healthcare Leadership and Management from the Johns Hopkins Carey School of Business.
Jane has spent the majority of her career working for public and private medical centers and universities including Harvard, Duke, Johns Hopkins, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the University of California at Berkeley. Outside of academia, she has been employed by healthcare nonprofits in palliative care and hospice, schizophrenia, cancer patient support, and adolescent risk reduction. While on faculty at Duke University School of Medicine, she wrote abstracts, industry protocols for clinical trials, IRB protocols, budgets, and research narratives; she is author of more than 45 peer-reviewed articles and nine book chapters pertaining to hospice and palliative medicine, supportive care in cancer, information technology use in patient-centered care, conflict of interest in medical research, new models of patient care, and medical development.
ANGELA BOWEN
Associate
Angela Bowen brings nearly 30 years of development experience.
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Angela spent ten years at Imperial College London, with her most recent role as Director of Development for Medicine and Global, where she pioneered and led a fundraising programme that secured £157.3M in new gifts and pledges for the Faculty of Medicine over a six-year period. In her time at Imperial College, Angela also served as the Director of Development and had management responsibility for the whole of the fundraising programmes across the Faculties for science, medicine, business and engineering.
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Before Imperial, Angela was at the Cass Business School running the major gifts programme and raising funds from a variety of regions around the world for four years. Prior to that role, Angela served as a Senior Associate Director in the Physical Sciences Division for over four years at the University of Chicago during a university-wide $2 billion campaign.
Angela has extensive principal gift and fundraising management experience, specialising in clinical medicine and medical research, life sciences, business and engineering. She advises several leading research institutions in UK/Europe on building grateful patient fundraising programmes and she is an alumnus of the Johns Hopkins Medicine Philanthropy Institute. She is also a presenter for CASE and a judge for the Asian Women of Achievement Awards. Prior to The University of Chicago, Angela was a fundraiser at Inspiration Corporation, The Royal Society and The Children’s Society. Angela completed her liberal arts degree in English at Kalamazoo College.
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In her spare time, Angela keeps bees, grows vegetables in the allotment and hikes the cliffs and beaches of the Gower Peninsula with her husband and two dogs.
JEREMY DURKIN
Associate
Jeremy Durkin is a leading practitioner of healthcare fundraising data management and analytics. Over a 17-year career at Johns Hopkins Medicine, Jeremy has developed a distinctive combination of skill sets across the following domains:
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CRM implementations and data conversions
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Electronic health record and healthcare fundraising data integrations
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Data privacy, security and compliance
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Business analytics and KPI development
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Visualization and dashboard design
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ML model training and deployment
Jeremy is passionate about furthering the mission of non-profit organizations and motivating philanthropic individuals, and his approach to data management and analytics focuses on serving these objectives. With deep expertise in both clinical and fundraising data domains, Jeremy brings a unique capability to solve challenging business and data problems to move organizations forward.