He was there for Muhammad Ali’s fights; when Ali attended the funeral of his trainer, Angelo Dundee; and when former President Bill Clinton spoke during the opening of the fighter’s cultural and educational center in Louisville, Ky., to name just a few of the big moments in Ali’s life.
Sports Illustrated swimsuit model Anne V has never attended a boxing match, but she and 16 of her fellow SI models can now honestly say they've spent time in the ring in the Fight Capital of the World.
In the same city where some of the most significant bouts of the past 50 years have taken place, a new fight is beginning. The Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health has launched a study aimed at reducing traumatic head injuries and brain diseases sometimes suffered by fighters.
In just a few years, the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health has become one of the nation’s leading facilities for the research and treatment of neurodegenerative disorders, and the Las Vegas-based clinic is showing no signs of slowing down.
When the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health opened to patients in July 2009, one of its primary objectives was to provide a place for Las Vegas residents suffering from Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative diseases to obtain treatment locally. Now in its third year of operation, the center has only expanded on that mission.
Within the architectural exclamation point of a building that is the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health, there are world-renowned doctors, acclaimed researchers and expert therapists. But the distinguished research and treatment center in downtown Las Vegas would not run properly, nor would it be able to meet its own high standards for patient care, without its dedicated team of volunteers.
The world’s eyes will be on Muhammad Ali this Saturday in Las Vegas, as they’ve been so many times in so many places over so many years. But another treasure will be spotlighted during this weekend’s gala to celebrate Ali’s 70th birthday, and it’s so meaningful that Ali and his family are using his starpower to help raise awareness of it.
In a major step toward establishing the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health as the pre-eminient facility in its field nationally, a Nobel laureate has agreed to chair its scientific advisory committee.
It is big news in Las Vegas when 2,000 to 3,000 residents who suffer from multiple sclerosis don’t have a doctor or the ability to be treated in one of the largest metropolitan areas of the country.
Two years ago, the Cleveland Clinic launched a new era of health care in Las Vegas. The world-class clinic partnered with the Lou Ruvo Brain Institute to create the first health care collaboration in Las Vegas involving a renowned hospital from outside Nevada.
Larry King highlighted Las Vegas’ Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health during his first CNN special since retiring in December. "Unthinkable: The Alzheimer’s Epidemic” aired Saturday night.
Most of the major news recently surrounding Alzheimer’s disease has been focused on the lack of success in discovering effective therapies for the disease. Even the major theories of what causes Alzheimer’s disease are being questioned and re-examined.
The latest hope for Parkinson’s patients is as simple as riding a bike. That’s why 57-year-old Dave Malcolm, wearing shorts and a sleeveless T-shirt, spends mornings pedaling steadily on an exercise bike at the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health.
In his audacious campaign to find a cure for Alzheimer’s disease, businessman Larry Ruvo is about ready to check off another milestone. 1) Establish a foundation to raise money for a world-class research and outpatient treatment center, check.
The structure that houses the virtually completed Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health, four years in the making, can challenge your idea of what a Las Vegas building is. Why are the forms a jumbled, twisted series of misaligned openings arranged among unfamiliar forms? Is this thing even finished? Where are my red tiles? The design, by controversial star architect Frank Gehry, has had this destabilizing effect on Las Vegans since it was unveiled in 2006.
Las Vegas will be a Mecca for health care and it will happen before 2020. I just came back from spending time in Cleveland, where the excitement was the annual board of directors and trustees meeting. There, the Ruvo Center was officially donated to the Cleveland Clinic. We all know that Cleveland Clinic is going to expand its facilities in Las Vegas.
Larry Ruvo is a man with several missions: Find a cure for debilitating brain disorders such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and Huntington’s; change the model of care patients receive; and discover a way to diagnose the illnesses early and then successfully treat them.
Dr. Michael Modic is overseeing operations at the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health after the two organizations joined forces this year.
The Lou Ruvo center has attracted celebrities and politicians, but former Mexican President Vicente Fox’s visit was a first for the degenerative brain disease research and treatment facility.
Discussions between the Cleveland Clinic and Las Vegas City Hall about developing a larger medical presence in town are moving forward — if the code spoken Wednesday is any indication. Dr. Delos “Toby” Cosgrove, president and CEO of the Cleveland Clinic, said during a Sun interview while sitting next to Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman that their two institutions are “holding hands.”
The Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health has hired Libby Lumpkin, former executive director of the Las Vegas Art Museum, to amass and curate a rotating art exhibition. Proceeds of admissions and sales will be funneled back into the institution and its clinical care and medical research.
Monday morning offered a bittersweet moment as Randy Capurro, a fixture in Las Vegas business and Republican political circles, became the first Alzheimer’s patient to be treated at the new Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health. Capurro is a close friend of Larry Ruvo, who founded the brain institute in honor of his late father, Lou. Ruvo held the door and a small gathering of doctors and staff watched as Capurro and his wife entered the $100 million building.
The Lou Ruvo Brain Institute will see its first patient Monday morning, according to Maureen Peckman, CEO of Keep Memory Alive, the fundraising arm of the institute. Within a year, the clinic expects to have 2,000 patients.
When friends or family visit from out of town, I like to take them to the Arts District to show them another side of Vegas — see a gallery exhibit, eat at a downtown restaurant or stroll the neighborhood examining buildings, signage and history.
As the vision for the Ruvo Center for Brain Health evolved in the past decade, its most fantastic ambition became the curing of Alzheimer’s and other degenerative brain disorders. But from the get-go, the founders knew they first had to provide emotional and logistical support for the patients, families and friends who deal with the repercussions of the grueling diseases.
