Columbia University Medical Center pay respect to Sudhir Choudhrie and family

The world will always have a place for unselfish compassion, kindness and love for all sentient beings. It just requires an effort to take the step, a step that will bring growth and development.

Businessman and philanthropist Sudhir Choudhrie has been making such efforts for decades. Recently, Sudhir Choudhrie, along with his family, was honoured at the official dedication of the Roy and Diana Vagelos Education Center, the stunning monument and the medical and graduate education institute at the Columbia University Medical Center in Manhattan.

The family has played a major role in establishing the Choudhrie Family Student Lounge for the medical students at the center, where they can take a breather of fun from their hectic schedule.

The event witnessed the presence of the whole family including Sudhir, his wife Anita.

“My good friends Bunny and Anita Choudhrie are major benefactors for the building and great friends of Columbia,” Lee Goldman, Dean of the Faculties of Health Sciences and Medicine at Columbia University Medical Center, called Sudhir by his nickname displaying their friendship. “I want to thank you for contributing your friendship and how much you mean to all of us here at the medical center.”

Choudhries have known the doctors at the Columbia University ever since the year 1999 when they performed his successful heart surgery. In return, the family donated $2.5 million to set-up the Sudhir Choudhrie Professorship of Cardiology.

In 2009, the Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger called the Choudhrie’s and people who’ve donated all along, “Columbian families through and through; you just can’t say enough about what these families have done for Columbia.”

The atmosphere was filled with utmost glee and everyone in the family shared happy thoughts for getting associated with the project of Columbia University Medical Center.