Gerald Levey, who led building of UCLA medical center after Northridge quake, dies

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Levey, the administrator who oversaw construction of the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center after the Northridge quake, was 84.

Gerald Levey, the administrator who oversaw the construction of Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center after the Northridge earthquake damaged the university’s hospital building, has died at his home in Los Angeles.

“He invested in recruiting and mentoring excellent people. Everyone at UCLA benefitted from his vision and ability to lead.”Levey was also a founding board member for the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine, which put California on the map as a hub for stem-cell research. He met his future wife, Barbara, during his senior year at Cornell University; they married in 1961. Barbara Levey, a clinical pharmacologist, would later become UCLA’s assistant vice chancellor for biomedical affairs. She died in 2019.

The Northridge earthquake of 1994 damaged UCLA’s hospital building just eight months before Levey’s arrival, and he faced the monumental task of replacing it. During his tenure, he raised $2.52 billion — with $300 million earmarked for the hospital — by courting local businesses and philanthropists.

 

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