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BOSTON (WBZNewsRadio) - Brigham and Women's Hospital has a brand new clinic, honoring Eliza Dushku Palandjian and her husband, Peter Palandjian, after the pair gifted $7.5 million to the hospital.
The Eliza Dushku Palandjian and Peter Palandjian Bridge Clinic will provide compassionate, expert care for patients and their families struggling with addiction. The funding will help support advance care, research and education for substance abuse disorders.
“Our gift is about honoring, supporting, and inviting in everyone who might come to the clinic,” says Eliza. “We’re thrilled to support the committed professionals who treat addiction with a multidisciplinary approach using evidence-based sciences together with holistic integration. These principles have benefited me in my own recovery.”
Dushku Palandjian, best known for her role in Bring It On, is currently earning her master's degree in clinical health, with a focus on psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy.
“We’re so thankful to Peter Palandjian and Eliza Dushku Palandjian, whose generous support and partnership will have real, lasting impact on the development, research, and innovation in the often-overlooked area of addiction medicine,” said Robert S.D. Higgins, MD, MSHA, president of Brigham and Women’s Hospital and executive vice president at Mass General Brigham. “Because of the Palandjian’s generosity to the Brigham, and the expertise of our outstanding clinical and addiction specialists, we are at the forefront of state-of-the-art treatment for substance use disorders, with the goal of significantly improving outcomes for countless patients.”
This isn't the first time the pair have made a generous donation to the Brigham. During the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, they donated $1,000,000 and 150,000 N95 Masks to the the hospital.
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