Domino’s CEO’s $2M builds epilepsy unit at Children’s Hospital
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The founder of Domino’s Pizza in Canada was back in Winnipeg Tuesday to share a slice of his life with a loaded, extra-large $2-million donation that will improve the lives of thousands of children with epilepsy.
Michael and Lilibeth Schlater’s gift to the Children’s Hospital Foundation of Manitoba will be used to create a new pediatric epilepsy and neurosurgery program at the Health Sciences Centre facility.
Michael Schlater and one of the couple’s daughters have both been treated for epilepsy.
The new unit is expected to open in 2018. Until now, the closest treatment centres were in Calgary and Toronto.
Schlater is the CEO of Domino’s Pizza of Canada. An American transplant who delivered Domino’s pizza in Ohio in the ’70s, he opened the massive chain’s first location outside the United States in Winnipeg in 1983.
“Today marks a day in health care where children with epilepsy will no longer have to travel outside Manitoba,” said Lawrence Prout, president and CEO of the Children’s Hospital Foundation of Manitoba.
“The Schlaters are going to change the lives of many children in Manitoba.”
The family is well known for its philanthropy, having donated more than $11 million to various charities.
“We just love kids,” Michael Schlater said. “We’re blessed to have a few extra bucks, so that’s why we do what we do.”
The gift allows Manitoba to offer services the province could otherwise not afford.
“We do get lots of correspondence about how things are going well at Children’s and I think that’s because we value our kids and we’re fortunate to have (donors) like Lilibeth and Michael Schlater,” Health Minister Kelvin Goertzen said.
“You’re taking care of a lot of kids you’ll never meet.”
Children’s Hospital medical director Dr. Terry Klassen, who is the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority’s senior pediatric director said Manitoba currently has no formal epilepsy monitoring unit or neurologists specifically trained in the condition for comprehensive investigation and treatment of children
The hospital will open a two-bed pediatric epilepsy unit and equip it with robotic instruments. The unit is headed by Dr. Demitre Serletis, whose specialty is deep brain surgery.
Serletis, who moved to Winnipeg from Arkansas last year to head the treatment unit, works with 10 other Manitoba neurosurgeons treating patients with brain and spinal-cord conditions and injuries in an area covering a population of 1.5 million, extending from Regina to Dryden, Ont., and the North.
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