Our Mission Statement:
We seek to be the premier benefactor for the education, research and treatment of liver diseases in the United States. Our organization draws upon and supports the resources of the University of Illinois Medical Center, a world-class treatment and research facility, to meet our goals. The core focus of the Guild is to raise funding to enable these efforts.
The Walter Payton Center Guild is a philanthropic organization dedicated to assisting the work of physicians and researchers at the University of Illinois Medical Center. In 1997, a group of concerned Chicago-area residents joined together to improve life for family members, friends, neighbors, and business associates whose lives had been altered because of diseases of the GI tract. These volunteers formed the GILD Council to increase awareness of these diseases and raise funds to assist the work of physicians and researchers at the University of Illinois Medical Center at Chicago. In 2008, the GILD partnered with the Walter Payton Foundation to become the Walter Payton Center Guild.
The organization is named for Chicago Bears icon, Walter Payton, who lost his life to liver cancer in 1999. Fittingly, the Guild supports the work of a team of professionals who may operate in a different field, but who possess many of the same traits embodied by Walter himself- an extraordinary combination of talent, effort, teamwork, perserverance and a committment to winning.
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