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TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — An Arizona Board of Regents member and his wife have given $1 million to the University of Arizona Cancer Center in Phoenix to help build an outpatient facility.
The board announced that Dr. Ram Krishna and his wife, Dr. Meera Krishna, made the gift.
Ram Krishna is a Yuma orthopedic surgeon. Then-Gov. Jan Brewer appointed him to the regents in 2012.
The outpatient facility is under construction at the Phoenix Biomedical Campus in downtown Phoenix. It's a partnership between the university and St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center.
The Krishnas made the gift in memory of Meera Krishna's sister, a physician who died in 2012 while working in England. A space in the new center will bear the name of the sister, Dr. Mandira Jalajakshi.
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