Awareness for Severe Food Allergies

November 2025

Awareness for Severe Food Allergies

Seth and Susan Lee have made a meaningful impact on the Duke University community through a philanthropic gift inspired by their family’s personal experience with life-threatening food allergies. When their son Jacob ’26, who has severe nut and seed allergies, explored colleges, Duke Dining stood out for its proactive, compassionate approach to supporting students with allergen needs. That experience motivated the Lees to strengthen campus safety for all.

Guided by Seth Lee’s leadership, the family’s gift enabled the installation of emergency epinephrine injector and nasal spray stations across Duke’s dining venues, placing lifesaving treatment within immediate reach during a severe allergic reaction. The initiative has already proven its value: one of the newly installed stations was used to stabilize a visitor experiencing an acute reaction during a campus event.

Seth’s commitment reflects a broader vision to create a safer, more inclusive environment at Duke, ensuring that students, families, and visitors can dine with confidence. Read more here: https://madeforthis.duke.edu/stories/lee-family-gift-enables-safe-dining-safer-campus/.

Defining Leadership in Talent Management

The Leadership Talent Group (LTG), is a boutique talent management consulting firm specializing in retained search, interim leadership and executive development services for hospital systems. Led by managing partner Julie Hixson Suijk, she is joined by industry experts Seth Lee and Tiffany Crenshaw, providing talent solutions in the delivery of original candidate research, passive candidate development, diverse candidate slates and timely search completion. The consultants of LTG have completed 600+ executive and interim leadership placements nationally at 50+ faith-based, academic, non-profit, for-profit, children’s and community hospital systems, culminating in 10,000+ executive encounters. With our boutique search model, we conduct original candidate research, targeting health systems and passive candidates at virtually any health system in the nation. Our expansive network with health system leaders is unrivaled. Learn more about our branded, "The Pragmatic Interview Method" that is designed to align interview team members and candidates to create an engaged interview experience.: www.theleadershiptalentgroup.com. 

LTG Contact

Julie Hixson Suijk, Managing Partner, The Leadership Talent Group, julie@theleadershiptalentgroup.com.

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