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DIVISION OF SPORTS MEDICINE AND SHOULDER SURGERY
The Johns Hopkins University
MISSION
The mission of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and of the Division of Shoulder Surgery is to fulfill the three missions of our medical institution: preeminence in patient care, research and education. Our goal is to have programs which change the lives of people worldwide, and to develop programs which are visionary and revolutionary in our fields.
The Shoulder Surgery Research and Education Fund
This fund provides support of the research and educational programs of the division. This fund provides for funding for a variety of research protocols and for the funding of the education of students, residents and fellows. This fund is necessary for the everyday running of the program and is a critical area of need for our program. Areas of research include the development of a system for performing prospective, randomized studies of conditions that effect the musculoskeletal system of active individuals. The second area for development is the development of a biomechanical model of how the shoulder works and what is wrong when it doesn’t work. A third area of research is exploring ways to improve the healing of soft tissue to bone once it has been attached to bone, such as using growth factors or stem cells.
Estimated cost: any amount
Student, Resident and Fellow’s Book Fund
This fund will allow us to provide text books to these groups of trainees free to them, and the books provided will be those judged to be the most important in the field of orthopaedic surgery, sports medicine and shoulder surgery. Since many of these texts now cost $150 to $300 per text, donations of any size can be designated for this purpose.
Estimated cost: any amount
Endowed Lectureship in Shoulder Surgery
One of the major missions of the Division of Orthopaedic Surgery and Shoulder Surgery is education of residents, fellows and orthopaedic surgeons from the community and at The Johns Hopkins University. One way of accomplishing this goal is by having experts in the field of shoulder surgery visit our institution as a “Visiting Professor” each year. Typically this type of program involves the esteemed individual coming to the medical center for two days to interact with the residents and staff. This endowed lectureship pays for the expense of this individual and also provides for a modest honorarium to the speaker for taking time from his busy practice. The lectureship would be named after the donor.
Estimated cost: $50,000
Endowed Fellowship in Shoulder Surgery
The Division of Sports Medicine and Shoulder Surgery is dedicated to the education of orthopaedic surgeons and young physicians in the complex and complicated field of shoulder surgery. This fellowship will be offered to an individual who has finished their orthopaedic residency who wanst to have further training in shoulder surgery. The money from this fund will be used for salary support and for support of educational programs for this individual, such as teaching conferences and journal clubs. This fellowship has the potential to allow us to attract individuals who can have tremendous impact upon the treatment of patients with these conditions in the future. The first fellow will be hopefully beginning in 2006 or 2007.
Estimated cost: 1.5 million
Endowed Traveling Fellowship in Shoulder Surgery
One of the major advantages of an institution such as The Johns Hopkins University is that the faculty have many connections all around the world. The interest from this fund would allow a fellow in sports medicine and shoulder surgery at the Johns Hopkins University to travel nationally or preferably internationally for one month after completion of their fellowship at Johns Hopkins University. For those of us who have been on traveling fellowships, the opportunity to interact with experts around the world is an exceptional and memorable experience. This fellowship would allow the fellow to learn cutting edge procedures which could be brought back to the United States. The fellowship would pay for the lodging, food and salary for this one month.
Estimated cost: $100.000
Biomechanics of the Shoulder Research Fund
This fund will provide for the establishment of a biomechanics research program aimed at discovering how the shoulder works. The goal it to unlock the relationship of the rotator cuff to shoulder movement and shoulder disorders. This fund will be used to pay for consultation by a department biomechanist, to provide for materials and equipment to establish a shoulder model and to hire a PhD candidate who will write grants designed to make their position full time and funded.
Estimate cost: 1.5 million to 2.5 million dollars
Endowed Research Fund for Orthopaedic Outcomes
This fund, which would carry the donor’s name, would provide a steady stream of income to finance research upon the outcomes of the treatment of orthopaedic conditions. The annual income from this fund would be used for the funding of research involving the effect of exercise and rehabilitation upon common orthopaedic conditions. This fund would specifically be used for support of essential portions of outcomes studies, specifically statistical analysis, development of computerized databases for multicenter trials, purchasing of computers and software, support of personnel necessary for the day to day running of the center, and for support of grant writing and manuscript preparation. This fund would allow research funds from other sources (e.g. NIH) to be directed to where they are needed.
Estimate cost: 2.5 to 5.0 million
Endowed Professorship in Orthopaedic and Sports Outcomes
This fund which would carry the donor’s name would support a PhD researcher whose function would be to generate income for the development of an outcomes program for the Division of Sports Medicine and Shoulder Surgery. This individual would be the “work-horse” of the program whose major responsibilities would be to provide innovative research but also to write grants to fund the mission of outcomes research. This individual would be an epidemiologist or public health expert whose other mission would be to interact with the Bloomberg School of Public Health to develop epidemiological studies of orthopaedic outcomes and of sports injury. This individual would be responsible for raising money through grants for expansion of these programs into a center for the study of the factors which predict surgical result after shoulder surgery, for the development of randomized trials of shoulder surgery and for the development of epidemiological studies of injuries in sports and exercise.
Estimate cost: 2.5 million
Assistant or Associate Professor Endowed Clinical Chair
As the Division of Sports Medicine and Shoulder Surgery grows, the ability to attract exceptional faculty requires the support of the faculty member to perform research. This endowed position would allow the Division to hire an individual who would have dedicated and protected time for research. The demands of clinical practice due to diminishing reimbursements make the ability of young faculty members to do research limited. This fund allows the young researcher to have an immediate impact with cutting edge research. This fund would enhance the ability of the Division to attract high caliber researchers with a proven track record in research and clinical care.
Estimated cost: 1.5 million
The Center for Orthopaedic Outcomes and Research
This Center represents the creation of a unique and exciting program to study the effect of orthopaedic and sports principles upon health and wellness. The goal is to create a program which can have worldwide impact upon how musculoskeletal diseases are treated. This will be accomplished by prospectively studying common musculoskeletal conditions for the optimum way to prevent and treat the conditions. This Center would have as its emphasis the relationship of exercise to injury and to recovery from injury. The Center will study the effects of both medical and surgical interventions for common musculoskeletal conditions.
The endowed chair for the lead physician researcher will be responsible for administration of the program.
Estimated costs (individual positions are described below):
Endowed chair physician researcher and director - 5.0 million
Endowed position PhD researcher - 2.5 million
Endowed position research nurse - 1.5 million
Endowment of center - 5.0 million
Estimated cost: 15.0 million
Checks
should be made to “The Shoulder Surgery Research
and Education Fund” and sent to
Dr. Edward McFarland
10753
Falls Road, Suite 215, Lutherville MD 21093
For larger gifts, further information can be obtained from Mr.
Steve Rum, The Fund for Johns Hopkins Medicine,
410-516-6800 or
800-548-1268
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