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                        JeffNEWS, December 13, 1994
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THE JEFFERSON 2000 FUND
First Phase of Orthopaedic Research Campaign Passes Halfway Mark
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Several major gifts to strengthen orthopaedic research and education at 
Jefferson Medical College (JMC) have pushed the orthopaedic department's 
campaign significantly forward. The campaign committee, headed by Mr. and 
Mrs. Edmund N. Carpenter II, set a Phase I goal of $7.4 million. The 
current total of $4.4 million in gifts and pledges puts it more than 
halfway there.

The major gifts are a $2-million challenge grant from the Annenberg 
Foundation, headed by former United States ambassador and philanthropist, 
Walter Annenberg; a $1.25-million gift from Biomet, an Indiana-based 
orthopaedic products manufacturer; a $500,000 pledge from The Good 
Samaritan Foundation, and $200,000 pledged by The William Stamps Farish 
Fund. Jefferson has to raise an additional $5.4 million to meet the 
Annenberg challenge. So far, $2.4 million of that amount has been pledged.

The recent campaign gifts will do a great deal to help realize the 
department's goals: endow professorships, renovate and equip laboratory 
space and build a growing endowment to meet future needs.

Jefferson's department of orthopaedic surgery is recognized nationally 
and internationally as a leader in patient care, education and research. 

Founded in 1904 and thus one of the oldest orthopaedic surgery 
departments in the nation, it was the first to offer an orthopaedic 
surgical residency program. Jefferson now has 95 orthopaedic surgeons, led 
by Richard H. Rothman, MD, PhD, the James Edwards Professor of Orthopaedic 
Surgery, department chairman and director of the Orthopaedic Research 
Laboratory at JMC. 

Dr. Rothman developed the hip prosthesis used in the approximately 700 
hip replacements he and his surgical team perform annually.


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