The Stavros Niarchos Foundation gifted New York City-based Hospital for Special Surgery $10 million to rename and endow its complex joint reconstruction center.
Here are five insights:
1. The center will now be named the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Complex Joint Reconstruction Center. HSS plans to use the $10 million for the operation and expansion of its clinical, research and educational programs.
2. Thomas Sculco, MD, is the surgeon-in-chief emeritus and director of the complex joint center.
3. Within the past year, the center has expanded to comprise 16 orthopedic surgeons who have developed a patient registry with more than 800 surgical cases.
4. In 2017, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Complex Joint Reconstruction Center surgeons performed 534 surgeries.
5. The Stavros Niarchos Foundation previously donated $1 million to fund the Thomas Pl. Sculco, Chair in Orthopedic Surgery.