“It's A Bargain” Thrift Shop - Orthopaedic Hospital

suMMer 2008 v o l u M e Xiii, n u M b e r 1
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A boy flinches and laughs while being sprayed with water from a dragon tail
at the new Everychild Foundation Universally Accessible Playground on the
downtown campus. The playground accommodates children with
wheelchairs, leg braces, crutches and other barriers that usually leave them
confined to the sidelines at traditional playgrounds. See story, page 8.
Taking Education to New Levels ..........2
The Orthopædic Hospital/UCLA residency program aims to become the
best orthopaedic surgery residency in the nation, producing physicians
who will change the face of medicine and become leaders in their fields.
OH’s Opportunities Grow .....................4
The decade-old alliance between Orthopædic Hospital and UCLA affords
the opportunity to expand the core historical mission of providing
charity care, conducting research and promoting education.
New Research Center Opens ..............13
An era that promises to bring about innovative medical treatments and
cures is ushered in with the opening of the new Orthopædic Hospital
Research Center on the UCLA campus.
Research Head Sees Breakthroughs .... 17
John S. Adams, MD, the new vice chair for research at the Orthopædic
Hospital Research Center, predicts that multidisciplinary teams of
scientists and clinicians will discover breakthroughs in medicine.
New Website Updates OH’s Image ...... 30
More than a year in the making, Orthopædic Hospital’s new website
highlights the flourishing children’s clinic and offers visitors a comprehensive
view of services as well as dozens of links to topics of interest.
In Memoriam ...................................... 59
pu blisher: Los Angeles Orthopædic Hospital Foundation
president: Mary Schmitz, PhD
p r o d uc e d by: Kay Lau & Associates
de s ig n: Steve Kelley
w r i t i n g an d rese arch: Steve Kelley and The Phelps Group
photogr aph y: LAOHF Staff and Steve Kelley
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Taking Orthopaedic
Education to New Levels
By James V. Luck, Jr., MD • Chief Executive Officer and Medical Director • Los Angeles Orthopædic Hospital
This is an incredibly exciting time
to be working in orthopaedics.
For nearly 100 years, we at
Orthopædic Hospital have been
committed to improving care for
people with all types of orthopaedic problems
through patient care, research and education.
Today, orthopaedic surgery represents one of
the most competitive residencies across the
United States. By combining the extraordinary
academic credentials of both UCLA and
Orthopædic Hospital, I believe that we soon
will have the nation’s most sought-after orthopaedic
residency.
Education, of course, has long been part
of the core mission of Orthopædic Hospital,
along with providing charity care and advancing
scientific research. Our medical residency
program began with just a handful of residents
in the 1940s under the guidance of our
founder, Charles LeRoy Lowman, MD; Alvia
Brockway, MD; and Ward Rowland, MD.
When my father, J. Vernon
Luck Sr., MD, became
medical director in
1955, the residency
program was down to a
single resident. Because one of my father’s priorities
was education, he built one of the most
robust and sought-after training programs in
orthopaedics nationally.
Some people have said he almost singlehandedly
reinvented professional medical
education. He challenged medical students
and residents to be more than what he termed
“surgical technicians.” He developed the
Orthopaedic Resident Physician-In-Training
Examination used in U.S. orthopaedic residency
programs to assist residents and their
professors in identifying gaps in their knowledge
and assure uniform high standards.
After my father completed his
tenure in 1967, the residency
program continued along
a similar path until Augusto
Sarmiento, MD was named
medical director.
Dr. Sarmiento was also the chairman of
the Department of Orthopaedics at the University
of Southern California, which oversaw
the Los Angeles County residency program.
He combined that program with the OH residency
under the auspices of USC. Orthopædic
Hospital continued to play a significant role in
the training of these residents but no longer
had responsibility for the administration of
the program as a whole.
In the first years of the 1990s under the
administration of Blair C. Filler, MD, director
of Medical Education, other residencies began

sending residents to OH for training in pediatric
orthopaedics, joint replacement and musculoskeletal
tumors. G. June Marshall, MD,
director of Research at Orthopædic Hospital,
was devoted to education and established
research rotations for third- and fourth-year
medical students from universities across the
United States.
Having learned from my father
and been inspired by his
devotion, I made education
one of my priorities and
ensured that it was a significant
part of our discussions with UCLA in the
formation of our strategic alliance in 1998.
As part of that commitment to education,
I served eight years on the Residency Review
Committee, the last two years as chair. The
Residency Review Committee for Orthopaedic
Surgery, a part of the Accreditation Council
of Graduate Medical Education, oversees and
accredits all orthopaedic residencies and many
orthopaedic fellowships in the United States.
Subsequently, I was elected a director of
the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery
and served as its president in 2005 and 2006.
This organization is responsible for establishing
the curriculum for orthopaedic education
and certifying and recertifying orthopaedic
surgeons in the United States.
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In March 2007, I became program director
of the renamed Orthopædic Hospital/UCLA
residency. Working with outstanding faculty
and administrators at UCLA and OH, it is our
goal to make this the best orthopaedic surgery
residency in the nation.
Each year, two of our residents take off
a year to do basic research in the laboratories.
The opening of the new Orthopædic
Hospital Research Center on the UCLA campus
in Westwood significantly enhances our
residents’ education experience. This Center
offers one of the greatest opportunities for
discovering advancements in the treatment of
musculoskeletal diseases in the world.
Residents who participate in this
opportunity will be positioned
to become the leaders in academic
orthopaedics of the future.
Applicants for the Orthopædic
Hospital/UCLA residency hail from the top
educational institutions in the country and
represent remarkably accomplished young
men and women.
This year we had 450 applicants for our
six first-year residency positions. Most of
these applicants were in the top quartile of
their medical school classes. Our goal is to
take that extraordinary talent and provide it
with the highest quality education possible.
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Orthopædic Hospital’s
Mission Remains While
Opportunities Grow
A
decade into its alliance with UCLA,
Orthopædic Hospital has taken
stock to determine whether the historical
mission of providing charity
care, conducting research and
promoting education will remain viable in years
to come.
The conclusion: A resounding yes.
“Last year we reached a turning point after having
achieved a number of milestones,” explained
James V. Luck Jr., MD, chief executive officer and
medical director. “We had opened the Outpatient
Medical Center downtown to record numbers
of patients. We had relocated our pediatric and
adult inpatient surgeries from downtown to the
new Orthopædic Hospital at Santa Monica–UCLA
Medical Center. We were preparing to unveil the
new Orthopædic Hospital Research Center on
the UCLA campus. It seemed like a good time to
reexamine our mission.”
The responsibility for forging strategic
goals fell to a 10-member task
force consisting of representatives of
the OH Board of Directors, the OH
Foundation Board of Trustees and
management. Days of discussion led the panel to
determine that Orthopædic Hospital’s purpose
and priorities remain the same and that the future
looks incredibly bright.
“Why we exist has not changed,” Dr. Luck
said. “We exist to provide outstanding care for
patients with musculoskeletal disorders, to care
for children regardless of ability to pay, and to
advance care worldwide for all musculoskeletal
patients through medical education and scientific
research.
“What has changed is the ‘we.’ We are now
the team of Orthopædic Hospital and UCLA.
Together we have the potential to expand all our
orthopaedic programs. We already attract hemophilia
and musculoskeletal tumor patients from
throughout the U.S. We will establish centers
of excellence in other orthopaedic subspecialties.
The musculoskeletal research at Orthopædic
OH’s Vision
Orthopædic Hospital, in partnership
with UCLA Orthopaedics, will advance its
national leadership role and be at the forefront
of advancing care for patients with
musculoskeletal disorders (setting the standard
for others to emulate) — with pediatric
orthopaedics as its priority.
Orthopædic Hospital’s strategic plan
builds upon its clinical, research and education
leadership and its goal, in partnership
with UCLA, is to be recognized as “best in
class” for:
• Pediatric orthopaedics
• Joint replacement
• Spinal problems
• Musculoskeletal tumors
• Hemophilia
• Trauma
• Sports medicine

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Los Angeles Orthopædic Hospital – Outpatient Visits
Outpatient On-Site Visits: Clinics, Emergency Room/Urgent Care Pediatrics Only
Fiscal Years 1998–2007
ER/UC Pediatrics
Clinics On-Site
FY98 FY99 FY00 FY01 FY02 FY03 FY04 FY05 FY06 FY07
This graph excludes outreach clinic visits.
In Fiscal Year 2007, Orthopædic Hospital recorded 45,086 patient visits. Of that total, 31,082 were on-site clinic
visits, while 14,004 were pediatric visits to the emergency room or urgent care.
Hospital and UCLA is among the top. Our goal
is to expand our multidisciplinary research in
molecular biology, genetics, stem cell biology and
biomechanics to become the top musculoskeletal
research center in the nation. We will stay at
the forefront of medical education and hope to
have the most sought-after residency in orthopaedic
surgery in the country. Finally, to support
ongoing activities and future initiatives, we will
enhance our fundraising.”
Orthopædic Hospital will continue
to serve as the safety net for children
with crippling orthopaedic
disorders and everyday orthopaedic
problems.
“The challenge will be to sustain the fundraising
required for the cost of charity care,
education and research,” Dr. Luck said. “In
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addition, we must ensure that
the philanthropic dollars are
wisely invested and utilized for
the greatest impact. With the
Orthopædic Hospital Foundation
working in tandem with
Orthopædic Hospital, I’m confident
that we will succeed.”
Research to improve the
welfare of orthopaedic patients
and advance care worldwide
will focus on molecular biology,
genetics and stem cell biology.
Toward this end, Orthopædic
Hospital assumes a leadership
role in the UCLA Department of
Orthopaedic Surgery as well as
oversees the Orthopædic Hospital–UCLA
residency program.
To make the most of
investments in research, the
Orthopædic Hospital Board
of Directors and UCLA have
established an Executive Committee
on Research for prioritizing
projects and reviewing progress every three
months. OH will seed basic research and fund a
portion of the ongoing operational support.
“Above all else, we need to support translational
research that can be applied to clinical
problems in improving the welfare of orthopaedic
patients and advancing care,” Dr. Luck said.
Translational research is now the mandate of
the National Institutes of Health, which is the
major funding source for biomedical research in
the U.S. “We also need to foster pediatric-related
research in areas such as genetic disorders, birth
defects and trauma,” he said.
The education component of
Orthopædic Hospital’s mission still
involves training the next generation
of orthopaedic clinicians and leaders
to care for children and adults.
It has expanded beyond residencies, however, to
encompass a broad spectrum of educational support
and relationships, including clinical practitioners
and Orthopædic Hospital Medical Magnet
High School students.
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Diverse Forces
Reshaping Healthcare
Orthopædic Hospital’s strategic task force examined the
mission of charity care, research and education amid myriad
social, technological, economic and political forces that are
reshaping the field of healthcare.
For example, Orthopædic Hospital is addressing numerous
changes on the clinical front. As more emergency rooms close,
Orthopædic Hospital expects to expand its current position as
a haven for pediatric trauma victims. Orthopædic Hospital also
is in a position to help children afflicted with cerebral palsy
in terms of care and research. Because the incidence of orthopaedic
problems is higher in developing countries than in the
United States, Orthopædic Hospital could expand its international
presence.
Orthopædic Hospital’s research investments will require
careful allocation. Clinically relevant research, with its promise
of benefits in the near term, generally yields a high return on
investment. Basic research in areas such as stem cells generally
offers outstanding long-term potential but may require an
investment of seed money.
“We aim to advance residency education to
an even higher level than its current excellent
reputation,” Dr. Luck said. “Among other goals,
we will capitalize on our distinctive qualities and
increase our educational offerings.”
One issue that the strategic task force reiterated
for the benefit of Orthopædic Hospital
supporters is the nature of the alliance between
Orthopædic Hospital and UCLA.
“The relationship is neither a merger nor an
acquisition,” Dr. Luck said. “The alliance most
closely resembles a joint venture partnership.
People often ask me whether we still own a hospital.
The answer is yes.”
Under the agreement, Orthopædic Hospital
owns one-third of the entire hospital in Santa
Monica as a co-tenant on land owned by the University
of California. The hospital operates under
a single license as Santa Monica–UCLA Medical
Center and Orthopædic Hospital.
UCLA and Orthopædic Hospital administer
the hospital jointly. Orthopædic Hospital’s responsibilities
include chief of orthopaedics, associate

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Under its agreement with UCLA, Orthopædic Hospital owns one-third of the new hospital under
construction in Santa Monica. Both organizations administer the hospital jointly.
administrator, residency program director, member
of the Executive Medical Board and half of the
Board of the Advisors Executive Committee.
The responsibility for providing outstanding
care for patients with musculoskeletal disorders
now spans across a dynamic group.
The medical staff of Santa Monica–
UCLA Medical Center and
Orthopædic Hospital and the
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
includes 1,000 members across all
specialties. About 54 members are dedicated to
orthopaedic surgery — perhaps the largest and
most significant concentration of orthopaedic surgeons
on any community hospital medical staff.
The Orthopædic Hospital Medical Group
encompasses 40 physicians in specialties as
diverse as pediatrics, internal medicine, oncology,
orthopaedics, urology, hematology, anesthesiology,
neurology, plastic surgery and radiology.
Orthopaedic Surgery residents, serving rotating
assignments downtown with faculty supervi-
sion, provide care to children at the Outpatient
Medical Clinic and Orthopaedic Urgent Care.
They see more pediatric fractures in a day than
most orthopaedic residents see in a week or even
a month.
The strategic task force noted that volunteer
and support groups will become even more crucial
in the future. Today approximately 700 volunteers
contribute nearly 14,500 hours annually.
New opportunities for support on the Westside
include those at the hospital, the new pediatric
clinic in Santa Monica and the new research facility.
The need for support downtown will continue
to grow now that the universally accessible playground
has opened.
“We truly expect to change the world of
healthcare and achieve spectacular results with
regard to patient care, medical research, and educating
current and future healthcare providers,”
Dr. Luck said. “All it takes is focus, support and
disciplined execution — and the ongoing generosity
and support of our donors.”
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Los Angeles City Council Member Jan Perry motions to children to stay calm and wait momentarily
before the grand opening of the Everychild Foundation Universally Accessible Playground.
It’s Time to Play: Everychild
Foundation Universally
Accessible Playground Opens
In a magical, happily-ever-after moment,
a young boy rolled down the gently sloping
ramp, laughing as his wheelchair and
service dog triggered a series of motion
sensors that chimed music.
A small girl with a walker scurried amid randomly
shooting columns of water underneath the
watchful gaze of a friendly, blue-eyed red dragon.
Undaunted by his crutches and the able-bodied
children darting around him, a boy eagerly
explored the interactive options along the ramps
of a large play area, safely ensconced by bright
green and yellow guardrails.
As an unseasonably warm sunny day unfolded,
scores of children frolicked throughout the
new Everychild Foundation Universally Accessible
Playground after its dedication on Orthopædic
Hospital’s downtown campus February 28, 2008.
The public playground accommodates children
with wheelchairs, leg braces, crutches and
other barriers that usually leave them confined
to the sidelines at traditional playgrounds. The
playground will serve the largest demographic of
physically challenged children in the nation and
is expected to become the busiest of its kind anywhere.
More than 42,000 children with disabilities
and 85,000 able-bodied children are expected
to visit the playground each year.
The nearly half-acre play area, designed in
partnership with Shane’s Inspiration, features
special equipment in a modern and creative
environment where children with and without
disabilities can play together. The playground
has sturdy foam ground cover to protect children

from falls and is wheelchair-friendly.
The park features brightly colored slides,
tubes, bridges, swings, interactive puzzles, a quiet
area, a misting dragon and lush landscaping for
children ages 2 to 12. Through a joint-use agreement
with the City of Los Angeles Department of
Recreation and Parks, the playground is open to
the public seven days a week.
“With the opening of this delightful and
unique playground, we are expanding our mission
of care for children with musculoskeletal
conditions regardless of the family’s ability to
pay,” said James V. Luck Jr., MD, president, CEO
and medical director. “The playground provides a
safe and stimulating outdoor haven for children
in the community — regardless of their physical
limitations — to come together, play and learn
from each other.”
In addition to benefiting pediatric patients,
their siblings and children from the entire community
for years to come, the playground will
serve as a model for similar projects across
Los Angeles and other communities around the
world, some as far away as Cambodia.
When we imagine the lack
of access in a community,
we’re likely to think about
the lack of access to healthcare
or affordable housing or
access to the classroom,” said Mary Schmitz, PhD,
president, Orthopædic Hospital Foundation. “But
rarely do we think about lack of access to playgrounds.
But if you really think about it, a child
in a wheelchair can’t get across the sand and the
wood chips to even get to play equipment in most
playgrounds. These are children set aside unless
someone knows how to literally level the playing
field and design an area where all children can
play together.
“Before we began constructing this playground,
Orthopædic Hospital worked with
Shane’s Inspiration to find out what children and
adults wanted in their playground. We held focus
groups to get input from community members,
doctors, nurses, patients, parents and therapists.
The doctors suggested a sand area. The patients
said ‘No, it gets in our braces.’ The children wanted
a play area, but the doctors didn’t want the
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“Dr. Charles LeRoy Lowman had a vision to
provide care for children regardless of their
ability to pay when he started his clinic a few
blocks from here in 1911. His vision was to take
care of the whole child, not just a crippled foot, a
curved spine or a dysplastic hip. This playground
is the realization of his vision. He would be
indeed happy and proud to see this.”
— James V. Luck Jr., MD, president, CEO
and medical director, Orthopædic Hospital
“These days we often think of play as what
children do when their time isn’t spent learning
something valuable. But while a child can survive
beautifully without ballet, soccer or gymnastics,
no child can survive and thrive without play. I
am so proud of what has been created here for
our community — a beautiful, magical place
devoted to play; a place where the obstacles that
keep children with disabilities from participating
in traditional playground activities have been
brilliantly overcome; a place for children to form
friendships, to learn new skills and to realize
that there really are no limits to what they can
accomplish and become.”
— Mary Schmitz, PhD, president,
Los Angeles Orthopædic Hospital Foundation
“I am happy for the kids because kids who have
different kinds of challenges often experience a
bias. This will enable them to experience the
joy and the learning that comes from just being
able to have access to the same things other kids
have. Somebody in a wheelchair will finally have
access to play equipment that is designed so
they can feel the pleasure of moving their bodies
in motion, rolling around, moving freely from
one piece of equipment to another. This is why
accessible playgrounds are so transformative.
This park means that thousands of more kids
will be able to play.”
— Jan Perry, Los Angeles City Council
member, Ninth Council District
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children’s casts to get wet. So we compromised
with a magical misting dragon.”
Los Angeles City Council Member Jan Perry
hailed the playground as a milestone and a vital
addition to the Ninth Council District.
“Los Angeles Orthopædic Hospital continues
to bring valuable resources to our young people
by providing them with the expert medical care
and personal attention they need,” she said. “The
addition of this playground is an extension of the
Hospital’s continued commitment to building
stronger communities and providing for children.
This new public park is a great partnership that
will benefit the entire neighborhood.”
Orthopædic Hospital was selected by the
Everychild Foundation as its sole 2006 grantee
and was awarded a lead gift of $925,000 to support
the construction of the playground.
The president and founder of the Everychild
Foundation, Jacqueline Caster, said the play-
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ground will be an incredible asset to the community
in a multitude of ways.
“It will allow children with disabilities who
are used to sitting on the sidelines the chance
to engage in play and feel like regular kids,” she
explained. “It will also be utilized as a therapeutic
and teaching facility for the Hospital and will fill
a niche in a neighborhood lacking adequate, safe
playgrounds for its youngsters. Children with and
without disabilities will learn acceptance and tolerance
as they play side by side.”
The grand opening ceremonies, with
“It’s Time to Play” as its theme, began
with stirring songs by a combined
Orthopædic Hospital and Shane’s
Inspiration children’s choir. Whimsical
dragon heads, created by art and leadership
students at Orthopædic Hospital Medical Magnet
High School, greeted visitors along nearby fences.
The event was featured on television newscasts.

❶ Man’s best friend rests comfortably on the padded
playground surface. ❷ Two boys negotiate the springacross.
❸ A swing with back support and a seat belt
helps a girl in braces safely soar high. ❹ A boy exits
a tube slide. ❺ A girl pauses on her way to the top of
the chimney climber. ❻ Enjoying a game set up for the
grand opening, a boy hurls a ring at warthog tails.
The Everychild Foundation is a Los Angeles
women’s grant-making organization. Its goal
is to alleviate suffering of local children due to
disease, disability, abuse, neglect or poverty. The
225-member organization makes a single $1-million
grant to fund a dream project of a different
local agency each year. Projects are chosen by vote
of the entire membership. Each woman contributes
$5,000 in dues annually, and instead of being
preoccupied with fundraising, the members focus
their attention toward educating themselves about
the unmet needs of children in the community.
Shane’s Inspiration is a nonprofit organization
whose vision is to eliminate bias toward children
with disabilities through the vehicle of integrated
play. The universally accessible playgrounds the
group designs are unique environments that
foster acceptance, friendship and understanding
among children of all abilities.
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“It’s just incredible the number of roles this
playground will fill. This facility is expected
to be the most utilized universally accessible
playground in the nation — probably in the
world — with over 128,000 expected visitors
per year. Second, it will provide a muchneeded
resource to the local neighborhood,
which is lacking in safe, clean, well-maintained
playground space for its young residents.
Third, the playground is going to provide a new
venue for therapy and teaching. In addition
to providing a much-needed outlet for play, it
will just as importantly allow the children of
different abilities to come here and increase their
understanding of and respect for one another.”
— Jacqueline Caster, president and
founder, Everychild Foundation
“For the City of Los Angeles Recreation and
Parks, this isn’t really new for us. This is
actually the seventh universally accessible
playground that we’ve opened. We expect by the
end of 2009 to have one in each council district.
So, we’re moving forward. We’re so grateful for
Orthopædic Hospital in this endeavor. We’re
going to be maintaining this facility so people can
use it in years to come.”
— Regina Adams, executive officer, City of Los
Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks
“The most amazing thing about this project is
that all children with disabilities will have a
chance to play. But beyond that, they will have a
place of honor where they can be a kid and have
fun. Now that this playground is open, we are
going to begin an education program and work
with all local schools in the district and bring
children with all abilities together and give them
a chance to get to know each other and become
friends and discover how truly similar they are.”
— Tiffany Harris, CEO, co-founder,
Shane’s Inspiration
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Sports Clinic Offers Athletes
Outstanding Care
Athletes from high schools in the
downtown area who come to
Orthopædic Hospital with injuries
get the same exceptional attention
that UCLA varsity athletes receive.
That’s because the physician who runs the
OH sports medicine clinic and the physician who
tends to the Bruins in Westwood are one and the
same — Heather Gillespie, MD, MPH.
Dr. Gillespie, who also runs two fracture
clinics at Orthopædic Hospital,
brings a distinctive perspective
to her job, having been a varsity
swimmer and water polo player
at Brown University. Before
joining the UCLA faculty in
September 2007, she earned a
medical degree at Duke University
and completed a family
medicine residency at Thomas
Jefferson University and a
sports medicine fellowship at
Maine Medical Center in Port-
land, Maine.
“Our sports medicine clinic
primarily targets high school
athletes from the downtown area, but we also see
younger adolescents and children with musculoskeletal
complaints related to sports — knee pain,
ankle pain and other injuries,” Dr. Gillespie said.
“In terms of sports, there are many children
and adolescents in the area who are underserved
and really don’t have access to medical care. We
reach out to them — the football and basketball
players who don’t have anyone to take care of
their athletic injuries — as a resource.”
Patients come to the clinic generally after being
referred by an urgent-care center, school athletic
trainer, coach or pediatrician. Dr. Gillespie and
the OH staff offer services from magnetic resonant
imaging (MRI) to physical therapy.
Dr. Gillespie sees injuries ranging from tears
of the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) — a common
knee injury — to ankle sprains, shoulder
dislocations and shoulder pain.
“Those three joints are the most common
injuries,” Dr. Gillespie said. “Sometimes it’s an
overuse injury, sometimes an acute traumatic
injury. Fortunately, ACL injuries are the exception,
so most of the athletic injuries we see are
nonsurgical. That’s the key. There’s a lot that can
be treated with bracing and physical therapy.”
Dr. Gillespie and the staff
are contacting more athletic
directors within the Los Angeles
Unified School District to make
them aware of the resources at
Orthopædic Hospital.
“We’re trying to expand
because so many of the children
don’t have access to care,” she
said. “Many places aren’t taking
Medi-Cal anymore. We’re one
of the few facilities that will
accept their insurance. So, for
the underinsured or uninsured,
Heather Gillespie, MD, MPH
we provide vital services. We’re
definitely trying to get the word
out that we’re available.”
In addition to her duties at Orthopædic
Hospital and in the UCLA training room,
Dr. Gillespie conducts a family-practice
clinic and a sports-medicine clinic at
UCLA, which includes patients of all ages
with sports-related injuries and medical issues.
“I work out of at least four offices,” she said.
“It keeps me busy. But it’s a nice balance for me
working with the UCLA varsity athletes and then
having the contrast with the athletes I work with
here. I really love the patient population here.
Everyone is very appreciative of what we do. I
enjoy working with the staff and attending physicians
here as well. It’s a unique and very special
place to work.”

A vision
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The new Orthopædic Hospital Research Center will enable multidisciplinary
teams of scientists and clinicians to seek innovative treatments and cures.
UCLA and
Orthopædic Hospital Unveil
Innovative Research Complex
of the future heralding a new
era of scientific investigation —
one that promises to bring about
a host of innovative medical treatments
and cures — was ushered in
September 27, 2007, with the dedication of the
Orthopædic Hospital Research Center and the
UCLA Biomedical Sciences Research Building.
UCLA and Orthopædic Hospital researchers
who have been engaged in expanding the
frontiers of orthopaedic medicine, microbiology,
immunology, transplantation, AIDS research,
embryonic stem cell research, biological chemistry
and molecular, cell and developmental biology
now have a new home at this unique and exciting
research hub located on the UCLA campus.
Designed by the award-winning architectural
firm Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects, the UCLA
Biomedical Sciences Research Building and
Orthopædic Hospital Research Center structures
are designed to foster a collaborative research
environment and includes state-of-the-art technologies
to maximize research exploration.
Orthopædic Hospital Research Center, which
houses research facilities for orthopaedic medicine
and related fields, such as molecular, cell and
developmental biology and biological chemistry,
is located immediately adjacent to the UCLA Biomedical
Sciences Research Building.
“This innovative addition to our campus will
help us maximize UCLA’s strength as an interdisciplinary
community of scholars in which collaboration
is key to comprehensively addressing
tough questions,” said Gene Block, PhD, chancellor
of UCLA.
The creation of this structure, along with a
new Neuroscience Research Building, has offered
UCLA and Orthopædic Hospital a chance to
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“This is a day for humanity, a legacy that we will all
carry forward. This center will be in our view the
most advanced musculoskeletal center in the world.
The greatest investment we can make in biomedical
research is to prevent problems that today cost
billions of dollars every year, including osteoporosis,
fractures and arthritis. Think what the impact
will be if we can come up with ways to prevent the
ravages of those diseases, not just economically but in
terms of human health and happiness.”
— James V. Luck Jr., MD
President, Chief Executive Officer and
Medical Director of Orthopædic Hospital
rethink the basis of laboratory design, which has
not changed much since the days of Thomas Jefferson.
The new environments will maximize the
potential of modern biomedical tools, establish a
sense of community among research leaders from
a variety of interrelated disciplines and provide
resources as advanced as the challenges researchers
face.
“In addition to fostering collaboration across
all disciplines, the Orthopædic Hospital Research
Center will house the largest facility for musculoskeletal
research in the nation,” said James V.
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Luck Jr., MD, president, chief executive officer
and medical director of Orthopædic Hospital.
“We will address crippling diseases of children
and adults such as birth defects, osteoarthritis,
hemophilia and bone tumors while continuing
to advance the treatment of hip, knee, spine and
other musculoskeletal issues.
“Orthopædic Hospital, a world renowned
leader in orthopaedic research, has helped more
than 2 million people with crippling disorders,”
Dr. Luck said. “The opening of the Orthopædic
Hospital Research Center marks the hospital’s
Representatives from UCLA and Orthopædic Hospital gather to cut the ribbon to mark the grand opening of
the state-of-the-art Orthopædic Hospital Research Center and UCLA Biomedical Sciences Research Building.

expansion to the Westside of Los Angeles, while
continuing its nearly 100-year history of serving
Angelenos at its downtown campus with worldclass
orthopaedic care.”
Combined, the 230,000-square-foot
buildings will house more than 450
scientists and staff from UCLA’s
College of Letters and Science,
David Geffen School of Medicine
at UCLA and Orthopædic Hospital. By uniting
experts engaged in a wide spectrum of studies,
the university and Orthopædic Hospital hope to
foster biomedical discoveries that will result in a
dramatic shift in medical treatments for a variety
of diseases, including bone disorders, cancer, diabetes
and AIDS.
Architects designed the building with common
open laboratories that are shared among
departments, a new concept for UCLA and
Orthopædic Hospital. Roughly 12 to 14 groups of
scientists will share four labs on each floor, which
will create a synergistic effect on their research.
The unique structure, seamlessly joined by an
open circular staircase, allows access across floors
throughout both buildings, and will encourage
joint investigations and crossover discoveries
among faculty who would not ordinarily collaborate.
The combined buildings will include the
Orthopædic Hospital Research Center, the UCLA
AIDS Institute and the Eli and Edythe Broad
Mary Schmitz, PhD leads visitors on a tour of the
lobby of the Orthopædic Hospital Research Center.
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“Researchers at this new facility will strive to
find cures and better treatments for the world’s
most devastating diseases. This research complex
represents the future of medical advancement
and progress and it reinforces UCLA’s status as
a premier institution of biomedical research.”
— Gerald S. Levey, MD
UCLA Vice Chancellor for Medical
Sciences and Dean of the David Geffen
School of Medicine at UCLA
“The dedication of these facilities affords the
UCLA and Orthopædic Hospital Department
of Orthopaedic Surgery a unique opportunity to
expand its research efforts. The recruitment of
Dr. John Adams to become our vice chairman
for orthopaedic research will foster the gathering
of a team of musculoskeletal researchers from
disciplines within UCLA and other institutions.
The research program will extend from basic
molecular biology of the musculoskeletal system
to translational collaborative programs to bring
this information into our clinical treatment
programs. The research laboratories will
enhance our mission of physician education and
provision of clinical care to our patients.”
— Gerald Finerman, MD
Chair of the UCLA and Orthopædic Hospital
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and a
Dorothy and Leonard Strauss Scholar at UCLA
“As a clinician-scientist, I have dedicated my
career to advancing our understanding of the
molecular underpinnings as well as the diagnosis,
treatment and prevention of diseases that put the
human skeleton at increased risk for fracture. As
director of the newly created Orthopædic Hospital
Research Center, I am in the position to realize a
long-standing dream, to create multidisciplinary
teams of scientists — including experts in
molecular and stem cell biology, biomedical
engineering, and materials science — and
clinicians to develop novel means of regenerating
bone and joint tissue in adults and children.”
— John S. Adams, MD
Vice Chair for Research, UCLA and Orthopædic
Hospital Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
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Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell
Research. Institute researchers will work side by
side with basic science faculty from the departments
of biological chemistry; microbiology,
immunology and molecular genetics; and molecular,
cell and developmental biology. Research will
include programs in cancer, bone and cartilage
disorders, drug-resistant infections, severe combined
immunodeficient diseases, diabetes, lupus,
rejection syndromes associated with solid organ
transplantation and more.
The UCLA and Orthopædic Hospital
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery,
ranked No. 9 in the nation by U.S.
News & World Report, operates Centers
of Excellence in joint replacement,
sports medicine, hand and microsurgery,
spine disorders, musculoskeletal oncology, musculoskeletal
trauma, pediatric orthopaedics and
osteoporosis. The department provides consultation
and treatment for patients with disorders of
the musculoskeletal system and comprehensive
services for orthopaedic specialties, including
joint replacement and reconstructive surgery,
hand and microvascular surgery, sports medicine,
arthroscopy, foot and ankle surgery, pediatric
orthopaedics, spinal diseases, orthopaedic trauma,
orthopaedic oncology and metabolic bone
disease.
A UCLA researcher and Dr. John S. Adams
address visitors at the Orthopædic Hospital
Research Center grand opening.
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“The main benefit of this new research facility
is that it brings together a lot of expertise
— a great deal of intellectual capacity from
UCLA and Orthopædic Hospital and a lot
of experience in understanding both basic
biology and the transition to clinical care. So
by bringing this facility online, these people will
be close together. They’ll be able to talk to one
another on a routine basis, share ideas and
cross-fertilize. So if someone finds a solution to
one problem, it might be applied to another. Or
if someone has a problem and they’ve not been
able to solve it, maybe someone else will find
that answer.”
— Paul Benya, PhD
Adjunct Professor, UCLA and Orthopædic
Hospital Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
“Buildings are very much like musical
instruments. They really cannot utter a sound
until they are picked up and played by human
beings. Today we hand this beautiful instrument
to the scientists and the people who will use it.
We’re extremely proud to have played some role
in the breakthroughs and the science that will be
undertaken.”
— Fred W. Clarke, FAIA
Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects
“My hips dislocated. I can’t bend my legs. I
can’t reach my toes or wave my arms over my
head. What everyone can to do with ease on
a day-to-day basis — combing their hair or
putting on their shoes — is really difficult in
my situation. I am just in awe of the doctors at
Orthopædic Hospital. I owe my life to them, not
just for what they’ve already done, but also for
what they are going to do with the opening of
this research center. Maybe it will help me and
maybe it won’t. But it will give a lot of hope to
other kids in the future. Maybe they won’t have
to go through what I’ve had to go through and it
will make life a little easier for them.”
— Melissa Sanchez
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John S. Adams, MD, the new vice chair of research at the Orthopædic Hospital Research Center, addresses
members of the President’s Circle during their visit to the facility on the UCLA campus June 21, 2007.
Vice Chair for Research
Envisions Multidisciplinary
Breakthroughs
John S. Adams, MD, the newly appointed vice
chair for research for the new Orthopædic
Hospital Research Center on the UCLA
campus, aims to bring multidisciplinary
teams of scientists and clinicians together
to discover novel ways to diminish the pain and
suffering caused by orthopaedic conditions and to
perhaps even find cures.
A respected researcher and industry leader,
Dr. Adams oversees the world’s largest musculoskeletal
research center. Scientists from both
Orthopædic Hospital and UCLA will focus on the
tools of cellular and molecular biology and genetics
to develop revolutionary advances in the treatment
of orthopaedic-related conditions, including
hemophilia, spina bifida, muscular dystrophy,
arthritis, joint replacement and osteoporosis.
“Dr. Adams represents the pinnacle of leadership
and knowledge in the research field of
musculoskeletal diseases,” said James V. Luck
Jr., MD, president, CEO and medical director of
Orthopædic Hospital. “He will bring together
the best scientists and physicians in the world to
develop innovative cures for centuries-old crippling
diseases. Cures could be a reality in our
lifetime.”
Previously, Dr. Adams was director of the
division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and holder
of the Alfred Jay Firestein Chair in Endocrinol-
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ogy, Diabetes and Metabolism.
He was the program director of
the General Clinical Research
Center at Cedars-Sinai’s Burns
and Allen Research Institute.
He is a professor of medicine in
residence at the David Geffen
School of Medicine.
Dr. Adams received his
bachelor’s degree from the University
of Kansas and his medical
degree from the University
of Kansas School of Medicine.
He completed his fellowship
in endocrinology and internal
medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard
Medical School.
In the following interview, Dr. Adams outlines
his vision for the Orthopædic Hospital
Research Center.
motion: Orthopaedic research seems poised to
achieve breakthroughs in the coming decade,
perhaps even eliminating the need for surgery
in some cases.
Dr. Adams: That’s true. First, you want to try to
prevent illnesses or fractures before they occur.
Second, if you do have to repair something, it
would be a lot better if you could do it in the
cells and matrices instead of performing surgery.
Our view is that the major advances in
medicine over the next 50 to 75 years will
be made by teams of scientists that normally
wouldn’t be positioned to work together.
Consider fractures that occur due to osteoporosis.
Osteoporosis is a major political and
social healthcare problem. It’s expensive. It
causes a tremendous amount of suffering for the
individual who sustains a fracture and for the
family who must deal with this person who can
no longer live independently.
The major cause of morbidity and mortality
in this disease is age. Once you fracture your
hip, you’re never really the same. If you’re a man
over 80, you have about a 50% chance of dying
in the first year after surgery.
These are big medical problems that affect a
huge number of people. Right now, we’re wait-
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“Our view is that the major
advances in medicine over the
next 50 to 75 years will be
made by teams of scientists that
normally wouldn’t be positioned
to work together.”
— John S. Adams, MD
Vice Chair for Research,
UCLA and Orthopædic
Hospital Department of
Orthopaedic Surgery
ing for the fracture to occur, we’re fixing it and
we’re keeping our fingers crossed that the person
doesn’t fall again and experience another
fracture.
But we are really getting a grasp on how to
best handle these orthopaedic conditions.
In osteoporosis, the major determinant of
bone mass — which is the major determinant
of fractures — is how much bone you start off
with at the end of adolescence. It’s not the way
in which you lose bone but actually where you
are at peak bone mass, which is at 19 to 20
years of age in females and males, respectively.
Everybody loses bone mass after the age of
25. Because women start with about 20% less
bone than men, they get to the fracture threshold
more quickly. Now that men are living
longer, they’re having exactly the same thing
occur to them, except that it’s about 10 years
later because they started off with more bone
to begin with.
motion: Can we do anything to improve peak
bone mass?
Dr. Adams: What’s interesting is that 85% of the
variation in peak bone mass is genetically determined.
85%! So that means whether you will or
will not get osteoporosis is pretty much determined
at the time of conception. We’re making
a big push to find the genes that are responsible.
We want to know how they get turned on during
adolescence and how they are responsible
for the construction of the mature skeleton.

If you have a set of genes that proscribes a
relatively low bone mass, that person is going to
be at increased risk for fracture. But the problem
is that we don’t yet know any of those genes
that determine peak bone mass.
We want to be able to get a team of geneticists,
developmental biologists, orthopaedic
surgeons and even people who work with biomaterials
so that we can better fix these fractures
after they occur — so that we can look at
the whole breadth of this issue, all the way from
birth until death.
In our situation, we have someone like
myself, who is an expert in metabolic bone disease.
I have a colleague in the Musculoskeletal
Research Institute in the Orthopædic Hospital
Research Center who is a geriatrician and who
is interested in the genetic curvatures that
occur in osteoporosis as they are expressed in
individuals. We have a developmental biologist
who determines the factors that are responsible
for acquisition of peak bone mass and how the
process works in the skeleton. And then we’ve
engaged biomaterials experts in bioengineering
and a stem cell biologist to develop ways to
restore that bone if it does get broken.
The idea is to develop an interdisciplinary
program that can look at all aspects of this
disorder — from the genes that cause low peak
bone mass to the factors that might be able to
slow the rate at which they’re losing bone. We
know that everybody loses bone, genetically
speaking. What we’re trying to do is to identify
people who have genetic factors that accelerate
their bone loss.
Obviously, if you can figure out in 7-yearolds
what genes are responsible, you might be
able to change their diet or do things that are
very simple and could make a major difference
in their bone mass.
motion: As we age, does the risk for osteoporosis
rise?
Dr. Adams: Everybody in the middle of life is
OK because their bone mass is adequate to
resist the forces of gravity. We don’t collapse
on ourselves. But when you get to a certain low
bone mass, there’s an increased risk of fracture
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— a threshold level. We know what that is.
And once you cross that threshold, your risk of
fracture goes way up.
We can predict who is at risk, but only
5% to 10% of the population has any effective
intervention at that point. A large susceptible
population goes through life, merrily thinking
they’ll be just fine. When they cross this fracture
threshold, they fall and break their hips.
It forever changes the courses of their lives and
that of their families.
motion: Can bone loss be reduced over one’s
lifetime?
Dr. Adams: When your skeleton issues bone
cells — osteoblasts, which make bone, and
osteoclasts, which break down bone — there
is a massive increase in the number of boneforming
and bone-absorbing cells during adolescence.
Then, at that magic age between 19 and 20,
the numbers of these two cells come in sync
with one another. Then everybody starts to
lose bone mass because the number of boneabsorbing
cells creeps up over the number of
bone-forming cells. Anything that decreases
bone formation or increases bone absorption
causes you to lose bone. If you have both of
these things operating at the same time, it’s a
double whammy.
For individuals who are in midlife — not
to the fracture threshold yet — we need to
identify factors that would diminish bone formation
and increase bone absorption. Many of
these factors are simple things. For example,
vitamin D deficiency will decrease the number
of bone-forming cells and increase the number
of bone-absorbing cells. Another frequent cause
of osteoporosis is the leaking of calcium into
urine, which is usually a genetic disorder.
Historically, orthopaedic medicine has dealt
with how we can best repair fractures and what
kind of appliances we can use to get these
bones back together. Now we’re getting to this
middle ground and saying, “Wow, if we can
identify those people who are losing bone at a
rapid rate, we should be able to delay the time at
which they cross the fracture threshold.”
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Most of the medicines that are available
now decrease the number of bone-absorbing
cells, thereby leading to an increase in bone
mass that persists for two or three years. Very
few agents actually stimulate the bone-forming
cells. Obviously, what you want to be able to
do is a yin and yang thing. You’d like to be able
to increase bone formation and decrease bone
absorption at the same time.
motion: How would you treat a middle-aged person
at risk of bone loss?
Dr. Adams: I would measure bone-mineral density
and check vitamin D and urine status. I’d
look for an overactive thyroid. I would check
parathyroid hormone levels to screen for a
common disease called primary hyperparathyroidism,
which is caused by overproduction of
parathyroid hormone, which in turn increases
osteoclastic bone absorption.
Then, I would check to make sure that steroid
production was normal. In a man, I’d measure
androgens — testosterone. In a woman,
I’d measure pituitary hormones that would tell
me whether her ovaries were making enough
estrogen or not.
Simply by analyzing these findings and
optimizing the therapy, I can make a person
very susceptible to the drugs that are available
now.
motion: An ounce of prevention is worth a pound
of cure, as Ben Franklin would say.
Dr. Adams: Yes. The lesson here is that most of
the diseases we deal with are pediatric diseases.
They actually are present starting in children.
If we could divert our attention to looking for
those diseases in children, we could certainly
save a lot of suffering. If we could prevent fractures,
it would make a big difference.
Consider Pope John XXIII. He died of a hip
fracture. When you’re bent over with fractures
of the spine, all your body weight is thrust
forward. He was walking up a set of stairs and
slipped. He hit his hip and cracked the bone.
He then caught pneumonia, developed a pulmonary
embolism and died.
The idea is to do something before people
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get to that stage. We’re trying to put together a
team of scientists that can look at all aspects of
the disease and cull out an area that is likely to
be most successful for intervention and focus
our activities there.
motion: Apart from osteoporosis, what would be
another key project here?
Dr. Adams: Another example we’re working on
relates to inflammation caused by prostheses.
Suppose someone breaks a hip or has arthritis.
You have to repair the hip by putting in a prosthesis.
There’s a part that goes on the pelvis,
which is the socket, and then you have the ball,
which fits in the back and is part of the femur.
“The lesson here is that most of the diseases
we deal with are pediatric diseases. They
actually are present starting in children. If
we could divert our attention to looking for
those diseases in children, we could certainly
save a lot of suffering. If we could prevent
fractures, it would make a big difference.”
To put both of these things in, you have to use
materials that are not inflammatory.
Can you imagine if you put in something
that causes inflammation? It would compound
the problem because you’ve just redeveloped
arthritis at a very rapid rate.
So, if you have a foreign material sitting in
that joint, it elicits the body’s own immune cells
to get rid of that foreign material. That’s what
causes the destructive arthritis we see in people
who have had implants for a long time.
One major reason why implants turn out to
be inflammatory is because some of the plastics
— used either on the head of the femur or on
the socket, or both — actually shed particles.
These particles stimulate the immune response
as if they were bacteria or foreign invaders.
It’s a lot harder for a living cell to get rid of a
piece of plastic than bacteria, which it can actually
attack, degrade and kill. A piece of plastic
doesn’t go anyplace. It sits in there and continu-

ally stimulates the immune response.
One thing we’ve never understood is exactly
how that piece of plastic activates the human
immune response. We’ve never been able to
determine the connection between this particle
of plastic and the macrophage, which is the cell
that initiates the immune response.
People have discovered things called pattern-recognition
receptors on the surfaces of
cells. These pattern-recognition receptors recognize
the shape of molecules that are outside
of the macrophage. If the shape is particularly
disturbing to that cell, that receptor will bind
that thing and it will activate that receptor.
When that receptor gets activated, it turns on
what we call the innate immune response,
which tells that macrophage to make every
effort to get rid of that piece of plastic.
We made a discovery with regard to the
immune response — in our case, we used
tuberculosis as a model organism system to
stimulate that cell — and published the results
in Science in 2006.
When a human macrophage gets activated,
a number of genes turn on in that cell. Lo and
behold, a couple of these genes are ones that we
know from the bone field. They are the vitamin
D receptor — a major factor that increases the
number of bone-forming cells.
As it turns out, the macrophage is capable
of responding to the active vitamin D hormone
by expressing the receptor when it’s activated.
At the same time, it expresses the enzyme that
makes the active vitamin D hormones from
its precursor mode, from its substrate. With
the substrate molecules floating around in
the blood, the macrophage now becomes a
factory to take that substrate and convert it
to the active vitamin D hormone inside the
cell. That active vitamin D hormone then can
interact with this vitamin D receptor, which is
the signaling molecule to tell the genes in the
nucleus of the cell to start transcribing genes
— in this case, genes that encode an antibiotic.
This antibiotic then gets transported into these
little vesicles where the tuberculosis organism
is being killed.
So, if you don’t have enough vitamin D in
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your circulation, you can’t generate enough of
the active hormone inside that cell. You can’t
then engage the vitamin D. You can’t then turn
on that gene that makes the antibiotic and so
you don’t have enough antibiotic to kill this
invading organism — therefore you’re infected.
Essentially that’s failure of the innate immune
response.
Well, we’re looking at the same thing with
these particles. These particles actually activate
the same pathways in much the same way. If
somebody is deficient in vitamin D, and they
have an implant that’s shedding particles, they
can’t generate enough of the kinds of things to
take care of that insult.
motion: So the human immune response is
hijacked?
Dr. Adams: Exactly. It just keeps reacting and
reacting and reacting. These macrophages then
make these cytokines that stimulate other lymphocytes
in the area: “Come on in, guys, we’ve
got a real problem here. We need to get to this
joint and take care of this infecting agent.” But
they can never really do it. They can’t get rid of
the offending agent and they just continue to
make more and more inflammation.
Our idea is if you can allow that macrophage
to more effectively deal with that
offending agent, there are ways that you can
destroy these things and coat them so that they
don’t stimulate the host immune response.
If you do that by making that a more competent
macrophage — by making it vitamin
D sufficient — then you have a much better
chance of dealing with an immune response to
some sort of rare particle.
In this project, there are people like me who
know about bone and bone cells. I have a number
of colleagues who are immunologists. They
are trying to figure out exactly what signals are
being made by the macrophage and how the
lymphocytes are being turned on.
Of course, again, we have a biomaterials
person who’s responsible for making a better
biomaterial that doesn’t shed. And that’s happened.
We also have an orthopaedic surgeon
who has to be involved to recognize which
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appliances are likely to cause a problem — and
when it does cause a problem, determine which
appliance to use in revision surgery so that the
person can have a better life.
In this case we have no developmental
biologist, but we do have an immunologist to
help us understand how the human immune
response is responding to our taking or not taking
care of the problem.
Previously, if this issue were left up to the
orthopaedic surgeon, the outcome might not be
ideal. He doesn’t know immunology and doesn’t
know about vitamin D. Our premise is that you
have to be able to accumulate expertise from
various different areas and that follows the biology
or the pathology.
motion: Are there other areas you’re exploring?
Dr. Adams: I can give you plenty more, but problems
related to osteoporosis and osteoarthritis
with hip replacement are the major endeavors.
It’s estimated that by 2015, all baby boomers
will be in the high-risk age group. Upwards of
30% to 40% of our population will have low
bone mass or osteoporosis.
You can look at two neighbors and say that
among the three of us, one of us for sure is going
to have a hip fracture, if we live long enough.
And we’re likely to live long enough because we
have better medicines to prevent heart disease
and help people to live longer with cancer.
So, that’s the approach. It’s a novel approach
for orthopaedic surgery because it’s not just
repairing a problem after it’s already been manifest.
We can do things to prevent the problem
from occurring even during adult life. Then
there are issues that we can bring into play that
we didn’t know before that would enable us to
help the orthopaedic surgeon more effectively
deal with this problem.
Also, there are issues at the beginning of life
that we can address — if we can figure out the
genetic background for some of these diseases.
The two that I’ve talked about — osteoporosis
and osteoarthritis — are genetic diseases. If you
ask your parents whether they have lost height
or broken a wrist or hip, you could pretty much
put yourself in that ballpark as being likely to
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repeat exactly the phenotype of your parents.
Remember, almost 85% of your peak bone mass
is genetically determined.
motion: This interdisciplinary approach you’ve
described might be difficult to achieve in most
places. But the Orthopædic Hospital Research
Center seems well positioned within the UCLA
Court of Sciences to take advantage of crosspollination.
Dr. Adams: It’s true. In this building, our near
neighbors are the stem cell researchers and the
new department of molecular-cellular developmental
biology. This building directly across
from us is the nanotechnology institute. A lot
of the scaffolds, the things that we would make
on a nano scale to keep bone cells happy, could
be developed over there.
We anticipate that upstairs in the Orthopædic
Hospital Research Center, we will have a raft of
stem cell biologists interacting with the Stem
Cell Institute and the developmental biologists
to figure out how to make bone that stays alive
and regenerates itself.
We also expect to have bioengineers upstairs
who will be able to create the scaffolds that will
be needed to either repair a fracture that isn’t
healing normally or fill a bone defect or make
a hip prosthesis stick better so it won’t move
around and have to be replaced. All of these

things are common problems that we’re trying
to solve as a team.
motion: The opening of a new multimillion-dollar
research building suggests the importance
of new tools and technology. But the key to
research here focuses on people.
Dr. Adams: Yes. We have a lot of whiz-bang
technology available to us. But, to tell you the
truth, it’s how you apply that technology. The
conceptual part of science always tries to keep
up with the technical side, so there’s always a
technique that’s looking for a purpose.
It’s our job to partner with the engineers,
for instance, to make their efforts practical.
They could be developing ideas with funding
from NASA or the Department of Defense. But
we get our funding from the National Institute
of Health, which wants us to concentrate on a
human disease and fix it.
Breakthroughs will be possible because we
have discovered the human genome. Now the
idea is to find out what the human phenome
is — how these genes collaborate with one
another to cause a certain phenotype, or certain
outcome that’s visible in the workings.
The phenotype we just talked about is this
low-bone-mass phenotype. There probably are
10 different genes that collaborate to cause
either high or low bone mass. To discover
the circuitry and how genes interact with one
another is extremely challenging.
By comparison, some diseases are linked to
a single gene. Certain kinds of breast cancer are
caused by mutations in the human oncogene or
by the BRCA1 gene. Everything else is normal.
motion: As the vice chair for research, your job
seems a little like conducting an orchestra.
Dr. Adams: My job is to bring together the clinical
scientists, the orthopaedic surgeons and the
basic scientists. Until now, each of them never
really understood what each other said and
never really got along with one another because
what they do is completely different.
At Cedars, I ran a general clinical research
center. I’m a molecular biologist by training
so I always had a basic research program and
research
sought clinical grants to do that research. But
because I’m a clinician and because Cedars is
a hospital-based community, I morphed into
what the institution needed me to be: somebody
who would make it easy for scientists to do
their clinical research.
So, I understand what the orthopaedic surgeons
go through because I’m a clinician. I
understand what the basic scientists need to
know and what they do because I’m a basic scientist.
I’m a gap-filler here, a shuttle that goes
back and forth. The idea is to bring these groups
of scientists from different disciplines together
and sit in a room and talk with one another.
As you can imagine, there has to be some
translation in the language. The doctors are
really smart when they come here, but they’re
targeted to doing surgery. Then we have the
other really smart people — the scientists who
want to develop cures for human disease.
The orthopaedic surgeon says, “That’s crazy.
You can’t cure this disease.” The basic scientist
says, “Well, you know, I think we can.” And I’m
in the middle to say, “Well, you might be able
to make it a lot better to begin with and maybe,
maybe, you might get close to a cure.”
It’s rather like the story of AIDS. When
AIDS first hit, the clinicians took care of very
sick people. Then a lot of scientists got interested
because it was a major problem. Most
basic scientists want to work on science that
is relevant to humans. Even if they’re working
with flies or zebra fish, they want their work to
be applicable to the human cause. What it took
for that field to mature was a group of people
making the connections between the scientists
and the clinicians.
Now AIDS is a disease that you can live
with. During the course of this coming together,
we discovered so much about immunology
and infectious disease that we never would have
learned before.
I’m in the enviable position to realize
a long-standing dream, to create multidisciplinary
teams of scientists and clinicians to
develop innovative means of regenerating bone
and joint tissue in adults and children. I’m
excited about our potential.
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Orthopædic Hospital
and OHMMHS Forge
Healthy Partnership
For decades, as part of its mission
to advance care for musculoskeletal
patients, Orthopædic Hospital has
helped physicians learn the intricacies
of orthopaedics through residency
and fellowship programs.
Today, Orthopædic Hospital is expanding its
commitment to education by encouraging high
school students to consider becoming doctors and
other healthcare professionals.
The partnership with Orthopædic Hospital
Medical Magnet High School offers tremendous
potential for children from both the inner city
and the greater Los Angeles area. The high school,
which opened in the fall of 2004, celebrated its
first graduating class in June 2007. Many graduates
have committed to pursuing a wide variety of
healthcare careers, including medicine, nursing,
research and technology.
The students radiate enthusiasm, according
to Barbara Murray, director of Volunteer Services.
Many volunteer substantial hours each year at
Orthopædic Hospital to assist patients as well as
gain exposure to the full spectrum of healthcare
careers.
Being part of a program like this has
been incredibly rewarding, according
to Barbara. “Not only does it
offer a world of opportunities for the
kids, but we’re helping to educate the
healthcare professionals of the future,” she said.
A sampling of projects that link Orthopædic
Hospital with the high school students appears on
the following pages.
PLAYGROUND SUPPORT
Students created dragon heads
to decorate fences for the purpose
of greeting visitors at the
grand opening of the Everychild
Foundation Universally
Accessible Playground.

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VALLeY ORThOPAeDic cLiNic
Twice a year, students board a bus to volunteer at the Valley Orthopaedic Clinic in Calexico. They
assist doctors and entertain young patients and their families who cross into California from Mexicali.
Twenty-five students recently boarded a bus to the Imperial Valley.
AfTeR-SchOOL VOLUNTeeRiNG
An after-school program has drawn 120 students
per year who volunteer at Orthopædic
Hospital and work alongside nurses, technicians
and staff in admissions, back offices and
various departments.
cAReeR cOUNSeLiNG
Since opening, representatives from Orthopædic
Hospital hold regular seminars to discuss
career options with students. A physical therapist,
researcher, biomechanical engineer and
nurse practitioner are among those who have
made presentations this school year. In addition,
surgeons and other professionals address the Pre-
Med Club each month and meet with students
after school.
fieLD TRiPS
One memorable highlight for students in 2004
was a trip to the California Science Center to see
Body Worlds, an exhibition of preserved human
bodies and body parts. The entire school —
students and faculty — attended and received
insights from Orthopædic Hospital staff stationed
at key exhibits.
“It was a really effective learning experience,”
Barbara said. “Students, faculty and staff loved it.
It was awesome.”
Even more thrilling for many students has
been the outdoor education program at Yosemite
National Park.
“Science camp has had quite an impact,” Barbara
said. “Many students had never been camping
or in that type of environment. Some had
never been outside the square-mile radius where
they live, so it was a very special opportunity.”
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hOLiDAY eVeNTS
Students become particularly involved in holiday activities. In 2007, they held a drive and collected
more than 200 toys for patients and their families. When California Highway Patrol officers and Santa
arrived on motorcycles, students helped organize toys for distribution and helped pass them out alongside
Santa. Students photographed children, sang Christmas carols and played with the children. For
another large toy party, students assisted by sorting through 4,000 toys.
AcADemic SUPPORT
While Orthopædic Hospital’s primary commitment to
OHMMHS centers on healthcare, assistance assumes other
forms.
“Last fall, I got a call from the faculty member who was working
as a coach for the mock trial team,” Barbara said. “It was their
first year. She asked if we knew any lawyers who might work
with students after school to prepare them for the competition.”
Barbara made several phone calls. Word went out to
Orthopædic Hospital’s attorneys at the law firm of Latham &
Watkins, several of whom volunteered and helped the team do
well in its first competition.
Orthopædic Hospital also supports OHMMHS with its academic
decathlon. “They need assistance in certain areas,” Barbara
said. “Our music therapist has gone over to help them with
music, because the teacher who serves as the coach believes she
doesn’t have enough personal knowledge to lead the team in the
right direction. We help out wherever we can.”
ScieNce fAiR
Every year, Orthopædic
Hospital researchers and
other staff members help
OHMMHS students with their
science fair projects and act as
judges.
SPeciAL TOURS
Many students relish the
opportunity to participate
in special tours. Recently,
for example, biomechanical
engineering students were
invited to visit Orthopædic
Hospital’s research facilities
to see how investigators
actually work on research.

iNTeRNShiPS
Last year, six students participated in a successful
internship program. They worked for eight weeks
on special projects and received stipends.
“These were wonderful opportunities for the
students,” Barbara said. “It was competitive. They
had to fill out applications and be interviewed
before being chosen. At the end we had each student
prepare a presentation for some of the staff
members who were involved in the internship
program. The students did an amazing job.”
One student joined a knee study project in
physical therapy. Two worked in biomechanical
engineering and partnered with engineers who
had volunteered in their physics class and had
helped students building rockets.
Students also were paired with engineering
students from California State University, Los
Angeles to build an experimental merry-go-round
for patients who are wheelchair bound.
“This has been an exciting project,” Barbara
said. “The merry-go-round will be put into our
universally accessible playground. Two students
continued to work over the summer to devise the
prototype. They did a lot of investigative work.”
Two students worked with Orthopædic Hospital
researchers on special projects. One was
a colloid while the other involved stem cell
research. Finally, one intern assisted on an information
technology project for the Orthopædic
Hospital Foundation.
Artin M. Davidian, coordinator of the Rehab
Engineering Program’s Outreach Program (center),
checks with Marco Lopez Jr. and Ryan Lytle as the
CSULA students prepare to demonstrate their prototype
artificial hand, called the Hybrid Easy Feed Hand, at
the downtown campus. Unavailable for the photo was
the team’s third member, Brian Bowling.
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Dr. Samuel E. Landsberger, ScD, director of Orthopædic
Hospital’s Rehabilitation Engineering Program (center),
huddles with Yuko Yoshitsugu and Roberto Reyes
before testing the Accessible Mobility Platform at the
Orthopædic Hospital campus. Dr. Landsberger worked
with the two mechanical engineering students at
California State University, Los Angeles to build the
prototype playground equipment.
CSULA student Paisit Termratanakul tests the
Accessible Mobility Platform prototype with the
assistance of the sister of an Orthopædic Hospital
patient.
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Orthopædic Hospital is furthering the education of deserving OHMMHS graduates with the assistance of Bonter
Scholarships. From left are Debbie Morris, OHMMHS magnet coordinator; Nancy Abarca, Cindy Avila, Rita
Calderon, Anora Rahmonova, Jazmine Gutierrez, Joanna Martinez, Jajaira Nerio; Cindy Bailey, director of OH
Physical Therapy; and Barbara Murray, director of OH Volunteer Services.
Bonter Scholarship Opens Doors
to Educational Opportunities
Jazmine Gutierrez, a 2007 graduate of
Orthopædic Hospital Medical Magnet High
School and now a pre-med student at UCLA,
is well on her way to achieving her dream
of becoming a doctor because of a generous
donor to Orthopædic Hospital.
Jazmine is the recipient of a Gretchen Bonter
Scholarship awarded by the Orthopædic Hospital
Foundation. While most students appreciate
receiving support for college tuition, this particular
scholarship holds special meaning for
Jazmine. Her father, Rigobert Gutierrez, had been
a patient at Orthopædic Hospital as a child and
had surgeries on his feet, for which he is profoundly
grateful.
“Jazmine is a very bright young woman,” said
Barbara Murray, director of Volunteer Services.
“She was a volunteer at the hospital and we got
to know her very well. When she applied for a
scholarship, we were pleased to help her with her
education.”
While she knew that her university workload
would be more intense than her high school studies,
Jazmine expected that some facets of campus
life would be laid back.
“I thought you’d be able to do things on your
own terms, but that’s not the case,” she said.
“School is your priority. People are driven to do
well. If it comes down to going out or studying,
the obvious choice is studying.”
Funding for the Bonter Scholarship comes
from a family with a daughter who suffered from

a disability. After the death of the parents, John
and Max Knight Bonter, the trust went to their
daughter, Gretchen Bonter. When she died, the trust
passed to the Orthopædic Hospital Foundation.
The scholarship originally was intended
for patients of Orthopædic Hospital,
primarily those who contracted
polio in the 1950s, who would benefit
from a college education, according
to Barbara.
“Because the money came to us after a generation
passed on, we realized that we no longer
have those kinds of patients who live in the hospital
for long periods of time as we had during
the polio era,” Barbara said. “So we went to the
Board of Trustees and asked if it would be appropriate
to offer these scholarships to OH Medical
Magnet High School students who needed funds.
The request was approved and we awarded about
$62,000 in scholarships last year.
“It was really exciting and I’m looking forward
to this year because I believe we will have
many more applications. I’ve been going over to
the high school since the early fall, talking to students
during lunch time at the career center about
college plans as well as giving them applications
and answering their questions.”
Two other Bonter Scholarship recipients are
Anora Rahmonova and Dina Diaz. Anora graduated
as the 2007 salutatorian and has chosen to
attend Los Angeles City College to be close to
her family. Dina is majoring in print journalism
and French at USC with the goal of becoming a
foreign correspondent for the New York Times or
other major newspaper.
“Anora has an amazing story,” Barbara said.
“She came here four years ago and barely spoke a
word of English. Today her command of the English
language is amazing and her writing skills
are incredible.”
Anora applied for various scholarships
but was turned down because
she decided to attend a two-year
community college at first rather
than a four-year university. The
Bonter scholarship has proven to be very helpful
by paying for Anora’s textbooks and transportation.
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“I’m going to LACC because I’m interested in
many things — too many things to be majoring
in,” Anora said. “I’m definitely going to be studying
languages, even as a minor, because I love
them so much.”
Anora said she was privileged to be a member
of the first graduating class of OHMMHS. She
transferred from Belmont High School and its
thousands of students to the small, intimate setting
one-tenth the size.
“It was a huge change,” she said. “I really,
really liked it. The one-on-one contact with teachers
was excellent. Some kids complain about the
uniforms, the small size and fewer activities. I
liked knowing everyone. We were our own little
community.”
Dina relishes the diversity at USC
and the challenge of moving up
from the relatively homogenous
culture at OHMMHS.
“It’s been an adjustment, but
so far it’s going great,” she said. “It’s good to be
able to take classes that interest you and take
responsibility for your own future. I’ve met a lot
of people who have come to college from all over
the world. It’s interesting knowing peoples’ experiences.
Jazmine and Dina are videotaping their first
year in college for future OHMMHS graduates.
Jazmine tapes wherever she goes — classrooms,
extracurricular activities, parades and campus
buildings. Dina records random events and tries
to interview people about their thoughts on
university life. The videos are intended to show
OHMMHS students what college is really like and
to encourage students to keep up their grades.
“Many kids in the inner city are so unaware
of many aspects of college,” Barbara said. “We had
the students over for lunch and they asked us all
kinds of questions. What is a sorority? What is a
fraternity? How big are the lecture halls? What’s
the difference between semesters and quarters?
Many of these kids don’t have that knowledge
because they’re probably the first in their families
to attend college.
“It’s a privilege to be able to help these students
and make a difference. These students are
so bright and eager to learn.”
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New Website Updates
Orthopædic Hospital’s
Image and Services
For a sense of the magnitude of today’s
Orthopædic Hospital, just check out
the completely redesigned website at
http://orthohospital.org.
Launched in May 2007 after more
than a year in the making, the new site offers
visitors brief but comprehensive views of everything
happening at Orthopædic Hospital. The
homepage highlights the flourishing children’s
clinic at the Outpatient Medical Center and the
new Orthopædic Hospital Research Center on the
UCLA campus, while providing links to the new
hospital under construction in Santa Monica and
volunteer opportunities.
The site employs clean graphics and a simple
color palette consisting of a grayish blue as the
primary color along with olive green, plum and
mushroom as accents.
The homepage offers nearly two dozen links
to topics of interest and a search function. A section
that describes Orthopædic Hospital’s mission
provides links to descriptions of orthopaedic care,
research and education. A section for patients,
available in English and Spanish, offers links to
frequently sought-after information. A sidebar
column presents buttons for information about
Orthopædic Hospital, medical services, research,
giving, support groups, volunteering and news
and events. Each of those sections, in turn, links
to other pages for more detailed information.
Features that speak to the interactivity of the
new site are the “What’s New” and the “Spotlight”
sections. Each box can cycle through several stories
and can be updated as events warrant.
The site has drawn high praise from
users and led to a significant increase
in traffic, according to Adrienne
Lao, manager of Major Gifts at the
Orthopædic Hospital Foundation
and website coordinator.
“We didn’t want the website to be just a placeholder
on the Internet,” she said. “We wanted a
website that was responsive and all-inclusive. This
is such a watershed period, we needed a website
that better captured the spirit of Orthopædic Hospital
in the 21st century.”

Orthopædic Hospital’s new
website features an inviting
homepage (opposite) along with
well-organized and detailed
information throughout the site.
The site’s architecture and design had to be
comprehensive, organized, readable, easy-to-navigate
and aesthetically pleasing, she explained.
The site needed to include relevant features such
as listings of specialists in addition to treatments
and services. It had to serve as a source of information
for support groups and volunteering as
well as include tools that staff members could use
to update key areas of information on a regular
basis.
Not only does the site house a
wealth of information, it’s also
wonderfully interactive,” Adrienne
said. “There are online
forms now so that visitors can fill
in whether they want to receive our newsletter,
patients can seek referrals or someone can learn
how to volunteer. The site lets us be much more
responsive in getting back to people with whatever
information they need.
“We definitely have seen an increase in traffic.
We get physicians who want to learn more about
how our hospital operates and patients who are
interested in finding answers to questions about
education
the treatment they are undergoing.”
Right now, visitors wishing to make a
donation can look up a phone number
or fill out an online request for
information. An improvement coming
soon to the site will allow online
donations.
Adrienne credits much of the new website’s
success to designer Chris Varosy and his team
at prmtv., a Los Angeles interactive agency. “We
were fortunate to have Chris,” she said. “He’s
incredibly talented and did an extraordinary job
for us.”
The admiration is mutual, according to Chris,
who said the assignment proved to be extremely
satisfying.
“Every now and then, when we’re lucky, we
get to work on projects with great people who
truly make a difference in the world,” he said.
“The people we met at Orthopædic Hospital are
genuinely committed to their noble mission. All
of us at prmtv. are both inspired and honored to
have participated in the website redesign with
this truly remarkable organization.”
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Dear Friends,
Talk to any pediatric orthopaedist in the country and you’ll hear the same story:
Pediatric orthopaedic problems, including birth defects and childhood trauma,
skew toward patients in low-income families. As for families who do have healthcare
coverage, they frequently reach the maximum on their insurance after going
through millions of dollars caring for children who have serious problems.
At Orthopædic Hospital, about 95% of our patients qualify for Medi-Cal, the
Medicaid program financed equally by the state and the federal government. Medi-
Cal reimbursements cover only a small portion of our actual costs, so in effect, we
lose money on every patient.
Thanks to you and other generous donors, however, we are able to provide
world-class care to thousands of young patients every year, regardless of their
families’ ability to pay. Whether treating children with simple fractures or crippling
musculoskeletal diseases, we offer our patients the promise of richer, more fulfilling
lives.
In his Viewpoint column in this issue, Dr. Luck describes the golden era that
now awaits us in orthopaedic education. As part of our mission, we would like to
expand our faculty so that we can handle more cases and broaden our residents’
experiences. To make this investment, we will need to rely even more on private
philanthropy.
Dr. Luck and all of us at the Orthopædic Hospital Foundation firmly believe we’ll
get there. Like so many things, it boils down to dollars and cents. Experience has
shown that our donors have always come through when we need them the most.
Thank you for your continuing support. I hope that you will consider giving
generously once again this year.
Mary Schmitz, PhD
President

Dr. Hoffer Retires
as Lowman Professor
After 14 years with Orthopædic
Hospital, M. Mark Hoffer, MD has
retired as Lowman professor. Dr.
Hoffer headed children’s orthopaedics,
bringing world-renowned skill
and tireless enthusiasm to the job. He remains a
visiting professor in clinical orthopaedics at the
University of Southern California and director of
children’s orthopaedics for Los Angeles County.
“It’s been a privilege to be a
Lowman professor,” Dr. Hoffer
said. “Orthopædic Hospital has
been a marvelous experience.”
Dr. Hoffer’s association with
Orthopædic Hospital began after
his orthopedic training when
he accepted a hand fellowship
because of his interest in disorders
of the upper extremities
in children. He also served as
chairman of orthopaedics at the
University of California, Irvine.
“Orthopædic Hospital was
very fortunate when Mark
decided to join us 13 years ago,”
said James V. Luck Jr., MD, president, CEO and
medical director. “In addition to being a gifted
surgeon, he is a great humanitarian and leader
who generated the respect of all he touched.”
Among the highlights of his years at OH, Dr.
Hoffer cited the opportunity to work with great
physicians, the construction of the Outpatient
Medical Center, the opening of the Orthopædic
Hospital Research Center on the UCLA campus
and meeting the UCLA faculty as part of the alliance
between the two organizations.
Most of all, Dr. Hoffer said, the new
Orthopædic Hospital at Santa Monica–UCLA
Medical Center offers the opportunity to involve
other specialists when complications arise in
young patients. “Whenever we had a kid with a
complex problem outside orthopaedics, we had
M. Mark Hoffer, MD
to be resourceful,” he said. “The new hospital will
make a big difference.”
Dr. Hoffer was inspired to become a doctor as
a boy when many classmates contracted polio over
summer vacation and became disabled. He remembers
President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s struggle
with polio, a disease that struck him as an adult.
Dr. Hoffer served in the Navy as a medical
officer on a submarine during the Cuban missile
crisis and trained at U.S.
Naval Hospital. He served 48
years in the Navy Reserve and
was recalled to active duty on
several occasions. He spent six
months near the Iraqi border
during Desert Storm and six
months in Germany during the
Bosnian conflict. At age 68,
three years after reaching the
reserve’s mandatory retirement,
he was recalled again in 2004
and became one of the oldest
men on active duty. Dr. Hoffer
even served at the same time as
one of his sons, a Navy physician
and advisor to the surgeon general.
In recognition of his exceptionally meritorious
conduct in the performance of outstanding
services and achievements, Dr. Hoffer was
awarded the Legion of Merit from the U.S. Surgeon
General, the military’s highest non-combat
medal.
Calling the award “a very nice thing,” Dr.
Hoffer noted that the Legion of Merit has other
connections to Orthopædic Hospital. J. Vernon
Luck Sr., MD, onetime medical director, received
the medal in 1947. In addition, the father of OH
physician Patricia McKeever, MD was given the
medal for his service in World War II.
Dr. Hoffer said he was looking forward to
spending more time with his two sons, his daughter
and four granddaughters.
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Individuals, corporations, community
organizations and foundations named
on the following pages help to sustain
the mission of Orthopædic Hospital
through their financial support.
Donors who gave in Fiscal Year
2007 are recognized here. Although
volunteers are not listed, the personal
dedication of each one is truly
appreciated. Thanks to all who give
the gift of motion.
PReSiDeNT’S ciRcLe
Dr. and Mrs. Wayne H. Akeson
Mr. and Mrs. Frank G. Arnstein
Mr. and Mrs. Burton E. Belzer
Mr. Michael Berns and Ms. Gail Adler
Mr. Jerome Bleeker
Dr. and Mrs. Jack R. Borsting
Mr. John F. Bradley, Sr.
Mr. and Mrs. William S. Braun
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Buettell
Ms. Teresa M. Cannon
Mr. Francis Christie
Ms. Hui S. Clarke
Ms. Mary F. Comerford
Mr. and Mrs. Lew E. Coppersmith
Mrs. Gloria Dahl
Dr. and Mrs. Harold A. Davidson
Mr. and Mrs. William R. Davis
donors
Mark R. Hoover Estate
Mr. and Mrs. Edward D. Fox, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Gregory B. Gershuni
Mr. Joseph Giuliano
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence B. Gotlieb
Mrs. Margaret A. Halvorson
Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Hamblet
Mr. Bucky Hazan
Mr. L. Boyd Higgins
Mr. and Mrs. John D. Hussey
Mr. and Mrs. William P. Jackson
Mr. George W. Jeffs
Dr. and Mrs. Muirl R. Johnstone
Mr. Edward J. Jones
KB Home
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Larkin, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Lawton
Mr. Joseph Lynch
Mr. and Mrs. Harold C. McCray
Mr. William G. McGagh
Dr. and Mrs. Harry A. McKellop
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas V. McKernan
Mr. and Mrs. Mitch M. Michino, Esq.
Dr. and Mrs. Hassan A. Mohaghegh
Mr. Robert L. Moore, Jr.
Robert E. Morris, MD and Mr.
Timothy B. Butler
Mr. and Mrs. Julio S. Negrete
Mr. Ronald D. Nunnally
Mrs. Nancy Patterson
Three children proudly show off
their candy-cane-striped reindeer
caps at the “Oh! Toys! Oh! Joy!”
party.
Dr. and Mrs. Randall C. Pokomo
Mr. and Mrs. Dennis C. Poulsen
Mr. and Mrs. Douglas C. Prestine
Robert B. Reisch, MD
Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Riches
Mr. and Mrs. Richard K. Roeder
Mr. Raymond Rubenstein
Mr. Cecil L. Russell
Mr. Joseph Schwartz
Mr. and Mrs. Sherwood Schwartz
Mr. and Mrs. Ted Singer
Mr. and Mrs. William A. Spurgin
Mrs. William H. Stecker
Mr. Lawrence Title
Mr. and Mrs. Barry V. Weinstock
Dr. and Mrs. Mark Wellisch
Mr. and Mrs. William P. Wilke
Libby F. Wilson, MD
Adel E. Zaki, MD
DONORS $5,000 AND AbOVe
Raymond Andersen Estate
Leila M. Anderson Estate
The Annenberg Foundation
Automobile Club of Southern
California
Vivian L. Banker Estate
Malcolm Beck Estate
Mrs. Effie J. Bleakley
The Louis L. Borick Foundation

Ms. Grace M. Brubaker
California Community Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Lew E. Coppersmith
Crippled Children’s Guild
Mrs. Jackie Crowley
Davre Davidson Estate
Dorothy D. Decker Estate
Disney Worldwide Services, Inc.
Carrie Estelle Doheny Foundation
Mr. Frank Dunn
Phoebe Jane Easton Estate
August Frederick Ekenberg Estate
Ms. Charlotte M. Ferris
Pamela P. French
Mr. and Mrs. William Glikbarg
Cordelia Belle Grischow Estate
Mrs. Margaret A. Halvorson
Hamilton Construction
The Hattori Foundation
Mrs. Harriet P. Hillam
Marie Hilt Estate
Andrew & Edith Hosack Trust
Mrs. Ursula H. Hyman
Janzen, Johnston & Rockwell
Cleo Belle Johnson Estate
Verne C. Jones Estate
The Fletcher Jones Foundation
Marion F Keiser Estate
Mr. Tetsuohu Koiso
The Ruth Lane Charitable Foundation
donors
Latham & Watkins
League for Crippled Children
Thomas and Dorothy Leavey
Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Philip A. Leone
Lifestyle Construction
Minnie Lohman Estate
Mr. and Mrs. Meyer Luskin
The H. Joseph Lynch Family Donor
Fund
Mr. and Mrs. and Mrs Frank Mares
Emelda J. Martin Estate
B. C. McCabe Foundation
Evelyn McCartney Trust
Callie D. McGrath Estate
Mr. and Mrs. Mitch M. Michino, Esq.
Mr. Geoff Palmer
The Ralph M. Parsons Foundation
Mrs. Nancy Patterson
Mr. A. K. Plummer
Ralphs Grocery Co. Kroger
The Rapport Family Trust
John F. Robison Estate
The Rose Hills Foundation
Raymond Robert Rude Estate
Santa Barbara Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Schwartz
Scope Industries
Rosalie M. Shaffer Estate
Norman H. Shaw Estate
California Highway Patrol officers
bring cheer to a young patient at
the 2007 annual CHP holiday toy
drive.
Howard C. Smith Estate
Virginia Stabler Estate
Ms. Georgia D. Stanley
Ms. Toni S. Steele
Sidney Stern Memorial Fund
John S. Stoicheff Estate
Gordon & Frances Stong Fund
TAJ Foundation
Union Bank
Adrienne Van Holt Dowling Estate
Clara Von Breton Trust
Madeline Wagers Estate
Doris T. Westcott Estate
Genevieve White Estate
Richard S. Whittle Estate
Libby F. Wilson, MD
DONORS $2,500–$4,999
AC Martin Partners, Inc.
Anonymous
Dr. and Mrs. Jack R. Borsting
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Buettell
CAP-MPT
Church of the Lighted Window
Mr. Paul Coss
Mr. and Mrs. Edward D. Fox, Jr.
Frontier Capital Management Co.
Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey D. Goldberg
Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Hamblet
Mr. Jerry Harrington
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Mr. Bucky Hazan
Mr. Robert L. Moore, Jr.
Ms. Anne Savage
Mr. and Mrs. Sherwood Schwartz
A. N. Shamie, MD
Mr. and Mrs. Gary Stahl
Denise McCain-Tharnstrom and
Charles Tharnstrom
Vanguard Charitable Endowment
Program
Mr. James L. Weidner
David & Sylvia Weisz Foundation
Mary L. Westlund Estate
F. P. Winne Trust
DONORS $1,000–$2,499
Dr. and Mrs. Wayne H. Akeson
Marc Asher, MD
Baron Capital, Inc.
Harriet Bastable Trust
Kathryne Beynon Foundation
Blue Cross of California
Mr. and Mrs. William S. Braun
Cadence Capital Management Group
California Commerce Club, Inc.
Ms. Teresa M. Cannon
Mr. Bruce A. Cavarno
Mr. Francis Christie
Ms. Hui S. Clarke
Ms. Mary F. Comerford
Santa Claus brings cheer to
children at the “Oh! Toys! Oh!
Joy!” party.
donors
Mrs. Mary F. Conley
Mr. and Mrs. William R. Davis
Dr. and Mrs. Robert R. Dockson
Dodge & Cox
Gerald A.M. Finerman, MD
Mr. Wayne Flick
Mr. and Mrs. Joel Fox
Mr. Peter E. Gadd
Mr. Joseph Giuliano
Mr. and Mrs. George Goldsmith
Selma Green Estate
Mr. Phillip J. Hammer
Mr. John R. Howell
Huntington Memorial Hospital
Medical Staff Fund
IndyMac Bank
J.P. Morgan
Mr. and Mrs. William P. Jackson
Mr. George W. Jeffs
Dr. and Mrs. Muirl R. Johnstone
Mr. G. Bradford Jones
Mr. Edward J. Jones
Mr. and Mrs. Jerve M. Jones
Virginia G. Jones Estate
Ms. Martha Jordan
Mr. Oliver Koster
Mr. Allan Langdon
Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Lawton
Ms. Jane Luthard
Mr. Joseph Lynch
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh E. MacBeth, Jr.
Mr. William G. McGagh
Dr. and Mrs. Harry A. McKellop
Mrs. Marie L. Morgan
Robert E. Morris, MD and
Mr. Timothy B. Butler
Mr. and Mrs. Julio S. Negrete
The Phelps Group
Mr. and Mrs. Dennis C. Poulsen
Mr. and Mrs. Douglas C. Prestine
Mr. and Mrs. Don W. Robertson
Mr. Raymond Rubenstein
Dorothy Sandmeyer Estate
Mr. Joseph Schwartz
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Settelmayer
Ms. Peggy Sharp
Mr. and Mrs. Ted Singer
Mr. Timothy J. Smith
The Sommer-Childress Family
Mr. and Mrs. William A. Spurgin
Mrs. Bertha R. Stotz
Rose Stover Estate
Mr. Ronald Tanzman
Mr. Lawrence Title
Dorothy Torow Estate
United Way of Greater Los Angeles
Wells Fargo Community Support
Campaign
Mr. and Mrs. William P. Wilke
Adel E. Zaki, MD

DONORS $500–$999
Arnhold and S. Bleichroeder, Inc.
Mr. James L. Arnone
Mr. and Mrs. Guilford C. Babcock
Mr. and Mrs. George Bell
Ms. Elanne C. Callahan
Canterbury Capital Services, Inc.
J. E. Carr Estate
Cavarocchi Ruscio Dennis Associates,
LLC
Kathlene Cheleen Estate
Mrs. Ruth Cumming
Mr. and Mrs. Clifford R. Dernham
Mr. Michael J. Doka
ECHO
Edison International
Estate Strategies, Inc.
Mr. and Mrs. David B. Farkas
Ms. Susan Galanti
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth L. Goldman
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh M. Grant
Dr. and Mrs. Bruce P. Hillam
Mr. H. Ross MacMichael and
Dr. Mary A. Hirsh
Mr. and Mrs. Jerry A. Horn
KB Home
Kelleher & Associates
Mr. and Mrs. Vince Kikugawa
Ms. Lydia Knowles
Mr. Edward E. Kushins
donors
Three girls have fun at the
“Oh! Toys! Oh! Joy!” party.
Ms. Sylvia Leaf
Mr. John Leuthold
Long Beach Ramo General Business
Mr. and Mrs. Christopher C. Martin
Mr. and Mrs. Carl L. Miller
Dr. and Mrs. Hassan A. Mohaghegh
Mrs. Sandra C. Moore
Ms. Eugenia Moore
Mrs. Ruth H. Morrison
David Morse & Associates, Inc.
Mr. John S. Nagy
Mr. Joe B. Naylor
Mr. William G. Niemann
Pacific Coast Tissue Bank
Mr. Gordon N. Park
Mr. Charles B. Payne
Mr. and Mrs. James M. Pecora
Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Perrine
Gladys A. Van Noy Peterson and
Edward L. Peterson Estate
Dr. and Mrs. Randall C. Pokomo
Mr. and Mrs. John T. Ross, Sr.
Mr. Richard W. Sanders
Mr. Bruce R. Scherer
Schwab Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Vincent E. Scully
Singer Lewak Greenbaum & Goldstein
LLP
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde F. Stauff
Mr. John Strobel
Mr. Steve P. Theodore
Mr. John O. Tuntland
Unisource Solutions
United Way of Kitsap County
Mr. and Mrs. Gordon S. Wright
DONORS $1–$499
Mr. and Mrs. Sam Aberbom
Mr. Paul O. Acheampong
Mr. and Mrs. George S. Ackerman
Ms. Katherine Adachi
Mr. Nathan Adelman
Mr. and Mrs. Razmik Aghabegian
Mr. Ray Agostino
Mr. and Mrs. Rodolfo Aguirre
Ms. Lucinda C. Akana
Mr. and Mrs. J. Keith Albi
J. M. Albini
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas I. Aldinger
Peter G. Alexakis, MD
Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Altshuler
Mr. Jorge Alvarado
Mr. Felis D. Alvarez
Mr. William C. Andersen
Mr. Andrew Anderson
Mr. and Mrs. Christopher N.
Anderson
Mr. Eric V. Anderson
Mr. Jack A. Anderson
Mr. Stephen Anderson
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Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Ang
Mr. and Mrs. Frank C. Anton
Mrs. Martha H. Aparicio
Nonnie Apilado
Mr. Richard Aragon and
Ms. Elvia C. Aragon
Mr. and Mrs. George Y. Arakaki
Mrs. Roselyn M. Arbuckle
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Asaro
Mr. Z. Harry Astor
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew J. Atherton
Robert A. Audell, MD
Mr. George L. Augspurger
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Autorina
Mrs. Cheryl C. Ayers
Azusa Emblem Club No 325
Ms. Noreen Baca
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel F. Bachini
Mr. Elmo D. Baggetto
Mr. and Mrs. B.K. Bailey
Mr. and Mrs. Richard S. Bain
Mr. and Mrs. Howard E. Ballinger
Mr. Thomas Balog
Mrs. Dorothy Banbury
Bandini Truck Terminal Inc.
Bank of America - United Way
Bank of America Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph O. Baranoff
Mrs. Shirley L. Barasch
Mr. and Mrs. Donald E. Barker
donors
Mr. and Mrs. Howard A. Baron
Mr. Douglas G. Bartholio
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Bartlett
Mr. Ray W. Bartlett
Mrs. Cecile C. Bartman
The Cecile & Fred Bartman
Foundation
Mr. Stanley D. Bartnett
Hugh L. Bassewitz, MD
Ms. Jeanne I. Bauer
Bay City Lions Club
Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Beach
Ms. Faith K. Beard
Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Beaudry
Mr. and Mrs. Chester R. Bebb
Mr. and Mrs. Don Bechtold
Mr. David Beck
Mrs. Roland D. Beck
Mr. and Mrs. Gerald V. Becker
Mr. and Mrs. Sheldon Becker
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Bednersh
Ms. Judith Begg
Mr. Adam Belfer
Ms. Patricia B. Bell
Mr. and Mrs. Gillermo Benavides
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Benjamin
Mr. Alan M. Bentley and
Mrs. Rosario R. Bentley
Mrs. Marian L. Bentley
Ms. Sarah J. Benzino
With help from elves from the
California Highway Patrol, Santa
Claus passed out hundreds of toys
to patients during 2007 holiday
festivities. Joining in is Foundation
President Mary Schmitz, second
from left.
Mr. and Mrs. Donald I. Berger
Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Berger
Ms. Jenna Bergna
Mr. and Mrs. Bellen Bernal
Mr. Richard F. Bernegg
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Berry
Mr. Robert A. Berry
Mr. and Mrs. William F. Bey
Nitin N. Bhatia, MD
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Bieber
Dr. and Mrs. Zaven G. Bilezikjian
Mr. Elias Bishara
Mr. Armand N. Blackmore
Mr. Roger A. Blackwell
Mr. and Mrs. Walter J. Bloch
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Blusteen
Ms. Eileen M. Bohlken
Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Boish
Mrs. Griffith Bolton
Mr. and Mrs. Merrill S. Bonar
Mr. Jim D. Boren
Ms. Saundra Borie
Mr. and Mrs. Ben Borok
Mrs. Ernest Bowens
Ms. Ann Bradshaw
Ms. Virginia Brahms
Mr. Donald W. Brandt
Mr. and Mrs. Boh Brauer
Ms. Jeanette Brauner
Mr. and Mrs. David Brauns

Mr. and Mrs. Harry W. Brelsford
Mr. and Mrs. Douglas A. Brengel
Mrs. Karolla Brice
Ms. Pauline H. Briley
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Brisacher
Mr. and Mrs. James B. Britt
Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Brookfield
Mr. and Mrs. Frank M. Brooks, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Douglas A. Brown
Mr. and Mrs. Jewell J. Brown
Mr. Markley C. Brown
Mr. Randy Brown
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel N. Bryant
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Buchany
Mr. Bernard S. Bucholtz
Doug and Lee Buckmaster
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Buhbe
Mr. and Mrs. Frank E. Buker
Ms. Marjorie Burgeson
Mrs. Alma I. Burke
Ms. Mary K. Burke
Mr. and Mrs. Ian Burnett
Mr. R. G. Burns
Mrs. Hilda F. Burrier
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence E. Busey
Mr. and Mrs. John M. Bylo
Mrs. Barbara Cable
Ms. Cecilia Calderilla
Mr. Don Callarman
Mrs. Renee J. M. Cambitsis
donors
Mr. and Mrs. Lyonel Canes
Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Cantin
Mr. and Mrs. Ryan M. Caparoso
Mr. Richard Cardenas
Mr. Ken Carmichael
Mr. Joseph Carnes
Mr. and Mrs. Edward T. Carrillo
Mr. and Mrs. David H. Carter
Mrs. Frances Carter
Mr. Richard E. Castro
Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Catanese
Mr. William D. Chan
Ya-Chin Chang
Mr. Donald J. Chappell
Mr. Irving M. Chase
Ms. Esther M. Chew
Edward E. Chodoroff, MD
Ms. Roxanne E. Christ
Ms. Sandra C. Christopher
Mr. Anthony N. Cianflone
Mrs. Josephine Ciavarella
Mr. and Mrs. George H. Clark
Mr. Melvin Clark
Ms. Virginia O. Clark
Mr. Earle W. Cliffe, Jr.
Charles A. Clifford, MD
Mr. and Mrs. Kevin G. Clifford
Ms. Aubrey Cline and
Ms. Sara Esparza
Mrs. Wilma R. Cockrell
Surrounded by hundreds of toys,
Connie Smith sorts through what
will become gifts to young patients
from Santa at the “Oh! Toys! Oh!
Joy!” gala. Connie is a member of
Las Madrecitas, an auxiliary of the
Crippled Children’s Guild.
Codington Construction Company
Julius Cohen Estate
Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Cohen
Mrs. Shirley Cole
Mr. Ernesto S. Collantes
Ms. Gwendolyn Y. Collins
Ms. Sue R. Colvin
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Connaughton
Ms. Diane M. Connelly
Contractors Building Materials
Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. Cook
Ms. Mary M. Cook
Mr. Paul R. Cooley
Mr. Bruce C. Corbin
Ms. Joan B. Corley
Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Coulter
Ms. Rosemary Courtney
Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Couturier
Mr. Bruce T. Coyle
Mr. and Mrs. George S. Crane
Mr. and Mrs. Howard M. Crane
Mr. and Mrs. Steven A. Craw
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred P. Crist
Dr. and Mrs. Allen J. Curtis
Mrs. Norman B. Daley
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth R. Dalton
Mr. George R. Daniels
Dr. and Mrs. Harold A. Davidson
Mr. Julio Davila
Dr. and Mrs. Craig A. Davis
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With the leadership of the Los Angeles Police
Department’s SWAT officers and scores of other
volunteers, Santa Claus distributed hundreds of gifts to
young patients at the “Oh! Toys! Oh! Joy!” celebration
on December 13, 2007. During the event at Andrew
Norman Hall on the downtown campus, children
sat on Santa’s lap and told him what they wanted
for Christmas. Behind a curtain on the auditorium
stage, elves listened for the children’s wishes and
handed off the appropriate gifts, much to the surprise
of the children. Among the generous organizations
participating last year were AAA, AC Martin Partners,
Mr. and Mrs. George Davis
Mr. Arturo D. Gonzales and
Mrs. Brandy Davis
Mr. Robert L. Davis
Ms. Katherine G. Davis
Mr. and Mrs. Carl T. Dawson
Dr. and Mrs. Donald de Grange
Mr. Frank L. De John
Aurelio De La Vega, PhD
Mr. and Mrs. Patrick De Mendoza
Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Dektar
Mr. Everett E. Demler
Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester L. Denton
Hemal P. Desai
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard S. Deutsch
Mr. Fred E. Devries
Ms. Diane Devries
Emanuel S. Diamant, MD
Mr. Eladio G. Diaz
Mr. Jonathan Dietch
Ms. Isabelle Diliberto
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Diller
Mr. and Mrs. Richard F. Docter
Mr. John J. Dohle
donors
Mr. Lun Dong and Mrs. Anne Y. Chang
Ms. Marci B. Donley
Mrs. Julia Donlou
Mr. James N. Dooner
Mr. and Mrs. Richard E. Dotts
Mrs. Flora E. Dougherty
Mr. Irving L. Drell
Mrs. Theodora E. Dresman
Mr. and Mrs. Paul F. Duffee
Mr. Chris Dunphy
Mrs. Mary F. Dupart
Mr. Brent Dupper
Roland O. Dutton, MD
Mr. and Mrs. Ronald S. Duvernay
Mr. Johnnie L. Eagilen
Jeffrey J. Eckardt, MD
Mr. and Mrs. Victor C. Eisemann
Ms. Gloria Eive
Mr. Marvin Elkin
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Elzer
Mrs. Helen Epstein
Mr. Joseph E. Erbs
Mrs. Phyllis C. Erdhaus
Mrs. Sharon L. Ertel
Culver-Palms Family YMCA Youth & Government
Delegation, DLA Piper, ZBT Alumni Association of
Southern California, Jack Nadel, Las Madrecitas
Auxiliary of The Crippled Children’s Guild of
Orthopædic Hospital, Los Angeles Orthopædic Hospital
Foundation Staff, McCormick Ambulance, MAS Asset
Management Corporation, Orthopædic Hospital
Medical Magnet High School, Orthopædic Hospital
Staff, Orthopædic Hospital’s Sports Care Outreach
and Education Program, Starlight Foundation, SWAT,
The Phelps Group, Union Bank of Southern California,
Unity Missionary Baptist Church and Your Great Event.
Mr. Aaron A. Esparza
Mrs. Nancy Estill
Mr. Joe Estrada
Mr. and Mrs. Harry V. Evans
Ms. Linda H. Evans
Ms. Rosemary O. Evans
Mr. and Mrs. John Faber
Mrs. Marina I. Fabrega
Dr. and Mrs. Mark J. Farbstein
Mrs. Gay G. Faucett
Ms. June Faulk
Mr. Gustavo G. Fausto
Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Feldman
Mrs. Marjory Feldman
Mr. and Mrs. William M. Fenning
Mr. and Mrs. Francis F. Fenton
Mr. Richard O. Fergus
Dr. and Mrs. Richard Ferkel
Ms. Rosalie L. Ferris
Dr. and Mrs. Blair C. Filler
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Fimbres, Jr.
Sydney M. Finegold, MD
Ms. Jean Flory
Mr. and Mrs. John Flynn

Mr. Jack C. Flynn
Mr. Timothy J. Flynn
Mrs. Edward H. Fogelman
Mr. Stanley Folb
Ms. Angela B. Fontes
Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Ford
Mr. and Mrs. David P. Fox
Mr. Gary P. Foxen
Mr. David C. Frankenthal
Mr. Melvin Freedman
Mrs. Dolores Freeze
Mr. and Mrs. Manley Freid
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Freireich
Mr. and Mrs. Richard T. French
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Friedman
Kenneth B. Fryer, MD
Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Fukutaki
Mr. Robert W. Fuller
Ms. Lenore Furman
Mr. and Mrs. Tamotsu Furukawa
Mr. Andrew Gach
Mr. Donald Gadberry
Ms. Nancy T. Gadel
Mr. and Mrs. Don Gaertner
Mr. Elias T. Galindo
Mr. and Mrs. Armando Gamez
Mr. Joseph Gantman
Mr. and Mrs. Carlos Garcia
Mr. and Mrs. Gregorio D. Garcia
Lt. Col. and Mrs. John A. Garstka
donors
Mr. Michael G. Gates
Mrs. Sheila Gayle
Mrs. Blanche V. Geronsin
Mr. Morton M. Gerson
Mr. and Mrs. Wilfried B. Gerth
Gertz, Solomon & Schneider
Ms. Barbara A. Gibson
Ms. Dona L. Gilbert
Ms. Elizabeth Gilson
Mr. Charles M. Gima
Mr. and Mrs. David F. Ginger
Mr. Stephen R. Ginger
Ms. Zena Ginsberg
Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Giolando
Ms. Judi H. Glass
Mr. and Mrs. Alex M. Glikmann
Ms. Raquel Godinez
Mrs. Judy D. Godsey
Mr. and Ms. William H. Goglin
Mr. and Mrs. Jerome M. Gold
Ms. Minda Goldberg
Golden State Health Centers
Mr. Barry I. Goldman
Mr. and Mrs. David Goldstein
Ms. Rosetta Goldstein
Dr. and Mrs. Orville J. Golub
Mr. Julio Z. Gonzalez
Mr. Dan Goodwin
Dr. and Mrs. Malcolm Gordon
Mr. Glen G. Gordon
A boy at the Valley Orthopaedic
Clinic in Calexico poses somewhat
reluctantly with Santa Claus for
a picture. Young patients from all
over Mexico cross from Mexicali
into the U.S. border town with their
parents to receive medical care
from Orthopædic Hospital doctors
and staff. Volunteers entertain
children and assist doctors.
Mr. Simon Goss, Sr.
Mr. William R. Goss
Ms. Frances Grady
Mr. Alvin Grancell
Mr. and Mrs. John C. Grande
Ms. Margaret R. Graves
Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Greenberg
Ms. Harriet L. Greenberg
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Greenspan
Ms. Velva J. Griffin
Ms. Virginia L. Griffin
Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Grim
Mrs. Mary V. Grimes
Ms. Evelyn W. Gross
Ms. Agatha Grundman
Mr. Cesar Guerrero
Ms. Jessica Guillermo
Mr. Stuart Gulland
Mr. William K. Guptill
Mr. and Mrs. David T. Gutierrez
Mr. and Mrs. Eddie S. Hagihara
Mrs. Roberta Hagopian
Mrs. Ruth A. Hailwood
Dr. and Mrs. David J. Hak
Mr. and Mrs. John C. Hall
Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Hamblet
Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Hamilton
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas R. Hamilton
Mr. John S. Hamilton
Ms. Kamala Hamilton
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Mr. and Mrs. P. T. Hammond
Hand Surgical Associates Inc.
New England Baptist Hospital
Ms. Violet Hanna
Ms. Carol T. Hanson
Ms. Katrina Harbers
The Jeff Harbers Family
Mr. and Mrs. James M. Harding
Dr. and Mrs. Stanley D. Harmon
Mr. and Mrs. Owen H. Harper
Mr. and Mrs. Stanley E. Harper
Mr. William A. Harper
Mrs. Betty T. Harrison
Col. and Mrs. Warren E. Hartman
Mr. and Mrs. Eldon M. Hastain
Constance P. Hastings, MD
Mrs. Constance S. Hawthorne
Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Hay
Mrs. Ila M. Hay
Mrs. Valerie L. Haynes
Mrs. Betty H. Heasley
Mr. and Mrs. John M. Heil
Mrs. June Heiser
Mr. Eugene Heller
Mr. Fred N. Hellmann
Mrs. Geraldine S. Hemmerling
Mr. Harry N. Henson
Mr. and Mrs. Gustavo R. Hernandez
Mrs. Helen Hess
Mr. Raymond E. Heytens
donors
Mr. L. Boyd Higgins
Mrs. Margaret Higgins
Mr. Paul W. Higgins
Mr. James A. Highland
Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. Hill
Mr. David Hiller
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hine
Ms. Tracy G. Hirrel
Dr. and Mrs. Howard S. Hirsch
Mrs. Cecelia M. Hirt
Mr. and Mrs. William A. Hoffman
Ms. Terry R. Hoinsky
Mr. Robert W. Holder
Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Holiday
Mr. and Mrs. Odvar S. Holm
Mr. Don J. Holmes
Mr. and Mrs. Donald C. Holst
Mrs. Hanaye Honda
Ms. Connie Hong Ni Hui
Mr. and Mrs. Huston Horn
Mr. Doyle R. Horton
Mr. Robert F. Howard
Mr. and Mrs. Warren Hubert
Ms. Susan C. Huchthausen
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard T. Huckins, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond T. Huddleston
Mr. and Mrs. Nathaniel Hummel
Mr. and Mrs. Timothy D. Hummel
Ms. Colleen M. Huniu
Hunterdon Orthopaedic Specialists, P.A.
After a fun-filled day of skiing and
snowboarding at Bear Mountain,
patients return from the slopes to
pose with hospital staff.
Mr. Dain R. Hurst
IBM Matching Grants Program
Mr. and Mrs. Harold B. Igdaloff
Mr. and Mrs. John Y. Ige
Ms. Maria T. Ikuta
Inland Empire United Way
Ms. June S. Ireland
Mr. and Mrs. John M. Irigoyen
Ms. Janis K. Ishitani
Mr. and Mrs. Masayasu Itomura
Dora M. Jablow Estate
Ms. Ella P. Jackson
Mrs. George Jacobs
Ms. Naomi Jacobs
Mr. Fred Jacoby
Mrs. Mary Jeffe
Ms. Nancy G. Jenkins
Mr. and Mrs. Fay Jew
Jewish Community Foundation
Ms. Patricia D. Johnson
Ms. Lillian Jolly
Edna M. Jones Estate
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest G. Jones
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas P. Jones
Ms. Caroline B. Jones
Ms. Edith Jones
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Jorgensen
Mr. Enrique Juarez
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Kagan
Mr. Dave E. Kalinger

Mr. Delmer C. Kallberg
Mr. Kazuya Kametani
Mr. and Mrs. Seiji Kami
Mr. and Mrs. Takeo W. Kaneko
Gary Kaplan & Associates
Mr. and Mrs. Jules H. Kates
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew E. Katz
Mrs. Arnold A. Katz
Mrs. Peggy A. Kaus
Ms. Kathleen Kavanagh
Mrs. Grace Kazdan
Mr. William B. Keast
Mr. James A. Keen
Mr. and Mrs. Milton A. Keller
Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Keller
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen M. Kelley
Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Kelly
Mr. Patrick V. Kendall
Ms. Lisa A. Kenyon
Mr. George A. Kern
Mrs. Dorothy R. Kern
Mr. and Mrs. Randall L. Kidd
Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Kiertzner
Kinamed, Inc.
Mr. and Mrs. William H. Kindred
Mrs. Patricia M. King
Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Kirschner
Mr. and Mrs. James M. Klain
Mr. B. N. Kleiner
Ms. Mary A. Knowlton
donors
Mr. and Mrs. Ted H. Koga
Mr. James E. Kokalj
Mr. Ben Komonee
Mr. and Mrs. Jerry T. Kopecek
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Kostolany
Mr. Shant Koumriqian
Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Kritzer
Jack W. Kroeger, MD
Ms. Bette A. Krushell
Mr. and Mrs. Saeko Kubokawa
Mr. Mahendra Lal
Mr. Richard J. Lampton
Charles S. Lane, MD
Mr. and Mrs. Palmer C. Langdon
Mr. Geurt Lanphen
Ms. Sally A. Lapiduss
Mr. and Mrs. David M. Lara
Mr. Thomas Larson
Las Amigas De Las Lomas
Las Angelinas, Inc.
Las Madrecitas
Las Ninas de Las Madrecitas
Ms. Kay Lau
Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Lauter
Ms. Jayme D. Lavoie
Mr. and Mrs. Dean R. Laws
Mr. and Mrs. Harry R. Lazar
Mr. and Mrs. Edward R. Le Blanc
Mr. Benton Lee
Ms. Elma Lee
A first-time skier demonstrates
a perfect athletic stance before
ripping down the mountain on his
bi-ski.
Paul M. Lee
Ms. Mary J. Leland
Mr. Donald W. Leonard
Ms. Helen S. Lesh
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph M. Lespron
Mr. Joseph M. Levario and
Ms. Vangelina Pina
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Leve
Mrs. Elaine O. Leventhal
Bruce S. Levine, D.V.M.
Mr. Bill LeVine and
Mrs. Linda Middleton
Mr. Clinton Lew
Mr. and Mrs. Harold J. Lewin
Kirk J. Lewis, MD
Mr. and Mrs. Erwin Lewis
Mrs. Peggy R. Liester
Mr. Donald A. Lieu
Mr. George R. Lindamood
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Linkchorst
Mr. and Mrs. Leo M. Lippa
Richard J. Lis, MD
Mr. and Mrs. Andy Lisiecki
Mrs. Ursula Lisiecki
Mr. and Mrs. Alan V. Livingston
Mr. and Mrs. Edward W. Loftus
Ms. Doris J. Longmead
Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Longway
Mr. and Ms. Jose Lopez
Ms. Hilda D. Lopez
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Mrs. Lillie Lotto
Mrs. Barbara L. Louis
Mrs. Charles LeRoy Lowman
Mr. and Mrs. Tim Lowry
Mr. Steven D. Lowry
Mr. and Mrs. Martin E. Luboviski
Mr. and Mrs. James D. Ludwig
William F. Luetzow, MD
Mr. and Mrs. Jashbhai D. Luhar
Yiteh Lui
Mr. Michael S. Lurey
Mr. Xuong N. Luu
Mr. and Mrs. William M. Luxford
Mrs. Berendina Maazel
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel P. Madden
Mr. Pedro Magana
Dr. S. Nasser and Dr. Kay E. Mahan
Dr. and Mrs. John D. Mahoney
Miss Melissa L. Malone
Mr. Mitch Malpede
Ms. Beverly R. Manuel
Mr. and Mrs. George B. Manzo
Richard L. Marafioti, MD
Harold B. Markowitz, MD
Mrs. Estelle Markowitz
Mr. and Mrs. Gary G. Marsh
Ms. Dolores Marsh
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Marthe
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Martinez
Miss Yolanda T. Martinez
donors
Mr. Robert D. Martone
Anthony V. Marturano, MD
Mr. Ted Mathieu
Ms. Maryolla M. Mathieu
Mr. and Mrs. Howard M. Matsuba
Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Maxfield
Mr. and Mrs. Roger L. Mayer
Mr. Edward H. Mayer
S. S. Mayers, PhD
Mr. Allison Mayfield
Dr. and Mrs. Murray H. Mazur
Mr. and Mrs. Frank J. Mazzola
Mr. Jack R. Mc Carthy
Mr. Michael D. Mc Guire
Mr. and Mrs. Harold C. McCray
Mrs. Cheryl McDonald
Ms. Debra A. McGhee
Mr. and Mrs. Bruce R. McGregor
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas V. McKernan
Mr. and Mrs. Leo E. Meenan
Rev. and Mrs. Walter H. Mees
Mr. Robert R. Melchior
Mr. and Mrs. G. D. Melles
Mr. and Mrs. Linwood E. Melton
Ms. Carole Mendelson
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Menik
Mr. and Mrs. Milan Merhaut
Ms. Catherine J. Meyer
Ms. Elaine Meyer
Mr. and Mrs. Harold J. Meyers
Progressing from a bi-ski to a
mono-ski, an Orthopædic Hospital
patient at winter adaptive camp
smiles with excitement for her
newfound independence.
Mr. Stanley E. Michniewicz
G J. Mihlsten and N. Geffner-Mihlsten
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Miller
Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin F. Miller
Mr. and Mrs. John W. Miller
Mr. Joseph A. Miller, Jr.
Mrs. Helen M. Miller
Mr. John M. Miner
Mr. and Mrs. Donald L. Ming
Mrs. and Dr. Leila Mishalany
Mr. and Mrs. Edward H. Mitchell
Mr. and Mrs. William E. Mitchell
Dr. and Mrs. Kenneth Mitzner
Mr. and Mrs. Alan Miyamoto
Mr. Curtis J. Miyoken
Ms. Sherry G. Moffatt
Mogerman Jason Orthopaedic
Institute
Mr. and Mrs. Arvil R. Montgomery
Ms. Nancy L. Moomau
Mr. and Mrs. Don R. Moore
Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Morales
John R. Moreland, MD
Mr. and Mrs. Terence N. Morgan
Mr. Lowell M. Morgen
Mr. and Mrs. Michael H. Morimoto
Mrs. Elvira M. Morley
Ms. Clarita H. Morris
Mr. and Mrs. Darrell P. Morse
Mr. Bradley S. Morse

Mr. and Mrs. Donald H. Mosher
Mr. Leland L. Mosher
Mr. Jean R. Moshin
Ms. Josephine Mosley
Ms. Irene T. Motta and
Ms. Francine Savery
Mr. and Mrs. Michael P. Muchin
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas D. Muirhead
Ms. Jeannette M. Muirhead
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Mulholland
Mr. Theodore Muller
Mr. Frank Munos, Jr.
Mr. Esteban Munoz and
Ms. Aurora Martinez
Ms. Jean Murakami
Mr. and Mrs. T. Murata
Mr. and Mrs. Patrick R. Murphy
Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Murray
Ms. Barbara T. Myers
Mr. and Mrs. Mataki Nagai
Mr. and Mrs. Paul T. Nakamura
Mr. and Mrs. Isao P. Narikawa
Mr. David L. Narver, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence W. Nelson
Mr. and Mrs. L. James Nelson, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Marvin M. Nelson
Mr. Harley J. Neuman, C.P.A.
Mr. Melvin T. Neville
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest R. Newman
Newport Orthopedic Institute
donors
Mr. David Newsome
Mr. and Mrs. Michael C. Newton
Mr. Andrew D. K. Nguyen
Mr. Russell A. Nichols
Mr. Scott Nicholson
Frederic G. Nicola, MD
Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Nielsen
Mr. Jack J. Nimitz
Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Y. Nishioka
Mr. and Mrs. David Nitka
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph T. Noland
Ms. Evelyn Norman
Lori Noyes, RN
Mr. Richard L. Nulph
NWQ Investment Management, Co,
LLC
Ms. Elise C. Nybo
Mr. Harry P. O’Brien
Mrs. Sally O’Bryan
Mr. and Mrs. Gene Ohlendorf
Mr. William K. Okamura
Mr. Kosho Okayama
Mr. and Mrs. Abraham Olivarez
Mr. and Mrs. John A. Olsen
Mr. Danny C. Olsen
Mr. and Mrs. Gary Olson
Dr. and Mrs. William L. Oppenheim
Orange County United Way
Orthopaedic Rehabilitation Specialists,
Inc.
Pirates Christopher McElroy and
Roger Zambrano entertain Pinafore
Ethan Cornell and other children
at the 59th Annual Pinafores of the
League for Crippled Children Pirate
Magic event.
Orthopedic Healthcare Northwest, P.C.
Mr. and Mrs. James A. Ostiller
Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Oswald
Dr. and Mrs. Norman Otsuka
Tye J. Ouzanian, MD
Mrs. Richard W. Owen
Mr. Gary S. Packler
Mr. Sergio J. Padilla
Ms. Frances V. Page
Mr. Joseph F. Paggi Jr.
Mr. Alfred Palazzi
Ms. Maria R. Pano
Ms. Mary A. Panyan
Mr. and Mrs. Kuo-Yi Pao
Mr. and Mrs. Pablo Papagno
Mr. and Mrs. Theodore G. Krontiris
Robert O. Pasnau, MD
Mr. C. R. Patel
Mrs. Kumar K. Patel
Mr. Fred C. Patterson
Mrs. Sharon Pecorelli
Ms. Elena S. Pehlke
Faye Peluso Estate
Mrs. Carla P. Pemberton
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert W. Pencille
Mr. Raymond M. Pennell
Mr. and Mrs. Alfonso B. Perez
Mrs. Ana F. Perez
Ms. Suzanne A. Perez
Ms. Penny B. Perrin
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Dr. and Mrs. Carl L. Perry
Ms. Wyoma E. Perryman
Mr. and Mrs. James L. Perzik
Mr. Donald J. Peterson
Ms. Susan Peterson
Mr. and Mrs. Glen W. Pettit
Mr. Paul E. Pettler
Mrs. Marquerite W. Phelps
Mr. and Mrs. Frank M. Phillips
Mr. and Mrs. Robert R. Phillips
Mr. Edward V. Phillips
Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Pilmer
Mr. and Mrs. Michael A. Pilz
Ms. Emily A. Pinson
Mr. and Mrs. Andrei Piranian
Mr. and Mrs. Ferenc Pleth
Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Plummer
Mr. and Mrs. Richard S. Polep
Mr. Charles L. Polep
Ms. Anne Polim
Mr. and Mrs. Paul L. Polk
Mr. and Mrs. Emil J. Ponso
Mr. and Mrs. Leon E. Poulson
Ms. Shirley J. Powell
Mr. and Mrs. John C. Powers
Mr. and Mrs. Glenn R. Price
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Price
Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Priester
Mr. Charles J. Probst
Mrs. Rita C. Pudenz
donors
Mr. Alfred Puetz
Mr. Ross A. Pupillo
Dr. and Mrs. Graham A. Purcell
Mr. and Mrs. Forrest Purdy
Mr. and Mrs. Dallas D. Raines
Mr. Juan J. Ramos
Ms. Rebecca O. Rangel
Mr. Ralph Raphelson
Ms. Marguerite J. Ray
Mrs. Barbara A. Raymond
Mr. Thomas R. Read
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Redmond, Jr.
Mrs. Mary A. Redmond
Mrs. Lucy Reynolds
Mr. Edgar B. Rhodes
Ms. Jean Richardson
Mrs. Celia Rico
Mr. and Mrs. Stan A. Riddle
Ms. Eugenia A. Riordan
Ms. Joan A. Risse
Mr. and Mrs. Stefan Rittner
Vincent J. Roach, MD
Dr. and Mrs. Martin Roberts
Mr. Timothy P. Roberts
Violet C. Roberts Estate
Mr. and Mrs. Leo Robertson
Mr. Gary S. Robinson
Mr. John B. Robinson
Mrs. Gladys M. Robinson
Mr. and Mrs. George H. Rock, III
Pirates, magic and children:
a perfect combination for a
delightful celebration sponsored
by the Pinafores of the League for
Crippled Children.
Ms. Griselda D. H. Rojas
Mr. and Mrs. Bob Romanik
Mr. and Mrs. Robert K. Roney
Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Roscoe
Mrs. Sara J. Rose
Mr. and Mrs. Lee E. Rosen
Mr. Stephen N. Rosen
Mr. Arthur Rosenbaum
Mr. Robert Rosenbaum
Mr. Stanley Roshwald
Mr. and Mrs. Bruce S. Ross
Mr. and Mrs. Dan Ross
Mrs. Elsa M. Ross
Mrs. and Mr. Melvin Rotblatt
Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Roth
Mrs. Elizabeth D. Rott
Mrs. Albert A. Ruh
Ms. Mary R. Ruhl
Mr. and Mrs. Edmond J. Russ
Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Russell
Mr. Edward Ruxton, II
Mr. and Mrs. Harold R. Ryne
Mrs. Florence R. Saffer
Mr. Don Sahlein
Mr. Fred V. Sainz
Mr. John S. Sakellaris
Mr. Steve M. Salas
Mrs. Esther R. Salazar
Mr. Avram Salkin
Mr. and Mrs. David Salter

Mr. and Mrs. Abe Saltzer
Mr. Bill H. Sams
Mr. Eduardo A. Sanchez
Mr. William R. Santschi
Mrs. Molly Sayers
SBC Employee Giving United Way
Campaign
Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe R. Schaffert
Mr. and Mrs. Jan Schatz
Ms. Katharine S. Schlinger
Mr. Anthony and Dr. Mary Schmitz
Mrs. Shirlee M. Schuengel
Dr. and Mrs. David H. Schultz
Mr. and Mrs. Leon Schwartz
Ms. Carole Scoon
Searchlighters
Mr. Albert Segal
Mr. Joh Sekiguchi
Dr. and Mrs. Frederic T. Selleck
Mr. and Mrs. Marcelo Sendowsky
Mrs. Hilda Sepulveda
Mr. George N. Sergiadis and Family
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Shapiro
Mr. Charles H. Shapiro
Mr. Charles J. Shapiro
Mr. and Mrs. Melville Shavelson
Mr. Hank Shaw
Ms. Kathleen E. Shea
Mr. and Mrs. Brian Sheehy
Mr. Will Shepler
donors
Mrs. Deborah Q. Shimasaki
Mr. Robert L. Shipp
Mr. Kayoshi Shoda
Mr. and Mrs. Clare F. Short, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Larry Shults
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph M. Simon
Mr. Leonard F. Simons
Mrs. Noreen Simpson
Ms. Gerry Sinclair
Mr. Lawrence A. Singer
Sizzler Restaurant No. 124
Mr. Arthur D. Skillman, Jr.
Mr. Peter H. Skipper
Ms. Amelia Skocilich
Mr. Berry J. Slater
SM Tire
Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Smith
Mr. Murray Smith
Mr. Stuart L. Smith
Ms. Therese M. Smith
Scott G. Smith, MD
Ms. Beverly A. Snavely
Ms. Lenore Y. Snodey
Mr. and Mrs. William E. Snow
Ms. Edna P. Snow
Mr. Felipe Socarras
Mr. and Mrs. Alan D. Soderberg
Mr. Jack Solovay
Mr. Robert R. Solverson
Mr. and Mrs. Ramon J. Somoano
Joshua Bales, MD, one of doctors
training in the Orthopædic
Hospital/UCLA Orthopaedic
Surgery program, greets a young
patient in the fracture clinic.
Mr. Richard Sorensen
Mr. and Mrs. Salvatore Sortino
Mr. and Mrs. Gerald C. Sozio
Ms. Patricia T. Specht
Mrs. Betty J. Spilsbury
Mr. and Mrs. Stanley R. Spiwak
Ms. Deborah St. Denis
Mr. Milton R. Stark
Mr. Charles H. Starr, Jr.
Mrs. Lucinda Starrett and
Mr. Allan M. Bates
Ms. Margaret Stayman
Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Steel
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Steiker
Mr. Nicholas K. Steinhoff
Mr. and Mrs. Gary Stellern
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Stephenson, Jr.
Dr. and Mrs. Milan Stevanovic
Mr. John R. Stevens
Mrs. Edith R. Stevens
Ms. Dorothy Stevenson
Mr. and Mrs. William H. Stock
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Stockett
Ms. Frances Stoller
Jim Stone, MD
Mr. and Mrs. Richard R. Strahan
Mr. Harold R. Stromsem
Mr. and Mrs. Ian R. Stubbs
Mr. and Mrs. Jack C. Stubbs
Ms. Lynda P. Sullivan
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Mrs. Mary D. Summers
Ms. Ineza Suski
Mr. and Mrs. John W. Swinford
Mr. and Mrs. Philip Sytten
Mr. Albert Taffoni
Mr. Kenneth M. Takemoto
Mr. and Mrs. Al L. Tanner
Taos Orthopaedic Institute, P.C.
Mrs. Charlotte Taylor
Mrs. Patricia A. Taylor
Ms. Alice E. Taylor
Ms. Yolande A. Tchaousoghlou
Temp Unlimited
Ms. Treyola W. Terry
Mr. Jack A. Teufel
Mr. Troy O. Thomas
Mr. William F. Thomas
Ms. Virginia L. Thomas
Tom D. Thomas, MD
Dr. and Mrs. George H. Thompson
Mr. and Mrs. James E. Thompson
Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Thompson
David Thordarson, MD
Mr. and Mrs. Wayne R. Thyden
Ms. Lori A. Tierney
David Tiger Trust
Mr. Evert F. Tigner, Jr.
Ms. Miriam Tobolowsky
Ms. Nancy D. Tookey
Mr. Pete S. Torres, Jr.
donors
Dr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Toy
Mr. and Mrs. Alvin F. Trafton
Mr. and Mrs. Eugenio Trejo
Ms. Gladys G. Trimble
Tri-Valley Orthopedic Specialists, Inc.
Dr. and Mrs. Paul M. Tsou
Mr. Richard N. Tufeld
Mr. and Mrs. William T. H. Tulloch
Ms. Catherine Tunzi
Mrs. Mary E. Turnbaugh
Mr. and Mrs. Gordon B. Tuthill
Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Tyo
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ugarte
Unilever United States Foundation, Inc.
United Way California Capital Region
United Way of Riverside
United Way of the Inland Valley
United Way of Tri-State
United Way of Ventura County
Uptown Gay and Lesbian Alliance Inc.
Mr. Omar J. Uribe
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Uyeda
Mr. and Mrs. Milt Valera
Mr. Michael J. Vallenari
Mr. Geoffrey A. Wainwright and
Dr. Grietje Van Dyk
Ms. Rica Vandenbergh
Ms. Faye Viner
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond G. Visser
Mr. and Mrs. Paul S. Viviano
Mauricio Silva, MD examines a
young patient in the fracture clinic
as her father looks on.
Mrs. Belva F. Vukovich
Mrs. Ruth J. Wagner
Mr. R. C. Waldron
Mr. and Mrs. Cecil A. Walker
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Wallace
Mr. and Mrs. James W. Wallace
Mr. William E. Walsh
Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Ward
Ms. Karen L. Warren
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Wasserman
Ms. Karen T. Watanabe
Mr. Edward Watts
Mr. Sheldon P. Weinstein
Ms. Dima Weiss
Mrs. Adele S. Welsh
Mr. and Mrs. Jack D. West
Mr. Arthur H. Westerfield
Mrs. Penny Wetton
Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. White
Rev. and Mrs. Lewis S. White, Sr.
Mr. and Mrs. William A. Wilber
Ms. Janet R. Wilder
Mr. and Mrs. Jack H. Williams
Mrs. Mary E. Williams
Ms. Susan D. Williams
Mr. and Mrs. Huey Wilson
Mr. and Mrs. Pete W. Wilson
Ms. Katherine L. Wilson
Mr. and Mrs. George Winard
Mrs. Myrna Winer

Ms. Jane B. Winer
Mr. and Mrs. George Winfield
Ms. Julia A. Winter
Mr. and Mrs. Paul S. Wisch
Ms. Jeannette S. Wisman
Mr. and Mrs. Basil G. Witt
Mr. and Mrs. Philip Wittenberg
Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Wobrock
Mrs. Phyllis J. Wolf
Ms. Lynn C. Wolfe
Mr. and Mrs. Miles E. Wollam
Mr. and Mrs. Leland Wong
Mr. Ben F. Wong
Ms. Beverly Wong
Mr. and Mrs. Harry W. Woo
Mr. Harry Woo
Mr. Shamuel Yadegaran
Mr. Koichi K. Yamasaki
Mr. Yas Yamazaki
Ms. Rochelle Yaseen
Mr. Donovan T. Young
Ms. Bernice Y. Young
Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Zaas
Ms. Ana Zamora
Mr. Robert W. Zant
Ms. Jane Zartman
The Ziegler Family Trust
Ms. Frances Zielinski
Mr. and Mrs. David Zollman
Mr. and Mrs. Jack A. Zuber
donors
DONORS WhO GAVe TheiR fiRST
GifT 25 OR mORe YeARS AGO
Mr. and Mrs. Sam Aberbom
Mr. Nathan Adelman
Mr. and Mrs. Rodolfo Aguirre
J. M. Albini
Mr. Felis D. Alvarez
Mr. Jack A. Anderson
Mr. and Mrs. Frank C. Anton
Mr. and Mrs. George Y. Arakaki
Mrs. Roselyn M. Arbuckle
Mr. Z. Harry Astor
Mr. George L. Augspurger
Automobile Club of Southern
California
Mr. and Mrs. Guilford C. Babcock
Mrs. Dorothy Banbury
Mrs. Shirley L. Barasch
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Bartlett
Mr. Ray W. Bartlett
Mrs. Cecile C. Bartman
Mr. and Mrs. Don Bechtold
Mr. David Beck
Ms. Judith Begg
Ms. Sarah J. Benzino
Mr. Richard F. Bernegg
Mr. and Mrs. William F. Bey
Kathryne Beynon Foundation
Mr. Armand N. Blackmore
Mrs. Effie J. Bleakley
Foundation staff joined honored
guests, family and friends at the
“Dinner for Heroes” held August
16, 2007, in the Outpatient Medical
Center to celebrate the generosity of
major donors who have dedicated
their support to the mission of
Orthopædic Hospital. Attendees
were invited to tour the areas
in which their plaques were on
display. From left are the Prickett
family, Jackie Crowley, John
Goldrick, Anna Huff, Robert Del
Valle, Mike Madden, Dan Madden
and Mark Sherwood.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter J. Bloch
Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Boish
Mr. and Mrs. Merrill S. Bonar
Mr. and Mrs. Ben Borok
Mr. Donald W. Brandt
Mr. and Mrs. Boh Brauer
Mr. and Mrs. Harry W. Brelsford
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Brisacher
Mr. and Mrs. Frank M. Brooks, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Jewell J. Brown
Mr. and Mrs. Douglas A. Brown
Mr. Randy Brown
Ms. Grace M. Brubaker
Mr. Bernard S. Bucholtz
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Buettell
Mrs. Hilda F. Burrier
California Community Foundation
Mr. Don Callarman
Callie D. McGrath Estate
Mrs. Renee J. M. Cambitsis
Mr. Ken Carmichael
Carrie Estelle Doheny Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Catanese
Mr. Anthony N. Cianflone
Mrs. Wilma R. Cockrell
Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Cohen
Ms. Mary F. Comerford
Mr. Paul R. Cooley
Mr. and Mrs. Lew E. Coppersmith
Mr. and Mrs. George S. Crane
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Mr. and Mrs. Steven A. Craw
Crippled Children’s Guild
Mrs. Norman B. Daley
Mr. and Mrs. George Davis
Aurelio De La Vega, PhD
Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Dektar
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard S. Deutsch
Ms. Isabelle Diliberto
Dr. and Mrs. Robert R. Dockson
Mr. and Mrs. Richard F. Docter
Mrs. Julia Donlou
Dora M. Jablow Estate
Doris T. Westcott Estate
Dorothy D. Decker Estate
Mrs. Theodora E. Dresman
Mr. and Mrs. Paul F. Duffee
Mr. Johnnie L. Eagilen
ECHO
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Elzer
Mr. Joseph E. Erbs
Mrs. Nancy Estill
Mr. and Mrs. John Faber
Mrs. Gay G. Faucett
Ms. June Faulk
Faye Peluso Estate
Mrs. Marjory Feldman
Mr. and Mrs. William M. Fenning
Ms. Rosalie L. Ferris
Sydney M. Finegold, MD
Mr. and Mrs. Manley Freid
donors
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Friedman
Mr. Robert W. Fuller
Mr. and Mrs. Tamotsu Furukawa
Mr. Elias T. Galindo
Mr. and Mrs. Armando Gamez
Mr. Joseph Gantman
Mr. Michael G. Gates
Mrs. Blanche V. Geronsin
Mr. and Mrs. Wilfried B. Gerth
Mr. and Mrs. David F. Ginger
Gladys A. Van Noy Peterson and
Edward L. Peterson Estate
Golden State Health Centers
Mr. and Mrs. David Goldstein
Dr. and Mrs. Orville J. Golub
Mr. Glen G. Gordon
Mr. Alvin Grancell
Ms. Harriet L. Greenberg
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Greenspan
Mrs. Mary V. Grimes
Mr. and Mrs. Eddie S. Hagihara
Mrs. Ruth A. Hailwood
Mr. and Mrs. John C. Hall
Mrs. Margaret A. Halvorson
Mrs. Betty T. Harrison
Col. and Mrs. Warren E. Hartman
Mr. and Mrs. Eldon M. Hastain
Mr. Eugene Heller
Mr. Fred N. Hellmann
Mrs. Geraldine S. Hemmerling
Phyllis McCray, Ruth Wagner and
Sharon Herzog visit at the “Dinner
for Heroes.”
Mr. Harry N. Henson
Mr. Raymond E. Heytens
Mr. L. Boyd Higgins
Mrs. Margaret Higgins
Mr. James A. Highland
Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. Hill
Dr. and Mrs. Bruce P. Hillam
Mrs. Cecelia M. Hirt
Mr. and Mrs. Donald C. Holst
Mrs. Hanaye Honda
Mr. Doyle R. Horton
Howard C. Smith Estate
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard T. Huckins, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond T. Huddleston
Mr. and Mrs. William P. Jackson
Ms. Naomi Jacobs
Mrs. Mary Jeffe
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas P. Jones
Mr. Edward J. Jones
Virginia G. Jones Estate
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Jorgensen
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Kagan
Mr. Dave E. Kalinger
Mr. Delmer C. Kallberg
Mr. and Mrs. Seiji Kami
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew E. Katz
Mrs. Arnold A. Katz
Mrs. Peggy A. Kaus
Mr. and Mrs. Milton A. Keller
Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Kelly

Mrs. Dorothy R. Kern
Mr. and Mrs. William H. Kindred
Mr. Ben Komonee
Ms. Bette A. Krushell
Mr. and Mrs. Palmer C. Langdon
Mr. Allan Langdon
Las Amigas de Las Lomas
Las Angelinas
Las Madrecitas
Las Niñas de Las Madrecitas
Latham & Watkins
Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Lauter
Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Lawton
League for Crippled Children
Thomas and Dorothy Leavey
Foundation
Ms. Helen S. Lesh
Mrs. Elaine O. Leventhal
Mr. and Mrs. Harold J. Lewin
Mr. and Mrs. Leo M. Lippa
Ms. Doris J. Longmead
Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Longway
Mrs. Lillie Lotto
Mr. and Mrs. Martin E. Luboviski
Mr. and Mrs. Jashbhai D. Luhar
Mrs. Berendina Maazel
Richard L. Marafioti, MD
Mr. Robert D. Martone
Anthony V. Marturano, MD
Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Maxfield
donors
Mr. and Mrs. Roger L. Mayer
Mr. and Mrs. Frank J. Mazzola
Mr. and Mrs. Milan Merhaut
Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin F. Miller
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Miller
Mrs. Helen M. Miller
Mr. John M. Miner
Mr. and Mrs. Donald L. Ming
Dr. Leila Mishalany
Mr. and Mrs. William E. Mitchell
Dr. and Mrs. Kenneth Mitzner
Mr. and Mrs. Alan Miyamoto
Ms. Sherry G. Moffatt
Dr. and Mrs. Hassan A. Mohaghegh
Mr. Robert L. Moore, Jr.
Mrs. Marie L. Morgan
Mrs. Ruth H. Morrison
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Mulholland
Mr. Frank Munos, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Mataki Nagai
Mr. David L. Narver, Jr.
Mr. Melvin T. Neville
Mr. and Mrs. David Nitka
Ms. Evelyn Norman
Mr. Kosho Okayama
Mr. and Mrs. James A. Ostiller
Mrs. Kumar K. Patel
Mr. Fred C. Patterson
Mr. and Mrs. James M. Pecora
Mrs. Sharon Pecorelli
Sunny skies greeted golfers and
event staff at the 18th Annual Paul
and Berniece Harbers Runyan
Memorial Golf Classic. The event,
held at the Oakmont Country
Club in Glendale on May 14,
2007, raised $105,000 to benefit
the pediatric cast clinic. The
tournament honors the memory of
golf legend Paul Runyan and his
wife, Berniece Harbers Runyan,
both longtime OH supporters.
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert W. Pencille
Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Perrine
Mr. and Mrs. James L. Perzik
Mr. and Mrs. Frank M. Phillips
Mr. and Mrs. Ferenc Pleth
Mr. Charles L. Polep
Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Priester
Mr. Thomas R. Read
Mrs. Lucy Reynolds
Mrs. Celia Rico
Vincent J. Roach, MD
Mrs. Gladys M. Robinson
Mr. and Mrs. George H. Rock, III
Mr. Arthur Rosenbaum
Mr. Stanley Roshwald
Mrs. Elsa M. Ross
Mrs. and Mr. Melvin Rotblatt
Mr. Raymond Rubenstein
Mrs. Albert A. Ruh
Mr. and Mrs. Edmond J. Russ
Mr. Edward Ruxton, II
Mr. John S. Sakellaris
Mrs. Esther R. Salazar
Mr. Avram Salkin
Mr. and Mrs. Abe Saltzer
Mr. William R. Santschi
Mr. Bruce R. Scherer
Ms. Katharine S. Schlinger
Mr. and Mrs. Sherwood Schwartz
Mr. and Mrs. Vincent E. Scully
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Searchlighters
Mr. Joh Sekiguchi
Mr. Charles H. Shapiro
Mr. and Mrs. Melville Shavelson
Mr. Kayoshi Shoda
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph M. Simon
Mrs. Noreen Simpson
Mr. Lawrence A. Singer
Singer Lewak Greenbaum & Goldstein
LLP
Mr. Arthur D. Skillman, Jr.
Mr. Peter H. Skipper
Ms. Amelia Skocilich
Mr. Stuart L. Smith
Mr. Murray Smith
Mrs. Betty J. Spilsbury
Mr. and Mrs. Stanley R. Spiwak
Virginia Stabler Estate
Mr. Milton R. Stark
Mr. Charles H. Starr, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Steiker
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Stephenson, Jr.
Sidney Stern Memorial Fund
Mrs. Edith R. Stevens
Ms. Dorothy Stevenson
Mrs. Bertha R. Stotz
Mr. and Mrs. Ian R. Stubbs
Mr. and Mrs. Philip Sytten
Mrs. Charlotte Taylor
Mrs. Patricia A. Taylor
donors
Ms. Alice E. Taylor
Ms. Treyola W. Terry
Ms. Virginia L. Thomas
Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Thompson
Mr. Evert F. Tigner, Jr.
Ms. Gladys G. Trimble
Mr. Richard N. Tufeld
Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Tyo
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Uyeda
Mr. and Mrs. Milt Valera
Ms. Faye Viner
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond G. Visser
Madeline Wagers Estate
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Wasserman
Mr. and Mrs. Jack H. Williams
Mr. and Mrs. George Winard
Mr. and Mrs. George Winfield
Mr. and Mrs. Philip Wittenberg
Ms. Jane Zartman
Mr. and Mrs. Jack A. Zuber
ORThOPæDic hOSPiTAL’S
PAUL AND beRNiece hARbeRS
RUNYAN GOLf cLASSic
AC Martin Partners, Inc.
Mr. Ray Agostino
Dr. and Mrs. Wayne H. Akeson
Mr. Jorge Alvarado
Mr. Andrew Anderson
Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Anderson
Members of Orthopædic Hospital’s
physical therapy team provided
first aid and massages for golfers at
the 18th Annual Paul and Berniece
Harbers Runyan Memorial Golf
Classic. From left are Kim Hicks,
Omar Uribe, Cindy Bailey and
Adam Belfer.
Mr. Eric V. Anderson
Mr. Stephen Anderson
Anonymous
Arnhold and S. Bleichroeder, Inc.
Mr. James L. Arnone
Ms. Noreen Baca
Baron Capital, Inc.
Mr. Adam Belfer
Mr. Robert A. Berry
Mr. Roger A. Blackwell
Blue Cross of California
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Brisacher
Cadence Capital Management Group
California Commerce Club, Inc.
Ms. Elanne C. Callahan
Canterbury Capital Services, Inc.
CAP-MPT
Mr. Richard Cardenas
Mr. Bruce A. Cavarno
Cavarocchi Ruscio Dennis Associates,
LLC
Ms. Esther M. Chew
Ms. Roxanne E. Christ
Mr. Melvin Clark
Charles A. Clifford, MD
Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. Cook
Mr. Bruce C. Corbin
Mr. Paul Coss
Mrs. Jackie Crowley
Mr. Julio Davila

Disney Worldwide Services, Inc.
Dodge & Cox
Mr. John J. Dohle
Mr. Michael J. Doka
Mr. and Mrs. Richard E. Dotts
Mr. Frank Dunn
Mr. Chris Dunphy
Mr. Brent Dupper
Mr. Aaron A. Esparza
Estate Strategies, Inc.
Mr. Joe Estrada
Ms. Linda H. Evans
Mr. and Mrs. David B. Farkas
Dr. and Mrs. Blair C. Filler
Gerald A.M. Finerman, MD
Mr. Wayne Flick
Mr. Timothy J. Flynn
Mr. and Mrs. Edward D. Fox, Jr.
Frontier Capital Management Co.
Mr. and Mrs. Don Gaertner
Mr. and Mrs. Carlos Garcia
Gary Kaplan & Associates
Ms. Minda Goldberg
Mr. Barry I. Goldman
Mr. Dan Goodwin
Ms. Jessica Guillermo
Mr. Stuart Gulland
Mrs. Roberta Hagopian
Hamilton Construction
Ms. Katrina Harbers
donors
Mr. L. Boyd Higgins
Mr. Paul W. Higgins
Ms. Tracy G. Hirrel
Mr. Dain R. Hurst
Mrs. Ursula H. Hyman
Janzen, Johnston & Rockwell
Mr. and Mrs. Jerve M. Jones
Ms. Martha Jordan
Ms. Kathleen Kavanagh
KB Home
Kelleher & Associates
Ms. Lydia Knowles
Mr. Tetsuohu Koiso
Mr. Shant Koumriqian
Mr. Edward E. Kushins
Latham & Watkins
Paul M. Lee
Mr. John Leuthold
Lifestyle Construction
Mr. Michael S. Lurey
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel P. Madden
Miss Melissa L. Malone
Mr. Mitch Malpede
Mr. and Mrs. Christopher C. Martin
Mr. and Mrs. Harold C. McCray
Mr. Robert R. Melchior
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Menik
Mr. and Mrs. Mitch M. Michino, Esq.
G J. Mihlsten and N Geffner-Mihlsten
Mr. and Mrs. John W. Miller
The Legacy Luncheon, held
December 11, 2007, at the
Orthopædic Hospital Research
Center on the UCLA campus
in Westwood, honored Legacy
Members. From left are Jackie
Crowley; Gay Swanson; Joe Naylor,
director of Gift Planning & Major
Gifts; Ruth Wagner; and Sandy
Moore.
Dr. and Mrs. Hassan A. Mohaghegh
Mrs. Sandra C. Moore
Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Morales
Mr. John S. Nagy
Mr. Joe B. Naylor
Mr. David Newsome
Mr. and Mrs. Michael C. Newton
Mr. Scott Nicholson
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph T. Noland
NWQ Investment Management, Co,
LLC
Mr. Joseph F. Paggi Jr.
Mr. Geoff Palmer
Mr. Gordon N. Park
Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Perrine
The Phelps Group
Dr. and Mrs. Randall C. Pokomo
Mr. Ross A. Pupillo
Dr. and Mrs. Graham A. Purcell
Mr. and Mrs. Don W. Robertson
Ms. Mary R. Ruhl
Mr. Steve M. Salas
Mr. Bill H. Sams
Mr. Richard W. Sanders
Ms. Anne Savage
Mr. Anthony and Dr. Mary Schmitz
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Settelmayer
Ms. Peggy Sharp
Mr. Hank Shaw
Mr. Will Shepler
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Sizzler Restaurant No. 124
Mr. Timothy J. Smith
Mr. and Mrs. William A. Spurgin
Mr. and Mrs. Gary Stahl
Mrs. Lucinda Starrett and
Mr. Allan M. Bates
Jim Stone, MD
Mr. John Strobel
Temp Unlimited
The Rose Hills Foundation
Mr. Troy O. Thomas
Ms. Lori A. Tierney
Union Bank
Unisource Solutions
Mr. Michael J. Vallenari
Vanguard Charitable Endowment
Program
Mrs. Ruth J. Wagner
Mr. James L. Weidner
Ms. Julia A. Winter
Mr. Koichi K. Yamasaki
Mr. Yas Yamazaki
Ms. Bernice Y. Young
memORiAL GifTS AND TRibUTe
GifTS
Mr. and Mrs. Christopher N. Anderson
Marc Asher, MD
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew J. Atherton
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel F. Bachini
donors
Mr. and Mrs. B.K. Bailey
Bandini Truck Terminal Inc.
Mr. and Mrs. Donald E. Barker
Ms. Faith K. Beard
Ms. Patricia B. Bell
Mr. and Mrs. Donald I. Berger
Mr. and Mrs. William F. Bey
Mr. and Mrs. Douglas A. Brengel
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Buchany
Mr. and Mrs. Kevin G. Clifford
Ms. Sue R. Colvin
Ms. Katherine G. Davis
Mr. and Mrs. Carl T. Dawson
Mr. and Mrs. Patrick De Mendoza
Mr. Fred E. Devries
Ms. Diane Devries
Mrs. Phyllis C. Erdhaus
Dr. and Mrs. Mark J. Farbstein
Ms. Rosalie L. Ferris
Mr. and Mrs. David P. Fox
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Friedman
Mr. Peter E. Gadd
Ms. Nancy T. Gadel
Ms. Susan Galanti
Ms. Elizabeth Gilson
Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Giolando
Ms. Judi H. Glass
Dr. and Mrs. Malcolm Gordon
Mrs. Mary V. Grimes
Mr. and Mrs. P. T. Hammond
Eight beauties surround James
V. Luck Jr., MD at the annual
fundraising event of The Pinafores
of the League for Crippled Children
on April 6, 2007, at Andrew
Norman Hall at the Orthopædic
Hospital Medical Center. For nearly
60 years, girls from first through
eighth grades and their mothers
have participated in the parentchild
organization that dedicates
time to visiting and brightening the
spirits of young patients
Mrs. Ila M. Hay
Mr. and Mrs. John M. Heil
Mr. L. Boyd Higgins
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hine
Mr. and Mrs. William A. Hoffman
Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Holiday
Mr. and Mrs. Donald C. Holst
Mr. and Mrs. Huston Horn
Mr. John R. Howell
Mr. and Mrs. Timothy D. Hummel
Mr. and Mrs. Nathaniel Hummel
Huntington Memorial Hospital
Medical Staff Fund
IndyMac Bank
Mr. Fred Jacoby
Ms. Patricia D. Johnson
Ms. Lillian Jolly
Ms. Caroline B. Jones
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Jorgensen
Ms. Lisa A. Kenyon
Mrs. Dorothy R. Kern
Mr. and Mrs. Randall L. Kidd
Mr. and Mrs. Jerry T. Kopecek
Mr. Oliver Koster
Mr. and Mrs. Theodore G. Krontiris
Las Angelinas
Mr. and Mrs. Dean R. Laws
Ms. Sylvia Leaf
Mrs. Ursula Lisiecki
Mr. and Mrs. James D. Ludwig

Ms. Jane Luthard
Mr. and Mrs. William M. Luxford
Ms. Dolores Marsh
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Marthe
Ms. Catherine J. Meyer
Mr. and Mrs. Carl L. Miller
Mr. and Mrs. Don R. Moore
David Morse & Associates, Inc.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas D. Muirhead
Ms. Jeannette M. Muirhead
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Mulholland
Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Y. Nishioka
Lori Noyes, RN
Mr. and Mrs. Gene Ohlendorf
Ms. Mary A. Panyan
Ms. Elena S. Pehlke
Mrs. Carla P. Pemberton
Mr. and Mrs. Glen W. Pettit
The Phelps Group
Ms. Emily A. Pinson
Mr. and Mrs. Emil J. Ponso
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Price
Mrs. Rita C. Pudenz
Mr. and Mrs. Forrest Purdy
Mr. and Mrs. Dallas D. Raines
Mr. Edgar B. Rhodes
Ms. Eugenia A. Riordan
Mr. Don Sahlein
Dr. and Mrs. David H. Schultz
Ms. Carole Scoon
donors
Mr. and Mrs. Brian Sheehy
Mr. and Mrs. Larry Shults
SM Tire
Ms. Patricia T. Specht
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde F. Stauff
Ms. Toni S. Steele
Mr. and Mrs. Gary Stellern
Mr. and Mrs. John W. Swinford
Ms. Nancy D. Tookey
Dr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Toy
Ms. Catherine Tunzi
Unilever United States Foundation
United Way of Greater Los Angeles
Mrs. Belva F. Vukovich
Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Ward
Mr. Edward Watts
Mrs. Adele S. Welsh
Mr. Arthur H. Westerfield
Mr. and Mrs. Pete W. Wilson
Ms. Jane B. Winer
Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Wobrock
Mr. and Mrs. Leland Wong
SUPPORT GROUPS
Crippled Children’s Guild
La Cañada Flintridge Orthopaedic Guild
Las Amigas de Las Lomas
Las Angelinas
Las Madrecitas
Las Niñas de Las Madrecitas
While visiting from Arizona,
longtime supporters John Kellen
and Jo Kellen, left, toured
Orthopædic Hospital and enjoyed
a lunch with Foundation staff
members, including Henrietta West
and Joe Naylor.
League for Crippled Children
Pinafores of the League for Crippled
Children
Searchlighters
UNiVeRSALLY AcceSSibLe
PLAYGROUND DONORS
Portia and Larry Adams
J. M. Albini
Gail Allen
Robert F. Altshuler
Felis D. Alvarez
William C. Andersen
Jack A. Anderson
The Annenberg Foundation
Anonymous
Marcelino Arteaga
Elie Atias
Automobile Club of Southern
California
Mr. and Mrs. Guilford Babcock
Iris V. Bailey
Glenn L. Bales
Peter Balov
Cecile C. Bartman
Larry D. Bauer
Michael Bell
Alfonso Berumen
Armand N. Blackmore
Jerome Boish
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Jacqueline H. Bolton
Saundra Borie
H. L. Brookfield
W. Doug Buckmaster
Michael Buhbe
The Fritz Burns Foundation
Steven H. Cameron
Edward E. Chodoroff
Church of the Lighted Window
Joan B. Corley
Howard M. Crane
Crippled Children’s Guild
Norman B. Daley
George Davis
Frank L. De John
Everett E. Demler
Irma Derrick
Emanuel S. Diamant
Eladio G. Diaz
Ralph Diller
David L. Dimeglio
Carrie Estelle Doheny Foundation
Julia Donlou
Flora E. Dougherty
Paul F. Duffee
Richard E. Eisendrath
Narciso Encarnacion
Sharon L. Ertel
Everychild Foundation
Rina I. Falcone
donors
Morton R. Field
Mary B. Fisher
Manuel Fredgant
Melvin Freedman
Archie R. French
Gertrude J. Ganan
Jose Garcia
John A. Garstka
Isabelle P. Gerald
The Sommer-Childress Family
Orville J. Golub
Warren M. Goodwin
Simon Goss
Velva J. Griffin
Margaret L. Gross
Ruth A. Hailwood
Violet Hanna
James M. Harding
Warren E. Hartman
Betty H. Heasley
George M. Henzie
June C. Hernandez
Richard and Patricia Herd
David Heskiaoff
Helen Hess
Hezlep Family Foundation
The O. Warren and Mary Ellen
Hillgren Family
Margaret Higgins
Mrs. Harriet P. Hillam
Four panels of stained glass grace
the lobby of the Lowman Building
on the downtown campus. The
brightly colored artwork depicts
a variety of flora and fauna,
including fish, a seahorse, a
starfish, a lion, an elephant, a fox
and a rooster.
Mr. H. Ross MacMichael and
Dr. Mary A. Hirsh
Robert W. Holder
Michael and Audrey Hollander
Doyle R. Horton
Susan C. Huchthausen
Leonard T. Huckins
Mary Jeffe
Mildred R. Johnson
Alexander J. Jones
Juniors of the League for Crippled
Children
Harry Kagan
Jules H. Kates
Peggy A. Kaus
Yukio Kawaratani
James A. Keen
Kelleher & Associates
W. E. Kelly
Rhea Kimmel
Shirlee G. Kline
William R. Knight
Stuart R. Kobata
James E. Kokalj
Allan Langdon
Pauline E. Langhorne
Las Amigas de Las Lomas
Las Angelinas
La Cañada Flintridge Orthopaedic
Guild

Las Madrecitas
Richard J. Lauter
Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Lawton
League for Crippled Children
Thomas and Dorothy Leavey
Foundation
Mary J. Leland
Donald W. Leonard
Joseph M. Lespron
Melvin P. Lesser
Los Angeles Orthopædic Hospital
Foundation Board of Trustees
Barbara L. Louis
Mrs. Charles LeRoy Lowman
Berendina Maazel
Marjorie C. MacDonald
Ashis Mandal
Yolanda T. Martinez
Anthony V. Marturano
Melvin Mayeda
Roger L. Mayer
S. S. Mayers
Michael D. Mc Guire
B. C. McCabe Foundation
Denise McCain-Tharnstrom and
Charles Tharnstrom
William G. McGagh
Debra A. McGhee
Kim Miller
John M. Miner
donors
Sandra Moore
Paula Moreno
Clarita H. Morris
Bradley S. Morse
Jean R. Moshin
Edward H. Nishimura
Evelyn Norman
Lori Noyes
Sally O’Bryan
Robert L. Ordin
Orthopædic Hospital Board of
Directors
Alfred Palazzi
Pablo Papagno
Gordon N. Park
The Ralph M. Parsons Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. James M. Pecora
Carl L. Perry
Mr. and Mrs. Glenn W. Pettit
The Phelps Group
Pinafores of the League for Crippled
Children
Ruth Pitt
Janice A. Pitzer
Francisca Plascencia
Onez M. Polk
Paul S. Polovina
Leon E. Poulson
John C. Powers
Charles J. Probst
Attending the President’s Circle
holiday party are Tovya Wager,
Harry McKellop, PhD and James V.
Luck Jr., MD. The event was held
December 7, 2007 at the James Earl
Gray Gallery in Bergamot Station
in Santa Monica.
James T. Probst
India and Quentin Rance
Jack P. Richman
Stan A. Riddle
Stefan Rittner
Leo Robertson
James B. Robinson
Lee E. Rosen
Louise H. Rossi
Nancy Rossi
Rose Roth
Jay Roundy
Mrs. Pat Roy
Cecil L. Russell
David Salter
William R. Santschi
Harold Savinar
Molly Sayers
Roscoe R. Schaffert
Paul C. Schaffner
Robert W. Scheibel
Mr. and Mrs. Roger C. Schultz
Arent H. Schuyler
Leon Schwartz
Kathy and Garland Schweickhardt
Albert Segal
Leonard F. Simons
Gerry Sinclair
Beverly A. Snavely
Shirley D. Spiegel
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Toni S. Steele
John R. Stevens
Harold R. Swanton and
Winifred R. Swanton Foundation
TAJ Foundation
Kenneth Takeuchi
Charlotte Taylor
Yolande A. Tchaousoghlou
Jack A. Teufel
Steve P. Theodore
Virginia L. Thomas
David Thompson
Edel Thompson
Genell M. Tietz
Miriam Tobolowsky
Kim N. Tran
Ansho Uchima
Union Bank of California
Omar J. Uribe
Eleanor J. Valentine
Milt Valera
Lucy J. Valucki
Rica Vandenbergh
Van’s 1 Hour Foto
Ruth J. Wagner
Philip E. Watters
David Weiss
Mrs. G. Wilbur Westin
Mr. and Mrs. Huey Wilson
Philip Wittenberg
donors
Phyllis J. Wolf
Barbara A. Wood
Harrison Moon Woods
Nancy M. Yates
Robert W. Zant
Jack A. Zuber
Taking a bow on stage are members
of the President’s Circle, who
visited the Hollywood Bowl and its
museum on October 20, 2007.
Heather Gillespie, MD, MPH examines a patient at one
of two fracture clinics she runs at Orthopædic Hospital.

The children of Orthopædic Hospital
lost of true friend and hero when Los
Angeles Police Officer Randal Simmons
was killed in the line of duty on
February 7, 2008.
Mr. Simmons for many years served as the
liaison for the annual holiday toy drive sponsored
by the Special Weapons And Tactics (SWAT) team.
SWAT adopted Orthopædic Hospital
as its community charity in 1994.
Mr. Simmons was a steadfast supporter
of Orthopædic Hospital before
the holiday festivities and always took
time to visit with patients, according
to Mary Schmitz, PhD, president of
the Los Angeles Orthopædic Hospital
Foundation.
“We frequently called on Randy
and his officers whenever we had a
child who needed special encouragement to face a
complex surgery, a difficult health decision or just
needed some confidence to deal with an extended
hospital stay,” she said.
“Randy and his team never said no. When we
told him that the children had a need, he seemingly
dropped everything and responded. They
would appear within a very short time and walk
into the children’s ward in full uniform, but with
totally disarming smiles and gifts of SWAT hats for
the children. Randy, in particular, had an incredible
way of coaxing conversation and laughter out
of even the most reticent child. He had a special
place in his heart for children and it showed.”
Another person who knew Mr. Simmons well
from the SWAT toy drive was Uletas Carter,
administrative assistant, Volunteer Services.
“Randy is forever our hero,” Uletas said. “To all
of us, Randy was truly a wonderful person, much
more than a dedicated SWAT officer, but a gentleman
and a gentle man. To us, Randy would never
turn away his heart from the faces of our children
with cancer nor to anyone who needed him.
“To us, Randy was the one who would always
be the first to help our children, the first to help
organize our hospital toy drives and gift giveaway
in memoriam
Randal Simmons
parties for our children, the first to offer his wonderful
smile — offering us a glimpse of his amazing
spirit. To us, Randy was forever praising his
family, whom he often would speak of as his source
of enduring strength.”
Over the years, SWAT ran the 120-mile Bakerto-Vegas
race in the Mojave Desert in honor of
“the children of Orthopædic Hospital who could
not run.” Officers also pushed several
wheelchair-bound patients in the Los
Angeles Marathon — a thrill the children
will never forget. One of those
children, Johnny Garcia, said that at
first he was afraid of being pushed;
afterwards he felt as if there was nothing
he could not do.
Every holiday season, SWAT assists
Randal Simmons
with the annual toy party for the
patients. The officers pick up donated
toys in their vehicles and help distribute them on
the day of the party.
Occasionally, Mr. Simmons played Santa. Mr.
Simmons and injured fellow officer James Veenstra
were at OH as recently as last December.
Mr. Simmons, 51, was mortally wounded during
a raid in Winnetka after a man had called 911
to report he had killed three family members at his
home. Police entered the home with the belief that
wounded people might be inside and others could
be at risk of being shot and killed. A police sniper
subsequently killed the gunman.
Police credited Mr. Simmons with saving
the life of Ofc. Veenstra, who was shot
first. After Ofc. Veenstra fell, Mr. Simmons
stepped in front of his colleague
and was struck by a single bullet. Mr.
Simmons was the first fatality in the history of the
SWAT team, which was created in 1967.
Mr. Simmons had served with the LAPD for
27 years, 20 of those with SWAT. He had passed
up numerous opportunities for promotion, and to
retire, to remain with the elite unit.
Mr. Simmons is survived by his wife, Lisa; his
son, Matthew, 15; his daughter, Gabrielle, 13; and
his parents and other family members.
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Michael Lombardi Named
Chairman of The Board of Directors
Orthopædic Hospital has appointed
Michael R. Lombardi as chairman
of the Board of Directors.
He will be responsible for
actively guiding the Board of
Directors during Orthopædic Hospital’s
upcoming endeavors, including overseeing
continued progress on the new
hospital facilities in Santa Monica. The
chairman works closely with the CEO to
address operational success, adherence
to the mission and serves as an integral
member of the alliance council that oversees
the agreement between Orthopædic
Hospital and UCLA.
“Michael Lombardi is a strong
leader and long-time supporter of Los Angeles
Orthopædic Hospital,” said James V. Luck Jr.,
MD, president, CEO and medical director. “His
Orthopædic Hospital has appointed
Christopher C. Martin, FAIA
as chairman of the Los Angeles
Orthopædic Hospital Foundation
Board of Trustees.
“Chris Martin’s strong dedication to
the Los Angeles community makes him
an ideal leader for the Foundation and
for guiding the Hospital throughout its
growth at a critical time in our history,”
said James V. Luck, Jr., MD, president,
CEO and medical director. “With his
help, we are certain that we will reach
Michael Lombardi
dedication, experience and enthusiasm will help
take the hospital and the board to an even greater
level.”
Mr. Lombardi is founder and president of
Stonebridge Holdings, Inc., a company that develops,
manages and markets high-end,
hospital-related medical office buildings.
He is the managing member of Westside
Medical Park LLC, a medical office
building and senior housing project currently
being developed at Olympic and
Bundy in Los Angeles. He served as
managing general partner of Newport
Lido Medical Center and is a past chairman
of the board of councilors of the
University of Southern California School
of Gerontology.
Mr. Lombardi earned a bachelor of science
degree in finance and an MBA from USC.
Christopher Martin Named
Chairman of The Board of Trustees
and Consulting Architects and Engineers.
He is best known for restoring City Hall and
many other buildings in downtown Los Angeles,
and his commitment to the community through
integrity and social responsibility is apparent in
all of his work.
Mr. Martin currently is an active
member of the American Institute of
Architects Los Angeles Chapter and the
American Institute of Architects Council.
The Martin family recently endowed
a Chair in Architecture at the University
of Southern California.
our goal of continued medical service for
Prior to joining the Orthopædic Hos-
children in need of orthopaedic care.” Christopher Martin pital Foundation, Mr. Martin served as
Mr. Martin serves as CEO of his family’s
chairman of the Los Angeles Chamber of
architectural firm, AC Martin Partners — a legacy in Commerce, president of the American Institute of
downtown Los Angeles, which recently expanded Architects Los Angeles Chapter and chairman of
and merged into Togawa Smith Martin Residential the Los Angeles Central City Association.

or t h opæ dic hospital boa r d of di r ec tor s
Jac k R. BoR s t i ng, PhD
Professor of Business Administration
and Dean Emeritus
Marshall School of Business
University of Southern California
geR alD a.M. Fi n e R M a n, MD
Professor and Chairman
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
David Geffen School of Medicine
University of California at Los Angeles
eD w a R D D. (neD) Fox, JR.
Chairman
Vantage Property Investors, LLC
hug h M. gR a n t
Retired Vice Chairman
Ernst & Young LLP
Joh n D. hus s e y
Of Counsel
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Mich a el R. loM B a R Di
President
Stonebridge Holdings, Inc.
Mic h a el r. lo M b a r di, ch air
Joh n d. hus s e y, vice ch air
Ja M e s V. luc k, JR., MD
President, Chief Executive Officer and Medical Director
Orthopædic Hospital
Professor, Executive Vice Chairman and Program Director
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
David Geffen School of Medicine
University of California at Los Angeles
chR i stoPh e R c. Ma Rtin, Faia
Co-Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
AC Martin Partners, Inc.
willi aM g. Mcgagh
McGagh & Associates
Rich a R D k. RoeDeR
Partner
Vance Street Management, LLC
Daisy B. sP u Rgi n
Chief Financial Officer
Spurgin Development Company, Inc.
Pau l s. Vi V i a no
Chairman of the Board and
Chief Executive Officer
Alliance Imaging, Inc.
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los ang e l e s oR t hoPæ Dic hosPital Fou n Dat ion Boa R D oF tRust e e s
sa M u e l P. Bell, JR.
Rich a R D w. co ok
Chairman
Walt Disney Studios
ha R ol D a. DaV i D s o n, DBa, cRa
President
Harold Davidson & Associates, Inc.
eD w a R D D. (neD) Fox, JR.
Chairman
Vantage Property Investors, LLC
law R e n c e B. go t l i e B
Vice President of Government and Public Affairs and
Associate Corporate Counsel
KB Home
ow e n h. haR PeR
Vice Chairman
J.P. Morgan Private Bank
Mich a el R. loM B a R Di
President
Stonebridge Holdings, Inc.
Ja M e s V. luc k, JR., MD
President, Chief Executive Officer and Medical Director
Orthopædic Hospital
Chief Executive Officer
Los Angeles Orthopædic Hospital Foundation
Me y eR lusk i n
Chief Executive Officer, President, and
Chairman of the Board
Scope Industries
chR i stoPh e R c. Ma Rtin, Faia, ch a iR
eD w a R D D. (neD) Fox, JR., Vice ch a iR
chR i stoPh e R c. Ma Rtin, Faia
Co-Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
AC Martin Partners, Inc.
Phy l l is J. MccR ay
Member, Crippled Children’s Guild
thoM a s V. Mcke R n a n
President and Chief Executive Officer
Automobile Club of Southern California
ha R ol D J. (Bu D) Me y eR s
Senior Vice President of Investments
A.G. Edwards & Sons
Mitc h M. Mic h i no, esq.
Mitch M. Michino Law Firm
hil a Ry noR ton
Executive Director
Fixing Angelenos Stuck in Traffic (FAST)
De n n i s c. Po u l s e n
Chairman of the Board
Rose Hills Company
Ma Ry F. sc h M i t z, PhD
President
Los Angeles Orthopædic Hospital Foundation
R. ca R lton se aV e R
Partner
Seaver & Gill, LLP
coR i n a Vi l l a R a ig o s a
Educator
Montebello Unified School District

CRIPPLED CHILDREN’S GUILD OF ORTHOPAEDIC HOSPITAL
A vintage
location
for a 50-year-old
tradition.
“It’s A Bargain” Thrift Shop at Orthopaedic Medical Center
has moved back to the location where it opened in 1957. The Thrift Shop features
a wide range of treasures. Everything from automobiles to fine art, crystal, lamps,
antiques, china, furniture, collectibles and estate sale items. Proceeds benefit
charitable care programs for children at Orthopaedic Hospital.
New location
Enter Hope Street off 23rd Street.
Tell the attendant you are going
to the Thrift Shop. Park and walk
past the Clinic and turn left at the
red brick building under the palms.
Parking validated.
Donation and shopping hours
Monday – Friday
9:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Pick-ups by appointment
(213) 742-1478
“It’s A Bargain” Thrift Shop
2525 South Hope Street, Los Angeles, CA 90007

Everychild Foundation Universally Accessible Playground
S. Figueroa St.
The Everychild Foundation Universally Accessible Playground at Orthopaedic Hospital is designed
to accommodate children with wheelchairs, leg braces, crutches and other barriers that leave them
sidelined at traditional playgrounds. Its sensory-rich equipment creates a fun environment where
children with and without disabilities can play together. With more than 55,000 outpatient pediatric
visits annually, Orthopaedic Hospital treats more children with crippling disorders than any
other orthopaedic facility in the nation, making this the most visited playground of its kind.
W. 23rd St.
S. Flower St.
Parking Entrance
Orthopaedic
Hospital
Outpatient
Medical
Center
W. Adams Blvd.
Parking
Playground
Grand Ave.
Open to the public daily, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
The playground is located on the south side of the
Orthopaedic Hospital Outpatient Medical Center.
2400 S. Flower St., Los Angeles, CA 90007
Parking entrance is located on 23rd St. between Flower
St. and Grand Ave.
Pedestrian entrance on Adams Blvd.
(213) 742-1500 orthohospital.org/playground

Non-Profit
U.S. Postage
paid
Permit #1782
Santa Ana, CA