Fall 2011 inSIGHTS publication - UF Orthopaedics and ...

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surgeon gives $1.1 million to help Fund
enneking-AnspACh ChAir
sCArborough nAmed As First to hold the ChAir
By Melanie Stawicki AZam
Orthopaedic surgeon and entrepreneur William E.
Anspach Jr., M.D., recently gave more than $1.1
million to the UF College of Medicine to help fund
the William F. Enneking, William E. Anspach, and
Orthopaedic Alumni endowed chair.
Anspach Jr., who completed his orthopaedic residency at UF in
1969, holds multiple patents for medical devices and founded two
successful medical device companies. He received the university’s
Distinguished Achievement Award in 2005.
The chair is named in honor of the two great physicians who impacted
his life the most, Anspach Jr. said. They include his late father,
William E. Anspach, M.D., who was a radiologist in Chicago
and associate professor at Northwestern University, and William F.
Enneking, M.D., the world-renowned UF orthopaedics physician
and scientist who was Anspach Jr.’s mentor during his orthopaedics
residency at UF.
“My father and Dr. Enneking were physician’s physicians,” he
said, adding that they genuinely cared about each patient and adhered
to the highest standard of ethics.
Mark T. Scarborough, M.D., has been named the first holder of
the William F. Enneking, William E. Anspach, and Orthopaedic
Alumni endowed chair. Chairman of UF’s department of orthopaedics
and rehabilitation, he is an orthopaedic oncologist who has
been a faculty member for 20 years. His clinical focus has been on
complex limb salvage in the treatment of conditions such as bone
cancer.
“Personally, it’s an honor to be in that chair because Dr. Enneking
has been my mentor forever,” said Scarborough. “And it’s an honor
to have the respect of Dr. Anspach.”
A Gainesville native, Scarborough earned his medical degree at
UF in 1985, then completed his residency in orthopaedic surgery
at the University of Texas Medical Branch, and a fellowship in
orthopaedic oncology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Boston
Children’s Hospital. He returned to UF in 1991 to work in the
department of orthopaedics and has held several leadership positions
over the years. He was named the Eugene Jewitt professor of
orthopaedic surgery in 2004.
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For the department, which celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2010,
Anspach’s gift will help further its goal of becoming one of the top
10 NIH-funded orthopaedics programs in the U.S, Scarborough
said. The department currently ranks 19th.
Anspach Jr. would like the chair to carry on the legacy of his father
and mentor, who were true leaders in their fields.
William E. Anspach was one of the first radiologists in Chicago,
serving several hospitals, trained many residents and specialized