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Dr. Jeffrey Eckardt pioneered a type of surgery that replaced amputation for people with bone cancer.
A new endowed chair at UCLA will honor the memory of Dr. Jeffrey Eckardt, a longtime faculty member who pioneered limb salvage surgery.
The chair is funded by gifts totaling more than $1 million from 42 foundations, families and individuals, including many who were Eckardt’s friends and former colleagues. The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA received lead gifts from Maxine and Eugene Rosenfeld, the Leonetti/O’Connell Family Foundation, Jean-Marc Chapus, and Christine and Steven F. Udvar-Hazy.
The medical school named Dr. Nicholas Bernthal the inaugural Jeffrey J. Eckardt, M.D., Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery.
Gift from longtime donors Maxine and Eugene Rosenfeld supports care for older adults
Courtesy of the Rosenfeld family
Maxine and Eugene Rosenfeld have been dedicated supporters of UCLA for more than 50 years. Samantha Lang |
March 4, 2021
UCLA Health has received a $5 million gift to support a program that offers personalized health care for people with complex medical needs who have difficulty traveling to clinics.
In recognition of the gift, the service has been renamed the UCLA Eugene and Maxine Rosenfeld Medical Home Visit Program.
“I am grateful for the Rosenfelds’ generous gift to support a vital program essential to our mission providing safe, high-quality, compassionate care to patients,” said Johnese Spisso, president of UCLA Health and CEO of the UCLA Hospital System.