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UCLA donors combine efforts to honor esteemed orthopaedic surgeon

UCLA Health
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. ....

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UCLA establishes William and Patricia Oppenheim Presidential Chair in Pediatric Orthopaedics

Dr. Rachel Mednick Thompson named inaugural chair holder
UCLA Health
The inaugural chair holder is Dr. Rachel Thompson, whose research focuses on the muscular pathology of cerebral palsy.
Julie Kirst |
May 13, 2021
The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA has established the William and Patricia Oppenheim Presidential Chair in Pediatric Orthopaedics. The chair honors Dr. William Oppenheim, an internationally renowned expert in orthopaedics, and his wife, Patricia Schnegg.
In addition to the Oppenheims, numerous donors, including Shirley and Ralph Shapiro and their children, Peter and Alison, as well as colleagues, friends and former patients of William Oppenheim, contributed to fund the chair; their donations were bolstered by the University of California Presidential Match for Endowed Chairs program, for a total contribution of more than $1 million. ....

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