Campaign Goals & Progress 

Future in Hand Goals: 

1. To increase the endowment for the American Foundation for Surgery of the Hand by $5 million by the year 2010.

By increasing the endowment by $5 million, the Foundation will:

• Develop a Clinical Trials and Outcomes Committee (CTOC) based on the MOON group to stimulate and facilitate higher levels of clinically relevant research in hand surgery
• Develop a Research Management Committee which will regularly audit the ASSH research grants in order to assess the award process
• Develop alliances with NIH to fund large clinical trials to improve patient care
• Develop a career research award to support investigators committed to first-rate hand surgery research
• Train young hand surgeon researchers whose work will have impact for a generation
• Provide mentoring for investigators engaged in clinical studies
• Increase clinical research funding
• Fund new lectureships and other programs that benefit us all by sharing new knowledge


2. To encourage all grant recipients to use AFSH funding as seed grants for other funding sources.
   

Progress Toward Our Goals:

The Future In Hand Campaign closed in December 2009 with a total pledged of approximately $4.25 million.

During the Campaign, the Hand Society and the Foundation have:

• Established the Research Management Committee and the Clinical Trials Outcomes Committee (CTOC)
• Sent a surgeon-scientist to the ACS Young Investigators Workshop
• Established a mentoring workshop  for investigators engaged in clinical studies
• Diversified the grant portfolio and announced the establishment of the following new grants:
• The ASSH/OREF and ASSH/PSEF Surgeon Scientist Awards - Learn more >>
• The Andrew J. Weiland Medal for Outstanding Surgery Research - Learn more >>
• The CTOC Planning Grant - Learn more >>

Additionally, Future in Hand contributions added to the Annual Fund have helped provide seed grants.

• Basic Science Awardee Martin I. Boyer, MD has received an additional $59,881 in funding from Shriners Hospital Foundation.
• Clinical Grant Awardee Ruby Grewal, MD has received an additional $241,648 in funding from the Canadian Institute of Health Research.
• Kevin C. Chung, MD has received an NIH R34 research grant for designing a multi-center clinical trial on distal radius fracture stemming from the work he did on the same subject with a 2007 AFSH Clinical Research Grant.