News Room  Press Releases
January 2005
For Immediate Release
KEVIN AND JILL PLANCHER OF GREENWICH, CT ESTABLISH FOUNDATION TO HELP
MAINTAIN ACTIVE AND HEALTHY LIFESTYLES; The Orthopaedic Foundation for Active
Lifestyles is designed to offer academically sound clinically relevant updates on advanced
orthopaedic surgery technologies, and new medications and treatments for degenerative
musculoskeletal diseases, such as arthritis.
Greenwich, CT and New York, NY January 2005 – Kevin and Jill Plancher of Greenwich,
Connecticut have announced the creation of a new, not-for-profit organization whose
mission is to help all of us who are living longer, do so while maintaining our active and healthy
lifestyles. Through medical research, education and community rehabilitation training programs,
the Foundation will help all of us better understand the rapidly developing advancements being
made in orthopaedic surgical procedures; and the unequaled amount of data being collected to
combat degenerative cartilage diseases such as arthritis.
"The Foundation was designed to offer academically sound and clinically relevant updates on
advanced technologies, including new minimally invasive surgical techniques and new
medications and treatments", Dr. Plancher explains. It will supplement these professional
education trainings with opportunities for hands on laboratory experience in its BioSkills
Laboratory. The Laboratory, the largest in the Northeast, houses six wet/dry stations that will
accommodate from 12-24 physicians-in-training.
In addition to hosting or presenting hands on training opportunities within the BioSkills Lab, work
going on there can be transmitted through its highly sophisticated T1 line live feed capabilities to
an additional 12 participants in the Course Training Library at the Foundation – as well as to other
physicians, researchers, and health professionals-in-training at teaching hospitals and
universities – literally throughout the world!
The Foundation’s focus will be on: medical education and medical research concerning
advanced techniques in minimally invasive orthopaedic surgery, and treatment of degenerative
disease such as arthritis. It will also focus on community outreach educational and
rehabilitative programs to augment middle and high school science courses; introduce sports
medicine and athletic training programs to school students; teach arthritis sufferers to better
manage their disease, increasing their skills and confidence; and offer ‘weekend warriors’
rehabilitation programs.
The Orthopaedic Foundation for Active Lifestyles is a (501)C(3) not-for-profit institution.
Proceeds from donations and laboratory rentals will support its medical education, research, and
community outreach efforts. For more information about how you can help support the
Orthopaedic Foundation for Active Lifestyles, host or participate in its programs and
workshops, contact Lynne P. Raymond, Director of Development at (203) 869-2002, Extension
402.
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