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About Us: About The Hughston Foundation

Research and Education Improving Patient Care

A non-profit research and educational facility, The Hughston Foundation's heritage is to share its knowledge with Columbus, the Chattahoochee Valley and the rest of the world. The facility houses a medical library, meeting rooms, an auditorium, and a research and education lab.

The Hughston library is uniquely designed to serve health-care professionals. The library is also a source of information for students ranging from middle school to graduate school. Patrons to the library use our computers and workstations, which offer access to current software, the Internet, e-mail, and access to on-line scientific and research journals. The Hughston library also houses thousands of scientific journals and books used by health-care professionals in their research and training.

The Foundation building houses conference rooms and an auditorium that are equipped with digital communication systems for clear, high-definition images. Presentations viewed in the auditorium can be recorded or live and shot from the surgery room or from the Surgical Education Lab and then broadcast to locations on our campus or to anywhere in the world.

The Hughston Foundation’s Surgical Education Center is a fully equipped bioskills laboratory that contains the latest in arthroscopy equipment for hands-on training in arthroscopic surgery. Using the lab, Hughston physicians perform cadaveric dissections and lectures for fellows and students.

More than 300 physicians have received a firm foundation in basic science, anatomy, physical diagnosis, imaging interpretation, deductive reasoning, and surgical training through the Hughston Sports Medicine Fellowship program. The fellowship is a postdoctoral educational program that allows physicians to increase their exposure to orthopaedic sports medicine.

Unlike any other facility in Columbus, Chattahoochee Valley, or the Southeast region, The Hughston Foundation supports a research department, a medical illustration and photography department, a medical writing department, and a medical television department. Working together, the departments create multimedia presentations, videos, newsletters, brochures, scientific journal articles, medical books, 3D animations, and surgical training videos.

Medical industry leaders have come to rely on the thorough and professional work carried out by Hughston researchers. Our researchers have conducted hundreds of FDA regulated clinical trials, retrospective long-term follow-up studies, and basic science experiments. Often, the final products of our research are scientific journal publications or approval of new orthopaedic devices by the US Food and Drug Administration. Thanks, in part, to our research efforts, the INFUSE Bone Graft/LT Cage was approved by the FDA and is being used today to treat patients with debilitating arthritis of their lower spine.

We are still adding equipment and services to improve our patient care. Our dedication to patient care spans Alabama and Georgia through our many clinics and rehabilitation centers located across the Chattahoochee Valley.