Hughston Foundation

For 35 years, the Hughston Foundation has published the Hughston Health Alert, an 8-page quarterly patient education newsletter prepared by our writing and imagery departments. It focuses on orthopaedic and sports-related topics, including injury prevention and treatment, and is circulated at no charge to patients, coaches, students, and anyone requesting a subscription.

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One of the purposes of science is to make discoveries through research, but if the findings are not published, then it is as if the research never took place.

Dr. Jack C. Hughston was the founder of the American Journal of Sports Medicine, of which he was the editor through 1989. The Hughston Foundation’s Medical Writing Department has medical writers/editors who support the Hughston physicians and healthcare professionals in their writing efforts and in preparing scientific manuscripts for submission to medical journals, textbooks, and publications for public consumption.

Our medical writers also help the residents and fellows complete their research projects, write and edit papers, and develop PowerPoint and poster presentations. To date, Hughston authors have published hundreds of articles in national peer-reviewed journals and are in great demand as contributors to medical texts.

In the 1960s and ‘70s, the pioneering work Jack C. Hughston, MD, was doing in sports medicine through his private practice, the Hughston Orthopaedic Clinic, began to draw both national and international attention. Soon the leaders of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons approached him about establishing a pilot project for a resident training rotation in orthopedic sports medicine. Next, the Chairman of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Tulane University at the time, Dr. Jack Wickstrom, partnered with Dr. Hughston on the project, and thus the discipline of sports medicine was born in Columbus, GA.

In 1968, Dr. Hughston went on to establish the Medical Center Orthopaedic Foundation. His private orthopedic practice was the primary source of funding for the Foundation which, in turn, paid the stipends for the Tulane University residents who rotated with him. In 1973, realizing that his Foundation had greater potential and purpose, Dr. Hughston and his wife Sarah and son Edgar incorporated the Hughston Sports Medicine Foundation, a private research and education foundation operating out of his own private practice. In 1978, it was incorporated as a 501(c)(3) entity.