Stepping Up to Help Fight COVID-19
When Melissa F. Neumann, MD, and her husband, James Crichton, made a $150,000 pledge earlier this year to the Laszlo Ormandy Professorship Fund in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Duke University School of Medicine, they did not know how fast their gift would change its purpose.
Neumann wished to continue the legacy of her late great uncle, Laszlo Ormandy, M.D., H.S.’42, who did his internship in orthopaedic surgery at the School of Medicine in the early 1940s. Fifty-five years after he graduated from Duke, Ormandy started the endowment fund to support the recruitment of scholars in the field of orthopaedic surgery.
