The Hughston Foundation

Dr. Hughstons vision for a center of excellence where healthcare professionals could learn through research and share their knowledge with others took physical form after he relocated his practice to a 100-acre campus in north Columbus. Next, Dr. Hughston and the clinic physicians built the Hughston Sports Medicine Foundation which opened its doors in the spring of 1985. It quickly became the model for privately funded research and education, and thus, the unlikely venue of Columbus, GA, became home to the finest non-university-based orthopedic academic research and education center in the world. Dr. Hughston used the Foundation as a vehicle for developing a new subspecialty, sports medicine. It enabled him to educate, train, and mentor physicians in his philosophy. These disciples, who are now members of the Hughston Society, have gone on to work at academic centers and private practices throughout the world, imparting the knowledge and modeling the skills they acquired while at t...