The Team
The Slocum Foundation’s skilled team of Certified Clinical Research Coordinators, Research Assistants, and Interns work together with the Board of Directors to select and engage with clinical research and education opportunities for the benefit of their community.
MISSION — VISION — GOALS
Mission
Our mission at the Slocum Research & Education Foundation is to improve musculoskeletal care across the lifespan through community-based research, education and collaboration.
Vision
The vision of the Slocum Research & Education Foundation is that all healthcare providers base clinical decision-making on the best available evidence, tailor treatment plans to meet the needs and goals of their individual patients, and invest in local solutions for improving musculoskeletal patient outcomes, across all care settings and in our communities.
Goals
Our work focuses on promising opportunities for improving patient care and community health by achieving the following goals:
Prevent disability
Enhance athletic performance
Restore function and quality of life
Inform new approaches to patient care, treatment and rehabilitation
The Collaborative History of the Foundation
In the early 1970’s, Slocum doctors, Donald Slocum, Robert Larson, and Stanley James, hosted the meeting of the most notable figures in orthopedics at the time. Dr. Don Slocum broke new ground by allowing live streaming video from the operating room into the Science Building on the University of Oregon campus.
Here, in a Eugene hotel, a small group of surgeons, including Drs. Slocum, Larson, James, and a new member of the practice, Dr. Dennis Collis, identified the need and rationale that launched the American Society of Sports Medicine. A handful of charter members signed on to an organization that now boasts over 3000 members nationwide, respected publications, association-sponsored research studies, and an annual grant-making program.
Over the next 20 years, Slocum doctors participated in a number of educational events, including hosting medical students and a six month orthopedic sports medicine fellowship program in Eugene, OR. Since the early 1960’s, more than 100 orthopedic residents and fellows have trained under the direction of Dr. Slocum and his partners.
Our commitment to young professional education continues to present day through our connection to the Department of Human Physiology at the University of Oregon, where physicians lecture and provide hands-on training for graduate students in the athletic training program. Three Slocum physicians, Drs. Stanley James, Kenneth Singer, and Brian Jewett, have received the prestigious Osternig Award of Excellence from the Human Physiology Department for their contributions to science and education.
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