The mission of the AMD3 Foundation is to promote education, research and other related charitable activities in patient and family centered care while advancing the art and science of performance in order to improve the delivery of care. The Foundation was officially established in 2003 as a non-profit organization. For more information, please visit www.amd3.org.

PFCC Partners @ The Innovation Center of UPMC

The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Center for Continuing Education in the Health Sciences

GBBN Architects, Inc. is an 85 person architecture and interior design firm with offices in Cincinnati, Lexington and Louisville, and Beijing, China. Healthcare is our dominant area of practice. Notable projects include the renovation of the Level I Trauma Center & Emergency Department at UPMC Mercy, over $2B of work for Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, one of the nation’s leading institutions in the advancement of Patient and Family-Centered Care, expansion of the NICU at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, the $650M Patient Care Facility for the University of Kentucky Medical Center, and four new hospitals in China. For more information visit www.gbbn.com

Operation Walk is a private, non-profit, volunteer medical service organization that provides free hip and knee replacements for patients in developing countries (and in the US) that have no access to life-improving care for arthritis. Operation Walk Pittsburgh, headed by Dr. Tony DiGioia, was started in 2008 and has since completed two successful trips to Central America and one in Pittsburgh, providing life changing surgeries to those in need both home and away. Operation Walk is continuing their work in 2011 as they head to Panama City, Panama in September before returning home to grant the wish to walk in Pittsburgh this fall. Link: www.operationwalkpgh.org