SECURING THE LEGACY OF DR. PONSETIThe Ponseti Legacy Fund For Clubfoot

The University of Iowa Center for Advancement in collaboration with the Ponseti International Association isseeking to raise $5 million to support the Ponseti Legacy Fund for Clubfoot. The Ponseti Legacy Fund forClubfoot is an operations endowment that will help secure the legacy of Dr. Ponseti and support the ongoingtraining and development of clubfoot treatment programs across the world.
Already $1 million has been secured from an anonymous donor to support this fundraising initiative.
Your philanthropic support will help ensure that the University of Iowa and Ponseti International provide
global leadership in building high quality, locally directed, sustainable clubfoot care using the Ponseti
Method. Ultimately, your gift builds toward the vision of a world free of clubfoot.
We are grateful for your interest in supporting the University of Iowa and the Ponseti International
Association. We have a clear and strong vision for the future. At every step of the way, we’ve reliedon visionary allies—our donors—to ensure that Iowa remains at the forefront of medicine and clinicalcare not only for our Iowans, but also for those from throughout the country and the world whocome to Iowa seeking care.

Please consider your gift to the Ponseti Legacy Fund for Clubfoot today.
For more information, contact:Kari Nickol

Director of Development, UI Stead Family Children’s Hospital
The University of Iowa Center for Advancement
Phone: 319-467-3675 or 800-648-6973
Email: Kari.Nickol@foriowa.org

Liz Klaus

Assistant Director of Development, UI Stead Family Children’s Hospital
The University of Iowa Center for Advancement
Phone: 319-467-3390 or 800-648-6973
Email: Liz.Klaus@foriowa.org

Learn more about Ponseti International at Ponseti.info

The Ponseti Method:
Revolutionizing Clubfoot Care Worldwide
In 1948, Dr. Ignacio Ponseti reviewed the results of clubfootsurgeries performed at the University of Iowa. What Dr. Ponseti
learned was not encouraging - he found that in adulthood many
former surgical patients experienced foot stiffness, pain, arthritis,and limited mobility, and often, these patients faced a lifetimeof additional surgical interventions. Dr. Ponseti developed anon-surgical method to correct clubfoot in infants and children
through the gentle and precise manipulation of the feet followedby the application of plaster casts. When treated by the Ponseti
Method, clubfoot can be corrected in more than 95% of cases.
The Ponseti Method has been endorsed by the World Health Organization, the National Institutesof Health, and the American Academy of Pediatrics, and is the gold standard of clubfoot care.
Today, the University of Iowa and the Ponseti International Association are dedicated to training
the next generation of health care providers in the Ponseti Method for the treatment of clubfoot.

200,000
CHILDREN
are born each year with

CLUBFOOT WORLDWIDE

1in every750

1 million

children younger than 14
currently have an untreated

CLUBFOOT DEFORMITY

babies have

CLUBFOOT

1,000

Over a 20 year period,a Ponseti method
provider will treat

CHILDREN

On average,
a well-trained Ponseti
treatment provider treats

50 new patientswith CLUBFOOT a year