Debbie -

This looks like a great program. To begin, check out, A new approach to pediatric pain management, Pediatric Views, June, 2008:

This summer, Children's Hospital Boston will open the Mayo Family Pediatric Pain Rehabilitation Center (PPRC) at Children's Hospital Boston in Waltham. The PPRC will primarily treat children with complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS), also known as reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD), a nerve-based pain disorder associated with hypersensitivity to touch along with circulatory changes, including coldness, skin discoloration and swelling of the affected limb(s) . . . .

http://www.childrenshospital.org/vie...management.htm

And here's the homepage: http://www.childrenshospital.org/cli...geS2585P0.html. And while you're there, check out "About the Program" http://www.childrenshospital.org/cli...geS2585P4.html

That said, although several members of the staff of Children's Hospital Boston trained in pediatrics at the Mayo Clinic, and vice versa, The Mayo Family Pediatric Pain Rehabilitation Center (PPRC) is part of Children's Hospital Boston (CHB), the primary pediatric teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School, at which most of its physicians hold faculty appointments, and has no formal relationship with the Mayo Clinic. http://www.childrenshospital.org/abo...geS1394P0.html

The PPRC bills itself as "the the most comprehensive stand-alone, day hospital program of its kind in the United States, offering intensive multidisciplinary rehabilitation to children and adolescents who have not responded to traditional outpatient treatment" http://www.childrenshospital.org/cli...geS2585P0.html and came out of CHB’s Pain Treatment Service, which was established in 1986 as a multidisciplinary program for acute and chronic pain management for children. http://www.childrenshospital.org/cli...sublevel5.html

"In 2006, through the generosity of Sara Page Mayo and Richard Mayo, Dr. Charles Berde was awarded an endowed chair in Pediatric Pain Medicine. The Mayo Family followed this with a second donation of start-up funding to establish the PPRC as an innovative approach for rehabilitative treatment of RSD/CRPS using a partial-hospital model." Id. Apparently, the Mayo Family made its donations in thanks for the treatment of a member of their family. http://wbztv.com/local/childrens.pai....2.745998.html

Mike

PS For what it's worth, Richard Mayo is a founding partner of one of the larger investment management funds, GMO (Grantham, Mayo Van Otterloo & Co.), which, as of December 31, 2009, managed $107 billion in client assets. http://www.gmo.com/America/About/