Hospital for Special Surgery Celebrates its 150th Anniversary By Ringing The Closing Bell at the NYSE

New York—June 17, 2013

Executives and guests of New York’s Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) visited the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) to celebrate its 150th anniversary and to ring The NYSE Closing Bell. Louis A. Shapiro, President and CEO, was joined on the podium by Kendrick R. Wilson, III, HSS Co-Chair Board of Trustees and member of BlackRock’s Global Executive Committee, and Dean R. O’Hare, HSS Co-Chair Board of Trustees and Retired Chairman and CEO of The Chubb Corporation. Also joining were Thomas Lister, Vice Chair; Thomas P. Sculco, MD, Surgeon-in-Chief; Mary K. Crow, MD, Physician-in-Chief; Steven R. Goldring, MD, Chief Scientific Officer; Bruce Slawitsky, Vice President of Human Resources and Service Excellence; and Christine Carey, CIS Project Specialist, Information Technology and 2012 Employee of the Year.