On Feb. 10, 2015, the University of Minnesota (U of M) announced a $50 million gift from Caroline Amplatz, J.D., in honor of her father, Kurt Amplatz, M.D., a longtime U of M physician and prolific medical device inventor.

As a tribute to the gift and Kurt Amplatz’s legacy, the University’s children’s hospital was named the University of Minnesota Amplatz Children’s hospital.

In 2009, Amplatz pledged $50-million to the Foundation to support the University of Minnesota Amplatz Children’s Hospital. A mplatz was a professor of radiology at the University of Minnesota from 1957 to 1997.