Orthopaedic Surgery - University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

The 25th Annual Arkansas Orthopaedic Forum will be held Friday, September 11, 2009

Announcements

March 2009 | Larry Suva, Ph.D. and Suzanne Klimberg, M.D. have developed a simple breast cancer screening test that uses a woman’s tears and is being patented by UAMS. Tears for Life, LLC, a medical diagnostic device company, has an exclusive license from UAMS to use the technology. Tears for Life is developing a noninvasive test kit that can reliably screen for breast cancer using proteins found in tears. (Ch. 7 news clip) The Tears for life business plan won the graduate award at the Donald W. Reynolds Governor's Cup competition.

January, 2009 | John L. Wilson, M.D., has joined the Department of Orthopaedics as an instructor. After almost 2 years of retirement he missed treating patients and has joined the team at UAMS to triage patients with a variety of orthopaedic problems. Dr. Wilson went to medical school at UAMS, did his internship at Indiana University School of Medicine at Marion County General Hospital, then returned to UAMS for his residency, and is board certified in orthopaedic surgery. He then went to practice at Ortho Arkansas where he worked for 38 years until he retired in February 2007. Dr. Wilson is an Instrument Pilot with over 5,000 flight hours, volunteers at the Arts Center, serves on two of UALR's Boards, and still plays basketball three mornings a week.

January 2009 | S. Ashfaq Hasan, M.D., an associate professor in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, has received his Sub-Specialty Certification in Sports Medicine by the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery.

October 17, 2008 | The 24th Annual Arkansas Orthopaedic Forum and combined meeting with Arkansas Orthopaedic Society was held in the Fred W. Smith Auditorium at the Jackson T. Stephens Spine and Neurosciences Institute. Dr. John A. "Tony" Herring, from Texas Scottish Rite Hospital, Dallas, Texas, presented “Current Concepts in Legg Perthes Disease”. (Flyer) (Schedule)

August 2008 | Pramod Nelluri, M.D., an instructor, received the Walter G. Selakovich Faculty Teaching Award for his outstanding contribution to the training of the orthopaedic chief resident staff. Jeff Johnson, M.D., an orthopaedic resident, received the Outstanding Resident Teaching Award. Theresa Wyrick, M.D., an orthopaedic resident, received the Carl L. Nelson Leadership Award for her outstanding leadership ability.

July 23, 2008 | R. Dale Blasier, MD, a Professor in the Department of Orthopaedics, recently returned from two weeks in Vietnam where he performed surgery on children and adults as part of the American Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Society's Overseas Outreach Project. Working with both Vietnamese and AOFAS surgeons on the team, Dr. Blasier performed surgeries in a provincial orthopaedic and rehabilitation facility in Vinh City, south of Hanoi and in a large hospital in Hai Phong, a port city, east of Hanoi, as well as working with Vietnamese orthopaedic residents at Viet Duc Hospital, the major teaching hospital in Hanoi.

July, 2008 | Jason McConnell, M.D., a third-year resident in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, was awarded the Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma’s “Best Orthopaedic Teaching Resident.” He was nominated by Richard Nicholas, M.D., the department’s chairman.

July, 2008 | Dr. Lumsden is featured in the July issue of UAMS Consult.
(read article)

April, 2008 | The story of Dr. Charles Smith's ailing knee and the subsequent knee replacement by Dr. Richard Evans (click here)

January, 2008 | Robert M. Lumsden, II, M.D., F.A.C.S., has joined the Department of Orthopaedics as a professor. Dr. Lumsden, a veteran hand surgeon, most recently was professor and chief of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Texas School of Medicine and orthopaedic residency training director at the Lyndon B. Johnson General Hospital in Houston. He has served as surgical director of Surgical Clinics and Ambulatory Care at Maricopa Medical Center in Phoenix, and chairman of the Department of Orthopaedic Physicians, Centre for Health Care in San Diego. He completed a Hand Surgery Fellowship at Blodgett Memorial Hospital in Grand Rapids, Mich. He was a research fellow in the Biomechanics Laboratory and completed his orthopaedic surgery residency training at the University of California, San Francisco. He is board certified in orthopaedic surgery and a member of the American Society for Surgery of the Hand, the American Association of Hand Surgeons and the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgery.