September, 2009 | Congratulations to Ruth Thomas, M.D. for being the featured physician in the Medical News of Arkansas' "Physician Spotlight" series. (article)

September 11, 2009 | The 25th Annual Arkansas Orthopaedic Forum and combined meeting with Arkansas Orthopaedic Society will be held in the Fred W. Smith Auditorium at the Jackson T. Stephens Spine and Neurosciences Institute. The Carl L. Nelson Distinguished Visiting Professor, Stephen M. Howell, M.D., will be presenting “Kinematic/Mechanical Total Knee Replacement”.   (postcard) (brochure)

September 8, 2009 | Larry J. Suva, Ph.D., a Professor in the departments of Orthopaedic Surgery and Physiology and Biophysics, was invested as the inaugural holder of the Carl L. Nelson Chair in Orthopaedic Surgery on September 8. Dr. Suva has served on the College of Medicine faculty since 2000, when the late Dr. Nelson, then Chairman of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, recruited him to help establish the Center for Orthopaedic Research, which Dr. Suva still directs. For more than 20 years, Dr. Suva’s internationally recognized research has focused on the skeletal consequences of disease, with a particular interest in the mechanisms of tumor metastasis to bone. His laboratory has been continuously funded by the National Institutes of Health, the National Space Biomedical Research Institute and several private foundations. The endowment will help support the ongoing work of the Center for Orthopaedic Research, which was built on Dr. Nelson’s vision and Dr. Suva’s commitment to multi-disciplinary, creative research into orthopaedic disorders.

September 1, 2009 | Theresa Wyrick-Glover, M.D. has  joined the Department of Orthopaedics as an assistant professor. Upon completion of a residency in orthopaedic surgery at UAMS in 2008, she received the Carl Nelson Resident Leadership Award.  She completed a fellowship in hand and upper extremity surgery at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in July 2009. Dr. Wyrick specializes in nerve injuries of the upper extremity including nerve compressions such as carpal tunnel and cubital tunnel syndromes. She also treats arthritic conditions of the elbow, wrist and hand. She offers treatment of traumatic injuries to the upper extremity as well as other complex reconstructive surgeries of the arm.

 June 2009 | S. Ashfaq Hasan, M.D., an associate professor, received the Walter G. Selakovich Faculty Teaching Award for his outstanding contribution to the training of the orthopaedic surgery residents.

May 2009 |  Congratulations to S. Ashfaq Hasan, M.D., James Aronson, M.D., and John VanderSchilden, M.D. for making the Dean's list.  The Circle of Excellence Dean’s List is a quarterly honor roll of the COM faculty physicians who scored at or above the 90th percentile on inpatient satisfaction in the most recent Press-Ganey poll at UAMS Medical Center.

  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.