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.

December, 2007 | COM surgeons, Ash Hasan, MD and Richard Evans, MD,  offer Arkansans the latest in orthopaedic innovations.  Read the articles in the UAMS College of Medicine Magazine. (click here)

November 8, 2007 | J. Michael Gruenwald, MD, director of the Orthopaedic Trauma Center at UAMS, was a guest on the channel 7 Mid-Day Arkansas noon show hosted by Heather Crawford.  Dr. Gruenwald answered medical questions from callers to the show. (Ch. 7 Mid-Day Arkansas clip)

October 5, 2007 | The 23rd Annual Arkansas Orthopaedic Forum was held on Friday, Oct. 5, from 8 a.m. – 3 p.m. in the Fred W. Smith Auditorium at the Jackson T. Stephens Spine & Neurosciences Institute.  The Carl L. Nelson Distinguished Visiting Lecturer will be Berton R. Moed, M.D., from St. Louis, talking on “The Posterior Wall Acetabular Fracture: Enigma or Just Another Intra-articular Injury?”  (news release) (Forum Flyer) (Schedule)

September 2007 | Dr. Ash Hasan in the UAMS "I AM" Campaign (Mpeg movie)

September 12, 2007 | Willa Shearer of Fayetteville became the first patient in Arkansas to benefit from a combination of new hip surgery techniques at UAMS.  Orthopaedic surgeon Richard Evans, M.D. says the surgery involves a minimally invasive procedure and metal-on-metal parts that will serve a person longer than the 20 years or so that other hip replacements provide. (UAMS news release) (Ch. 11 news release)

August 22, 2007 | Richard Evans, M.D., chief of Adult Reconstruction and director of the Center for Hip and Knee Surgery at UAMS, became the first surgeon in Arkansas and among the first in the United States to perform the bicompartmental knee resurfacing procedure after becoming certified along with a select group of orthopaedic surgeons, primarily from academic medical institutions. (Ch. 11 news release) (UAMS news release)

July, 2007 | S. Ashfaq Hasan, M.D., an assistant professor in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, has received a two-year $40,000 grant through the Geriatrics for Specialists Initiative: Geriatrics Education for Specialty Residents Program, a project of the American Geriatrics Society and the John A. Hartford Foundation. The grant will assist in training medical and surgical residents in the area of geriatrics.

June 25, 2007 | Larry Suva, Ph.D., director of the UAMS Center for Orthopaedic Research, awards the first Bioinformatics Doctorate to Sudeepa Bhattacharyya.  Sudeepa said the UAMS/UALR bioinformatics program gave her new skills in data mining, computer programming and statistical analysis of biological data. Her research has looked for disease biomarkers using mass spectrometry-based proteomic technology. By analyzing the changes in protein expression using the mass spectrometer, she searches for possible clues that could lead to new diagnostics and treatments for disease. (news release)