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October 17, 2008
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The
24th 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. Dr. John A. "Tony" Herring, from
Texas Scottish Rite Hospital, Dallas, Texas, will be presenting “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
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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)
August 6, 2007 | Comcast spotlights UAMS Orthopaedics (Quicktime
movie clip)
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
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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)
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