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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
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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
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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”.
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. Robert 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)
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