
Theresa Wyrick-Glover, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Orthopaedics
Center for Hand and Upper Extremity Surgery
Appointment: 2009
Dr. Wyrick-Glover, M.D., is an orthopaedic surgeon at the
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) and Arkansas Children?s
Hospital (ACH). She is an assistant professor in the Department of Orthopaedic
Surgery in the College of Medicine at UAMS.
Dr. Wyrick graduated suma cum laude from the
University of Arkansas at Little Rock in 1999 with a Bachelor of Science
in Biology. She graduated with honors from UAMS in 2003 where she was a
member of the Alpha Omega Alpha honor society. Upon completion of a
residency in orthopaedic surgery at UAMS in 2008, she received the Carl
Nelson Resident Leadership Award. She completed her fellowship in hand
and upper extremity surgery at Thomas Jefferson University in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in July 2009. She is a native of Little
Rock, Arkansas.
She 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.
Dr. Wyrick is a member of the American Society for
Surgery of the Hand and the American Association for Hand Surgery. She
has completed research in the areas of brachial plexus surgery and
distal radius fractures. She has authored several textbook chapters on
arthritic conditions of the upper extremity and has lectured at local,
state and regional meetings on various topics related to upper extremity
surgery.

John L. Wilson, M.D.
Instructor of Orthopaedics
General Orthopaedic Surgery
Appointment: 2009
Dr. Wilson has joined the Department of Orthopaedics as an
instructor. After almost two 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.

Larry J. Suva, Ph.D.
Professor of Orthopaedics and
Physiology and Biophysics.
Director of the
Center for Orthopaedic Research
Appointment: 2000
Larry Suva is director of
The Center for Orthopaedic Research at UAMS. He is well-known internationally for his research work and has a broad scientific background gathered from years in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry (Genentech Inc., Merck, GlaxoSmithKline ) as well as 5 years on the faculty of Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Suva grew up in Melbourne, Australia (playing cricket), and graduated from Swinburne Institute of Technology in 1981. He subsequently completed his Ph.D. in Medicine at the
University of Melbourne in 1989.
He relocated to the US in 1989, and is now a permanent resident.
His research interests include the anabolic stimulation of bone formation,
mechanical regulation on bone and cartilage function and the pathogenesis of
breast cancer metastasis to bone. He is currently serves as chair of the
Science Policy Committee of the
American Society for Bone and Mineral
Research (ASBMR)

Meet our John L. McClellan Memorial Veterans Hospital Orthopaedics group.
From Left to right:
Ashley Ross, MD, Karen Seale, MD, David Sward, MD, Laurie Hughes, MD, Pramod
Nelluri, MD
Updated 10/26/2009
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