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JUNE 3, 2003 | An
orthopaedic surgeon at the University of
Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has
received the prestigious Nicolas Andry
Award for 2003 from the
Association of
Bone and Joint Surgeons.
James Aronson, M.D., is a
professor of orthopaedic surgery in the
College of Medicine. Dr. Aronson performed
the first leg-lengthening procedure in
North America using the osteogenesis
technique known as the Ilirzarov method.
Since that first operation in 1985, he has
used the method to help hundreds of
patients salvage limbs that were shortened
from congenital deformity, and to
reconstruct complex angular deformities.
Dr. Aronson won the Andry Award for a
research paper, “The Loss and Recovery of
Endosteal Osteogenic Potention with
Aging.” The manuscript contains the
results of nearly 10 years of
federally-funded research at UAMS on the
regulation of bone formation.
Named for a French teaching
physician who published a classic text on
the art of correcting deformities in
children in 1741, the Andry is an
international award the association first
presented in 1961. Dr. Andry introduced
the symbol of a bowed tree strapped to a
post that has become the icon used by
almost every orthopaedic society in the
world.
Aronson accepted the
$15,000 award and presented the paper at
the association’s annual meeting May 16 in
Paris. The paper will be published in the
scientific journal Clinical
Orthopaedics and Related Research. Dr.
Aronson plans to use the prize to
continue his basic research.
A professor in the Departments of
Orthopaedics Surgery and
Pediatrics,
Dr. Aronson earned his M.D. degree from
the University of Pittsburgh in 1975. He
served a one-year residency in general
surgery at Maine Medical Center in
Portland and a four-year residency in
orthopaedics at Duke University Medical
Center in Durham, North Carolina, before
coming to UAMS in 1984. |
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