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May 06, 2013
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April 30, 2013
Safely Spring into Sports this SeasonROSEMONT, Ill. – It’s spring, and the fields, courts and courses are teeming with sports enthusiasts. But after months of indoor activity, how do you ensure that the exuberance brought on by the sun and warmer temperatures doesn’t result in injury? |
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2013 AAOS Diversity Award Winner: Mark H. Gonzalez, MD
Mark H. Gonzalez, MD, MEng, is honored with the 2013 AAOS Diversity Award for his 25-year commitment to practicing and promoting Culturally Competent Care, providing care to underserved patient populations, andrecruiting, training, and mentoring female and ethnically or racially diverse medical students and residents.Dr. Gonzalez is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Orthopaedics at University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). Under his leadership, UIC accepted its first female African-American orthopaedic resident, Dr. Sharon Walton, and first female orthopaedic faculty Dr. Aimee Brasher.
Due largely to his continued efforts, half of the program's residents are female or from racially or ethnically diverse backgrounds.
With the vast, diverse, and underserved patient population Chicago offers, Dr. Gonzalez embraces the opportunity to treat these patients with culturally competent care and works diligently to reduce healthcare disparities they face.
He has previously practiced as Chairman of Orthopedics and Chief of Hand Surgery at Cook County Hospital for more than 20 years. Leading by example, Dr. Gonzalez is training a diverse group of orthopaedic residents to address the musculoskeletal issues of patients with understanding and sensitivity to their cultural needs and preferences.
For more information on Dr. Gonzalez and the AAOS Diversity Award, visit www.aaos.org/awards.
2013 AAOS Humanitarian Award Winner: David S. Hungerford, MD
David S. Hungerford, MD, of Cockeysville, Md., is the honoree for the AAOS 2013 Humanitarian Award for having distinguished himself through outstanding musculoskeletal-related humanitarian activities.For more than 40 years, Dr. Hungerford has furthered orthopaedic charitable work. He has completed several short-term mission trips to train orthopaedic surgeons in Zambia, Ethiopia, Kenya, Ghana and Liberia in procedure on behalf of CURE International and other organizations. He serves on the board of several nonprofit organizations to help each thrive within their communities and countries by providing medical equipment and training programs to disaster areas and mission hospitals in developing countries.
Dr. Hungerford helped create more than 10 hospitals in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and the Caribbean. He provides state of the art hip and knee surgeries in some of the poorest countries to the neediest patients who, under normal circumstances, would never had access to such high quality medical care. These facilities now serve millions.
Dr. Hungerford retired in 2011 from Johns Hopkins Orthopaedic Surgery and The Good Samaritan Hospital in Baltimore, but still participates in programs around the world to perform surgery in mission hospitals, and train local orthopaedic surgeons, nurses, physical therapists and other healthcare professionals in the latest surgical techniques as well as ways to improve their patient's quality of life pre- and postoperatively.
For 29 years, the Hungerford family's Tree of Life Foundation provided more than 1,500 grants to fund capital resource projects in support of health programs such as digging wells to provide clean water sources in the most impoverished communities in the world.
Dr. Hungerford also has been very involved in various Baltimore city rescue missions, job training programs and educational endeavors for the underprivileged.
For more information about Dr. Hungerford and the AAOS Humanitarian Award, visit www.aaos.org/awards.
2013 Tipton Leadership Award Winner: Michael J. Yaszemski, MD
Michael J. Yaszemski, MD, a member of both the spine surgery (served as chair of the department for 10 years) and the musculoskeletal oncology divisions at the Mayo Clinic, is the honoree of the eighth annual William W. Tipton, Jr. MD Leadership Award for his work as a researcher, mentor, educator, and leader.Established by friends, colleagues, and partner organizations through AAOS and the Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation (OREF), the Tipton Award honors the qualities exemplified by the late Dr. Tipton, including commitment to mentorship, diversity, bridge-building, and collaboration.
Dr. Yaszemski has led the way in research studies for both bone regeneration via tissue engineering technologies and sarcoma research, and directs the Polymeric Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering laboratory at the Mayo Clinic. He has been Chair of the AAOS Device Forum since 2006. He is currently in his 33rd year of service in the U.S. Air Force Reserve, having attained the rank of Brigadier General, and serves as the reserve military advisor to the President of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.
He continues to serve as a mentor at the Mayo Clinic, where he has supervised 140 PhD students, post-doctoral fellows, residents, clinical fellows, visiting scientists and clinicians. He currently serves as a mentor in the AAOS Leadership Fellows Program.
For more information about Dr. Yaszemski and the Tipton Leadership Award, visit www.aaos.org/awards.
2013 Safe and Accessible Playground Build: Why I Build
Hundreds of orthopaedic surgeons came to Chicago for their AAOS 2013 Annual Meeting and built and donated a Safe and Accessible playground to the children of the Faith Community of Saint Sabina. The playground was built in just one day! Join us for an experience you will long remember!For information on the Safe and Accessible Playground Build, visit www.aaos.org/playground.
A Nation in Motion: Ned Bryant's Story
Because of his orthopaedic care, Ned Bryant can zipper his coat and hold his mom’s hand.
Ned was hospitalized for a week following a playground accident that resulted in a severe open fracture, vascular trauma and nerve damage. he lost mobility and sensation in his left hand. Four months later, Ned was hospitalized again and underwent a median nerve transplant.
Because of Ned’s outstanding orthopaedic care, many skills that he’d lost, such as dressing himself, buckling his seatbelt and riding his bike, have returned. A sense of independence that is so vital to any child’s self-esteem has been restored.
Dr. Benson’s skill, expertise and diligence gave Ned the best chance of recovery from his visible wounds. But the wounds that are often overlooked – the emotional scars that can result from a trauma – were eased by Dr. Benson’s compassion, positive demeanor and the comfort of his wonderful therapy dog, Chelsea.
[Learn more about Ned on ANationInMotion.org]
What would you do if a runaway car smalshed your plans to walk down the aisle?
Eight months after his limb-threatening accident, Ari’s march down the aisle was a testament to what patient determination — and advanced orthopaedic surgery — can achieve. Go, Ari.Read Ari’s story and find your own inspiration at ANationInMotion.org.
