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2008

Faculty Rex C. Haydon, MD, PhD, has been selected by the American Orthopaedic Association as a fellow for the 2009 ABC Traveling Fellowship. Dr. Robert I. Harris of Toronto, Canada, developed the concept of the American, British and Canadian Traveling Fellowship in 1948 during his year as president of the American Orthopaedic Association. The original goal of the tour was to allow British orthopaedic surgeons to visit centers in North America in a time of post-World War II difficulties. The initial group from Great Britain consisted of 13 orthopaedic surgeons. The following year, 15 orthopaedic surgeons from the US and Canada visited Great Britain, and the tradition has continued in the same alternating fashion – inviting South Africa to the tour in 1983 and Australia and New Zealand in 1985. The 2007 tour was the 56th exchange with seven orthopaedic surgeons from North America traveling to Great Britain, Australia and New Zealand. The Tour extends five weeks and travels in odd years. The 2009 ABC Tour will run for five weeks, from approximately mid-April to approximately mid-May.
The Section hosted the visit of the Japanese Orthopaedic Association (JOA) Exchange Traveling Fellow Dr. Takuaki Yamamoto from June 17 to June 19, 2008. Dr. Yamamoto is currently a Chief Surgeon of Orthopaedics at Kyushu University Hospital, Fukuoka, Japan. In addition to his clinical practices, he is also interested in studying the pathoshyiology and pathogenesis of hip disorders, such as osteonecrosis, osteoarthritis, transient osteoporosis of the hip, and bone marrow edema syndrome.
Resident Samuel Coy, MD won the second prize for his research findings at the 2008 Midwest OREF Resident Research Conference, held on May 16th, 2008. The title of his talk is "the Effect of adenoviral vector BMP-13 gene therapy in a rat rotator cuff model".
Faculty member Michael Terry, MD has been selected by The 2008 Pritzker School of Medicine graduating class as one of their class’ Favorite Faculty Members. Dr. Terry will be included on the class composite photograph. This honor is bestowed upon faculty whom the class has identified as having been an outstanding faculty member during their medical school education. Dr. Terry is the first Orthopaedic surgeon in many years to receive this honor and we congratulate him!
Under the sponsorship of Daniel Mass, MD, Pritzker medical student Christian Skjong was a recipient of the 2008 Medical Student Summer Orthopaedic Research Fellowship awarded by the Orthopaedic Research Society. The title of his project is "Effects of time-specific addition of VEGF and CTGF on tensile strength of lacerated rat Achilles tendons".
The Section welcomed the 14th Annual Gerald S. Laros Memorial Visiting Professor Marc F. Swiontkowski, MD. Dr. Swiontkowski is currently Professor and Chair at Department of Orthopaedics, University of Minnesota. He is Board Certified by the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery, specializing in orthopaedic trauma surgery. Dr. Swiontkowski attended California State University at Fullerton and obtained his BS in biology. He attended the University of Southern California School of Medicine where in 1979 he obtained his MD. He completed his internship and residency training at the University of Washington and trained in Davos, Switzerland completing a fellowship in Laboratory for Experimental Surgery. In 1984, he accepted a position as Orthopaedic Consultant at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center in Moshi, Tanzania. In 1985, he was accepted as an Assistant Professor at Vanderbilt University; in January, 1988 he was promoted to Associate Professor at Vanderbilt. In July of 1988 he was appointed at the University of Washington as Associate Professor. In 1989, he was promoted to Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and assumed the position of Chief of Orthopaedic Surgery, Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, Washington. In 1977, Dr. Swiontkowski accepted the position of Professor and Chairman of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Minnesota where he remains today.
The Section welcomes the new Operations Manager Milan Makelarski. Milan will relieve some of Sue Eaton's responsibilities in the Section. Sue has been promoted to the Director of Operations of the Department of Surgery. Milan has a BS in Finance from Missouri State University in Springfield, Missouri, and has worked for the past five years as the Practice Manager of Sparta Health Clinic in Sparta, Missouri. Prior to that Milan worked as a medical billing clerk and so is well-versed in insurances, as well as in practice management. Having emigrated to the United States, Milan is a permanent resident of the United States and is fluent in Macedonian, Croatian, Serbian and Bulgarian! He is an avid soccer fan, player and coach. Milan's office phone number is 702-2510 and his pager is 6891. His e-mail address is mmakelar@surgery.bsd.uchicago.edu. While Sue's daily presence will be greatly missed, we welcome Milan aboard.
The Match results are in. The Section welcomes an outstanding group of incoming Orthopaedic residents. Members of the incoming class are Kashif Ali of Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, James Cameron of Emory University School of Medicine, Michael Chioffe of The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, and Jay Deimel of Loyola University Medical Center. Welcome aboard.
Orthopaedic resident Jaime Rice, MD, was selected as one of the fifteen nationwide recipients for this year's OREF/DePuy Orthopaedic Resident Research Grant. Her grant was entitled "Effect of BMP3 and IGF-1 on growth plate injuries". She will be under the mentorship of faculty member Rex C. Haydon, MD, PhD.
The Section and Loyola University co-hosted this year's AOA- Austrian/Swiss/German fellows on March 14, 2008. This year's fellows include Ulrich Nöth, MD, Würzburg, Germany, Jörg A.K. Onsorge, MD, PhD (Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Aachen, Vice-Chairman of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and head of the Spine Service), Christoph Schulze Pellengahr Freiherr von Freusberg-Steinhorst, MD, Bochum, Germany, and Bernd Stöckl, MD, Innsbruck, Austria (Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at the Medical University of Innsbruck, Head of staff (Executive medical director) of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Head of the tumor and revision team and EBRA-(Einzel Bild Röntgen Analyse – Migration measurement) team). The visit was hosted by the Section Chief Dr. Terrance Peabody. The traveling fellows presented their clinical and research experience. Faculty members Dr. Rex C. Haydon and Dr. John Martell also presented their research on behalf of the hosting institute.
Bruce Reider, MD has been selected by the AOSSM Education Committee as the recipient of the 2008 George D. Rovere Award for Education. This award is given annually to an individual to recognize their contribution to Sports Medicine Education over the years. This award will be presented during the AOSSM 2008 Annual Meeting in Orlando, Florida in July of this year. Bruce is certainly well deserving of this honor and we are very proud to have him as a colleague in the Section of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine at the University of Chicago.
Pritzker medical student Katie A. Sharff was selected as a recipient of the American Cancer Society-IRG's 2007 Student Stipendship to study bone tumor development. This award is the 5th honor Katie received for the past years, underscoring her outstanding performance during her research tenure in the Molecular Oncology Laboratory.
Michael Simon, MD, Daniel Mass, MD, Bruce Reider, MD, Sherwin Ho, MD, Henry Finn, MD, and Michelle Gittler, MD are recognized as “Top Doctors” in the January 2008 issue of Chicago Magazine. The University of Chicago is well represented in Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine because of their efforts.
Faculty member Rex C. Haydon, MD, PhD is inducted into the Pritzker's Alpha Omega Alpha Chapter by the 2007-2008 Pritzker members. Each year, the AOA class honors faculty, alumni, and housestaff members who have demonstrated excellence as physicians, displayed an eagerness, and modeled humanism in patient care. The members were also impressed with Dr. Haydon's ability to effectively balance his clinical duties with his successful research career.