Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation


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2000

Section Chief Dr. Michael Simon, MD has been elected the President-Elect of the American Orthopaedic Association, and continues to serve as Chairman of the Orthopaedic Residency Review Committee of the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education.
Faculty member Daniel Mass, MD was elected President of The University of Chicago Medical Alumni Association.
Faculty member T.-C. He, MD, PhD received a total of $200,000 research support from the Otho S.A. Sprague Memorial Institute, the Concern Foundation, and the American Cancer Society-Illinois Division for his investigation on human osteosarcoma development.
Faculty member John Martell, MD received the John Charnley Award given by the Hip Society.
The Section has recruited three new faculty members, Purnendu Gupta, MD, Tong-Chuan (T.-C.) He, MD, PhD, and Craig Phillips, MD. Dr. Gupta was a faculty member of Ohio State University for four years following a spine fellowship at Washington University St. Louis. Dr. Gupta will establish an orthopaedic spine service at The University of Chicago Hospitals in Hyde Park and at Matteson. Dr. He finished his postdoctoral training at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Johns Hopkins Oncology Center under the guidance of two internationally renowned scientists Drs. Bert Vogelstein and Ken Kinzler. During his postdoctoral training, Dr. He worked on cancer gene therapy and the Wnt signaling in tumorigenesis, which resulted in several high impact publications in Science, Cell, and PNAS. Dr. He will direct the Molecular Oncology Laboratory, which focuses on bone and soft tissue sarcoma research, as well as on orthopaedic biology. Dr. Phillips was a resident at The University of Chicago and finished his fellowship at the Curtis National Hand Center and Johns Hopkins Hospital. Dr. Phillips will establish a hand and upper extremity practice at our northside facility, Weiss Hospital.
Resident Rex C. Haydon, MD, PhD won the Howard Schneider Award for Best Manuscript at the OREF Midwest Conference.
Resident David Manning, MD received a competitive OREF Resident Research Award. Resident Tom McNally, MD won the AOA-Zimmer Resident Research Award.
Faculty member Louis F. Draganich, PhD received the American Society of Biomechanics Clinical Research Award in July 2000.
Developed by faculty member Henry A. Finn, MD, the Finn Knee™ (a rotating hinge) and Balanced Hip™ (a cementless fixation of the femur) continue to evolve and have been used in many of the top joint replacement centers worldwide. Dr. Finn was also appointed to the Editorial Board of the Journal of Arthroplasty, the largest journal solely devoted to joint replacement.
Developed by faculty members Lawrence Pottenger, MD and Louis Draganich, PhD, TRAC™ total knee has received worldwide attention. In addition, Drs. Pottenger and Draganich have designed a cruciate retaining TRAC™ knee prosthesis.