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Awards Accolades RESIDENTS THOMAS P. SCULCO, MD (1974), was made an honorary member of the Hellenic Orthopaedic Society and named Health Professional of the Year by the Arthritis Foundation. DOUGLAS E. PADGETT, MD (1989), was named to the Presidential Line of the Hip Society assuming the Presidency in 2018, following in the footsteps of other HSS alumni: Philip D. Wilson Jr, MD, Eduardo Salvati, MD, John Callaghan, MD, Chitranjan Ranawat, MD, Paul Lachiewicz, MD, and Kevin Garvin, MD. Dr. Padgett has also been named to the board of the American Joint Replacement Registry for a three-year term as member at large. The AJRR is the national joint registry of the United States. SCOTT W. WOLFE, MD (1989), served as President of the New York Society for Surgery of the Hand, Chair of the PreCourse Distal Radius Fractures, ASSH Annual Meeting and Editor-in-Chief, Green’s Operative Hand Surgery, 7th Ed. BRIAN J. BEAR, MD (1996), was elected Castle Connolly Top Doctor for Hand Surgery and Best Doctors in America. ADAM SHAFRITZ, MD (2000), received the AAOS Achievement Award in the spring of 2015.
FELLOWS MICHAEL G. RYAN, MD (2000), was selected as Physician of the Year at Palomar Hospital in San Diego as well as voted Chairman Elect of the Orthopaedic Department at Palomar Hospital. Palomar Hospital is one of the largest and newest hospital constructions in the United States (a $956 million construction). The department Dr. Ryan will eventually chair has 82 members and includes orthopaedic surgeons, podiatrists and physical medicine rehab physicians. Dr. Ryan has always relied on his HSS experience to help him in the operating room and will now rely on it again to help lead a large orthopaedic department. ANDREA BALDINI, MD (2004), an attending orthopaedic surgeon in the Adult Hip and
Knee Reconstruction Unit at IFCA Institute, Florence, Italy, was elected Institute Director. Dr. Baldini was also elected 2nd Vice President of the European Knee Society. CARRIE GUHEEN, MD (2011), is currently serving as Faculty Advisor to the American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine’s Residency Group–Regional Anesthesia Division. STEPHEN HASKINS, MD (2013), was chosen as “Teacher of the Year” by the 2015 Graduating Anesthesiology Residents at Weill Cornell Medical College. GUILHERME HOLCK, MD (2013), is now Anesthesiologist-in-Chief at Hospitalys Ortopedia in Rio de Janeiro, an HSSpartnered institution. JENNIFER CHARLES, MD (2016), accompanied Kethy M. Jules-Elysee, MD, on a humanitarian mission to Haiti in December. They provided anesthesia for several adult and pediatric patients undergoing orthopaedic procedures.
RESIDENT & FELLOW GEOFFREY H. WESTRICH, MD (1995, 1996), is the current President of the Eastern Orthopaedic Association and will preside over the upcoming Annual Meeting in New Orleans. BRYAN T. KELLY, MD (2001, 2003), was recently promoted to Attending Orthopaedic Surgeon and Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Weill Cornell Medical College. SCOTT J. ELLIS, MD (2007, 2008), was promoted to Associate Professor at Weill
Philip J. Wagner, MD, taught as a Visiting Professor at two institutions in Israel in December.
Dr. Jones received the Clinical Research Award at the International Cartilage Repair Society World Congress.
Cornell Medical College and was elected to the Board of the AOFAS. Dr. Ellis finished his term as head of the Young Physicians Committee of the AOFAS and ran the YPC forum for the AOFAS Annual Meeting in 2015. KRISTOFER J. JONES, MD (2012, 2013), received the Clinical Research Award at the International Cartilage Repair Society World Congress in Chicago. Dr. Jones recently welcomed his first child, Owen Thomas Jones.
HSS STAFF ADELE L. BOSKEY, PHD, was the recipient of the Lawrence G. Raisz Award from the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research (ASBMR) presented in Seattle in October 2015. The award is given annually in recognition of an individual having a record of outstanding achievements in preclinical translational research (cellular or in animals) in the bone and mineral field. PHILIP J. WAGNER, MD, spent 10 days in Israel as a Visiting Professor at Assaf Harofeh Medical Center and Ichilov Medical Center, both in Tel Aviv, Israel, in December 2015. Dr. Wagner gave daily grand rounds to surgeons, anesthesia attendings, and anesthesia fellows/residents, and taught and demonstrated techniques in the operating rooms. Teaching topics included early recovery after surgery protocols, acute postoperative pain management, perioperative evaluation of the patient for orthopaedic surgery, and anticoagulation protocols for anesthetic management. DAVID Y. WANG, MD, was chosen as the recipient of the 2015 Wholeness of Life Award presented by HSS and the HealthCare Chaplaincy Network.
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