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Member Spotlight: Dr. Throckmorton
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New Editor-in-Chief Named
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Quin Throckmorton, M.D. will lead AAOS education website
The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) recently announced Campbell Clinic’s Dr. Thomas W. (Quin) Throckmorton, MD, FAAOS, as the editor-in-chief designee of OrthoInfo.org, the AAOS’ patient education website. A leading online resource for orthopaedic information, OrthoInfo has more than two million monthly visitors and offers patients credible resources to help them better understand musculoskeletal conditions and make informed decisions about their health. The site features more than 400 articles and videos on bone and joint conditions, treatments, and injury prevention, many of which are also available in Spanish.
“Dr. Throckmorton brings his vision and experience to OrthoInfo at an exciting time,” says Dr. Stuart J. Fisher, MD, FAAOS, previous OrthoInfo editor-in-chief. “As more people seek and access medical information on their mobile devices than ever before, OrthoInfo has the opportunity to evolve further into digital space and reach a younger generation of doctors and patients with orthopaedic information they can trust. Dr. Throckmorton is uniquely qualified through his background as an Academy leader, surgeon, and editor to carry OrthoInfo into the future.”
Dr. Throckmorton believes that patient education is an integral part of providing the highest quality of musculoskeletal care and anticipates success as new innovations enhance the utility of this public resource.
“OrthoInfo is a fantastic resource,” Dr. Throckmorton said. “Moving forward, I am excited to look into ways of packaging our information into the formats that are best digested by our younger patients,” says Dr. Throckmorton. “They communicate almost exclusively through social media platforms. How to make us more accessible to our patients in that world is something I’m really interested in exploring.”
Dr. Throckmorton graduated from Vanderbilt University. He went on to attend medical school at the University of Iowa. He then completed his orthopaedic surgery residency at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, TN. Dr. Throckmorton also completed a fellowship in shoulder and elbow surgery at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota and spent a year in practice in Antioch, California before joining Campbell Clinic in 2009. Today, his practice encompasses shoulder and elbow operations. Dr. Throckmorton previously served as the residency program director at Campbell Clinic for more than seven years. He has also contributed significantly to Campbell’s Operative Orthopaedics textbooks. As editor-in-chief of OrthoInfo, Dr. Throckmorton is a member of the AAOS’ Communications Committee. He has previously served on the AAOS Board of Directors and the AAOS Central Instructional Course Committee. He was assistant editor for the AAOS Instructional Course Lectures textbook and also spent one year as copy editor.
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