Tuesday, March 1st

8:00 AM Michael Bolognesi
Speaker (course 102)
Ensuring a Winner: The A, B, Cs of Primary Total Knee Arthroplasty

9:56 AM Lindsay Kleeman, Thorsten Seyler, Samuel Wellman & Michael Bolognesi
Paper presentation (paper 917)
Comparing Complications of Metal-on-Metal Total Hip Arthroplasty with Other Hip Bearings
*SOA President Award paper

10:30 AM C.T. Moorman
Speaker (course 126)
Stress Management and Balance for the Orthopaedic Surgeon

11:30 AM Travis Dekker, Thorsten Seyler & Michael Bolognesi
Poster P035
Complications in Total Hip Arthroplasty Patients with Parkinson’s Disease: A Medicare Database Review

11:30 AM Sergio Mendoza
Poster P074
Abnormally High Dislocation Rates of Total Hip Replacement Following Contemporary Low Back Surgery

11:30 AM Lindsay Kleeman, Thorsten Seyler, Samuel Wellman & Michael Bolognesi
Poster P088
Hip Resurfacing Arthroplasty Outcomes Compared to Total Hip Arthroplasty in the Medicare Population

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Saturday, March 5th

8:49 AM Dianne Little & Amy McNulty
Paper presentation #0008
Cartilage-Specific Knockout of the Mechanosensory Ion Channel TRPV4 Inhibits Age-Related Osteoarthritis

9:45 AM Louis DeFrate, William Garrett, Amy McNulty & CT Moorman
Paper presentation #0066
In Vivo Cartilage Strains in Regions of Cartilage-to-Cartilage Contact and Cartilage-to-Meniscus Contact

10:45 AM Ben Alman
International Combined Orthopaedic Research Society (ICORS) Best Posters
Canadian Orthopaedic Research Society (CORS)
FGFR3 modulates fracture repair by controlling the balance of intramembranous and endochondral ossification

10:45 AM Samuel Adams, Mark Easley & Steven Olson
Poster Session: PS1-0483
Elevated Lipid Metabolites in Synovial Fluid after Intra-Articular Ankle Fracture

10:45 AM Matthew Hilton
Poster Session: PS1-0485
Oral Type 1 Collagen Peptides Induce Chondroregeneration In Posttraumatic Osteoarthritis

10:45 AM Rita Baumgartner
Poster Session: PS1-0487
Quantitative MR Characterization of Knee Cartilage 1 year after Tibial Plateau Fracture Correlates with Functional Outcomes at 2 years

10:45 AM Sergio Mendoza
Poster Session: PS1-1085
Abnormally High Dislocation Rates of THR Following Contemporary Low Back Surgery

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Saturday, March 5th

11:00 AM Sean Meehan
Podium presentation
A Comparison of Adipose- and Bone Marrow- Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cell Behavior on Micro-Photopatterned Surfaces

5:00 PM Dianne Little
Moderator
Podium Session VI: Rotator Cuff Injury and Repair

2016 ISL&T FinalProgram

TO: Duke University School of Medicine faculty, staff, residents and fellows, and health professions students

FROM: Judy Seidenstein, Chief Diversity Officer, Duke University School of Medicine Office of Diversity & Inclusion

SUBJECT: Requests for Nominations for the Michelle Winn Inclusive Excellence Award
                      Deadline:  Sunday, March 14, 2016

The Duke University School of Medicine’s Office of Diversity & Inclusion has established the Michelle Winn Inclusive Excellence Award to recognize individuals who have made significant contributions to diversity and inclusion within the Duke School of Medicine community. This award will be presented annually to one faculty and one staff member who exemplifies a commitment to excellence, innovation, and leadership in helping  to create a more diverse and inclusive environment.

Michelle Winn, MD, Associate Professor of Nephrology in the Department of Medicine, passed away in July 2014.  She came to Duke in 1992 as an intern and undertook residencies in Psychiatry and Medicine before focusing her career on Nephrology and joining the faculty.  She was a wonderful clinician, a generous mentor and an esteemed physician-scientist who was respected and beloved by her colleagues and deeply committed to diversity and inclusion and to the careers of younger physicians and scientists who orbited around her.

All School of Medicine faculty, staff, trainees, and health professions students are invited to nominate faculty or staff members in the School of Medicine. Letters should include specific examples of the individual’s exemplary achievements and contributions towards inclusive excellence by means of service, leadership, research or education.

To nominate someone for this award, please provide a letter clearly stating why this person should be honored. You may submit one or more nominations but separate nomination forms must be submitted for each individual. The nomination letter should contain the following information:

• Nominator Name
• Nominator Relationship to Duke University School of Medicine
• Nominator’s Mailing Address
• Nominator’s Email Address

Nominations must be received electronically at ODI@dm.duke.edu no later than March 14, 2016.

Join Duke Orthopaedics of Raleigh on May 21, 2016, for a 5k obstacle race that will see if you are fit to walk the path of a ninja warrior. More details can be found here.

*Photo from The Ninja Challenge on Facebook

The Department of Orthopaedics would like to welcome Chanel Copeland, MHS, PA-C, as our newest provider in the Orthopaedic Urgent Care. Chanel comes from within the Duke family; she was previously treating patients at Duke Urgent Care.

Chanel completed her undergraduate degree at Lycoming College in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. In 1999, she graduated from the Duke Physician Assistant Program, and throughout her career, has practiced medicine primarily in the Urgent Care or emergency room setting.

While Chanel has lived in many cities on the east coast, Durham is her favorite.  In her spare time, she enjoys going to the theater, music, singing, dancing, and can often be found at the DPAC. She loves to travel, hike, bike, and she really likes to eat.

On February 15, 2016, Dr. Erica Taylor, a hand surgeon in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Duke, was featured in an article entitled, “‘Pipeline’ Programs Try to Steer Minority Students to Careers in Medicine,” published by the Wall Street Journal.

(Excerpt taken from the Wall Street Journal)

By BARBARA SADICK
Feb. 15, 2016 10:10 p.m. ET

…To show minority students what to expect in post-graduate studies for a career in medicine and, program officials hope, help their chances of admission, a dozen medical and dental schools including those at Duke, Columbia and Howard universities offer the Summer Medical and Dental Education Program, an immersive six weeks of study for minority freshman and sophomores.

At Duke University School of Medicine, where the program has been offered since 2001, in addition to studying biostatistics, physiology, organic chemistry and other subjects required for medical-school admission, 80 participants each summer learn about leadership, health policy and communication. A Duke spokesperson says the courses each student takes depends on those they have taken at their home institutions and what they plan to take when they return to those schools.

Duke and desire

Erica Taylor, a 35-year-old African-American orthopedic surgeon on the Duke medical school faculty, went through the program in 2001 while enrolled at the University of Virginia. That summer, Dr. Taylor says, she took classes, shadowed a physician and participated in mock medical-school admissions interviews. The experience, she says, gave her an idea of what she would eventually experience at Duke’s medical school. “This was the experience that reconfirmed my desire to become a physician,” Dr. Taylor says.

Of 634 students who went through the program between 2006 and 2013, 220 applied to various medical schools, and more than two-thirds were accepted. Currently, 35 are students in medicine, nursing and graduate education at Duke.

Read the full story here.

Congratulations to Michel D. Landry BScPT, PhD, who was appointed Associate Editor of WHO South-East Asia Journal of Public Health.

Earlier this year, current and former Duke residents and fellows, including Dr. Daniel Mangiapani (PGY-4 resident); Dr. Jordan Schaeffer (Resident Class ’13); and Dr. Tim Randell (Fellowship Class of ’15), traveled to San Salvador to participate in Operation Walk Utah.

Operation Walk Utah was started in 2007 by Dr. Aaron Hofmann (Hofmann Arthritis Institute), who had a dream of doing free surgeries in third-world countries with a team of volunteers. It is a private, not-for-profit, volunteer medical service organization that provides free joint replacement surgeries for patients with disabling arthritis in developing countries and in the United States. Operation Walk also educates in-country orthopedic surgeons, physical therapists and other health care professionals about advanced treatments and surgical techniques for diseases of the hip and knee joints.

During this year’s trip to San Salvador, the Operation Walk Utah team performed 72 joint replacements in 5 operative days, spanning 3 ORs. Cases ranged from a 35 degree valgus knee with MCL incompetency to bilateral total hip arthroplasty on severely dysplastic hips. On the team’s final day, they rounded on all the inpatients, whose joy and happiness radiated on both their faces and the faces of their families.

“It was, no doubt, a life-changing experience that has changed my outlook on what ‘service’ truly is,” says Dr. Mangiapani.

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Chad Cook has been appointed Program Director for the Doctor of Physical Therapy program effective immediately.

Since last summer, Dr. Cook has served as the Interim Program Director. In a short time, he has been able to make an important impact on the research, educational, and service components of our enterprise. As a result of his extraordinary work, and following a series of discussions with senior leadership in the School of Medicine (SoM); the Search Committee (which was formed with representation from the DPT Division, the Departments of Orthopaedic Surgery & Community and Family Medicine (CFM), and DukeAHEAD) recommended that Dr. Cook be appointed to this role. Given that most program directors across the SoM are appointed and that Dr. Cook has had a tremendous track record in academic physical therapy education leadership (as evidenced by the recent announcement that the APTA’s Education Section has awarded Dr. Cook with the 2017 Pauline Cerasoli Lectureship) there was strong support to appoint Dr. Cook. We invite you to help us celebrate Dr. Cook’s appointment during next year’s CSM (Feb. 15-18, 2017, in San Antonio, TX), where he will deliver his Pauline Cerasoli Lectureship talk. More information can be found by visiting: https://www.google.com/search?q=APTA+cerasoli&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

Dr. Cook’s appointment as Program Director will allow Dr. Landry to focus his efforts on moving forward with the creation of the Institute (official name still to be determined), on the upcoming physical space redesign and move, and building greater educational offerings in rehabilitation sciences.

Please join us in congratulating Dr. Cook on his appointment, and stay tuned for information and details regarding a celebration in the coming month.