02.22.11
Members of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) elected a new slate of leaders at their annual meeting last week in San Diego, Calif.
Besides choosing Daniel J. Berry, M.D., and John R. Tongue, M.D., to serve as president and first vice president, respectively, members elected Joshua J. Jacobs, M.D., of Chicago, Ill., as second vice president. The trio will serve one-year terms.
Jacobs is an adult reconstructive orthopedic surgeon with an expertise in total joint replacement and a research interest in the biocompatibility of orthopedic biomaterials. He currently serves as the William A. Hark, M.D./Susanne G. Swift Professor and Chairman of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. He is a partner and member of the Executive Committee of Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush (a private practice) and he also is an adjunct professor in the Materials Science and Engineering Department in the McCormick Technological Institute of Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill.
For six years, Jacobs chaired the Council on Research, Quality Assessment and Technology. He is the past president of the Orthopaedic Research Society and is the current president of the United States Bone and Joint Decade. He also serves as a trustee of the Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation and is past chair of Committee F04 on Medical and Surgical Materials and Devices of the American Society for Testing and Materials International. Jacobs recently completed a four-year term on the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases Advisory Council and has chaired multiple National Institute of Health study sections.
“Josh has been a dedicated leader within the orthopedic community for quite some time, and his leadership style and sense of humor and will be terrific additions to the Board. Josh’s unique expertise is timely given the academy’s priorities—from the education and quality initiatives to the American Joint Replacement Registry. In addition, his work with the Bone and Joint Decade will be invaluable experience for our international initiatives,” said John Callaghan, MD, immediate past president of the AAOS Board of Directors.
Members added three of their colleagues to the board: Naomi Shields, M.D., a foot an ankle surgeon in Wichita, Kan.; Mininder Kocher, M.D., an associate professor of orthopaedic surgery at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Mass.; and Andrew N. Pollak, M.D., trauma director and chief of orthopaedics at R. Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore, Md., who will serve as the treasurer-elect. Business consultant William J. Best also assumed a seat on the board, though his official title is “lay member.”
Besides operating a private practice in Wichita, Shields is a clinical associate professor at the University of Kansas School of Medicine in Kansas City, Kan. She earned her medical degree from Albany Medical College in Albany, N.Y., and completed a four-year residency at the Wilford Hall U.S. Air Force Medical Center at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas. Shields finished a foot and ankle fellowship with the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, Wis., and recently completed a term on the board of the American Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society.
Kocher earned his medical degree from Duke University in Durham, N.C., and received a master’s degree in public health at Harvard. His research there focused on pediatric hip arthritis, which later won him a prestigious Kappa Delta Award.
After completing a combined orthopedic surgeon residency rotating through Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Children’s Hospital and Beth Israel Hospital—all in Boston, Kocher took on a pediatric orthopedic fellowship at Children’s Hospital Boston and a sports medicine fellowship at the Steadman Clinic in Vail, Colo.
In addition to the AAOS, Kocher serves on the board American Orthopaedic Society of Sports Medicine. He also is a past board member of the Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America. “The healthcare landscape is changing very rapidly, and now could not be a more important time to serve in a leadership capacity with this preeminent orthopaedic organization,” Kocher said of his role with the AAOS. “My background in clinical research and other public health issues will bring a unique perspective to this group.”
Besides his role at the R. Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, Pollak is a professor of orthopedics and head of the Division of Orthopaedic Traumatology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. He received his medical degree from Northwestern University in Chicago and completed a residency in orthopedics at the University Hospitals of Cleveland (Ohio) and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine (also in Cleveland). He subsequently completed a fellowship in orthopedic traumatology at the University of California, Davis Medical Center in Sacramento, Calif.
Pollak recently served as the chief financial officer for the Orthopaedic Trauma Association and sat on the Investment Committee for the American Orthopaedic Association. He also chaired the AAOS Board of Specialty Societies and currently heads the organization’s Extremity War Injuries Project Team. “Trauma is an area of orthopedics that has been my passion,” Pollak said. “Being able to make people who have been in an accident or the victim of an unexpected event better again, and to have an ability to help people who really need it is why I am in this field.”
Best has provided consulting services to healthcare organizations for 35 years and has served on several non-profit boards, including Children’s Memorial Medical Center in Chicago, The Chicago Council on Global Affairs, the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan, and the Commercial Club of Chicago, among others. For more than 20 years, Best was a partner at international management consulting firm A.T. Kearney, where he worked with senior management in the medical diagnostics, pharmaceutical and home health care fields. He served on A.T. Kearney’s board for 10 years. “Being a part of a board means you have the ability to have a positive impact, and I look forward to the intellectual challenge that this appointment will bring,” he noted.
Best received his bachelor’s degree from Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., and his master’s degree in finance and international business from the University of Chicago.
The AAOS Board of Directors, however, was not the only governing arm of the organization to get an infusion of new members during the annual meeting last week. The Board of Specialty Societies (BOS) and Board of Councilors (BOC) also named new leaders during the event. Jeffrey Anglen, M.D. now heads the BOS while David Teuscher of Beaumont, Texas leads the BOC.
The BOS brings together leaders of various musculoskeletal societies to address issues of mutual concern such as advocacy, continuing medical education, research, residency and fellowship issues. The BOS serves as a resource and advisor to the AAOS Board of Directors.
“There are many issues on the minds of the BOS for 2011. Whether we are tackling continuing challenges in resident and fellow education, getting the message out on quality and patient safety or promoting orthopedic research, I hope to help make decisions that empower and secure the nature of our specialty moving forward,” explained Anglen. “Working with our colleagues on the Board of Councilors, the BOS advocacy agenda seeks to improve patient access to outstanding musculoskeletal care in the era of healthcare reform.”
Anglen currently is a professor and chairman of the Department of Orthopaedics at Indiana University in Indianapolis, Ind. Prior to his work in Indianapolis, Anglen worked for Boone Orthopaedic Associates in Columbia, Mo., the University of Missouri Department of Orthopaedics in Columbia, Mo., and the Midwest Orthopaedic Clinic in Kansas City, Mo.
Anglen earned his medical degree from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Md., and served his internship in surgery and orthopedic residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He received training in orthopedic traumatology at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, Wash., and Tampa General Hospital in Tampa, Fla.
Active in several professional societies, Anglen is a past president of the Orthopaedic Trama Association, current director of the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery and a member of both the American Orthopaedic Association and American College of Surgeons Board of Governors and Committee on Trauma. He also serves on the board of the Indiana Orthopaedic Society and Orthopaedics Overseas.
Teuscher received his bachelor’s degree at the University of Illinois and earned his medical degree at the University of Texas Medical School in San Antonio. Between an internship and orthopaedic residency at the Brooke Army Medical Center in Fort Sam Houston, Texas, he took on academic roles with the University of Oklahoma in Oklahoma City, Okla., and Baylor University in Waco, Texas. He also served as an instructor at the U.S. Army Academy of Health Sciences for seven years at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. Teuscher currently practices orthopaedic surgery in a private practice and specializes in sports medicine at the Beaumont Bone and Joint Institute in southeast Texas.
Teuscher serves as a fellow of the AAOS, American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine, and the American Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Society. He also is a member and past president of the Texas Orthopaedic Association, as well as a member of the American Medical Association, Texas Medical Association, the Western Orthopaedic Association and the Jefferson County Medical Society. He worked as co-director of the Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship for the University of Texas in Galveston, is a team physician for Lamar University NCAA intercollegiate athletics and works with several local high school athletic training departments.
Healthcare access is a primary concern for Teuscher as he assumes the BOC leadership. He hopes to use his new role to educate his colleagues, the public and politicians about the importance of healthcare reform. “Physicians are rightfully uncertain of how the changes in healthcare will affect their patients and their practices,” Teuscher said. “We must educate our fellowship, the public and elected leaders on the proper manner to truly reform our healthcare system. This should be done in a positive way that delivers value in the form of improved quality, better outcomes and cost-effective care for patients.”
Besides choosing Daniel J. Berry, M.D., and John R. Tongue, M.D., to serve as president and first vice president, respectively, members elected Joshua J. Jacobs, M.D., of Chicago, Ill., as second vice president. The trio will serve one-year terms.
Jacobs is an adult reconstructive orthopedic surgeon with an expertise in total joint replacement and a research interest in the biocompatibility of orthopedic biomaterials. He currently serves as the William A. Hark, M.D./Susanne G. Swift Professor and Chairman of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. He is a partner and member of the Executive Committee of Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush (a private practice) and he also is an adjunct professor in the Materials Science and Engineering Department in the McCormick Technological Institute of Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill.
For six years, Jacobs chaired the Council on Research, Quality Assessment and Technology. He is the past president of the Orthopaedic Research Society and is the current president of the United States Bone and Joint Decade. He also serves as a trustee of the Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation and is past chair of Committee F04 on Medical and Surgical Materials and Devices of the American Society for Testing and Materials International. Jacobs recently completed a four-year term on the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases Advisory Council and has chaired multiple National Institute of Health study sections.
“Josh has been a dedicated leader within the orthopedic community for quite some time, and his leadership style and sense of humor and will be terrific additions to the Board. Josh’s unique expertise is timely given the academy’s priorities—from the education and quality initiatives to the American Joint Replacement Registry. In addition, his work with the Bone and Joint Decade will be invaluable experience for our international initiatives,” said John Callaghan, MD, immediate past president of the AAOS Board of Directors.
Members added three of their colleagues to the board: Naomi Shields, M.D., a foot an ankle surgeon in Wichita, Kan.; Mininder Kocher, M.D., an associate professor of orthopaedic surgery at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Mass.; and Andrew N. Pollak, M.D., trauma director and chief of orthopaedics at R. Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore, Md., who will serve as the treasurer-elect. Business consultant William J. Best also assumed a seat on the board, though his official title is “lay member.”
Besides operating a private practice in Wichita, Shields is a clinical associate professor at the University of Kansas School of Medicine in Kansas City, Kan. She earned her medical degree from Albany Medical College in Albany, N.Y., and completed a four-year residency at the Wilford Hall U.S. Air Force Medical Center at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas. Shields finished a foot and ankle fellowship with the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, Wis., and recently completed a term on the board of the American Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society.
Kocher earned his medical degree from Duke University in Durham, N.C., and received a master’s degree in public health at Harvard. His research there focused on pediatric hip arthritis, which later won him a prestigious Kappa Delta Award.
After completing a combined orthopedic surgeon residency rotating through Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Children’s Hospital and Beth Israel Hospital—all in Boston, Kocher took on a pediatric orthopedic fellowship at Children’s Hospital Boston and a sports medicine fellowship at the Steadman Clinic in Vail, Colo.
In addition to the AAOS, Kocher serves on the board American Orthopaedic Society of Sports Medicine. He also is a past board member of the Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America. “The healthcare landscape is changing very rapidly, and now could not be a more important time to serve in a leadership capacity with this preeminent orthopaedic organization,” Kocher said of his role with the AAOS. “My background in clinical research and other public health issues will bring a unique perspective to this group.”
Besides his role at the R. Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, Pollak is a professor of orthopedics and head of the Division of Orthopaedic Traumatology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. He received his medical degree from Northwestern University in Chicago and completed a residency in orthopedics at the University Hospitals of Cleveland (Ohio) and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine (also in Cleveland). He subsequently completed a fellowship in orthopedic traumatology at the University of California, Davis Medical Center in Sacramento, Calif.
Pollak recently served as the chief financial officer for the Orthopaedic Trauma Association and sat on the Investment Committee for the American Orthopaedic Association. He also chaired the AAOS Board of Specialty Societies and currently heads the organization’s Extremity War Injuries Project Team. “Trauma is an area of orthopedics that has been my passion,” Pollak said. “Being able to make people who have been in an accident or the victim of an unexpected event better again, and to have an ability to help people who really need it is why I am in this field.”
Best has provided consulting services to healthcare organizations for 35 years and has served on several non-profit boards, including Children’s Memorial Medical Center in Chicago, The Chicago Council on Global Affairs, the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan, and the Commercial Club of Chicago, among others. For more than 20 years, Best was a partner at international management consulting firm A.T. Kearney, where he worked with senior management in the medical diagnostics, pharmaceutical and home health care fields. He served on A.T. Kearney’s board for 10 years. “Being a part of a board means you have the ability to have a positive impact, and I look forward to the intellectual challenge that this appointment will bring,” he noted.
Best received his bachelor’s degree from Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., and his master’s degree in finance and international business from the University of Chicago.
The AAOS Board of Directors, however, was not the only governing arm of the organization to get an infusion of new members during the annual meeting last week. The Board of Specialty Societies (BOS) and Board of Councilors (BOC) also named new leaders during the event. Jeffrey Anglen, M.D. now heads the BOS while David Teuscher of Beaumont, Texas leads the BOC.
The BOS brings together leaders of various musculoskeletal societies to address issues of mutual concern such as advocacy, continuing medical education, research, residency and fellowship issues. The BOS serves as a resource and advisor to the AAOS Board of Directors.
“There are many issues on the minds of the BOS for 2011. Whether we are tackling continuing challenges in resident and fellow education, getting the message out on quality and patient safety or promoting orthopedic research, I hope to help make decisions that empower and secure the nature of our specialty moving forward,” explained Anglen. “Working with our colleagues on the Board of Councilors, the BOS advocacy agenda seeks to improve patient access to outstanding musculoskeletal care in the era of healthcare reform.”
Anglen currently is a professor and chairman of the Department of Orthopaedics at Indiana University in Indianapolis, Ind. Prior to his work in Indianapolis, Anglen worked for Boone Orthopaedic Associates in Columbia, Mo., the University of Missouri Department of Orthopaedics in Columbia, Mo., and the Midwest Orthopaedic Clinic in Kansas City, Mo.
Anglen earned his medical degree from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Md., and served his internship in surgery and orthopedic residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He received training in orthopedic traumatology at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, Wash., and Tampa General Hospital in Tampa, Fla.
Active in several professional societies, Anglen is a past president of the Orthopaedic Trama Association, current director of the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery and a member of both the American Orthopaedic Association and American College of Surgeons Board of Governors and Committee on Trauma. He also serves on the board of the Indiana Orthopaedic Society and Orthopaedics Overseas.
Teuscher received his bachelor’s degree at the University of Illinois and earned his medical degree at the University of Texas Medical School in San Antonio. Between an internship and orthopaedic residency at the Brooke Army Medical Center in Fort Sam Houston, Texas, he took on academic roles with the University of Oklahoma in Oklahoma City, Okla., and Baylor University in Waco, Texas. He also served as an instructor at the U.S. Army Academy of Health Sciences for seven years at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. Teuscher currently practices orthopaedic surgery in a private practice and specializes in sports medicine at the Beaumont Bone and Joint Institute in southeast Texas.
Teuscher serves as a fellow of the AAOS, American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine, and the American Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Society. He also is a member and past president of the Texas Orthopaedic Association, as well as a member of the American Medical Association, Texas Medical Association, the Western Orthopaedic Association and the Jefferson County Medical Society. He worked as co-director of the Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship for the University of Texas in Galveston, is a team physician for Lamar University NCAA intercollegiate athletics and works with several local high school athletic training departments.
Healthcare access is a primary concern for Teuscher as he assumes the BOC leadership. He hopes to use his new role to educate his colleagues, the public and politicians about the importance of healthcare reform. “Physicians are rightfully uncertain of how the changes in healthcare will affect their patients and their practices,” Teuscher said. “We must educate our fellowship, the public and elected leaders on the proper manner to truly reform our healthcare system. This should be done in a positive way that delivers value in the form of improved quality, better outcomes and cost-effective care for patients.”