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1950's

Sheldon Lichtblau, MD (1959) has been appointed Director of Outpatient Orthopaedics at Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY. He is no longer performing surgery and has significantly increased the amount of time he spends teaching.

Abraham L. Rivelis, MD (1958) was awarded a gold medal by the University of Buenos Aires for the Best Doctoral Thesis. He was the first abroad member to be inducted as an honorary member of Asia Pacific Rheumatology Society (APLAR). He is a traveling research fellow of the Hospital for Special Surgery in 20 state of the art lectures in 165 cities of 65 countries in the Americas, Europe, Asia, and the Pacific.

William C. Robbins, MD (1957) served as Vice President for Environmental Education and Museum Curator at the Trout Lake Nature Center in Eustis, Florida for five years.

1960's

Harlan C. Amstutz, MD (1961) was awarded the Sixth Annual American Orthopaedic Association-Zimmer Award for Distinguished Contributions to Orthopaedics at the AOA's 120th Annual Meeting. Dr. Amstutz's career spanned the development of total hip replacement to the culmination of his design and research on hip resurfacing. Along with the AOA-Zimmer Award, Dr. Amstutz had received numerous other awards for his contributions to orthopaedic education, research and science.

George E. Ehrlich, MD (Fellow 1961) received the Dr. Joseph L. Hollander Award from the Arthritis Foundation.

Moheb S. Moneim, MD (Fellow 1963) retired in September 2003 after 30 years as faculty member and 16 years as Professor and Chairman of the Division of Hand Surgery in the Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine.

Leon Root, MD (1961) was one of three honorees who received the Lillian D. Wald Award. The award is presented every year at the Visiting Nurses Service of New York (VNSNY) benefit dinner. The award, named after the public health pioneer and founder of VNSNY, is presented in recognition of individuals who have made significant contributions to the health and welfare of New Yorkers.

1970's

Charles Hamlin, MD (1972) received the 2007 ASSH Volunteer of the Year Award. This honor was presented to Dr. Charles Hamlin by the Volunteer Service Committee of the American Society for Surgery of the Hand at the annual meeting. This notable award is given to a member who has made an exceptional commitment of volunteering time and surgical skills. Dr. Hamlin was recognized for his tremendous efforts with a volunteer hand service he has run at the Indian Health Hospital in Chinle, Arizona since 1994. The clinic is located in the heart of the Navajo Reservation and is staffed 18 times a year, providing needed care for this unique community. In 2001, Dr. Hamlin received the Humanitarian Award from the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons.

Tomihisa Koshino, MD (Fellow 1970) completed a monograph on knee surgeries for osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis.

Thomas P. Sculco, MD (1974) was one of three honorees recognized by the Columbus Citizens Foundation. As part of this recognition, Dr.Sculco was invited to celebrate his Italian-American heritage by riding on the Foundation's floats in the 64th Annual Columbus Day Parade down Fifth Avenue on October 13, 2008.

Russell Warren, MD (1973) was inducted into the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine (AOSSM) Hall of Fame on July 13, 2008. Dr. Warren has served as the New York Giants team physician since 1981. The AOSSM established the Hall of Fame in 2001 to honor members of the orthopaedic sports medicine community who have contributed significantly to the specialty. Dr. Warren focuses his research on finding treatments that reduce pain and restore mobility for patients with tissue injuries of the shoulder and knee.

1980's

David W. Altcheck, MD (1988) will serve as team medical doctor for the New Jersey Nets.

Robert E. Atkinson, MD (1982) was appointed Director of the Orthopaedic Surgery Residency Program at the University of Hawaii.

Oheneba Boachie-Adjei (1986) was appointed President of the Scoliosis Research Society (SRS). This professional organization is made up of physicians and allied health providers who focus on administering continuing medical education to healthcare professionals and offer information on funding/supporting research in spinal deformities. Dr. Boachie will help continue to ensure that the SRS serves as the premier access portal for the dissemination of information on scoliosis and related spine deformities. He has also received the 2006 Blount Award from the SRS. Dr. Boachie was nominated by his peers to receive this award which recognizes his humanitarian work. 

Dirk H. Dugan, MD (1982) had been appointed as Orthopaedic Consultant to Cornell University Athletic Medicine and has been giving care to the football, hockey, lacrosse and other teams at the Ithaca campus.

Stuart C. Kozinn, MD (1987) has been appointed as Medical Director of the Scottsdale Healthcare Center for Joint Replacement in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Thomas M. Mauri, MD (1985) has been appointed Associate Chairman of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at North Shore University, as well as the Director of the Orthopaedic Spine Program of the Cushing Institutes for Neuroscience in the North Short/LIJ Health System.

Jane E. Salmon, MD (1983) the Collette Kean Research Chair and co-director, Mary Kirkland Center for Lupus Research at HSS, was the co-winner of the Carol Nachman Prize for 2007 for outstanding research in rheumatology. The Carol Nachman award was established in 1972 to honor outstanding innovative research work in the field of rheumatology. Dr. Salmon was also selected for a membership in the Association of American Physicians and the EULAR Scientific Program Committee. She has been invited to participate in the NIAMS Roundtable on Arthritis and Rheumatic Diseases.

Judith W. Smith, MD (1988) has been appointed to the Board of the Orthopaedic Learning Center in Rosement, Illinois. She has also recently become a fellow of the American College of Physician Executives, which is an organization that helps physicians build healthcare leadership skills, earn CME, and graduate degrees.

Scott Wolfe, MD (1989) was a Visiting Professor at the Orthopedic Seminars held at Lutheran Hospital, a Cleveland Clinic hospital. He was also the 2008 Invited Professor for the Wavering Lectureship at Evanston Hospital of Northwestern University and the invited guest professor at the annual meeting of the Brazilian Hand Society.

1990's

Leslie John Bission, MD (1996) helped save the life of Richard Zednik of the NHL Panthers. On February 12, 2008, Dr. Bisson thought it was going to be a routine night as lead team physician for the Sabres. He quickly realized this was no ordinary night as he watched Zednik's carotid artery slashed halfway through the third period. Instinctively, he immediately jumped into action, stopped the bleeding and kept Zednik stable until an emergency crew arrived. When asked about the incident Bisson modestly responded, "Honestly, I think I'm doing what any first responder would do. I don't think there was anything special that I did." At HSS, we consider him a hero.


G. Hadley Callaway, MD (1993) was recently inducted as president of the North Carolina Medical Society during its Annual Meeting. Currently, Dr. Callaway is in private practice at Raleigh Orthopaedic Clinic and is a Clinical Instructor in Orthopaedic surgery at the UNC Chapel Hill School of Medicine. In 2002, he was first elected to the North Carolina Medical Society board in 2002, and he is a past president of the Wake County Medical Society.

Jo A. Hannafin, MD, PhD (1991) was the Invited Visiting Professor in the Department of Orhopedic Surgery at the Cleveland Clinic and has been named Vice Chair of the Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation (OREF). This organization supports research and education to build the scientific base of clinical practice to serve the entire orthopaedic community. Dr. Hannafin is among almost two dozen individuals responsible for the governance of the Foundation. Also, Dr. Hannafin is the 2009 recipient of the Orthopaedic Research Society Women's Leadership Forum Award.

Jeffrey L. Hanway, MD (1993) left private in northern Virginia in 2006 to serve as Vice Chair for Clinical Affairs at Children's National Medical Center.

Paul E. Kovatis, MD (1996) was voted "Top Surgeon" by peers in the NJ Monthly Magazine for the second year in a row. Dr. Kovatis was awarded the Honored Citizen Medal for orthopaedics by New Jersey Law Enforcement. He is currently an orthopaedic member of the credentialing and medical board at Hackensack University Medical Center (HUMC). The Paul Kovatis Honorary Scholarship has been established at HUMC and UMONJ for his work in orthopaedic surgery and the local community. In addition, he has been selected to be part of the clinical teaching faculty at Touro Medical School.

Cato Laurencin, MD (1994) was appointed Dean of the School of Medicine at the University of Connecticut because of his strong administrative background and aggressive research profile. For the past five years, he held the position of Chair of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Virginia.

Chris Miskovsky, MD (Resident 1997) and his wife, Jennifer Miskovsky, welcomed their daughter Sarah Elizabeth on June 23rd 2005. He is in private practice in Corpus Christi, Texas, specializing in hand surgery.

Gac Murrell, MD (Fellow 1995) was awarded the 2005 NSW Sporting Injuries Committee FE Johnson Memorial Fellowship. In 2006, he received the AOSSM Excellence in Research Award for his paper entitled "Clinical Studies of Topical Glyceryl Trinctrate Treatment in Chronice Tendinopathies."

Michael Parks, MD (Fellow 1997) was elected to the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS), at the 2009 Annual Meeting in Las Vegas. He will serve the Academy as Member-at-Large for the “under 45 year old” Board position. Dr. Parks has been involved at the Academy in the Leader Fellowship Committee and has served on the Board of Councilors.

Hollis Potter, MD (1991) serves as a consultant on the FD's Orthopaedic and Rehabilitation Devices Panel and is a member of the NIH Skeletal Biology Development and Disease Study Section and the NIH/NIAMS Musculoskeletal Disease Research Core Centers Study Section.  

William M. Ricci, MD (1997) received a 2007 ABC Traveling Fellowship from the American Orthopaedic Association (AOA). Dr. Ricci is Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, where he specializes in orthopaedic trauma. He serves on the Orthopaedic Trauma Association (OTA) Board of Directors and Education Committee, and on the AAOS OITE Evaluation Committee. He is also co-chair of the 2007 OTA Annual Meeting Program Committee and Chair of the 2007 OTA Residents Fracture Course.

Scott Rodeo, MD (1994) served on an NIH Special Emphasis Panel on Musculoskeletal Tissue Engineering.

Stephanie Stephens, MD (1996) recently gave birth to her first child, Stephen James Murray on February 26, 2007.

Riley J. Williams, III, MD (1997) has been appointed as head team physician for the New Jersey Nets.

2000's

Asheesh Bedi, MD (2008) received the Philip D. Wilson, MD Award for Excellence in Orthopaedic Surgery Research for his paper entitled The Effect of Matrix Metalloproteinase Inhibition on Tendon-to-Bone Healing in a Rotator Cuff Repair Model.


Mark Drakos, MD (2008) received the Lewis Clark Wagner, MD Award Excellence in Orthopaedic Surgery Research for his paper entitled The Effect of the Shoe-Surface Interface in the Development of Anterior Cruciate Ligament Strain and the Jean T. McDaniel Award for Resident Leadership.

Doruk Erkan, MD (2001) received the Rudd-Gardy Teaching Excellence Award, given by HSS's Division of Rheumatology.

Larry Gulotta, MD (2008) received the first place award for his podium presentation entitled, "Chondrocyte Apaptosis and Necrosis Following Osteochondral Autologous Transplantation Surgery (OATS) and Lapine Model" at the OREF 2007 Metropolitan Area Resident Research Symposium.

Sanjay Kumar Gupta, MBBS, MD (2006) was appointed as orthopaedic specialist at Danbury Hospital.

Sheryl Handler, MD (Fellow 2005) had her second baby, Aiden Marcus Matasar, on September 24, 2005.

Brothers Timothy Johnson, MD (2002) and David Johnson, MD (2001) have recently established a new practice, the National Sports Medicine Institute, in suburban Washington, D.C.

Robert G. Marx, MD (2000) was a Visiting Professor at the Mayo Clinic and presented Orthopedic Grand Rounds, as well as Sports Medicine Grand Rounds. He also, presented an invited lecture on shoulder stabilization surgery at the European Society for Sports Medicine, Knee Surgery and Arthroscopy held in Porto, Portugal.

Peter J. Millett, MD, MSc (2000) leads the Musculoskeletal Proteomics research group at Harvard, who have made a pioneering breakthrough in osteoarthritis research by discovering a molecular "fingerprint" for osteoarthritis. He is also an Associate Surgeon at the Steadman Hawkins clinic in Vail, Colorado.

L. Nandini Moorthy, MD, MS, FAAP (Fellow 2003) was awarded the AF Investigator Award for "Cross-Cultural Adaptation and Preliminary Validation of a New Health Related QOL Scale." Dr. Moorthy developed SMILEY (Simple Measure of Impact of Lupus Erythematosus in Youngsters) from her research as an HSS fellow. She is also in the process of creating a "Pediatric Rheumatology Center for Excellence" at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, University of Medicine and Dentistry in New Jersey.

Neal Moskowitz, MD, PhD (2008) was named the inner of the Charles Christian, MD Award for Excellence in Musculoskeletal Research for his paper entitled Regulation of Human Macrophage and Osteoclast Differentiation by Interaction with Extracellular Matrix.

Daryl Osbahr, MD (2010) was awarded the NYSSOS AAOS NOLC Resident Competition Award. The award is presented annually to a resident who demonstrates a commitment to leadership within the field of orthopaedic surgery, including an interest in health policy issues affecting the AAOS.

Michael Ryan, MD (Fellow 2000) is the Director of Implant Surgery at Southern California Permanente Group San Diego, California.  He resides in Carlsbad, CA with his wife, Laurene, and two sons, Michael and James. Dr. Ryan competed as a member of a 5-man team in the 2005 Camp Pendelton Hard Corps Race Series 10K mud run and was awarded first place.

Steve Sharon, MD (Fellow 2002) opened an MRI center in Staten Island, New York. He was also a speaker at the Annual Arthroscopy Association of North America Conference and was co-author on the text Orthopaedic MRI; Articular Cartilage Chapter.

Kevin M. Trapp, MD (2004) joined the medical staff at St. Anthony Community Hospital. He has an extreme interest and specialized training in joint replacement, including revision of the hip, knee and shoulder.

Leslie Beasley Vidal, MD (2004) and her husband, Armando Vidal, had a baby boy, Maxwell Vidal, on June 17, 2005 and had their second child in August 2006.

James Voos, MD (2009) received the third place award during the OREF 2007 New York Metropolitan Area Resident Research Symposium for his poster presentation, "Outcomes of Combined Arthroscopic Rotator Cuff and Labral Repair."

William Walter, MD (2003) was awarded a PhD in Surgery from the University of New South Wales in December 2006 for his thesis entitled "Severe Biomechanical Conditions in Total Hip Replacement."

HSS Staff

Adele Boskey, PhD, was elected into the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering's (AIMBE) College of Fellows for her contribution to medical and biological engineering. The College of Fellows represents the top two percent of medical and biological engineering. The College of Fellows is a leader, advocating for public policies facilitating progress in medical and biological engineering research and development to benefit public health.

Steven Goldring, MD, Chief Scientific Officer, was the Plenary Speaker at the European Society of Clinical Investigation in Geneva, Switzerland. He was also a program organizer, speaker and session chair at the Segal North American Workshop on Osteoarthritis and a co-organizer of ACR Rheumatology Fellows Research Workshop, both held in Chicago, IL. Dr. Goldring also served as a member of the Organizing Committee for the 2nd International Conference on Osetoimmunology in Rhodes, Greece. He received the Paul Klemperer Award and Medal, and gave the 21st Paul Klemperer Lecture on "Pathology Teaches Physiology." The honor is presented by the New York Chapter of the Arthritis Foundation and New York Academy of Medicine to an individual for outstanding achievements and contributions to the study of connective tissues and their diseases. This is considered one of the most prestigious awards in the area of musculoskeletal disease.

Michael D. Lockshin, MD, received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the New York Chapter of Arthritis Foundation. The Foundation noted of Dr. Lockshin it is the "...rare combination of being enthusiastic mentor and trusted colleague while integrating science and medicine that has made you such an important part of the rheumatology community-and a perfect candidate for the Chapter's Lifetime Achievement Award." Also, Dr. Lockshin was an invited speaker at the EuroLupus Project meeting and served on the Advisory Committee for the7th European Lupus Congress both held in Amsterdam. HE was also an invited speaker at the European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) meeting in Paris.

Timothy Wright, PhD, served on a special study section to review grant applications for NIAMS Musculoskeletal Diseases Research Core Centers. Also, Dr. Wright was invited participant in the NIAMS Musculoskeletal Biology and Diseases Roundtable held in Bethesda, MD. The roundtable is one of five designed to inform the development of NIAMS' new Long-Range Plan for fiscal years 2010-2014. Dr. Wright lectured at the Maine Orthopaedic Review Course and directed a four-day continuing education course on musculoskeletal biomechanics, held in Lake Placid, NY, sponsored by Cornell University.  In addition, Dr. Wright was invited to join the faculty for the Inaugural Education Conference of the International Congress for Joint Reconstruction in Orlando, FL.