89th Annual Meeting

The 89th Annual Meeting was held on November 15 – 16, 2007 at HSS and featured lectures, debates, and symposia on a variety of musculoskeletal topics.

Distinguished guest faculty included:

Surgeon-in-Chief Pro-Tempore
Michael Millis, MD
Associate Professor, Clinical Orthopedic Surgery
Director, Adolescent and Young Adult Hip Unit
Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts

Physician-in-Chief Pro-Tempore
Lars Klareskog, MD
Professor and Chairman, Rheumatology Clinic and Rheumatology Research Unit,
Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

Chief Scientist Pro-Tempore
Linda Sandell, PhD
Professor, Department of Cell Biology and Physiology
Professor and Director of Research, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri

Chitranjan Ranawat, MD was awarded the 2007 Distinguished Alumnus Award. 

Alumni reconnected during the annual Cocktail Reception on  and the Opera Gala Benefit at New York City Opera’s performance of Cendrillon (Cinderella).

Laurence Higgins, MD (Resident 1997) and David Altchek, MD (Resident 1987) gave updates on their fellow classmates during the 10 and 20 year reunion class presentations.