Dear Friends and Colleagues:
It is the season of recruiting and interviewing. Our Department has hosted several “Meet & Greets” with applicants interested in our program. We have revised the website, and hope you like our new healthcare-specific secure cloud platform built to protect visitors to the site from unknowingly being infected/harmed while keeping it performing at maximum levels. It has the latest and greatest content: from bios to call schedules, conferences, and rotations.
Here is the update on the applications to our residency program. We received 685 applications this year for our five PGY-1 positions that begin July 1, 2021. We use a structured review process by faculty and chief residents to narrow the field. Interview invitations will be sent out on November 23rd. Virtual Interviews are scheduled for Friday, January 15, 2021.
In an effort to maintain part of our mission of community engagement and education, the University of Louisville Department of Orthopaedic Surgery will be hosting a virtual adult reconstruction lecture series. Be sure to join us on Thursday, November 19th at 8:00 pm ET featuring Dr Matthew Abdel from the Adult Reconstruction Division of the Mayo Clinic on “Extensor Mechanism Complications Following TKA.”
We miss our 2020 graduates, and are really proud of them. All passed their ABOS Part I Board Examination. They have gone on to the following fellowships: Christian Eccles, MD, Indiana University, Fishers, IN (Adult Reconstruction); Lauren Fader, MD, University of Virginia , Charlottesville, VA (Hand Surgery); Thomas Hsing, MD, Missouri Orthopaedic Institute, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO (Adult Reconstruction); Jeeshan Faridi, MD, Orthopaedic Research of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia (Sports Medicine/Arthroscopy).
Congratulations to all of the winners of the 2020 Fischer-Owen Resident Research Day awards:
- 1st Place ($500) Rashad Usmani, MD: "Effect of Tourniquet Use on Patient Outcomes in Cementless Robotic Total Knee Arthroplasty: A Randomized Controlled Trial"
- 2nd Place ($300) Austin Smith, MD: "Use of Opioid Pain Medication Prior to Total Knee Arthroplasty Impacts Incidence of Key Outcome Measures"
- 3rd Place ($200) Jarod Richards, MD: "Coronal Plane Fractures in Intercondylar Distal Femur Fractures: An Analysis of Incidence and Major Fracture Fragments"
Our end -of-the-year awards were as follows:
- James Baker, MD: O.J. Hurt Award for best score on the OITE (nearly perfect score);
- Lauren Protzer, MD: K. Armand Fischer Award for most improved OITE score;
- Lauren Fader, MD: Gerhard Kuntscher Award for the best 5th year resident teacher;
- Austin Smith, MD: Best 2019-2020 Research Award;
- Jiyao Zou, MD and Jennifer Brey, MD: for the Resident Teaching Awards for full-time and gratis faculty, respectively.
- James Baker, MD: Resident of the Year Award, for the resident who has achieved the highest level of exemplary performance and team commitment.
Like us, I am sure you cannot wait to go back to what life was like pre-Covid-19. Let us hope it won’t be far off and that we will see each other soon. Or at the latest, at the annual alumni meeting at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) San Diego meeting in 2021. Meanwhile, may you and yours be healthy, happy, and safe through the upcoming months.
Warmest personal regards,
Craig S. Roberts, MD, MBA
K. Armand Fischer Professor and Chair
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery