Douglas R. Dirschl, MD
Dr. Dirschl will serve as AOA President from July 2011 - June
2012.
Dr. Douglas R. Dirschl has served as Professor and Chairman of
the University of North Carolina (UNC) Department of Orthopaedics
since 2003. Prior to that, he served as Chairman of Orthopaedics in
his home state of Oregon, at the Oregon Health and Science
University. Dr. Dirschl completed his residency training at UNC and
served eight years as a member of the UNC faculty. During this
time, Dr. Dirschl had additional duties as the executive
responsible for the operations of the multispecialty academic
practice located at WakeMed, the trauma center affiliated with
UNC.
He currently serves as Chairman of the AOA Own the Bone
Multidisciplinary Advisory Board and is past Chair of the AOA
Critical Issues Program and ABC Fellowship Committees. Past
additional AOA committee memberships include Fellowships
Coordination, Resident Leadership Forum and Academic Leadership. He
is a member of the AAOS and the Orthopaedic Trauma Association
(OTA), among other professional societies. He serves on numerous
committees for both the OTA in the areas of research, education,
evaluation, and clinical guidelines.
He received his Bachelor's in Chemical Engineering from Stanford
University and received his medical degree from Oregon Health
Sciences University, Portland, Oregon. Dr. Dirschl completed his
residency at University of North Carolina Hospitals, Chapel Hill,
and continued additional training within the Physicians' Medical
Management Program at Kenan-Flagler Graduate School of Business,
University of North Carolina.
Dr. Dirschl specializes in orthopaedic traumatology and general
orthopaedics. His research interests are in the areas of bone
mineral density following fracture, effects of fracture irrigation
on healing, evaluating and improving the reliability of orthopaedic
classification systems, long-term outcomes of tibial plafond
fractures, and evaluating and improving the process of selecting
orthopaedic residents.
