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Christopher S. Ahmad, MD is Associate Professor of Clinical Orthopaedic Surgery at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York and an Associate Attending Orthopaedic Surgeon at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center. Dr. Ahmad has held many leadership positions, including Head Team Physician for the New York Yankees, Chief of Adolescent and Pediatric Sports Medicine and Director of Biomechanics Research at the Center for Orthopaedic Research.
Dr. Ahmad has received many awards for outstanding research in the field of sports medicine. |
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Nicholas U. Ahn, MD is Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, an Attending Orthopaedic Surgeon at University Hospitals of Cleveland and Director of Spine Surgery at Service Louis Stokes Veterans Administration Medical Center in Cleveland. Dr. Ahn has held many leadership positions, including Member of the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery Task Force Committee (Spine).
Dr. Ahn has garnered professional honors, including induction into American Orthopaedic Association (AOA), 2009; Teacher of the Year Award, 2005-2006, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery; Winner, 2nd Place, Best Resident Paper (co-author), Cleveland Orthopaedic Society, Cleveland, OH, 2006; Winner, 3rd Place, Best Resident paper (senior author), Cervical Spine Research Society, San Diego, 2005; Winner, Best Fellow paper award (senior author), Cervical Spine Research Society, San Diego, 2005. |
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Louis C. Almekinders, MD is a Professor at Duke University Health System in Durham, North Carolina. Dr. Almekinders has held leadership positions in several professional societies, including Founder and Managing Partner of the North Carolina Orthopaedic Clinic, Program Chair for the AOSSM Annual Meeting in Quebec City and for the North Carolina Orthopaedic Association.
Dr. Almekinders has garnered professional honors, including William Patton Award 1989 for most outstanding teaching resident presented by University of North Carolina; Nathan A. Womack Award 1989 for most outstanding surgical resident presented by University of North Carolina; Teacher's Cup Musculoskeletal Course, 1991, University of North Carolina; AOSSM/ESSKA European Traveling Fellowship; New Investigator Award of the American College of Sports MedicineBest paper Annual AOSSM meeting, Palm Desert, CA; AOSSM Outstanding Service Award. |
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Paul M. Apyan, MD is Associate Professor at the University of Tennessee College of Medicine. Dr. Apyan’s leadership positions include serving on the Medical Legal Committee within the American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons. He was also a Fellow for the AO/Association for the Study of Internal Fixation.
Dr. Apyan has garnered professional honors, including 2009 Chattanooga Sports Hall of Fame, Fred Gregg Award - Outstanding Contribution Supporting Community Athletics; 2002 Research Advocate, Associate Level, The Arthritis Foundation;1996 'Eye on Alumni' from Miami University, Oxford OH; 1995 Outstanding Alumnus Award, Lincoln Junior High School; 1992 Outstanding Orthopedic Faculty Award, Department of Orthopedics, UT College of Medicine, Chattanooga Unit; 1989 Outstanding Orthopedic Faculty Award, Department of Orthopedics, UT College of Medicine, Chattanooga Unit. |
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April D. Armstrong, BSc (PT), MD, MSc, FRCSC is an Associate Professor at Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center in Hershey, Pennsylvania. Dr. Armstrong has held many leadership positions, including Director of Orthopaedic Resident Research and Associate Director of the Division of Musculoskeletal Sciences at Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center.
Dr. Armstrong has garnered professional honors, including Young Clinical Investigators Award 2006; Bone & Joint Decade, USA/Canada; OREF Zimmer Career Development Award 2007; 'Failure Mechanisms of a Posterior 'step-design' glenoid component'; AOA Emerging Leaders Program (ELP) 2007; American Orthopaedic Association; ASES Exchange Fellowship Program 2009; American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons. |
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Leon S. Benson, MD is Professor of Clinical Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine in Glenview, Illinois. Dr. Benson has held several leadership positions, including Chief of the Section of Hand Surgery and Vice President of the Medical Staff at NorthShore University HealthSystem, and Associate Editor of JBJS, American Volume. Dr. Benson has garnered professional honors, including Accepted into Leadership Fellows Program of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, Class of 2005-2006. Scientific Exhibit Awarded “Best Presentation and Layout” at the 55th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Surgery of the Hand, October. |
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Robert Bielski, MD is an Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago in Illinois. Dr. Bielski has held many leadership positions, including Board Examiner for the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery and a Reviewer for both the Journal of the American Medical Association and the Journal of Foot and Ankle Surgery.
Dr. Bielski has garnered professional honors, including Clinical Teaching Award, Loyola University, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, 1999 and 2004; Gerald Laros Teaching Award, University of Chicago, Division of Orthopaedic Surgery, 2009. |
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Christopher M. Bono, MD is Chief of the Orthopaedic Spine Service at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. Dr. Bono has held various leadership positions, including NASS Chair of the Evidence-Based Guideline Development Committee, Board Member and Deputy Editor of The Spine Journal, JAAOS Deputy Editor, and AAOS Chair of the Adult Spine Education Sub-Committee.
Dr. Bono has garnered professional honors, including Best Paper (Resident Category), CSRS. |
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| Paul M. Caskey, MD is Chief of Staff at Shriners Hospital for Children in Spokane Washington. Dr. Caskey has held several leadership positions, including Chairman of Decade of Bone & Joint Committee for the Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America and a Member of the United States Bone & Joint Decade Committee. |
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| Bruce E. Cohen, MD is the Foot and Ankle Fellowship Director at the OrthoCarolina Foot and Ankle Clinic Institute in Charlotte. Dr. Cohen has held several leadership positions, including the American Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society Chairman of the Young Physicians Section and Member of the Nominating Committee, and Co-Editor of Techniques in Foot and Ankle Surgery. |
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Patrick M. Connor, MD is a doctor at the Shoulder and Elbow Center within the SportsMedicine Center at OrthoCarolina, in Charlotte, North Carolina. Dr. Connor has held several leadership positions, including current President and Executive Committee member of the NFL Physicians Society and Chairman of the Board of Directors at OrthoCarolina Research Institute.
Dr. Connor has garnered professional honors, including Charlotte’s Top Doctors 2008, Charlotte Magazine, July 2008; Charlotte’s Top Doctors 2007, Charlotte Magazine, July 2007; North Carolina’s Best Doctors 2007, Business North Carolina Magazine, July 2007; Charlotte’s Top Doctors 2006, Charlotte Magazine, July 2006; America’s Top Surgeons 2006, Consumers’ Research Council of America, July 2006; Honorary Chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, 2005; Physicians’ Advisory Board of North Carolina, a Congressional Appointment by Congressman Tom Reynolds, Chairman, National Republican Congressional Committee, 2004 – 2005; Community Award of Excellence, Arthritis Foundation of the Carolinas, 2001. |
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Donald F. D’Alessandro, MD is an Associate at OrthoCarolina in Charlotte, North Carolina. Dr. D’Alessandro has held several leadership positions, including Chief for the Division of Sports Medicine and Shoulder Surgery at Carolinas Medical Center.
Dr. D’Alessandro has garnered professional honors, including Educational Video Awards in 2008, 1995 and 1990, AAOS; 2009 and 2007 Top Doctors by Charlotte City Magazine; Distinguished Volunteer of the Year Award, Charlotte Country Day; Walt Disney Service Award, Shrine Bowl of the Carolinas; Charles S. Neer Award Nomination for Shoulder Research Project, AAOS; Sports Medicine Person of the Year Award, NC Athletic Trainers Association; Frank E. Stinchfield Award, NYOH; Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society. |
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Charles M. Davis, III, MD, PhD is an Associate Professor at the Penn State College of Medicine at Milton S. Hershey Medical Center in Hershey, Pennsylvania. Dr. Davis has held several leadership positions, including Chief of the Hip and Knee Joint Arthroplasty Division at Penn State Hershey Bone and Joint Institute and Chairman of the AAHKS Research Committee. |
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John A. Davis, Jr., MD is Director of the Spine Program and Residency Program Director at Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans. Dr. Davis has held several leadership positions, including Medical Executive Representative and a Member of the Board of Trustees for the Spine and Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation.
Dr. Davis has garnered professional honors, including Maurice Saltzman Award, Mt. Sinai Health Care Foundation, 2004; Collaborating Faculty Member, NeuroControl Corporation and Case Western Reserve University, 2000; Acorda Award, Acorda Therapeutics of Hawthorne, New York for “Clinical Performance of a Surgically Implanted Neuroprosthesis for Exercise, Standing, Transfers, and Upright Mobility”, 2000; Outstanding Orthopaedic Intern Award, Louisiana State University, 1988-1989; Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society, Phi Delta Epsilon Medical Fraternity, Louisiana State University, 1984-1988; Oral Pathology Award from American Academy of Oral Pathology; Student Government 1979 - 1983; Vice President 1982-1983; Social Chairman 1979-1980; Intramural Sports Coordinator 1982-1983. |
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