MEETING MINUTES

SPONSOR:Tri-Med Fracture-Fragment-Specific Fixation System (Distal Radius Fractures).

I. Call to Order, 7:00am by President Dr. James Kelly

Present: Members: Ames, Bamberger, Barbosa, Bobb, Borman, Burke, Cameron, Fried, Fritz, Grady, Halter, Heithoff, Hill, Holen, Howard, Kelly, Martin, Moretta, Smith, Vela.

Dr. Mortin Morris, Executive Director of the AOAO, spoke on several topics, including;

1. Next year’s Hand Surgery Section will be moved to Sunday at Section’s request to avoid conflict with ASSH meeting.

2. AOAO is at the service of the Hand Surgery Section.

3. Along those lines, the Section requested assistance in collecting annual dues by adding a checkbox to the main statement from the AOAO, and then forwarding that money to the section.

II. Approval Minutes 10/7/01, Palm Desert: Approved

III. Secr. /Treas. Report

A. Finances, 7/31/02

1. Balance $6058.32

B. Membership Status

1. Roster 64 Members

2. Candidates 16

C. Resident Paper Awards

This year’s winners; Wright Medical Technology

First Place $500.00

Rex Cooley, D.O.

Doctors Hospital of Stark County,

“Radiation Exposure in Mini C-Arm Fluoroscopy”

Second Place $300.00

Eric Hedlund, D.O.,

Mt. Clemens General Hospital,

“Ulnar Shortening Osteotomy for the Treatment of Triangular Fibrocartilage Complex Tears and Ulnar Impaction Syndrome.”

IV. Webmaster Report, Dr. Brent Bamberger WEB SITE: www.aoaohand.net

A. New website contract with Bonnie Swegles, Port Huron, MI

B. Please email heithoff@tir.com if you notice any problems or irregularities.

V. Old Business

A. CAQ/ASSH Update

A. Certificates finally mailed out!!

B. Electronic Presentations on Disc. 2001 presentations produced on CD and distributed to section. 2002 plans for the same

VI. New Business

A. Guest Speaker Honorarium

1. The Section voted to give Dr. Peter Amadio an additional $500.00 honorarium, and to continue supplementing our guest speakers in a similar fashion.

B. Program Chairmen are reminded to keep a slot for the Resident Paper Winner.

C. Dr. Roger Cameron, speaking from an AOAO Board of Directors viewpoint, reminded the section to make sure those who are elected as Vice Presidents have the interest and motivation to put together a quality program

D. As a service to our Program Chairmen, guidelines for putting together a successful program will be written up by Drs. Bamberger & Heithoff.

E. Discussion was undertaken regarding the advantage of having all speakers load talks on a single laptop at the breakfast meeting to be used in morning program.

F. Officer Election. Dr. Nadir Paksima was elected as third Vice President (pending his acceptance and commitment). He will be in charge of the 2005 meeting. Therefore, the current officers are:

President: Scott Fried, D.O., E. Norriton, PA

1^st VP: Stefan Zachary, D.O., Madison, WI (2003 Meeting)

2nd VP: Mark Trzeciak, D.O., Columbus, OH 2004 Meeting)

3^rd VP: Nadir Paksima, D.O. New York City (2005 Meeting)

Respectively Submitted,

Steven J. Heithoff, D.O.

Secr. /Treas. Hand Section, AOAO