Hand
Section, AOAO
Annual
Breakfast Meeting
Chicago,
Illinois
SPONSOR: Tri-Med Fracture-Fragment-Specific Fixation
System (Distal Radius Fractures)
I. Call to Order—7:00 a.m. by President Dr.
Scott Fried
Present:
Drs. Ames, Bamberger, Barbosa, Bobb, Borman, Burke,
Cameron, Fried, Fritz, Grady, Halter,
Heithoff, Hill, Holen, Howard,
Kelly, Martin, Moretta, Smith, Vela
II. Approval of Minutes 9/21/03—Orlando: Approved
III. Secretary-Treasurer Report
A.
Finances 1/1/04 Balance
$7050.00
B. Membership Status
1. Active members 62
2. Candidate members 19
B. Resident Paper Awards
This year’s winners—Wright Medical Technology
First place $500.00
Randa
Bascharon, D.O.
St.
James Hospital & Med Center—Olympia Fields
Four-Corner Arthrodesis: A
Comparison of Two Fixation
Techniques
Second place
$300.00
Brian
Chalkin, D.O.
Tulsa
Regional Medical Center
Thumb
Carpometacarpal Joint Tendon Interposition—Results of a
Simplified Technique
C. ASSH Poster presentations
were:
Poster #4 Brian Chalkin, D.O.—Tulsa, Oklahoma—“Thumb
CMC Joint APL Tendon Interposition
Arthritis: Results of Simplified Technique”.
Poster #40 Laslo Harmat, D.O—Cleveland Clinic—“Treatment
of Non-united Scaphoid Fractures Using Internal Fixation Alone”.
Poster #62—Steven Heithoff,
D.O.—Port Huron, Michigan—“Distal Radius Fractures Treated with ORIF Using the
Synthes Pi Plate”.
Poster #71—Gamal A. Elsaidi,
D.O.—Winston-Salem--“Alterations in Gene Expression of Acetylcholine Receptor
Subtypes Following Botulinum Toxin A Injection in Juvenile Rats”.
Poster #89—Michael Powers,
D.O.—Cleveland Clinic—“Radiocapitellar Synovitis 2 degrees to Recalcitant
Lateral Epicondylitis”.
D. AOAO Hand Section scientific
paper award winners were:
First Place—Rory Dunham, D.O.—Oklahoma City—“Primary
Semi-Constrained Arthroplasty for Unreduced Posterior Dislocations of the Elbow”
Second Place—Michael Bagley, D.O.—Mt.
Clemens—“Tendon Injuries in the Industrial Setting”
Honorable Mention—Tony Liang-Ku Chien,
D.O.—Bi-County Hospital—“Trans-Scaphoid Perilunate Fracture Dislocation Treated
with Open Reduction and Internal Fixation with Internal Distraction Plate”
IV. Website Report, Dr. Brent Bamberger WEB
SITE: www.aoaohand.net
A. New website contract with
Bonnie Campbell, Port Huron, MI
B. Please e-mail HYPERLINK “mail to: bbamberger@wright.edu if you notice problems
or irregularities.
V. Old
Business
A. CAQ/ASSH update
Electronic presentations on
disc--2002 presentations produced on CD and will be
coordinated by Dr. Roger
Cameron.
VI. New
Business
A. Program Chairmen are reminded to keep a slot
for the resident paper winner.
B. 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.
C.
Officer Election: Dr. Pat
Williams was elected as third Vice-President
(pending his acceptance
and commitment). He will be in charge of the 2006
meeting. Dr. Brent Bamberger was elected as
Secretary-Treasurer. The
current officers are:
President:
Stefan Zachary, D.O.—Madison, WI
1st VP:
Mark Trzeciak, D.O.—Columbus, OH (2004 meeting)
2nd VP:
Nadir Paksima, D.O.—New York, NY (2005 meeting)
3rd VP:
Pat Williams, D.O.—Erie, PA (2006 meeting)
Secretary-Treasurer—H. Brent Bamberger, D.O.
D. New members of ASSH are Gregory Hill, D.O.
and Mark Trzeciak, D.O.
E. Effective January 2005, all communication to
members will be done
electronically.
Respectfully
Submitted,
H.
Brent Bamberger, D.O.
Secretary-Treasurer