April 1997 AAOS Report
Names in the news
George E. Omer Jr., MD, received the Bernard S. Rodey Award
from the University of New Mexico School of Medicine's Department
of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation . . . David P. Green, MD,
was awarded the 1997 Distinguished Alumnus of the New York Orthopaedic
Hospital . . . Ann M. Babbitt, MD, received the Physician
of the Year award from the International Society for Clinical
Densitometry . . . The Orthopaedic Research Society elected Richard
A. Brand Jr., MD, president; Dwight T. Davy, PhD, president-elect;
Steve A. Goldstein, PhD, secretary; John H. Healey,
MD, treasurer; and Harry E. Rubash, MD, treasurer-elect
. . . New officers of the Knee Society are W. Norman Scott,
MD, president; James A. Rand, MD, first vice president;
Kenneth A. Krackow, MD, second vice president; Thomas
Thornhill, MD, third vice president; Russell E. Windsor,
MD, secretary; Gerard A. Engh, MD, treasurer; and Robert
Booth, MD and Giles Scuderi, MD, members-at-large .
. . The American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons elected
Merrill A. Ritter, MD, president; Richard H. Rothman,
MD, first vice president; James A. Rand, MD, second
vice president; Richard B. Welch, MD, third vice president;
John J. Callaghan, MD, secretary; Clifford W. Colwell
Jr., MD, treasurer; and Brian F. Kavanagh, MD; David
G. Lewallen, MD; James T. Caillouette, MD; and Harry
E. Rubash, MD, members-at-large.