January 1998 AAOS Report
Names in the news
Lawrence C. Hurst, MD, has been appointed chairman,
department of orthopaedics at the State University of New York
at Stony Brook . . . The trustees of Columbia University, New York, N.Y.,
have established the Robert E. Carroll, MD Professorship in Surgery of the
Hand in the department of orthopaedic surgery at the College of Physicians
and Surgeons . . . Peter J. Fowler, MD, received the Lifetime Achievement
Award of the Bay Area Knee Society in San Francisco . . .
Howard S. An, MD,
has been named the inaugural holder of the Morton International Chair for
Spine Research at Rush University, Chicago . . . The Academic Orthopaedic
Society elected Michael A. Simon, MD, president;
Edward N. Hanley Jr., MD,
first vice president; Michael G. Ehrlich, MD, second vice president; and
Michael J. Goldberg, MD, secretary-treasurer.