Awards and Accolades

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1950's
Abraham L. Rivelis, MD (1958) was awarded a gold medal by the University of Buenos Aires for the Best Doctoral Thesis.  He was the first abroad member to be inducted as an honorary member of Asia Pacific Rheumatology Society (APLAR).  He is a traveling research fellow of the Hospital for Special Surgery in 20 state of the art lectures in 165 cities of 65 countries in the Americas, Europe, Asia, and the Pacific.

William C. Robbins, MD (1957) served as Vice President for Environmental Education and Museum Curator at the Trout Lake Nature Center in Eustis, Florida for five years.

1960's
Harlan C. Amstutz, MD (1961) was awarded the Sixth Annual American Orthopaedic Association-Zimmer Award for Distinguished Contributions to Orthopaedics at the AOA's 120th Annual Meeting. Dr. Amstutz's career spanned the development of total hip replacement to the culmination of his design and research on hip resurfacing.  Along with the AOA-Zimmer Award, Dr. Amstutz had received numerous other awards for his contributions to orthopaedic education, research and science.

George E. Ehrlich, MD (Fellow 1961) received the Dr. Joseph L. Hollander Award from the Arthritis Foundation.

1970's
Charles Hamlin, MD (1972) received the 2007 ASSH Volunteer of the Year Award.  This honor was presented to Dr. Charles Hamlin by the Volunteer Service Committee of the American Society for Surgery of the Hand at the annual meeting. This notable award is given to a member who has made an exceptional commitment of volunteering time and surgical skills. Dr. Hamlin was recognized for his tremendous efforts with a volunteer hand service he has run at the Indian Health Hospital in Chinle, Arizona since 1994.  The clinic is located in the heart of the Navajo Reservation and is staffed 18 times a year, providing needed care for this unique community.  In 2001, Dr. Hamlin received the Humanitarian Award from the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons.

Tomihisa Koshino, MD (Fellow 1970) completed a monograph on knee surgeries for osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis.

1980's
Robert E. Atkinson, MD (Resident 1982) was appointed Director of the Orthopaedic Surgery Residency Program at the University of Hawaii.

Oheneba Boachie-Adjei (1986) received the 2006 Blount Award from the Scoliosis Research Society (SRS).  Dr. Boachie was nominated by his peers to receive this award which recognizes his humanitarian work.  He was also elected to serve as the SRS first Vice-President for 2008-2009.

Dirk H. Dugan, MD (1982) had been appointed as Orthopaedic Consultant to Cornell University Athletic Medicine and has been giving care to the football, hockey, lacrosse and other teams at the Ithaca campus.

Stuart C. Kozinn, MD (1987) has been appointed as Medical Director of the Scottsdale Healthcare Center for Joint Replacement in Scottsdale, Arizona.

1990's
G. Hadley Callaway, MD (1993) was recently inducted as president of the North Carolina Medical Society during its Annual Meeting.  Currently, Dr. Callaway is in private practice at Raleigh Orthopaedic Clinic and is a Clinical Instructor in Orthopaedic surgery at the UNC Chapel Hill School of Medicine.  In 2002, he was first elected to the North Carolina Medical Society board in 2002, and he is a past president of the Wake County Medical Society.

Jeffrey L. Hanway, MD (1993) left private in northern Virginia in 2006 to serve as Vice Chair for Clinical Affairs at Children's National Medical Center.

Paul E. Kovatis, MD (1996) recently was voted "Top Surgeon" by New Jersey Magazine for the 2007-2008 year.

Chris Miskovsky, MD (Resident 1997) and his wife, Jennifer Miskovsky, welcomed their daughter Sarah Elizabeth on June 23rd 2005.  He is in private practice in Corpus Christi, Texas, specializing in hand surgery.

Gac Murrell, MD (Fellow 1995) was awarded the 2005 NSW Sporting Injuries Committee FE Johnson Memorial Fellowship.  In 2006, he received the AOSSM Excellence in Research Award for his paper entitled "Clinical Studies of Topical Glyceryl Trinctrate Treatment in Chronice Tendinopathies."

William M. Ricci, MD (1997) received a 2007 ABC Traveling Fellowship from the American Orthopaedic Association (AOA).  Dr. Ricci is Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis where he specializes in orthopaedic trauma.  He serves on the Orthopaedic Trauma Association (OTA) Board of Directors and Education Committee, and on the AAOS OITE Evaluation Committee.  He is also co-chair of the 2007 OTA Annual Meeting Program Committee and Chair of the 2007 OTA Residents Fracture Course.

Stephanie Stephens, MD (1996) recently gave birth to her first child, Stephen James Murray on February 26, 2007.

2000's
Sheryl Handler, MD (Fellow 2005) had her second baby, Aiden Marcus Matasar, on September 24, 2005.

Brothers Timothy Johnson, MD (2002) and David Johnson, MD (2001) have recently established a new practice, the National Sports Medicine Institute, in suburban Washington, D.C.

Peter J. Millett, MD, M.Sc. (2000) leads the Musculoskeletal Proteomics research group at Harvard, who have made a pioneering breakthrough in osteoarthritis research by discovering a molecular "fingerprint" for osteoarthritis.  He is also an Associate Surgeon at the Steadman Hawkins clinic in Vail, Colorado.

Michael Ryan, MD (Fellow 2000) is the Director of Implant Surgery at Southern California Permanente Group San Diego, California.  He resides in Carlsbad, CA with his wife, Laurene, and two sons, Michael and James. Dr. Ryan competed as a member of a 5-man team in the 2005 Camp Pendelton Hard Corps Race Series 10 K mud run and was awarded first place.

Leslie Beasley Vidal, MD (Resident 2004) and her husband, Armando Vidal, had a baby boy, Maxwell Vidal, on June 17, 2005 and had their second child in August 2006.