Dr. Kalia Sadasivan, MD, will serve as Visiting Professor in the Department of Orthopaedics at Louisiana State University in Shreveport on September 3-4, 2009.

While serving as visiting professor, Dr. Sadasivan will also present two lectures:

• "Polytrauma"

• "Ankle Fractures in the Elderly"

Congratulations to several of our OSMI faculty on their new promotions:

• Dr. Steve Ghivizzani has been promoted to professor with tenure

• Dr. Parker Gibbs has been granted tenure

• Dr. Richard Vlasak has been promoted to Associate Professor

Kevin R. Vincent, PhD and Heather K. Vincent, PhD, recently presented at the American College of Sports Medicine 56^th Annual Meeting. The conference was held in Seattle, Washington and took place during May 27-30, 2009.

Dr. Kevin Vincent presented the following talk while attending the conference:

• May 29: "Evaluation and Treatment of Exertional Leg Pain: Evidence-Based Practice"

Dr. Heather Vincent presented the following talk while attending the conference:

• May 28: "Obesity Is Associated With Lumbar Pain Related Fear Of Movement And Self Reported Mobility Impairment"

For more information about this conference, please visit the American College of Sports Medicine website.

The Spine Division is pleased to announce that Dr. Robert Decker is slated to join the OSMI in the fall of 2009. Dr. Decker trained at Emory Healthcare in Atlanta for his Orthopaedic residency, and is completing additional specialized training in surgical spine at The University of California.

Spine services at the OSMI will be among the most comprehensive and unique in the region offering therapeutic, interventional and surgical offerings for the entire patient spectrum - pediatrics to adult.

The OSMI Sports Medicine division was well represented at the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine (AMSSM) 18^th Annual Meeting help in Tampa, Florida during April 25-29, 2009.

Dr. Padilla, a primary care Sports Medicine Fellow presented a scientific poster and then was an integral member of the winning fellow quiz bowl team. This year’s South team beat the North 10-2 in the final round.

Former OSMI Fellows Dr. Heath Hale and Dr. Bryan Prine (Lake City Musculoskeletal and Sports Medicine Center) also attended this year’s AMSSM Meeting.

Visit the AMSSM's website for more information on this year’s conference.

The Annual Health Science Center Service Pin Awards recognize employees serving from 5 years to 35 years of continuous service to UF. The 2008-2009 Service Pin Award Ceremony is scheduled for Tuesday, May 5, 2009, at 1:30 p.m. in the HPNP Auditorium. All HSC employees are invited to attend and join in recognizing this year’s award recipients.

The following OSMI staff members are being recognized at this ceremony for their continuous service:

• Maura Jacob: 5 years

• Buffy Feagle: 10 years

• Steve Stripling: 10 years

• Butch Landsiedel: 20 years

Congratulations to our award recipients and thanks to all of our dedicated OSMI faculty and staff.

Deenesh T. Sahajpal, MD, will serve as course faculty for the upcoming DJO Surgical Training Workshop on Reverse Shoulder Prosthesis.

This unique training workshop will take place on May 8^th, 2009 at the Orthopaedic Learning Center located in Rosemont, Illinois.

Dr. DJ Kennedy, MD, is slated to join OSMI this upcoming summer as a new Assistant Professor in the Physical Medicine Division. Dr. Kennedy completed his residency in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the University of Washington Rehabilitation Program.

At present, Dr. Kennedy is completing specialized fellowship training in the latest techniques in internventional spine at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago.

The May 2009 edition of the iNSIGHTS publication is now available online. This edition’s highlights include:

• A Letter from the Chair

• An Alumni Update

• New Physicians Spotlight on Research

• Running Medicine

Be sure to download and read the May 2009 inSIGHTS publication.

Dr. Peter Indelicato, MD, has been invited to be to be the President’s Distinguished Guest Speaker at the Alabama Orthopaedic Society’s Annual Meeting on April 23-26, 2009.

For information about this annual event, visit the AOS Meeting website.

Dr. Peter Indelicato, MD, has been invited to be a guest speaker at the Biennial Meeting of the Alamo Orthopaedic Society on April 17-19, 2009 in San Antonio, Texas.

Dr. Peter Indelicato, MD, was chosen as the 2009 New York Medical College Alumni Initiate by the New York Iota Chapter of Alpha Omega Alpha, the National Honor Medical Society.

You can learn more about this honor by reading The February 2009 Issue of NYMC inTouch Newsletter. The online article on page 5 is entitled, "Former Health Secretary will speak at AOA lecture."

The 9th Annual Hands to Love Congenital Hand Camp took place this past weekend, running from Friday March 27, 2009 through Sunday, March 29, 2009. The camp has focused on helping patients adjust to a congenital condition occurring in one of every 5,000 births in which a person is born with abnormalities of the hands, arms or fingers.

The Independent Florida Alligator has a feature article on this year’s camp: "Camp helps children gain self–confidence through activities."

CNN.Com also has a feature article on this year’s camp: "Hand Camp gives kids a chance to play -- away from stares."

Hands to Love was founded by Dr. Paul Dell, MD, and his wife Ruthie in the year 2000. For more information, please visit the Hands to Love and Congenital Hand Camp websites.

The Motion Lab was recently featured on the University of Florida hompage in an article entitled, "UF athletes excel on the field – and in a laboratory." This same article was also featured in the Independent Florida Alligator.

The Motion Lab was also featured in two different articles in . You can read these articles online in the Spring 2009 Issue of the Florida Engineer, or check out a downloadable PDF copy.

• Article 1: "Helping Tebow Throw," on Page 8

• Article 2: "Florida Tomorrow: Engineering Florida’s Economic Future," on Page 42

The OSMI Trauma Division recently announced its receipt of a $100,000 educational corporate gift in support of post-doctoral training in psychology and its impact on trauma care.

The gift will support the hiring of an annual post-doctoral fellowship in psychology, with a focus on trauma care.

Dr. Thomas Wright, MD, was recently invited by to serve as Visiting Professor for the Indiana Hand Center.

This invitation was presented by the Center’s own Dr. Jeffrey A. Greenberg, MD, who specializes in surgery of the wrist and shoulder. Dr. Wright will serve as the Visiting Professor for the Indiana Hand Center on Monday, April 27, 2009.

Deenesh T. Sahajpal, MD, is slated to serve as presenter at the 2009 Arthroscopy Association of North America Annual Conference.

This year’s AANA Conference takes place during April 30 - May 3, 2009 in San Diego, California.

For more information regarding the AANA Annual Conference, you can download this year’s program.

Deenesh T. Sahajpal, MD is performing a computer assisted reverse total shoulder on March 18th, 2009.

This unique surgical technique is believed to be one of the first performed in the southeast United States utilizing technology with such a technically complex surgical procedure.

Some references for this procedure can be found on the Praxim website.

Kevin R. Vincent, PhD and Heather K. Vincent, PhD, recently presented at the Association of Academic Physiatrists Annual Conference. The conference was held in Colorado Springs, Colorado and took place during February 24-28, 2009.

Dr. Kevin Vincent presented the following talks while attending the conference:

• February 27: "Exercise Science for the Physiatrist"

• February 28: "Evaluation and Treatment of the Injured Runner: Focus on Exertional Leg Pain"

Dr. Heather Vincent presented the following talk while attending the conference:

• February 27: "Obesity, Exercise and Nutritional Considerations in PM&R"

For more information about this conference, please visit the Association of Academic Physiatrists website.

Dr. Peter Indelicato and Dr. Michael Moser are slated to present on shoulder and knee injuries at the Southern Orthopaedic Association’s 2009 SEC Sports Medicine Symposium. This event takes place during March 12-14, 2009 during the SEC Basketball Tournament.

For more information, please visit the Southern Orthopaedic Association website.

Heather K. Vincent, PhD, has been named a "United States Bone and Joint Decade (USBJD)" scholar as a member of the "Young Investigators Initiative and Workshop Program". She will also attend the Bone and Joint Decade Global Network Conference to be held in Washington D.C. October 21-24, 2009.

The USBJD Research Committee offers a program consisting of workshops and mentoring to provide early-career clinical investigators an opportunity to work with experienced researchers in our field to assist them in securing funding and other survival skills required for pursuing an academic career.

This program of workshops and mentoring is open to promising junior faculty or senior fellows or post-doctoral researchers that have been nominated by their department or division chairs. It is also open to senior fellows or residents that are doing research and have a faculty appointment in place or confirmed. The workshops take place in the Spring and in the Fall. The unique aspect of this program is the opportunity for attendees to maintain a relationship with a mentor until their application is funded.

Dr. Paul C. Dell, Chief of Hand Surgery and Congenital Hand Expert, has committed to saving a young Haitian boy’ hand from a congenital defect.

You can learn more about this young boy’s plight and Dr. Dell’s proposed solution by visiting the WPTV Newschannel 5 website.

Updated Jan 22, 2009
New Article from: WCJB TV 20 Gainesville, FL

Deenesh T. Sahajpal, MD, has been chosen as the winner of the 2009 American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons Research Grant in the amount of $20,000.

Dr. Sahajpal’s award winning proposal was entitled, "Kinematics Assessment and Electromyographic Analysis of Patients with Reverse Total Shoulder Arthroplasty."

The OSMI Motion Lab and Gator Engineers have helped Tim Tebow improve his pass.

From the article:

Florida quarterback Tim Tebow’s success on football fields across the country -- and possibly his performance at Dolphin Stadium in Thursday’s BCS National Championship Game -- may have some roots in a 2,500-square-foot room with 14 video cameras, two developing cutting-edge robots and a group of UF Gator Engineers.

You can read the full article online, or download/view a PDF of the article.

A recent Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) report from a national survey found that 83% of University of Florida medical school graduates ranked the clerkships in Rehabilitation and Geriatric Care provided satisfactory training and appropriate dedicated time in the education of rehabilitation medicine and geriatric medicine. The AAMC national average was 63% for all medical schools.

Dr. James Atchison, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Division Chair, noted that "this recognition by the students we educate, is a positive affirmation of our programs committment to excellence in education." The physical medicine and rehabilitation division provides a wide array of musculoskeletal services at OSMI as well as the Shands Rehabilitation Hospital.