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UT Health Orthopaedics Faculty well represented at 2019 PAOS Conference
September 3, 2019
Over the five day PAOS conference hosted at the JW Marriott in San Antonio Hill Country, our faculty represented well in hot topic talks to over 420 Physician Assistants in Orthopedic Surgery. Other topics not pictured here. Ravi Karia, MD – Hip Fractures: Treatment Options in the Elderly Patient Rajiv Rajani, MD – Soft Tissue […]
Charles A. Rockwood, Jr., MD, FAOA: Acknowledged as an AOA Pillar of the Orthopaedic Profession
June 3, 2019
Charles A. Rockwood, Jr., MD, FAOA is being honored as an AOA Pillar of the Orthopaedic Profession for his tremendous contributions to orthopaedic surgery. The effort to recognize Dr. Rockwood was led by Bernard F. Morrey, MD, FAOA with the generous support of many colleagues, friends, and the Alamo Orthopaedic Society, that includes several of […]
Own Your Bones – Osteoporosis and Fragility Fractures
June 3, 2019
We’re accustomed to the idea of encouraging good diets and activity in children to “grow strong bones,” but we tend to think of adult bone as a static framework that holds up our flesh. It’s not static, and we need to take care of it to avoid fragility fractures and osteoporosis as we age. “People […]
Dr. Buttacavoli Medical Honoree for 2019 Arthritis Walk at UT Health San Antonio.
May 7, 2019
Dr. Buttacavoli addresses the crowd at the 2019 Arthritis Walk at UT Health San Antonio. Dr. Buttacavoli chats with participants at the 2019 Arthritis Walk at UT Health San Antonio.
Phillip A. Deffer, Sr., M.D. Endowed Lectureship with distinguished speaker Theodore W. Parsons, III, MD
April 23, 2019
Orthopaedics Chair Robert H. Quinn, MD presents plaque to Theodore W. Parsons, III, MDFarhan Ahmad, second year medical student, represents UT Health San Antonio’s Department of Orthopedic Surgery at this years AAOS annual meeting in Las Vegas
April 8, 2019
A second year medical student, Farhan Ahmad, represents UT Health San Antonio’s Department of Orthopedic Surgery at this years American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgery’s annual meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada. His scientific presentation “Skin and Bones” was co-authored by another medical student – Kavina Patel, Sandra Osswald, MD from the Department of Dermatology and Marc […]
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March 20, 2019
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Kavina Patel Derm Wannabe presenting for UT Health March 2019
March 4, 2019
Kavina Patel MS2 – from the UT Health San Antonio Long School of Medicine – presents on behalf of the Dept. of Dermatology and the Dept. of Orthopaedic Surgery at the American Academy of Dermatology National Meeting in Washington D.C. She presented three posters reviewing common clinical patterns to improve diagnostic skills where orthopaedics and […]
Vaida Glatt, PhD, Assistant Professor of Orthopaedics, published article in Gait and Posture.
February 20, 2019
Vaida Glatt, PhD, Assistant Professor of Orthopaedics, published “The relationship between gait and functional outcomes in patients treated with circular external fixation for malunited tibial fractures” in Gait and Posture.