Orthopaedic surgeons bring healing to Haiti

Maureen Leahy

Orthopaedic surgeons responded overwhelmingly to the humanitarian need in Haiti resulting from the devastating earthquake that rocked the capital city of Port-au-Prince on Jan. 12, 2010. Within the first 48 hours, hundreds of AAOS fellows had contacted the Academy about volunteering, and scores more were working directly through their own institutions or local disaster aid organizations to organize medical missions.

Getting soldiers back into action

Jamie A. Gregorian

During the course of Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom, more than 80 percent of the 36,000 casualties sustained by U.S. military personnel have involved extremity trauma. Many of those injuries were inflicted by improvised explosive devices. That grim accounting was a focal point of the fifth annual Extremity War Injuries (EWI) symposium sponsored by the AAOS, the Orthopaedic Trauma Association (OTA), and the Society of Military Orthopaedic Surgeons, Jan. 27–29, 2010, in Washington, D.C.