Gelberman: Hand and wrist surgeon
By Jim Dryden
March 9, 2001
The head of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery was elected the new president of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgery, the largest medical organization of its type in the world.
Richard H. Gelberman, M.D., the Fred C. Reynolds Professor and head of orthopaedic surgery, became president of the 25,500-member academy March 2 at its 68th annual meeting in San Francisco.
Gelberman: Hand and wrist surgeon |
He has been a member of the academy since 1981 and has served on more than a dozen of its committees and task forces. Most recently, he had been one of the organization's vice presidents.
As president, he plans to initiate a new program designed to improve musculoskeletal care for the public through better education for doctors.
"We hope to improve care for the population, better educate orthopaedic surgeons and improve the efficiency and effectiveness of orthopaedic practices," Gelberman said.
Gelberman also is chief of hand and wrist surgery and director of the medical school's hand and upper extremity fellowship training program. He also is orthopaedic surgeon-in-chief at Barnes-Jewish and St. Louis Children's hospitals.
Gelberman has had support from the National Institutes of Health since 1976 for his research on dense regular connective tissue. He also has research interests in radius fractures, carpal instability and nerve injuries.
He is the author of more than 200 scientific manuscripts and has received numerous awards for his research, including the Kappa Delta, Nicolas Andry, Emanuel Kaplan, Sumner Koch and Marshall Urist awards.
Gelberman is a former vice president of the American Society for Surgery of the Hand and has served on numerous executive committees for several national and international academic orthopaedic associations.
He is a member of the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery, the American Orthopaedic Association, the Association of Bone and Joint Surgeons, the Orthopaedic Research Society and the Academic Orthopaedic Society. He also is an honorary member of the Mexican Orthopaedic Association, the Canadian Orthopaedic Research Society and the Swiss Society for Surgery of the Hand.
He has served on the editorial boards of several medical publications and is a former associate editor of the Journal of Hand Surgery. He also serves as a reviewer for the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery and the Journal of Orthopaedic Research.
He came to the medical school in 1995 as the first head of the then-new Department of Orthopaedic Surgery. Prior to his arrival in St. Louis, Gelberman had been a professor of orthopaedic surgery at Harvard University Medical School and chief of the Hand Surgery Service at Massachusetts General Hospital.
He received an undergraduate degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1965 and a medical degree from the University of Tennessee in Memphis in 1969. Gelberman was an intern at the University of Southern California. He completed his orthopaedic surgery residency at the University of Wisconsin. He also completed a fellowship in hand and microvascular surgery at Duke University Medical Center and a fellowship in pediatric orthopaedics at Boston Children's Hospital.
The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons is an organization that provides education programs for orthopaedic surgeons, allied health professionals and the public.
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