POSNA COUR International
Scholars
2007-2013
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1. Full name (and photo)
2. Current title, work location (since when)
3. Medical School and pediatric orthopaedic fellowship. (dates)
4. Clinical interests.
5. Research interests.
6. Something unique personal or professional about scholar
7. POSNA or IPOS meeting attended (date and location)/observership (date and location)
• 8. Name of presentation(s) at the meeting
• 9. Sponsor information. Post meeting observership.
• 10. Email address, or other contact information.
Scholar Statistics 2007-2013
Annual
Meeting
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
total
6
4
4
2
2
4
5
27
3
3
4
2
12
5
5
8
7
39
IPOS
Total
6
4
4
2007 COUR SCHOLARS
POSNA Annual Meeting,
Hollywood, Florida
May 23, 2007
International Scholars POSNA 2007
Scholar
Country
Sponsor
Huynh Manh Nhi
Vietnam
Mike Joffe
Idgie Garnier
Haiti
Kaye Wilkins
Martha Hernandez
Ecuador
Vrisha Maduri
India
Flavia Montana
Paraguay
Juan Carlos
Hernandez
Rick Bowen
Emails 2007 Scholars
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Idgie Garnier: idgieg_k@yahoo.com
Vrisha Maduri: madhuriwalter@cmcvellore.ac.in
Juan carlos Hernandez : ruloherbue@gmail.com
Flavia Montania: flavia@pla.net.py
Martha Hernandez:
dramhernandez@gmail.com, mhernand@uio.telconet.net
• Huynh Manh Nhi: hmanhnhi2003@yahoo.com
2008 COUR SCHOLARS
POSNA Annual Meeting,
Albuquerque, NM
April 29, 2008
International Scholars POSNA 2008
Scholar
Country
Sponsor
Jhonny I. Melgar
Ecuador
Rick Schwend
Joseph Theuri
Kenya
Marybeth Ezaki
Luis F. Caicedo
Columbia
Harold van Bosse
Emails 2008 Scholars
• Jhonny Ivan Melgar:
jmelgar@jbgye.org.ec, jivamelcell@hotmail.com
• Joseph Theuri: jtheuri@curekenya.org
• Luis Fernando Caicedo: luisfdocaicedo@yahoo.com
2009 COUR SCHOLARS
POSNA Annual Meeting,
Boston, MA
April 30, 2009
International Scholars POSNA 2009
Scholar
Country
Sponsor
Thy Vann, MD
Siem Reap,
Cambodia
T. Desmond Brown, MD
Ali A Ahmed Al-Iedan, MD Basrah, Iraq
James Roach, MD
Eliiha Nzeki Muteti
Kenya
Marybeth Ezaki, MD
Kongkham Sounthavong,
MD
Vientiane, Laos
Fred Dietz, MD
2009 Annual Meeting Boston
(L-R) Thy Vann, MD, Siem Reap, Cambodia; Ali A Ahmed Al-Iedan, MD, Basrah Iraq; Eliiha Nzeki Muteti,
Kenya; Kongkham Sounthavong, MD, Vientiane, Laos PDR
Kongkham Sounthavong, MD,
Vientiane, Laos PDR
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Dr. Sounthavong is currently on staff at the Friendship Hospital in Vientiane and is
deputy head of orthopaedic surgery.
Dr. Sounthavong received much of his orthopaedic education in France, including
one year pediatric orthopaedic surgery training at Nancy Hospital of University
Center as well as additional training in plastic, reconstructive and reparative
surgery in Paris.
As the only pediatric orthopaedic surgeon in Laos, he has taken on the
responsibility of training other surgeons and students. He is considered the best
person in Laos to develop a pediatric orthopaedic program for the country.
Research interests include etiology and treatment of congenital foot disorders,
supracondylar fractures of the humerus in children, treatment osteomyelitis, LCP
in Laos, treatment of congenital pseudarthrosis in NF1 and intramedullary elastic
nailing.
At the COUR symposium Dr. Sounthavong presented a 6 year follow-up of
pseudarthrosis of the tibia and fibula.
Sponsor is Fred Dietz, University of Iowa. Post meeting visit is planned to
University of Iowa.
Email kongkham@laotel.com
Ali A Ahmed Al-Iedan, MD, Basrah Iraq
• Dr. Al-Iedan is a lecturer at Basrah Medical School.
• Dr. Al-Iedan has overcome tremendous adversity to develop his
interest and expertise in pediatric orthopaedics in Iraq. Research
projects have included “Missile hand injuries in Basrah” and
“Skeletal traction in older children with DDH”. Dr. Al-Iedan had
previously visited Salt Lake and San Antonio in 2007.
• His desire is to become the first true pediatric orthopaedic surgeon
in Iraq.
• At the Annual Meeting COUR symposium, Dr Al-Iedan presented
“Infected non-union fracture of the femur with marked shortening”
• Dr. Al-Iedan was sponsored by Dr. James Roach. His plans for the
scholarship include a visit to Salt Lake Shriners Hospital before the
2009 Annual meeting in Boston and to TSRH in Dallas after the
meeting.
• Email: draliedan@yahoo.com
Eliiha Nzeki Muteti, Kenya
• Dr. Muteti lives in Kijabe Kenya and works at the AIC-Cure
International Children’s Hospital. He is staff member and honorary
lecturer at Moi University.
• He was trained at the only approved orthopaedic residency at that
time in East Africa, Kampala, Uganda.
• Since his return to Kenya, he has been a leader and teacher in the
new orthopaedic residency in Kenya and was actively involved in
initiating this program in 2008.
• Research interests have included quadriceps fibrosis, femoral neck
fractures with femur fractures and mirror hand ulna dimelia. He is a
dedicated pediatric orthopaedic surgeon and is known to be softspoken, humble intelligent and hard working.
• At the Annual Meeting COUR symposium Dr. Muteti presented a
talk on infected non union of the femur with fibrous dysplasia.
• He is sponsored by Marybeth Ezaki with a planned trip to TSRH
after the 2009 annual meeting in Boston.
• Email: enmuteti@yahoo.com or emuteti@curekenya.org
Thy Vann, MD, Siem Reap, Cambodia
• Since 2001 Dr. Vann has worked at the Ankor Hospital for Children
as a general pediatric surgeon.
• Dr. Vann attended University of Health Sciences, Phnom Penh and
did some fellowship training in Singapore in 2006.
• In his current position Dr. Vann is responsible for the general
surgical needs of a large population of children at his hospital. This
includes all of the pediatric orthopaedics surgery..
• Because of the historic problems in Cambodia and a loss of a
generation of educated physicians, there is no pediatric orthopaedic
surgeon at the hospital.
• Dr. Vann was sponsored by Desmond Brown, Boston University and
visited with him as well as to the Children’s Hospital, Boston, after
the Annual Meeting. Dr. Brown has been working with Dr. Vann in
Cambodia to develop pediatric orthopaedic surgical capabilities.
• Email: vannthy2003@yahoo.com
2010 COUR SCHOLARS
POSNA Annual Meeting,
Waikoloa, HI
May 4, 2010
International Scholars POSNA 2010
Scholar
Country
Sponsor
Thanh Van Do
Vietnam
Vincent Mosca
Klane White
Dr. Chhoern
Cambodia
Keith Gabriel
Thanh Van Do-
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Email: cvuthy@hotm
• Dr. Van Do is from Danang, Vietnam.
• As the Vice-Chair of orthopaedic surgery at
the Danang Orthopaedic and Rehabilitation
Hospital where he is a pediatric orthopaedic
surgeon, he is emerging as oneof the leaders
in pediatric orthopaedics in Vietnam.
• He trained in orthopaedic surgery in Danang
and pediatric orthopaedic surgery in Hanoi.
• From 2003-2009 he spent one to three months
on four different occasions at the Seattle
Children’s Hospital and also at hospitals in
Dr. Thanh Van Do
California.
• His clininical interests lie in the use of the
Danang and pediatric
Ponseti casting treatment for clubfeet and the
results of early surgical management of DDH. three months on four
hospitals in Californi
• Sponsors: Vince Mosca and Klane White
• Email: minhducdn2004@yahoo.com
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Cambodia
• Dr. Chhoer works in the major pediatric
hospital in Cambodia where he teaches
pediatric orthopaedics to surgical residents,
noting that orthopaedics is one of the least
developed fields in Cambodia.
• He is a general surgeon from Phnom Penh,
Cambodia who pursued a trauma fellowship
at the Leuven University in Belgium and
pediatric orthopaedic fellowship experience in
Springfield, Illinios and Brisbane, Australia.
• His major clinical interests reside in the
Ponseti method of clubfoot casting and the
correction of lower limb deformities in
children.
• Sponsor: Keith Gabriel
• Email: cvuthy@hotmail.com
Dr. Vuthy Chhoeur
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2010 POSNA COUR
International Scholars
Committee on Undeserved Regions
IPOS, Orlando
International Scholars IPOS 2010
Scholar
Country
Sponsor
Mahzad Javid
Tehran, Iran
Eric Gordon
Atul Bhaskar
Mumbai, India
Toni, Herring
Taral Nagda
Mumbai, India
Andy Sullivan
Mahzad Javid, Iran
• Mahzad Javid, MD has worked at Milad Hospital,
Tehran Iran, since March 2008.
• Her fellowship training was at The Hospital for Sick
Children, Toronto.
• Research interests include one stage shoulder
release and tendon transfer for obstetrical birth
paralysis in older children, which was accepted for
presentation at the 2008 POSNA Annual Meeting.
• Kaye Wilkins has described her as one of the rising
stars in pediatric orthopaedics in both her country
and Europe and is well respected by her orthopedic
peers as a leader in pediatric orthopedic education
in Iran.
• Sponsor: J Eric Gordon, Washington University.
• Email: Mahzadjavid@yahoo.com
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Atul Rajeshwar Bhaskar- India
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Since September 2001, Dr. Bhaskar Atul Rajeshwar Bhaskar MD
has served as Assistant Professor of Orthopaedics, KJ Somaiya
Medical College, Mumbai ,India. He is presently working as a
Paediatric Orthopaedic Consultant, Bombay Hospital Institute of
Medical Sciences.
His clinical fellowship was at the Hospital for Sick Children,
Toronto 2000-2001.
He attended IPOS 2010, Orlando and did an observer-ship at
Texas Scottish Rite Hospital from 1Dec 2010 until 17 Dec 2010.
Academic interests include social and economic factors in
recurrence of clubfoot deformity, DDH, pediatric orthoaedics
and pediatric spine and also neglected paediatric trauma. Dr.
Bhaskar has written a textbook on the care of children’s
fractures, which is widely sold and read in Indian. Kaye Wilkins
wrote that Atul has the potential to be the ‘Mercer Rang’ of
India, and that he has the gift of making paediatric fracture care
simple and accessible to other doctors.
For the POSNA scholarship, his sponsor was Dr. Toni Herring,
TSRH.
Email: ARB_25@yahoo.com Tel: 9821622992
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He attended IPOS 201
17 Dec 2010.
Taral Vishni Nagda- India
• Dr. Nagda is Director and Chief Pediatric Surgeon Institute
of Pediatric Orthopedic Disorders, Parakh Hospital, Mumbai
India, since 2005.
• Clinical interests include: Pediatric Fractures, spinal
deformities, cerebral palsy.
• By organizing several POSI-POSNA outreach courses in India
and Bangladesh, Dr. Nagda has become one of the leaders
in outreach continuing education in India.
• His sponsors were Kay Wilkins and Andy Sullivan.
He attended IPOS, Orlando 2010. And visited with Dr.
Wilkins and Dr. Sullivan after the meeting.
• Email: taralnagda@gmail.com
2011 COUR SCHOLARS
POSNA Annual Meeting,
Montreal, Canada
May 11, 2011
International Scholars POSNA 2011
Scholar
Country
Sponsor
Francel Alexis
Haiti
Bob Cady
Hitesh Shah
India
Viral Jain
Francel Alexis MD
• Haiti State University Hospital,
Port-au Prince. Haiti
• Home: Les Cayes, Haiti
• Clinical Interests: clubfoot,
scoliosis, congenital limb
deformity and lengthening,
osteomyelitis, tumors
• Sponsor: Robert Cady MD,
Syracuse, NY
• Email: francelito001@yahoo.fr
Hitesh H Shah MD
• Kasturba Medical College,
Madhavnagar, Karnataka, India
• Interests: CPT, Perthes, tibia
hemimelia, skeletal dysplasia,
clubfoot, congenital knee dislocation
• Sponsor: Viral Jain, MD Cincinnati
Children’s Hospital
• Email: hiteshshah12@gmail.com
2011 POSNA COUR
International Scholars
Committee on Undeserved Regions
IPOS, Orlando
International Scholars IPOS 2011
Scholar
Country
Sponsor
Hai Li
China
Richard M. Schwend
Nariman A. Oyoun
Egypt
Unni G. Narayanan
Serdyuk Svetlana
Ukraine
Kevin Neal
Hai Li, MD PhD, China
• Currently staff orthopaedic surgeon at Xinhua
Hospital of Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of
Medicine, Shanghai, China.
• Training: Resident in Pediatric Orthpaedics 2008 to
2011, Jiao Tong University.
• Research and clinical interests: Intervertebral disc
metabolism and degeneration, Expression of Leptin
and its functional receptor on disc cells, spinal cord
injury, OPLL. Effect of glucose on collagen synthesis
and BMP2 in spine ligament, substance P in the
control mechanism of nerve on bone metabolism
and role in osteoporosis of SCI, bone graft for
infectious bone defects.
• Sponsor: Richard M. Schwend MD, Children’s Mercy
Hospital, Kansas City, MO
• Attended IPOS and visited Dr. Schwend in Kansas City
and Dr. Eric Gordon in St. Louis after the meeting
• Email: TO555@126.com
Nariman Abol Oyoun MD, Egypt
• Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Assiut University
Hospital, Egypt
• She spent 2 years in Germany as clinical fellow.
• Exclusive practice is pediatric orthopaedics
• Research/Clinical Interests: Doctorate Thesis on Early
Onset Scoliosis., management of children with cerebral
palsy, non-fusion techniques for EOS, Ponseti method
clubfoot treatment. Founding member of EGPOS
• Personal: Fluent in English. Sponsor: Unni G Narayanan
MBBS, Msc, FRCC(C)
• Did observership with Dr. Narayanan at Hospital for Sick
Kids for one month before the IPOS.
• Email: aboloyoun@yahoo.com
Serdyuk Svetlana PhD, Ukraine
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Department Head and Orthopaedic Surgeon, “Child’s Clinical
Hospital” Simferopol, Crimea, Ukraine, 2002 to present.
Trained at Leningrad Pediatric Medical Institute, Leningrad Russia
and Scientific Research Institute of Orthopedics and Traumatology,
Kharkiv, Ukraine.
Clinical/research interests: Has worked for 25 years providing care
to children. She is currently working on doctoral thesis on DDH,
connective tissue and pathology, surgical prevention of progression
of scoliosis, laser radiation for rehabilitation after scoliosis surgery,
pathogenic aspects of surgical correction of dysplastic lumbar
scoliosis in children.
Meeting attended: IPOS December 2011 Orlando.
Sponsor: Kevin Neal, Nemours, Jacksonville
She will then do observership, with Dr. Kevin M. Neal at Nemours,
Jacksonville after the IPOS meeting
Email: Kin2005@mail.ru
2012 COUR SCHOLARS
POSNA Annual Meeting,
Denver, CO
May 16, 2010
International Scholars POSNA 2012
Scholar
Country
Sponsor
Olayinka Oladiran
Adegbehingbe
Nigeria
Jose Morcuende
Binod Bijukachhe
Nepal
Kaye Wilkins,Dave
Spiegel
Ngiep Oucheng
Cambodia
Cambodia
Gabriel Ramos
Zelaya
Nicaragua
Michelle James
Olayinka Oladiran Adegbehingbe MD,
Nigeria
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Senior lecturer and consultant orthopaedic surgeon at
Obafemi Awolo University College of health Sciences, Ile Ife,
Osun State, Nigeria.
Research/clinical interests: Musculoskeletal malformations in
children, trauma, oncology, care in resource constrained
nation, neglected clubfoot.
Personal/Professional: International Affiliate member AAOS,
member SICOT, FICS, Nigerian Orthopaedic Association,
Fellow West African College of Surgeons. Would like to
establish a Nigerian Paediatric Orthopaedic Association by
identifying interested orthopaedic surgeons in each of the six
geopolitical zones in Nigeria to form a research network of
collaborating pediatric orthopaedic surgeons.
Sponsor: Jose Morcuende MD, PhD, University of Iowa
Hospitals and Clinics.
Will be attending the 2012 POSNA Annual meeting, Denver,
Colorado, then visit Dr. Morcuende for one month.
Email olayinkaadegbehingbe@yahoo.co.uk
Binod Bijukachhe MD, Nepal
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Orthopaedic Surgeon in Chief, Hospital and
Rehabilitation Centre for Disabled Children (HRDC)
since 1999. This is the only hospital of its kind in the
country caring for children with various musculoskeletal
problems.
Research/clinical interests: Spine surgery (did AO
spine fellowship), spinal deformity in children, spine
trauma, spine infections (tuberculosis), general
pediatric orthopaedics, neglected trauma, chronic
osteomyelitis and congenital anomalies. He organized
the first international conference on Ponseti
management for clubfoot deformity in 2009, First NepalAmerican Spine conference in 2010 and First
international conference on pediatric orthopedics and
trauma 2011.
Sponsors: Kaye Wilkins MD and Dave Spiegel MD.
Attended the 2012 Annual Meeting in Denver, then
visited with Kaye Wilkins in San Antonio for several
weeks as well as a short visit to TSRH Dallas
Email: binodbb@gmail.com
Ngiep Oucheng MD, Cambodia
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Currently Senior Surgeon at National Pediatric Hospital and the
Children’s Surgical Center since 2005. Both are teaching
hospitals where he trains surgical residents to become surgeons.
Received his pediatric surgery certificate, University of Paris,
2002-2004
Research/Clinical Interests: teaching residents, would like to
develop a pediatric orthopaedic program. Research has focused
on chronic traumatic hip dislocation and tuberculosis arthritis.
He is an acknowledged world expert in fronto-ethmoidal
meningoencephalocele. Works both as a general pediatric
surgeon and recently received training in the MoPOEd (Mobile
Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery) program in Phnom Penh with Dr.
Bernstein. Dr. Oucheng would like to become the second
pediatric orthopaedic surgeon in Cambodia.
Personal: He survived the purge by the Khmer Rouge as a teen,
caring for his family, and became a physician because he
recognized that there was no medical care available in
Cambodia, as almost all physicians were killed during this time.
Sponsor: Robert M. Bernstein, MD. Cohen Children’s Medical
Center, Long Island, NY.
Attended the Annual Meeting in Denver, then visited with Dr.
Bernstein.
Email: ouchengngiep@hotmail.com or ngiep@csc.org
Gabriel Ramos Zelaya MD,
Nicaragua
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Assistant Director Orthopaedic Surgeon at Hospital Fernando
Velez Paiz, the public children’s hospital in Manuagua.. This
is the only center of pediatric orthopaedics in Nicaragua.
Attended Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Nicaragua,
Leon, Nicaragua.
Research/clinical interest: Pediatric orthopaedic trauma,
general orthopaedic surgery and hip surgery. Would like to
begin a research program with POSNA member assistance.
Works with neighborhood health clinics throughout
Nicaragua. He helped to develop a pediatric hand program
that won the HVO golden Apple award in 2011 and he also
co-developed a spine surgery program at Hospital Velez Paiz.
He has resolve and focus on taking the best possible care of
children with orthopaedic problems.
Sponsor: Michelle James MD. Shriners Hospitals for Children
Northern CA.
Attended POSNA Annual Meeting in Denver 2012. Then
visited with Dr. James in Davis CA
Email: gramosni@yahoo.com
2012 POSNA COUR
International Scholars
Committee on Undeserved Regions
IPOS, Orlando
International Scholars IPOS 2012
Scholar
Country
Sponsor
Telmo Ivan Tapia
Ecuador
Elaine Joughlin
Jose Pablo Munoz
Costa Rica
Alex Arkader
Kubosja Bitta
Tanzania
Colleen Sabatini
Wendafera Dea
Ethiopia
Arabella Leet
Telmo Ivan Tapia MD, Ecuador
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Currently orthopaedic surgeon at Vicente Corral
Moscoso Hospital and at Sta. Ana Hospital, Cuenca,
Ecuador
Research/Clinical interest: SIGN nail for patients who
cannot afford surgical care. Has inserted over 70 of
these nails, translated the SIGN manual into Spanish,
presented research work at the annual SIGN conference
in Richland, Washington, public health teaching of DDH
and DDH screening of newborns, Ponseti method for
treating clubfeet in Cuenca, osteomyelitis, pediatric
trauma. Organizes and hosts many visiting surgeons
from the US and Canada to provide care for children.
Sponsor: Elaine Joughin MD, University of Calgary and
Alberta Children’s Hospital.
Attended IPOS 2012. Post meeting observership will be
with Dr. Richard Schwend, Kansas City.
Email: tapiap8@yahoo.com
Jose Pablo Munoz MD, Costa Rica
• Currently doing Pediatric Orthopaedic
Surgery Fellowship at CCSS, Universidad De
Costa Rica.
• Research/clinical: Supracondylar humeral
fractures with vascular lesions, AVN
femoral head in leukemia.
• POSNA Sponsor: Alex Arkader MD,
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.
• Plans to visit Children’s Hospital, Los
Angeles, for two weeks after the IPOS
meeting to learn more about spine surgery
and musculoskeletal tumors.
• Email: jpmunoz@yahoo.com
Kuboja Alex Bitta, Tansania
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Dr. Bitta has worked at the Muhimbili Orthopaedic Institute,
Dar es Salaam, Orthopaedic and Trauma Pediatric
Orthopaedic Unit, 2010- present.
Education: MD, Muhimbili University, Dar es Salaam, 2004.
Professional Interests: Pediatric fractures, flexible IM nailing,
Sign nail, bone tumors, limb lengthening and deformity
correction.
Personal information: Lives in country of 40 million people
with few pediatric orthopaedic surgeons, lack of access and
resources, late presentations of illness, educational
challenges. A general orthopaedic surgeon, Dr. Bitta is
looking to increase his capability in pediatric orthopaedics
and improve the care of their 40 bed pediatric orthoapedic
unit.
Sponsor; Coleen Sabatini, UCSF. Dr. Bitta has visited with
her several times for training.
Plans to visit University of Colorado, Dr. Brian Shaw or Mark
Erickson
Email: bittadr@yahoo.com
Wendafern Dea, Ethiopia
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Teaching staff and orthopaedic surgeon, Ayder Health College,
Addis Ababa
Education: Addis Ababa University, Gondar College of Medical
Science, 1990
Clinical/Research interests: Clinical teaching, Ponseti method of
clubfoot care and outcome, Pediatric fractures
Personal/Professional: Ethiopia is a country of 84 million. Dr.
Wende is the only pediatric orthopaedic surgeon in the country.
He spent 12 months in fellowship at John’s Hopkins University.
His long term plan is to establish a pediatric orthopaedic unit, to
teach, to develop a pediatric ortho course and one day to
establish a pediatric orthopaedic fellowship. “Dr. Wendemu
soaks up knowledge like a sponge. He will bring the finest of
pediatric orthopaedic care to his country”.
Meeting: IPOS 2012
Sponsor: Arabella I Leet, MD Honolulu and Dr. Elaine Joughlin of
Calgary. Dr. Wende has previously spent year working with Dr.
Leet in Baltimore.
Email: wendaferaww@yahoo.com
2013 POSNA COUR
International Scholars
May 2013, Toronto, Canada
International Scholars POSNA 2013
Scholar
Country
Sponsor
Francisco Nyiiro
Uganda
Andrew Howard
Chasanal Rathod
India
Shital Parikh, Sevan
Hopyan
Tewodros Tilahun
Zerfu
Ethiopia
Michelle James, Jose
Morcuende
Mario Sequeira
Somoza
Nicaragua
Arabella Leet
Hongwen Xu
PR China
Edward Southern
Francisco Nyiiro, MD
• CoRSU Rehabilitation Hospital, Entebbe, Uganda
• Medical School: College of Surgeons, Nairobi Kenya
• Pediatric Orthopaedic fellowship at Sick Kids, Toronto, June
2009-2010
• Clinical interests: Limb Reconstruction. >50% pediatrics.
• Research interests: neglected club foot, spina bifida
• Personal: one of two pediatric orthopaedic trained surgeons
in Subsahara Africa.
• POSNA Annual Meeting, Toronto May 2013.)/observer-ship at
Sick Kids, May 2013.
• Name of presentation(s) at the meeting
• Sponsor: Andrew Howard. Andrew.howard@sickkids.ca
• Email: nyiirof@yahoo.com
Chasanal Rathod, MD
• Bai Jerbai Wadia Hospital for Children, Mumbai, India
• Medical School:
• Pediatric orthopaedic fellowship: Severance Children’s Hospital, Yonsei
University, Seoul, South Korea. March 2011- Feb 2012.
• Clinical interests: Obstetric brachial plexus palsy, neuromuscular,
congenital upper extremity
• Research interests: Obstetric brachial plexus palsy
• Personal: Already very accomplished in obstetric brachial plexus palsy
• Will Attend POSNA annual meeting in Toronto, May 2013 and will then
observe at the brachial plexus clinic at Sick Kids in Toronto.
• Presentation at COUR: “The treatment of syndromic clubfeet with
ponseti’s technique through a community based program- Cure Clubfoot
Worldwide”
• Sponsors: Shital Parikh and Sevan Hopyan
• Email: chasanal@gmail.com
Tewodros Tilahun Zerfu
• Current: Cure International Children’s Hospital, Kenya. Planning to work at
Cure Hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia when he is done with his COSECSA
residency training.
• Medical School: Gondar University, Ethiopia, Sept 2000
• Pediatric orthopaedic fellowship. (dates)
• Clinical interests: Will be training residents at Black Lion Hospital. He is
interested in doing pediatric orthopaedic fellowship as there is no full time
pediatric orthopaedic surgeon in Ethiopia.
• Research interests: Predictors for redislocation of DDH
• Personal: He is from Ethiopia and plans to return. There is only as of 2012
a pediatric orthopaedic and rehabilitation society of Africa .
• Will Attend POSNA Annual Meeting, Toronto, May 2013.
• Name of presentation(s) at the meeting
• Sponsor: Norgrove Penny. norgroveanne@hotmail.com
• Email: tewoeth@yahoo.com
Mario Sequeira Somoza
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Work: Hospital Dr. Fernando Velez Paiz, Managua Nicaragua
Medical School: University Del Noreste, Mexico 1982
Pediatric orthopaedic fellowship. Hospital Infantil, Mexico City, 1988-1990.
Clinical interests: Foot deformities, spina bifida, CP
Research interests: Has given many international presentations on Ponseti method
of clubfoot.
Personal: Passionate about teaching. One of only a few pediatric orthopaedic
surgeons in Nicaragua. He is la leader in Central America on the Ponseti method.
POSNA Annual Meeting, Toronto, May 2012.
Post Meeting will visit Shriners Hospital, North California and the University of
Iowa
Name of presentation(s) at the meeting
Sponsors: Michelle James mjames@shrinenet.org Jose Morcuende josemorcuende@uiowa.edu
Email: drsequeirasomoza@gmail.com
Hongwen Xu
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Work: Associate Professor, Guangzhou Woman & Children’s Medical Center. Chief
or orthopaedics at this 700 bed hosital
Medical School: Tongji Medical University, Wuhan Hubei, PR China 1992
Pediatric orthopaedic fellowship: Chinese Medical University,PhD, Shenyang,
Liaoning, PR China, 2001-2004. National Children’s Medical Center, Spine Fellow,
April to October 2008. Has also studied at University of Graz, Austria (2003-2004)
and the Australia Melbourne Royal Children’s Hospital (2006)
Clinical interests: pediatric orthopaedics, DDH, spine, cerebral palsy.
Research interests: Growth and development of the normal acetabulum, DDH
Personal: Extremely dedicated to children’s Orthopaedics. Sees 100 patients/day
Will attend POSNA Annual Meeting, Toronto, May 2013
Name of presentation(s) at the meeting
Sponsor: Ed Southern esouth@lsuhsc.edu
Post meeting observership: Children’s Hospital New Orleans
Email: hongwenxu@gmail.com
2013 POSNA COUR
International Scholars
November 2013, IPOS, Orlando, Florida
International Scholars IPOS 2013
Scholar
Country
Sponsor
Sandeep A
Patwardhan
India
Scott Mubarak
Sergey Khmyzov
Ukraine
Dan Hoernschmeyer
Sergey Khmyzov
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Sytenko Institue of Spine and Joint Pathology, Kharkov, Ukraine. Chief
of Pediatric Orthopaedics
Medical School: Medical University, Odessa, Ukraine 1982. and
pediatric orthopaedic fellowship. (dates)
Clinical interests: Limb deformity, lengthening, external fixation
Research interests: femoral head deformity, paralytic hip dislocations
Personal: Expert in external fixation treatment of deformity. Has
developed his own unique fixation devise and system. Styenko
Institute is the premier orthopaedic facility in the Ukraine
Will attend IPOS. Name of presentation(s) at the meeting:
Sponsor: Dan Hoernschmeyer
Post meeting observership: Dror Paley, Florida. Dan Hoernschmeyer,
Columbia MO, hoernschemeyerd@health.missouri.edu Richard
Schwend, Children’s Mercy Hospital. rmschwend@cmh.edu
Email address: s.khmyzov@gmail.com
Sandeep Arvind Patwardhan
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Professor Pediatric Orthopaedics, Maharashtra University Sancheti
Institute for Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation, Pune, India.
Medical School: Seth GS Medical College, Bombay 1990.
Pediatric orthopaedic fellowship: Lokmanya Tilak Medical College,
Bombay, 1996.
Clinical interests: growth modulation, fractures, infection,
arthrogryposis, hip
Research interests: clubfoot, fasciocutaneous flaps, percutaneous
fracture techniques, post infection bone cysts.
Personal: Previous visiting experience in Singapore, Stutgart, and
Arkansas. Hosted the very well organized and outstanding POSI-POSNA
meeting in Pune, India, Jan 2012.
Will attend IPOS, Orlando, November 2013
Name of presentation(s) at the meeting:
Sponsor: Scott Mubarak
Post meeting observerships: Rady Children’s Hospital, Rick McCarthy,
Little Rock Children’s Hospital, Min Kocher, Children’s Hospital, Boston.
Email: dr.patwardhan@yahoo.co.in