MOORESVILLE,
Ind. – The Center for Hip & Knee Surgery at Franciscan St. Francis Health-Mooresville
has been chosen as one of 13 training sites for The Hip Society’s 2013
Rothman-Ranawat Traveling Fellowship.
According to
The Hip Society, the fellowship “fosters emerging thought-leaders” in
orthopedics throughout the world and provides them “with an inspirational tour
of state-of-the-art facilities offering exemplary surgical care of the hip
joint throughout North America.”
Other sites
include Rush University Medical Center in Chicago; Mayo Clinic, Rochester,
Minn.; Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, N.Y.; the Rothman Institute,
Philadelphia; and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
The four
fellows visiting the 13 sites will be at the Mooresville hospital April 3–4.
They are Gregory Deirmengian, MD, of the Rothman Institute; Sumon Nandi, MD of
New England Baptist Hospital in Boston; Henry Wynn Jones, MD, of Wrightington,
Wigan and Leigh, NHS Foundation Trust, Wigan, Lancanshire, England; and
Guoqiang Zhang, MD, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China.
Founded in
1968, The Hip Society is a professional association dedicated to the pursuit of
new knowledge and dissemination of advancements in clinical practice related to
disorders of the hip. Society membership includes only a select group of
approximately the top 100 surgeons in the United States in their respective
fields.
John B.
Meding, MD, and Michael E. Berend, MD, of the Center for Hip & Knee Surgery
are current Hip Society members.
