Nov 12, 2020 | Annual Meeting, Humanitarian Award, Humanitarian Organizations
At the 2020 Annual Meeting last week, the 2020 AAHKS Humanitarian Award was presented to Michael J. Christie, MD, MPH. A practicing orthopaedic surgeon at the Southern Joint Replacement Institute in Nashville and a long-time AAHKS member, Dr. Christie has been...
Dec 12, 2019 | Humanitarian Organizations
The AAHKS Board of Directors has approved the establishment of a foundation to handle centralized functions on behalf of the international Operation Walk medical missions and other humanitarian ventures. This will include accepting and redistributing charitable...
Oct 31, 2019 | Humanitarian Organizations, Operation Walk
Chiara Rodgers, AAHKS Director of Research and Humanitarian Activities, joined Operation Walk Syracuse last week on their medical mission to Ghana. This was the team’s fourth trip to St. Joseph Hospital in Koforidua, Ghana. Despite travel delays and a logistical delay...
Apr 18, 2019 | Humanitarian Organizations
Operation Walk Denver completed a medical mission trip to San Pedro Sula, Honduras. The team, led by AAHKS Past President Douglas A. Dennis, MD, completed 62 total joint replacements on 57 patients at Hospital Leonardo Martinez. In addition, Natalie Loper, AAHKS...
Oct 5, 2018 | AAHKS Leadership, Humanitarian Organizations
This week, former AAHKS President, Brian S. Parsley, MD led a team that included Immediate Past President Mark I. Froimson, MD, MBA and other AAHKS members on a medical mission trip to Antigua, Guatemala. “This is an awesome team of AAHKS members working together on...
Mar 23, 2018 | Humanitarian Organizations, International
Operation Walk missions are taking place in Honduras and Nicaragua this week. The Operation Walk LA chapter is in Nicaragua, and Operation Walk Carolinas is providing care for patients in Honduras. AAHKS Research Manager, Chiara Rodgers, who is assisting the OpWalk LA...
