Teaching and Research Activities

GRAND ROUNDS PRESENTATIONS:

1996 Grand Rounds, Shriners Hospital, Springfield, MA, "Limb Salvage for Extremity Sarcomas"

1996 Grand Rounds, Baystate Medical Center, "Evaluation and Treatment of Bone Tumors"

1996 Grand Rounds, Berkshire Medical Center, Pittsfield, MA,
"Multidisciplinary Treatment of Bone and Soft Tissue Sarcomas"

1996 Grand Rounds, Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, "Bone Tumors"
University of Massachusetts Medical Center

1996,1997 Grand Rounds, Department of Podiatric Medicine
"Tumors of the Foot"
University of Massachusetts Medical Center

1997 Grand Rounds, Marlboro Hospital, Marlboro, MA "Avoiding Errors and Delays in Bone Tumor Diagnosis"

1997 Grand Rounds, Athol Hospital
"Multidisciplinary Treatment of Bone and Soft Tissue Sarcomas"

1997 Grand Rounds, Heywood Hospital, Gardner, MA
"Metastatic Disease of Bone"

1998 Grand Rounds, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, Degroot H, Singh: "Metastatic Bone Lesions"

1998 Grand Rounds, Falmouth Hospital, Falmouth, MA, "Metastatic Bone Disease"

1998 Grand Rounds, Leominster Hospital, Leominster, MA, "Avoiding Diagnostic Delay in Bone and Soft Tissue Tumors" February 12, 1998

1999 Grand Rounds, Leominster Hospital, Leominster, MA,
"Commonly Missed Bone and Soft Tissue Tumors and How to Catch Them" February 18, 1999

1999 Grand Rounds, University of Massachusetts, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Worcester, MA, "The Impact of the Internet on Orthopedic Practice" December 22, 1999

2000 Medical Grand Rounds, Berkshire Medical Center, Pittsfield Massachusetts
"Bone and Soft Tissue Tumors in Primary Care"

2000 Surgical Grand Rounds, Berkshire Medical Center Pittsfield Massachusetts "Limb salvage for Extremity sarcomas"

2001 Boston Podiatric Surgical Monthly Meeting Cambridge Hospital, Cambridge, MA "Bone and Soft Tissue Tumors of the Foot"

2002 Grand Rounds, Newton-Wellesley Hospital Medical Service "Evaluation and Management of Bone and Soft Tissue Tumors" September 25

2002 Grand Rounds, Beth Israel-Deaconess Glover Hospital "Evaluation and Management of Bone and Soft Tissue Tumors" October 3

2002 Boston Podiatric Surgical Monthly Meeting Cambridge Hospital, Cambridge, MA "Bone Tumors of the Foot - The Next Step" November 19

2003 Grand Rounds Newton Wellesley Hospital - "The Paperless Medical Office"

2003 Grand Rounds Marlboro Hospital - "Avoiding Diagnostic Delay in Bone and Soft Tissue Tumors"

2003 Grand Rounds Leonard Morse Hospital - "Avoiding Diagnostic Delay in Bone and Soft Tissue Tumors"

2003 Grand Rounds Mary Lane Hospital - "Electronic Medical Records - Benefits and Pitfalls"

2004 Grand Rounds Falmouth Hospital - "Electronic Medical Records and the Paperless Medical Office"

2004 Invited Speaker - APMA Annual Meeting Boston

INVITED SPEAKER:

1996 Heywood Hospital, Gardner, MA
"Multidisciplinary Treatment of Bone and Soft Tissue Sarcomas"

1997 Day Kimball Hospital, Putnam, CT
"Multidisciplinary Treatment of Bone and Soft Tissue Sarcomas"

1998-2000 Invited Speaker, "International Workshop on Bone and Soft Tissue Tumors," Academy of Medicine, Singapore

2001 "Tumors of the Foot and Leg" Annual Meeting of the American Podiatric Medical Association (Region One APMA) Oct 18 - 21, 2001 Sheraton Ferncroft, Danvers MA

2003 Romanian Orthopaedic Association Annual Meeting September , 2003 Arad, Romania.

2004 APMA Meeting Boston MA.

TEACHING ACTIVITIES:

UMass Medical School

1995-Present Musculoskeletal Disease Elective MORE-01, UMMS IV. "Introduction to Bone Tumors"

1995-Present Musculoskeletal Disease Elective MORE-01, UMMS IV. "Reconstructive Surgery for Rheumatoid Arthritis"

1995-1997 Weekly Orthopedic Pathology Conference
University of Massachusetts Orthopedic Surgery Residency

1996-Present Orthopedic Residency Core Lectures, University of Massachusetts Medical Center
"Reconstructive Surgery for the Knee"
"Reconstructive Surgery for the Hip"
"Tumors of the Shoulder"
"Approach to Bone & Soft Tissue Tumors"
"Diagnosis and Management of Metastatic Bone Disease"

1996-Present Bone Pathophysiology Course, UMMS II. " Etiology in Pathophysiology of Bone Tumors"

1997-Present Monthly Multidisciplinary Oncology-Pathology- Radiology-Orthopedics Teaching Conference
University of Massachusetts Medical Center

2000 -2003 Orthopedic Residency Core Lectures, University of Massachusetts Medical School
"Shoulder Pain" "Bone Forming Tumors" "Cartilage Forming Tumors" "Treatment of Skeletal Metastasis" "Tumors of the Foot and Ankle"
"TKA in Allografts"

2003 - 2004 Tufts University Medical School - Resident Lectures at the Newton Wellesley Hospital:

"Surgical Management of Lisfranc Fractures and Dislocations"
"Cavovarus deformity - evaluation and management"
"Evaluation and Managment of Bone and Soft Tissue Tumors" "Quantification of Pathologic Fracture Risk"
"OITE Review of Orthopaedic Oncology"

RESEARCH GRANTS AND AWARDS:

Joseph P. Healy Endowment Grant, Interactive CD-ROM Based Teaching Program . Funded.

Biomet Company, Massive Osteoarticular Allograft Fixation: An Animal Model. Funded.

Our Danny Cancer Fund: Pilot study of a Hemoglobin Solution on Oxygenation of Canine Soft Tissue Tumors. Grant Submitted.
Not Funded.

Innovations in Medical Education Grant. Development of On-line Self Assessment Examination .

CURRENT RESEARCH (Includes papers submitted for publication):

"Osteoarticular Allografts for Proximal Humeral Bone Tumors" Research performed at the Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute, Bologna Italy. manuscript submitted 2003 to CORR (accepted for publication)

"Osteosarcoma of the Pelvis" research performed at the Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute. Accepted for podium presentation , 69th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic surgeons, Dallas, Texas Feb 13-17, 2002. Manuscript submitted to Cancer

"Shoulder Pain and Benign Bone Tumor of the Proximal Humerus - A Diagnostic Dilemma" Submitted 6/2004 to American Journal of Orthopedics

"Intramuscular Hemangioma Associated With Adult Onset Flatfoot Deformity - A Case Report" Submitted 8/2004 to Foot and Ankle International