The UNMC Department of Orthopaedic Surgery recognized four graduating residents on June 7-8.
The graduating residents and their chosen fellowships are:
- Erik Bowman, M.D., Adult Reconstruction Fellowship, University of Louisville
- Todd Gilbert, M.D., Spinal Surgery Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh
- Tyler Larson, M.D., Lower Extremity Adult Reconstruction Fellowship, Indiana University
- Ryan Miller, M.D., Hand & Upper Extremity Fellowship, Loma Linda University
This year’s graduation ceremony included final oral presentations from the graduating residents, case-based discussions with Omaha-area upper extremity orthopaedic surgeons, and talks from prominent guest speakers.
Visiting Professor Hill Hastings, M.D., gave three lectures:
- “The ‘Inside and Outside’ of Elbow Instability”;
- “Anatomy and Biomechanics as Applied to the Treatment of PIP Fractures and Dislocations”; and
- “Essential Lessons for Balancing a Career in Orthopaedics.”
Dr. Hastings is a retired orthopaedic surgeon who practiced as a clinical professor of orthopaedic surgery at the Indiana Hand to Shoulder Center and Indiana University Medical Center from 1981-2015. During his career, he helped train more than 200 fellowship hand surgeons and contributed to the development of fracture repair systems for the clavicle, radial head, distal radius, wrist, and hand.
The Eighth Annual Harold and Marian Andersen Lecturer was Michael Forsberg, a Nebraska native whose 25-year career as a photographer and conservationist has been dedicated to wildlife and conservation stories in North America’s Great Plains. In 2011, Forsberg co-founded the Platte Basin Timelapse project (PBT) in partnership with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and NET Television. Today it operates as a long-term multi-media documentary project to inform scientific research, build education content, and tell stories of a Great Plains watershed in motion. Forsberg presented on “Finding Home in Flyover Country.”