What’s New at UVA Orthopaedics?

By Quanjun (Trey) Cui, MD

National Recognition of the Department
Honored by U. S. News and World Report as a “high performing” orthopaedic program and recognized by Becker’s Hospital Review as one of the top 125 hospitals and health systems with great orthopedic programs, UVA Orthopaedic providers completed over 66,000 clinic visits, and our surgeons performed over 7,800 surgeries. UVA Orthopaedic clinical and research faculty authored and/or contributed to over 130 publications. First center in the country to utilize the Zeego Hybrid Operating Room imaging technology for orthopaedic applications.

Individual Recognition
Dr. Eric Carson was appointed as the Secretary of the J. Robert Gladden Orthopaedic Society. Dr. Quanjun Cui was appointed as Vice President for North America for the Association for Research Circulation Osseous International (ARCO). Dr. David Diduch was appointed as Chair of the AOSSM Fellowship Directors Committee. Dr. Hamid Hassanzadeh won the 2015 Scoliosis Research Society Edgar G. Dawson Traveling Fellowship.

Dr. Mark Miller was awarded the 2015 George D. Rovere Award from the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine. Dr. Frank Shen was listed as one of “60 spine surgeons on the forefront of biologics & stem cells”. Dr. David Weiss was recognized by being listed in “19 of The Best Orthopedic Traumatologists in North America”.

Welcome Resident Class of 2020

What’s New at VCU Orthopaedics?

By Seth Cheatham, MD
Associate Professor, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
VCU Medical Center
Associate Clinical Director VCU Sports Medicine

After an exhaustive national search, we are pleased to announce Dr. Steven L. Kates as our next chairman.  Steve comes to VCU from the University of Rochester where he is the Hansjörg Wyss Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and the Associate Director for the Center for Musculoskeletal Research, a top ranked orthopaedic laboratory. He is a graduate of Northwestern University Medical School and did his residency training at Northwestern University and the University of Rochester. He is editor of Geriatric Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation and is the past president of the International Geriatric Fracture Society. 

Dr. Kates serves as the PI of the AO Foundation-Trauma Clinical Priority Program on Bone Infection.  Earlier this year, Dr. Kates and his research partners won the 2015 Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research/Orthopaedic Research Society Richard Brand Award for the most outstanding clinical orthopaedic research paper, “A multiplex assay of host immunity against Staph aureus for Osteomyelitis patients.” In addition, he serves as the national leader of the NSQIP/AAOS/OTA national focused registry on hip fractures and is an internationally recognized thought leader in geriatric fracture care. Dr. Kates developed the Geriatric Fracture Center Model of Care, which has been emulated by many hospitals in the US, UK, Europe, Latin America and Asia. Dr. Kates will relocate to Richmond with his wife, Amy L. Kates, RN, MS, who has vast experience in cardiology and management, and his daughter Hailey Kates who is a national level equestrian. His older daughter Olivia Kates, MD, is an intern in internal medicine at Columbia University Medical Center. 

Dr. Kates will succeed Robert S. Adelaar, MD, current chair of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery. Dr. Adelaar joined VCU in 1976 and was named department chair and the John A. Cardea Endowed Chair in 2002. As chair, Dr. Adelaar has overseen growth in the department including doubling the number of surgeons and the number of operative cases. The department has gained recognition by U.S. News and World Report as one of the top 50 orthopaedic clinical services in the country.