The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery 82:1782 (2000)
© 2000 The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Inc.
Advancing the Science and Art of Orthopaedics
Lessons from History*
Joseph A. Buckwalter, M.D.
Iowa City, Iowa
*First President-Elect's Address. Read at the Annual Meeting
of the American Orthopaedic Association, Hot Springs, Virginia,
June 17, 2000.
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, 01008 JPP, University of Iowa
Hospitals and Clinics, 200 Hawkins Drive, Iowa City, Iowa 52242.
E-mail address: joseph-buckwalter@uiowa.edu.
President Herndon, Second President-Elect Simon,
members of the American Orthopaedic Association, and guests: it
is a great honor to be elected President of this Association. I am
pleased to accept this distinguished office, but the honor is not
mine alone. It also belongs to those who made this possible: the
teachers, physicians, and scientists who inspired and prepared me
to contribute to the profession of medicine; my faculty colleagues
at the University of Iowa, who taught and supported me; my children,
Jody, Andrea, and Abigail, who have made being their father easy;
and my wife, Kitty, who has encouraged and guided me for nearly
thirty years.
One of the pleasant tasks of the presidency is selecting the
topic for the President-Elect's address. In 1887, the founders of
the American Orthopaedic Association dedicated their new Association
to advancing the science and art of orthopaedics14,98.
Their choice of this purpose, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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