The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (American). 2008;90:1160-1164.
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Report from the 2007 AOA North American Traveling Fellowship

Jennifer Moriatis Wolf, MD1, George S. Athwal, MD, FRCSC2, Bang Hoang, MD3, Samir Mehta, MD4 and Brett D. Owens, MD5

1 Department of Orthopaedics, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Academic Office 1, 12631 East 17th Avenue, Aurora, CO 80045
2 Hand and Upper Limb Centre, St. Joseph's Health Centre, 268 Grosvenor Street, London, ON N6A 4L6, Canada. E-mail address: gathwal@uwo.ca
3 Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of California-Irvine, 101 The City Drive South, Orange, CA 92868. E-mail address: bhhoang@uci.edu
4 Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 3400 Spruce Street, 2 Silverstein, Philadelphia, PA 19104. E-mail address: samir.mehta@uphs.upenn.edu
5 William Beaumont Army Medical Center, 5005 North Piedras Street, El Paso, TX 79920. E-mail address: b.owens@us.army.mil

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The John J. Fahey, MD, Memorial North American Traveling Fellowship (NATF) originated in 1968 at an American Orthopaedic Association (AOA) Executive Committee meeting. In 1969, the committee's proposal to create a fellowship program for orthopaedic surgeons to travel to orthopaedic centers around the United States and Canada was accepted. The tour's purpose is to promote clinical and scientific exchange and fellowship at each orthopaedic program visited. The 2007 tour was organized by Sohail Mirza, MD (University of Washington), and was coordinated by Lesley Coussis of the AOA office and Trinity Wittman of the Canadian Orthopaedic Association.

The 2007 fellows, who hailed from diverse areas and orthopaedic specialties, were George Athwal, a shoulder and elbow surgeon from London, Ontario, Canada (University of Western Ontario); Bang Hoang, a musculoskeletal oncologist from Irvine, California (University of California, Irvine); Samir Mehta, a trauma surgeon from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (University of Pennsylvania); Brett Owens, a sports . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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