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Jacques Jenny Lecturer
VOS Meeting 2008
34th Annual Conference
March 8-15, 2008
Big Sky, Montana
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Jacques Jenny was born in Switzerland in the small ski village called Ennenda. He became interested in horses and veterinary medicine while he worked on his cousin's farm and that is why he joined the Cavalry for his military service duty. Jacques Jenny graduated veterinary school at the University of Zurich in 1942. From 1942 to 1944 he was an assistant in anatomy at the University of Zurich. He then went to France from 1944 to 1945 to study under Professor Marcenac in the Alfort National Veterinary School, where he was an assistant in surgery.
Jacques Jenny came to the United States in 1948 and worked 6 months at Angell Memorial Hospital in Boston. He was recruited to the University of Pennsylvania in June of 1948 and became an instructor in surgery under Dr. Mark Allam. In 1960, he became a professor of surgery at the University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Jenny's contributions to veterinary orthopedics include clinical and research advancements such as: the first intramedullary pinning performed in man or animals in the city of Philadelphia; intramedullary nailing with Kuentscher nails; work on hip dysplasia and bone grafting; the first successful fracture fixation of equine long bones, which made him famous; and development of a water raft recovery system for horses after orthopedic surgery.
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Dr. Jenny chaired the first organizing committee for the American College of Veterinary Surgeons and served as the college's first President. Dr. Jenny initiated many teaching courses in bone and joint surgery that crossed species lines. He was a renowned international speaker and won many awards and honors for his teaching and his clinical accomplishments.
Dr. Jenny and his wife, Elinor, a 1949 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania's College of Veterinary Medicine, raised 5 children. They were avid participants in fox hunting, steeple chasing and horse breeding. Colleagues that worked with Jacques Jenny will always remember him as an energetic, deeply committed teacher of orthopedic surgery.
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The VOS was pleased to have Steven Schelkun, MD as our 2008 Jacques Jenny Lecturer
Dr. Schelkun has been an AO educator since 1984 and has participated in 52 surgeon courses since that time. He is currently Chair of the North America Musculoskeletal Education Committee, member of the AO Board of Trustees, AONA Trustee Council, AONA CME Advisory Board and retired US Navy Captain.
Born in Detroit, MI, Dr. Schelkun grew up in a small town in Ohio. He graduated with a BA from Ohio Wesleyan University then received a MS from The Ohio State University Graduate School in the area of Anatomy and Immunohematology. He received his MD from The Ohio State University College of Medicine where he stayed on for his internship at the University Hospitals in Columbus, Ohio. During the Vietnam era he volunteered for active Naval service, planning to serve for only his required 3 years, but ended up staying for 23 years of combined active duty and reserve time, finally retiring in 1997. He served his residency in orthopaedic surgery at the Naval Regional Medical Center in Portsmouth, Virginia. Then he moved to San Diego on the teaching staff at the Naval Hospital. After two years in private practice in Jupiter, Florida, his passion for teaching drew him back to San Diego in 1987, where he was on the teaching faculty of the Naval Hospital and UCSD.
His many post-graduate honors include: AOA Honor Medical Society; Diplomat, American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery; Fellow, American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons; Outstanding Teacher Award, Naval Regional Medical Center (Portsmouth, VA-1982) and Naval Hospital San Diego in 1991. He was awarded the Elizabeth Shilling Compassionate Care Award from his patients at the Kaiser Hospital (San Diego, CA-1993) and was honored as the recipient of the 2002 Howard Rosen Table Instructor of the Year award. He is also a member of the OTA and American Orthopaedic Association.
The VOS is pleased to have Dr. Kurt Spindler as our 2009 Jacques Jenny Lecturer.
Dr. Spindler is the consummate clinician-scientist in Sports Medicine. He is a critical thinker and an exceptional speaker. He has done a tremendous job in fostering and promoting evidence-based medicine in orthopaedics. He has also organized collaborative multicenter trials aimed at prospective, randomized, controlled research with direct clinical relevance. His major areas of interest in both clinical practice and research include intra-articular ligaments, articular cartilage defects, and meniscus health and disease. He has the amazing ability to perform extremely high level, hypothesis-driven research in these areas and bridge the data to clinical practice. He has set the bar for the orthopaedic community is this regard. He was an Eagle Scout, has completed 4 marathons, is one of America's Top Doctors, and has won two Cabaud Awards, the O'Donoghue Award, and multiple teaching awards. He is currently the Kenneth Schermerhorn Professor, Vice-Chair of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation, Medical Director, and Head Team Physician at Vanderbilt University.
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