Faculty
Convenor - Andrew Mayo
International Guest Presenters
Associate Professor Elisabet Hagert - Sweden
Associate Professor Elisabet Hagert is a specialist in hand surgery and orthopedics. For the past 20 years, she has made a name for herself and a reputation for being one of the foremost and most knowledgeable hand and nerve surgeons in the world. Elisabet Hagert is responsible for research and development in the hand area.Elisabet did her medical education at Lund University and defended her dissertation at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm. After completing her dissertation, she completed a postdoc, visiting researcher, at Stanford University USA. Elisabet is a specialist in hand surgery (since 2005) and Orthopedic surgery (since 2011). Subspecialized in wrist problems, nerve compressions / chronic pain syndromes, sports traumatology and ultrasound diagnostics.Over the years, Elisabet Hagert has published over 50 scientific publications and 12 book chapters in international textbooks. Elisabet is also a sought-after lecturer with regular educational assignments around the world and over 120 international lectures.
Dr Amy Moore - USA
Amy M. Moore, MD, FACS, is Professor and Chair of the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center in Columbus, Ohio USA. Her clinical focus is nerve and hand surgery for children and adults. As a committed surgeon-scientist, Dr Moore runs a parallel translational-science research program with more than $3.5 million in funding from the Department of Defense. Her research focus is to develop novel treatments for nerve injuries and pain. Dr Moore received her medical degree at the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine and completed her and plastic and reconstructive surgery residency at Washington University School of Medicine. She then completed an orthopedic hand fellowship at Mayo Clinic. She came to Ohio State in November 2019 from Washington University, where she served as chief of the Section of Hand and Trauma Surgery and director of the Hand, Nerve and Microsurgery Fellowship.
Dr David Ring - USA
David Ring is associate dean for comprehensive care and professor of surgery and psychiatry at Dell Medical School. He was born in San Diego, double-majored in physics and biochemistry/cell biology at the University of California at San Diego, and graduated from the UCSD School of Medicine in 1993. His surgical internship was at Massachusetts General Hospital, orthopedic residency in the Harvard Combined Orthopaedic Residency, chief residency at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and hand and upper extremity fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital with Jesse Jupiter, M.D.Before moving to Austin, David was a professor of orthopedic surgery at Harvard Medical School, chief of hand surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital, and chair of the MGH Orthopedic Quality and Patient Safety Committee. He was awarded a Ph.D. for clinical research in psychosocial aspects of arm pain from the University of Amsterdam in 2005. His interests include trauma and post-traumatic reconstruction in the arm, quality and patient safety, common arm illnesses and psychosocial aspects of arm illness. He has more than 450 peer-reviewed original research publications. He is a deputy editor for Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma and Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research.Dr Ring has influenced the treatment of upper extremity trauma and its sequellae (traumatic elbow instability in particular), nonunions, and common hand illnesses. He has also increased the appreciation of the importance of both nontechnical skills in orthopedic surgery and the psychological and sociological influences on musculoskeletal illness.
Due to Government travel restrictions our 2022 Guest Presenters will be presenting virtually in a series of both live and pre-recorded sessions.