Recent Activity and Upcoming Events
ACFAS Great Lakes Region Meeting
ACFAS Membership Meeting - Great Lakes Region: (Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan and Ohio)
Date: Thursday, February 20
Time: 1-2pm
Location: Exhibit Hall (lunch meeting)
Your Region will be holding a meeting of its members in conjunction with the ACFAS Scientific Conference in San Antonio. We hope that you can join us to meet and network with your Region officers and have a hand in the plans for the Region for the upcoming year.
Attend to Learn, Plan and Win! All ACFAS members who attend their Region meetings will be placed in a Region drawing to win a $100 Amazon Gift Card. Your raffle ticket will be distributed at your Region meeting.
See you in San Antonio!
Need Money for ACFAS 2020?
Local ACFAS Regions Have Funds to Support Your Research Efforts
Are you a resident or post-graduate fellow presenting a poster or manuscript at the ACFAS Annual Scientific Conference in February? Could you use some extra money to apply toward your travel costs? The ACFAS Regions can help!
If you've submitted a poster or manuscript that is accepted for presentation at the conference and you are interested in receiving funding from your local Region, complete an application for support. Poster submitters are potentially eligible for $250, and manuscript presenters are potentially eligible for $500. Complete rules for acceptance and provision of funds can be found on the application form.
Please submit the completed form directly to your Region's President (names and email addresses are available on the form) by Friday, January 31, 2020. Each Region will determine the number of awards they can provide based on the number of submissions received and will contact you directly with next steps.
The ACFAS Regions are excited to be able to support the next generation of researchers in their parts of the country.
ACFAS Great Lakes Region Meeting Outcomes
ACFAS Membership Meeting - Great Lakes Region: (Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan and Ohio)
The Great Lakes Region held a membership meeting on Saturday, February 16 during ACFAS 2019 in New Orleans. More than 60 members attended the event. Several topics were discussed:
- Educational activities held in the Region in 2018 and planned for 2019
- The need to find a member located in Kentucky and Indiana to become involved with the Region leadership
- Encourage residents and attendings to get involved in research
- Welcome environment for input from all members to enhance region activities.
The Region meeting raffle prize of a $100 Amazon gift card winner was Tina Shahin, DPM, a Resident member from North Canton, OH.
Pictured are Tina Shahin, DPM, and Bruce Kaczander, DPM, FACFAS, Immediate Past President, ACFAS Great Lakes Region.
Great Lakes Region Supports Student Scholar to the Annual Scientific Conference
ACFAS Region Scholars are funded by the ACFAS Region Presidents Council, specifically their home Regions, and are usually the president-elect of their local ACFAS Student Club. Their local Regions honor them as future leaders of the profession. The 2019 ACFAS Region Scholar from the Great Lakes Region is Deana Lewis from Kent State.
Pictured are Harry Schneider, DPM, FACFAS, 2019 Region Presidents Council Chair and Deana Lewis. Congratulations to Deana on being chosen as an ACFAS 2019 Region Scholar!
ACFAS Great Lakes Region Funds Resident and Post Graduate Fellow Poster Research at the 2019 Annual Scientific Conference in New Orleans
In an effort to support research activities, the ACFAS Great Lakes Region provided funding to the following residents and postgraduate fellows as poster presenters at the 2019 Annual Scientific Conference in New Orelans:
- Evaluation of Post Operative Opioid Use for Lower Extremity Procedures
Resident Presenter: Elizabeth Chan, DPM, The Jewish Hospital - Mercy Health - Comparison of Total Procedure Cost for Lapidus Performed in a Surgery Center Using Crossing Screws Versus Plate with Screws Versus Two Staples
Post Graduate Fellow Presenter: Amanda M. Lutter, DPM, AACFAS, Reconstructive Foot and Ankle Surgery Fellowship - Incidence of Nonunion of the First Metatarsophalangeal Joint Arthrodesis After Failed Implant Arthroplasty: A Systematic Review
Resident Presenters: Matthew D. Wilson, DPM; John M. Thompson, DPM, Grant Medical Center - Structures at Risk during Percutaneous Extra-Articular Chevron Osteotomy for the Inexperienced Minimally Invasive Surgeon
Post Graduate Fellow Presenter: Travis M. Langan, DPM, AACFAS, Orthopedic Foot and Ankle Center Fellowship - Correlation of Radiographic Measurements after Double Calcaneal Osteotomy
Resident Presenter: Mohammed K. Hassan, DPM, Northside Medical Center (WRHE) - Outcomes and Incidence of Complications following Endoscopic Gastrocnemius Recession: A Systematic Review
Resident Presenter: James M. Steriovski, DPM, Grant Medical Center - The Incidence of Nonunion of the Naviculocuneiform Joint Arthrodesis: A Systematic Review
Resident Presenter: Anson K. Chu, DPM, Grant Medical Center - Infection Following Open Ankle Fracture: The Predictive Value of Classification
Resident Presenter: Christopher J. Kennedy, DPM, Detroit Medical Center - Evaluating the Use of Tranexamic acid in Orthopedic Foot and Ankle Surgery
Resident Presenter: Emlyn K. Forsung, DPM, East Liverpool City Hospital - Osteochondral Allograft Transplant for 1st MTPJ Hallux Rigidus
Resident Presenters: Tonda W. Silva, DPM; William O. McGlone, DPM, Jewish Hospital & KentuckyOne Health - Evaluating the Use of Tranexamic acid in Orthopedic Foot and Ankle Surgery
Resident Presenter: Emlyn K. Forsung, DPM, East Liverpool City Hospital - Osteochondral Allograft Transplant for 1st MTPJ Hallux Rigidus
Resident Presenters: Tonda W. Silva, DPM; William O. McGlone, DPM, Jewish Hospital & KentuckyOne Health - A Novel Technique Utilizing Fresh Cryopreserved Chondral Allograft for the Repair of First Metatarsal Head Osteochondral Defects: A Cadaveric Study and Review of Literature
Resident Presenters: Vincent H. Mandas, DPM; Chandana Halaharvi, DPM, Grant Medical Center - Resection and Use of a Processed Nerve Allograft for Reconstruction of the Tibial Nerve following Traumatic Injury: A Case Report
Resident Presenter: Christopher Stucke, DPM, St Rita's Medical Center - Osteochondral Defect of the Calcaneocuboid Joint: A Case Study
Resident Presenter: Emily E. Zulauf, DPM, Grant Medical Center - Bilateral Total Ankle Replacement as a Viable Treatment Option for Severe Ankle Arthritis Secondary to Hemophilia C
Resident Presenter: Hannah Khlopas, DPM, Beaumont Hospital - Wayne - Treatment of Adenocarcinoma of the Prostate Metastasized to the Calcaneous
Resident Presenter: Sarah E. Sample-Eppinger, DPM, DVA - Dayton - Puncture Wound Complicated by Rare Mycobacterium Septicum Infection: A Case Report
Resident Presenter: Lauren M. Coe, DPM, Mercy Health Regional Medical Center - A Slow Growing Tumor of the Ankle: An Atypical Case of Basal Cell Carcinoma in the Lower Extremity
Resident Presenter: Damian J. Hilbert, DPM, Beaumont Hospital - Wayne
Congratulations to these resident and post graduate fellow authors on their research efforts!