Courses/Meetings Hosted

The University of Texas at Houston Health Science Center, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, 1st Annual Resident Research Day, Guest Lecturer Patrick J. Kelly, M.D., Houston, Texas, June, 1994.

The University of Texas at Houston Health Science Center, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, 2nd Annual Resident Research Day, Guest Lecturer Henry J, Mankin, M.D., Houston, Texas, June, 1995.

Problem Fractures: Challenges in Fracture Care Conference, Houston, Texas, August, 1996.

New Ideas for More Accurate Coding, Symposium: Reimbursement and Coding Issues, The 9th Annual Association for the Study and Application of the Methods of Ilizarov Scientific Meeting, Dana Point, California, February, 1999.

The Treatment of Segmental Bone Defects Using Ilizarov Techniques: Hands on Lab, Orthopaedic Trauma Association 15th Annual Meeting, Charlotte, North Carolina, October, 1999.

Meeting Chairman, Seventeenth Annual Smith & Nephew Resident Research Competition, Memphis, Tennessee, August, 2002.

Vice Program Chairman, Annual Edward T. Smith Orthopaedic Lectureship: Articular Cartilage. Houston, Texas, November, 2002.

Program Chairman, Texas Orthopedic Resident Quiz Bowl, Texas Orthopedic Association Annual Meeting. San Antonio, Texas, April, 2003.

Meeting Chairman, Eighteenth Annual Smith & Nephew Residents= Research Competition, Memphis, Tennessee, August, 2003.

Meeting Chairman, The Edward T. Smith Lectureship: Problem Fractures and Nonunions. Houston, Texas, November, 2003.

Program Chairman, Texas Orthopedic Resident Quiz Bowl, Texas Orthopedic Association Annual Meeting. Austin, Texas, May, 2004.

Meeting Chairman, Nineteenth Annual Smith & Nephew Residents’ Research Competition, Memphis, Tennessee, August, 2004.

Program Chairman, Texas Orthopedic Resident Quiz Bowl, Texas Orthopedic Association Annual Meeting. Austin, Texas, May, 2005.

Meeting Chairman, Twentieth Annual Smith & Nephew Residents’ Research Competition, Memphis, Tennessee, August, 2005.

Meeting Chairman, Twenty-First Annual Smith & Nephew Residents’ Research Competition, Memphis, Tennessee, August, 2006.

President, Houston Orthopedic Society Meeting, Houston, Texas, January, 2007.

President, Houston Orthopedic Society Meeting, Houston, Texas, April, 2007.

Program Chairman, Texas Orthopedic Resident Quiz Bowl, Texas Orthopedic Association

Annual Meeting. Austin, Texas, May, 2007.