NEHS 39th Annual Meeting Summary

Thank you to all who made the 39th NEHS Annual Meeting a great success. More than 200 hand surgeons, therapists, residents and fellow joined their colleagues for a day of abstract presentations and guest speaker presentations. Special thanks to guest speaker, Robert Szabo, MD and Carinne Burns, MD who provided clinical information and thought provoking discussions on Avoiding Dogma in Surgery and Skin Cancer Updates (respectively).

Congratulations to the recipient of the 2011 H.Kirk Watson Founder's Award, Cameron Keating, MD, Massachusetts for his abstract on "Rapid Behavioral Recovery Achieved by Axonal Reconnection with Polyethylene Glycol and Methylene Blue after Sciatic Nerve Transactions."

During the business meeting of the NEHS, nominations and elections for Physician Membership Chairman took place and the Society welcomes Hervey Kimball, MD as the newly elected officer. Dr. David Ring will move up to serve as President; Samuel Scott, MD, will serve the Society as Vice President and Charles Cassidy, MD will be the Secretary Treasurer. Outgoing President, David Bass, MD, was presented with a plaque by Dr. Ring for his leadership, dedication and years of service to the Society.

Abstracts 2011, Therapist and Guest Speaker Presentations - read abstracts