Gerard "Jerry" Engh, MD, received the 2018 American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons Humanitarian Award for his medical mission work with Operation Walk Virginia.
Here are five things to know:
1. In 2006, Dr. Engh founded Oakton-based Operation Walk Virginia, which provides hip and knee replacements to communities needing orthopedic care in Managua, Nicaragua, Ecuador, Guatemala, Panama and Bolivia.
2. Lawrence D. Dorr, MD, founder of the first Operation Walk chapter in Los Angeles and previous Humanitarian Award recipient, presented the award to Dr. Engh at the AAHKS Annual Meeting in Dallas, Nov. 2.
3. In addition to providing care overseas, Dr. Engh also brought physicians from mission host countries to the U.S. to learn and observe knee and hip replacement surgical techniques to take back to their countries.
4. Dr. Engh spent 40 years of his orthopedic surgeon career at Arlington, Va.-based Anderson Orthopaedic Clinic, which was founded by his father Otto Anderson Engh, MD, in 1938.
5. After earning his medical degree from University of Virginia School of Medicine in Charlottesville, Dr. Engh completed his residency at Yale-New Haven (Conn.) Hospital and served as a major in the U.S. Army Medical Corps.