From four surgeons named vice chairs at an Arkansas hospital to the leader of an arthroscopy association, here are seven orthopedic 10 who gained new titles in May:
1. Mark Getelman, MD, of Van Nuys, Calif.-based Southern California Orthopedic Institute, was named the Arthroscopy Association of North America president for 2021-2022.
2. Susan Bukata, MD, has been named chair of the department of orthopedic surgery at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and UC San Diego Health.
3. Little Rock-based University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Medicine named David Bumpass, MD; Steven Cherney, MD; Simon Mears, MD, PhD, and Theresa Wyrick, MD, as vice chairs for orthopedic surgery.
4. Rachel Thompson, MD, has been appointed the William and Patricia Oppenheim Presidential Chair in Pediatric Orthopaedics at the David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California Los Angeles.
5. Thomas Graham, MD, a hand surgeon and former chief innovation officer at Cleveland Clinic, has joined the leadership team at Kettering (Ohio) Health.
6. Ann Arbor-based Michigan Medicine has appointed Michelle Caird, MD, chair of its orthopedic surgery department.
7. April Armstrong, MD, was named chair of the Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and Penn State College of Medicine.