James Rickert, MD
Dr. Rickert is a board certified orthopedist who loves practicing medicine in the small town of Bedford, IN. He completed his orthopedic residency at Columbia-Presbyterian Hosp. in NYC. He is a general orthopedist who sees a great variety of patients in a largely rural area of the state. He enjoys time with his nearly unmanageable family of five and is blessed with a wife of 19 years. He is a member of the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons and is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Orthopedic Surgery at Indiana University. He may be contacted at :
jbrickertmd@comcast.net
Mark O. Hansen, MD
Dr. Hansen is a board certified orthopedist, practicing general orthopedics in South Central Indiana. Mark attended BYU and graduated with Highest Honors. He also spent 2 years as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in southern Chile from 1977-1979. He has practiced medicine as a General Medical Officer and Brigade Surgeon for the U.S. Army in Aschaffenburg, Germany from 1988-1990.
He currently serves as a board member for People and Animals Learning Service and for Prosthetics for the Dominican Republic. He is a member of Orthopedics Overseas and just completed an assignment in Peru in 2008. Finally, he volunteers at the Volunteers in Medicine Clinic in Bloomington, IN.
Walid Azzo, MD, PhD
Dr. Azzo practices orthopedics in Bluefield, West Virginia. He obtained his orthopedic training at Columbia-Presbyterian in NYC, and completed a fellowship in Joint Reconstruction at Case Western Reserve University. He also earned a PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Miami. He is board certified and a member of The American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons.
William Salot, MD
I'll be 75 next month, and I've had a look at American health care for over half a century. I've served in the military--once doing four appendectomies at sea aboard a cruiser off Vietnam, and I was a resident when LBJ brought in Medicare. I can still recall how hip fracture patients shifted from public "charity" care to private funding. I trained and have been in private practice in Detroit and have served as chief at one of Detroit's three major trauma centers. In the 1970s, I became active within the AAOS, ultimately becoming Chairman of the Board of Councilors and even Secretary of the Academy. I currently practice with 7 great partners and know well how hard orthopedic surgeons work, but I also know the tremendous gratitude that our patients feel for what we do.
Rob Rutherford, MD
Thomas S. Boniface, MD
Dr. Boniface is a Fellow of the Institute for Professionalism Inquiry at SUMMA in Akron, Ohio where he participates in research and teaching of relationship based/narrative medical care and education. He is Professor and Chairman of Orthopaedic Surgery at NEOUCOM, and he also teaches residents in Family Practice and Internal Medicine the joys of musculoskeletal medicine. Dr. Boniface is a Fellow of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgery and is a member of both the Ohio State and the Mahoning County Medical Societies. He is in practice with his brothers, Ray and Jim, in Boardman, OH.
Dr. Tom enjoys playing hockey, fly fishing, and old Italian cars. He is an Elder in the Presbyterian Church and is the Head Coach of the Cardinal Mooney Swim team. He lives in Poland, OH with his wife, Lisa, and their 4 children.
Tom Grogan, MD
Joel Weddington, MD
Dr. Weddington may be reached at joelwedd@yahoo.com
Charles "Chuck" Magill, MD
Augusto Sarmiento, MD
Ray Bellamy, MD
Frank Maletz, MD
Think where man's glory begins and ends and say that my glory was I had such friends. William Butler Yeats.
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