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11/13/2025

Post-OITE Pumpkins & Power thanks to ! 🎃🦴🔨

11/09/2025

Huge congratulations to our PGY-3, Dr. Abdoulie Njai, on receiving the Youth Empowerment Award at the Vitendo 4 Africa Ceremony last weekend.

The event featured the Mayor of St. Louis and the Kenyan Ambassador to the U.S. — we are proud to see Abdoulie recognized for his leadership and community impact.

11/07/2025

Another great Bridging the Gaps event! Big thanks to Dr. Ma and Dr. DeFroda for leading the sports medicine session, and to everyone who came out. Proud of our PGY-3, Dr. Abdoulie Njai, for his dedication to these outreach efforts

11/01/2025

Next ✨Intern Spotlight✨, Alex Alvero!

Why Mizzou Ortho? Mizzou offers an extremely well-rounded training experience, with exposure to Level I trauma and busy elective practices in both academic and community settings. This provides residents with a great opportunity and all the resources necessary to pursue any interest within orthopedics. Combined with Columbia being such a great place to live, Mizzou was an easy choice for me.

Favorite places in Columbia so far: Endwell Taverna, Logboat, Barred Owl

Hobbies/Interests: Spending time with my fiancé and our dog, Watson. Golf, fishing, and woodworking.

Subspecialty Interests: Trauma, sports, joints

Favorite OR music: Country and classic rock

Favorite bone 🦴 Talus

10/26/2025

Conference season continues! Dr. Elie Ghanem presents a podium at AAHKS comparing stem designs in cemented THA for femoral neck fracture utilizing the AJRR.

Dr. Gusho (PGY4) and Dr. Hoskins (former MU trauma fellow) join AAHKS Amplified Podcast to discuss their Surgical Techniques & Technologies award-winning podium on the ideal construct in aseptic revision TKA utilizing the AOANJRR.

10/21/2025

Mizzou Ortho at OTA 2025!

Our trauma attendings (+ cardboard cutout Dr. Crist), trauma fellow Dr. Anna Jacques, residency alumnus & current trauma fellow Dr. Pierre Schwab, and residents Drs. JT Stannard and Rown Parola all had an incredible time at the OTA Annual Meeting.

Congrats to Rown for giving an excellent talk on pelvic ring injuries, and to our Department Chair, Dr. Stannard, for delivering the prestigious John Border, MD Memorial Lecture on Life & Leadership.

We’re proud to have such a dedicated group shaping the future of orthopaedic trauma!

10/18/2025

Congrats to our awesome attending, Dr. Kenter, who was recently elected to the position of Director-Elect of the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery! A longtime ABOS volunteer, he has contributed as an exam writer and oral examiner, and now begins a decade-long commitment to advancing orthopaedic education and certification.

10/12/2025

We are proud to celebrate the remarkable contributions of our faculty and team members at the 2025 American Society for Surgery of the Hand (ASSH) Annual Meeting — a testament to their national expertise, leadership, and innovation in hand, microvascular, and peripheral nerve surgery.

👏 Dr. Sebastien Lalonde served as an educator for the Hands-On Tissue Transfer Course, helping advance surgical education and technique refinement.
💡 Bryce Rizvanovic, PhD candidate, presented his thought-provoking research, “Measuring What Matters: Patient Perspectives on Success and Recovery After Peripheral Nerve Injury,” sparking meaningful dialogue on patient-centered outcomes.
🔬 Dr. Julia Nuelle shared her expertise in managing complex ballistic nerve injuries, drawing from her unique experience as both a former active-duty and civilian hand and peripheral nerve surgeon. Additionally, Dr. Nuelle and her team’s groundbreaking work on peripheral nerve regeneration earned a Top 10 Research Presentation recognition, presented on the ASSH main stage.
🎤 Dr. Daniel London demonstrated extraordinary leadership — moderating the Adrian E. Flatt Residents and Fellows Conference Research Symposium, teaching courses on developing a research program and qualitative research and delivering insightful talks on Learning Theory, Technology, and the Modern Hand Surgery Learner and Current Concepts on Medications in Hand Surgery, and serving on an Expert Panel on Thumb Arthritis Treatments in the Young Patient.
🏆 Further, his outstanding contributions to clinical research and innovation were recognized with the 2025 J. Leonard Goldner Pioneer Clinical Research Award.

We are inspired by their excellence and proud to see their work shaping the future of hand, peripheral nerve, and upper extremity surgery. 💪🖐️

10/05/2025

Our next ✨Intern Spotlight✨, Caleb Bischoff!

Why Mizzou Ortho?: I grew up in Mid-Missouri, so Mizzou Ortho has always been a bit of a dream program for me. I was lucky to spend two years working in the ortho research department, and that gave me a real sense of the program—the resident camaraderie, the experience of a Level 1 trauma center, faculty who are invested in education, and the endless research opportunities. On top of that, the chance to train here while serving the people of Mid-Missouri made this program the perfect fit for me.

Favorite places in Columbia so far: Shakespeare’s Pizza, Logboat, Las Margaritas, and MKT trails

Hobbies/Interests: Spending time with my wife and boys, weightlifting, anything outdoors (walking trails, hiking, coaching soccer)

Subspecialty interests: Sports or Recon

Favorite OR music: Hip Hop

Favorite bone: Fabella

09/22/2025

Summer Recap!

1/2: We celebrated the graduation of Drs. Mustafa, Elfrink, Schwab, Choo, Durante, and Rizzo!
3: Julia (PGY-3) completed a 6-day staged race where she ran 120 miles across the state of Colorado!
4: Trauma team running the list in the courtyard
5: Neel (PGY-5) welcomed the birth of his first baby!
6: Fun tumor cases with Dr. Belzarena that everyone wants to scrub in on
7: Intern class celebrating the end of their first rotation
8: Our sports fellows and attendings on the sidelines of the Mizzou vs. KU game

09/07/2025

Our second ✨Intern Spotlight✨, Avery Schroeder!

Why Mizzou Ortho? I’m a Columbia, MO native and lifelong tiger fan, so Mizzou Ortho has been on my radar for a long time. I was fortunate to spend time with this program throughout my 4 years of medical school here - the resident camaraderie, combination of Level 1 trauma along with a large rural patient population, integrated research opportunities, and the opportunity to work and serve in my hometown make this a #1 program for me.

Columbia Favorites - RB State Park, MKT/Katy trails, Columbia Farmer’s Market, Lakota Coffee, Midway Antique Mall, D. Rowe’s, Angelo’s Pizza & Steakhouse, Shakespeare’s Pizza, Sophia’s

Hobbies/Interests - Time outside with my black lab Scout, Mizzou sports, crochet, antiquing, basketball/volleyball

Subspecialty interests - Pediatrics, Hand, and Sports

Favorite OR music - Country, but I love to switch it up!

Favorite bone 🦴- Femur

08/31/2025

First up in our ✨Intern Spotlight✨, Austin Skinner!

Why Mizzou Ortho? The residents were awesome to work with when I rotated here. I loved the feel of being at a blue-collar program while still having tons of academic resources to help residents pursue all of their interests within orthopedics.

Favorite places in Columbia so far: Logboat, Las Margaritas, and Trailside

Hobbies/Interests: Weightlifting, Hanging out with my fiancé and our dog, spending time outside, hiking, fishing, catching up on movies and TV shows

Subspecialty interests: Peds, Joints, Sports

Favorite OR music: 90s hip hop

Address

1100 Virginia Avenue
Columbia, MO
65201

Telephone

+15738841235

Website

http://www.medicine.missouri.edu/ortho-residency

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