The American Orthopaedic Association held its 132nd annual leadership meetings in San Diego, California, June 25-29, 2019. (Photo via aoassn.org)

Last week, a team of Department of Orthopaedic Surgery faculty and residents represented UAB at the American Orthopaedic Association's 132nd annual leadership meetings in San Diego, California.

This year’s event program spanned five days, June 25-29, at the Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina and was hosted in conjunction with the AOA Council of Orthopaedic Residency Directors, whose summer conference served as the last day of the AOA annual meeting program.

Department of Orthopaedic Surgery Chair Steven Theiss, M.D., attended the conference alongside the rest of the UAB Orthopaedics team, which included assistant professors Michael Johnson, M.D., and Sameer Naranje, M.D.; fifth-year orthopaedic surgery residents Allison Hunter, M.D., and Zane Hyde, M.D.; and Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery Brent Ponce, M.D. 

Ponce was also awarded first place for his abstract, “Orthopaedic Trainee Wellbeing and Burnout – A National Survey Conducted by the Collaborative Orthopaedic Educational Research Group,” which he presented as part of the meeting’s “Critical Issues” ePoster category.

Next year’s AOA leadership meetings are slated for June 10-13, 2020, in Baltimore, Maryland. Abstract submissions for the 2020 conference will open Monday, July 8. The deadline to submit is Sept. 3.