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VISITING PRESIDENTS
AMERICAN ORTHOPAEDIC
ASSOCIATION
represented by the
Vice-President
Sanford E. Emery MD, MBA
Dr. Emery is Professor and Chair of
the Department of Orthopaedics,
Interim Chair of the Department of
Surgery, and Director of Surgical
Services at West Virginia University
in Morgantown, West Virginia. He
has been in the active practice of orthopaedic surgery for
the last 27 years, sub-specializing in spine surgery.
Dr. Emery did his undergraduate studies at Dartmouth
College and medical school at Duke University School
of Medicine. He completed his orthopaedic surgical
residency at the University of Rochester/Strong Memorial
Hospital in Rochester, New York and received his fellowship
training at Case Western Reserve University Hospitals
in Cleveland, Ohio. While on faculty at Case Western
Reserve, he obtained his MBA from Weatherhead School
of Management in 2003.
He is the immediate past president of the ABOS and serves
as a Senior Director of the ABOS. Dr. Emery is also a
member of several professional medical societies including
the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, North
American Spine Society, Orthopaedic Research Society,
West Virginia Orthopaedic Society, and is a past president
of the Cervical Spine Research Society. He has over sixty
publications, thirty-three book chapters, one textbook, and
has been invited to present his work on over two hundred
occasions at local, regional, national, and international
meetings. He has received external funding for his research
activities as a co-investigator or principal investigator
from the NIH and foundation sources for translational
and clinical outcome studies. Dr. Emery has chaired
the Department of Orthopaedics at WVU since 2003.
He has grown the department from five to twenty-five
full-time faculty, established a resident research program,
and fostered a significant increase in both funding and
productivity of basic and clinical research in Orthopaedics.
AMERICAN ACADEMY OF
ORTHOPAEDIC SURGEONS
David Teuscher
David is the Immediate Past President
after completing service as the 83rd
President of the American Academy
of Orthopaedic Surgeons in March
2016. He has been in full-time private
practice of orthopaedic surgery with
specialty interest in sports medicine
in Southeast Texas at Beaumont Bone
and Joint Institute since completing thirteen years active
duty U.S. Army service in 1993. A Team Physician for Lamar
University NCAA intercollegiate athletics, he also works with
several local high school athletic training departments.
After completing a Bachelor’s degree at the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, David joined the Army and
was awarded his M.D. at the University of Texas Medical
School at San Antonio. His Orthopaedic Chief residency
year at The Brooke Army Medical Center was highlighted
with deployment with the 144th Evacuation Hospital in
Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm in the liberation
of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. He has held academic
appointments with the University of Oklahoma and Baylor
University, and clinical faculty with the University of Texas
Medical Branch at Galveston.
Over the past twenty years David has been deeply involved
in a wide variety of public policy debates in Washington,
Austin and numerous other state capitals. A four time
Gubernatorial appointee; he has served the state of Texas
on the Texas Tax Reform Commission, the Texas Inaugural
Committee, Vice-Chairman of the Texas Youth Commission,
and now serves as the Secretary of the Board of Directors of
the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board in charge
of all public higher education in Texas including 38 colleges
and universities, 50 community colleges and 12 academic
health science centers. He was appointed by the Supreme
Court of Texas in 2012 to serve on the Board of Directors of
the State Bar of Texas.
In addition to his many roles in the AAOS, he has served
in volunteer leadership positions of the Texas Orthopaedic
Association, Texas Medical Association, Western
Orthopaedic Association, American Orthopaedic Society
for Sports Medicine, American Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle
Society, and the American Medical Association.
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