Directed by David L. Nelson, M.D.
Directed by David L. Nelson, M.D.
Directed by David L. Nelson, M.D.
The San Francisco Bay Area Hand Club is a group of approximately 130 hand surgeons and 30 hand therapists who meet twice a year. The meetings consist of a social hour, with wine and hors d'oeurvres followed by dinner, and culminating in a talk on a hand surgery topic by a nationally prominant hand surgeon. The Club is open to any surgeon or therapist who treats hand patients. There are no membership dues or applications, and the group's only function is the lectures. Please contact Dr. Nelson, at 1363 South Eliseo Drive, Suite B, Greenbrae, Ca 94904, or at 415-925-0501, to be added to the list or for more information.
Rob Medoff, MD
Friday, November 5, 2010
Ulnar Shortening
The location will be the Bellevue Club, 525 Bellevue Avenue, Oakland, 94612. (You can get a map from MapQuest: just enter the address of the club). The social hour will start at 6:00 pm and dinner is at 7:00 pm. Invitations will generally be sent approximately 6 weeks in advance. The usual meeting cost is $75 for surgeons and $65 for therapists. Reservations will be $20 more if received after October 29, due to advance notice requirements by the Bellevue Club. Please, no reservations at the door without telephoning Dr. Nelson.
Download the registration form here.
I look forward to meeting you at the Bellevue Club.
David L. Nelson, MD
Director, San Francisco Bay Area Hand Club
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Recent speakers have included:
| Mahesh Mankani, MD, and | May 21, 2010 | Wound VAC: Practical Application for the Hand Surgeon |
| Michael Grafe, MD | (NOTE: this link will not run in Firefox, but will run in Interner Explorer) | |
| Roy Meals, MD | November 6, 2009 | Hematoma Arthroplastyand Distraction for First CMC Arthritis |
| Robert Szabo, MD | May 8, 2009 | Avoiding Dogma in Hand Surgery |
| Gregory Buncke, MD | November 7, 2008 | Harry Buncke, MD - The Father of US Microsurgery |
| John Agee, MD | May 9, 2008 | Finger Contractures: The Digit Widget |
| Larry Schneider, MD | May 10, 2007 | Surgeries I No Longer Do |
| Melvin Rossenwasser, MD | November 9, 2006 | Distal Radius Fractures |
| Paul Manske, MD | May 12, 2006 | Writing for (and Reading) the Journal of Hand Surgery |
| Jorge Orbay, MD | November 18, 2005 | Distal Radius Fractures |
| Vincent "Rod" Hentz, MD | May 10, 2005 | Dupuyterns Disease and Collagenase: An Update |
Bowen Y. Wong, MD |
November 12, 2004 | "Nerve Conduction Testing for Hand Surgeons" |
| David Nelson, MD | May 14, 2004 | "Post-Operative Pain Management" |
| Peter Stern, MD | November 7, 2003 | "Current Perspectives on the Management of Small Joint Injuries and Arthrosis" |
| William Newmeyer, MD | May 23, 2003 | "History of the ASSH" |
| Thomas Trumble, MD | Nov 2, 2002 | "Distal Radius Fractures" |
| Louis Gilula, MD | May 10, 2002 | "The PA Approach to Wrist Radiographs" |
| William Geissler, MD | October 9, 2001 | "Arthroscopy and Distal Radius Fractures" |
| Robert Szabo, MD | May 10, 2001 | "Controversies in Carpal Tunnel Syndrome" |
| David Lichtman, MD | October 27, 2000 | "Lunotriquetral Injuries" |
| Arnold-Peter Weiss, MD | May 19, 2000 | "A New Silicon MCP Implant, and Two Fusion Plates" |
| Leonard Ruby, MD | November 12, 1999 | "Wrist Kinematics" |
| Andrew Weiland, MD | May 14, 1999 | "Scaphoid Fractures" |
| William Cooney, MD | November 6, 1998 | "Scaphoid Nonunions" |
| E. F. Shaw Wilgis, MD | May 8, 1998 | "Three Difficult Topics" |
| Gary Poehling, MD | November 11, 1997 | "Wrist Arthroscopy" |
| Hill Hastings, MD | May 9, 1997 | "Finger Fractures" |
| David Green, MD | November 10, 1996 | "Scaphoid Fractures" |
| Alan Freeland, MD | May 10, 1996 | "Proximal Phalanx Fractures" |
| Richard I. Burton, MD | November 10, 1995 | "Managed Care" |
| Ronald Linscheid, MD | May 19, 1995 | "The Distal Radioulnar Joint" |
| Paul Manske, MD | November 11, 1994 | "Tendon Healing" |
| Richard Gelberman, MD | April 20, 1994 | "Carpal Tunnel: Open or Endoscopic?" |
| Julio Talesnik, MD | December 5, 1993 | "Surgeries that I No Longer Perform" |
| Relton McCarroll, MD | June 5, 1993 | "Thumb Reconstruction" |
| Jack Tupper, MD | December 4, 1992 | "Mistakes in Hand Surgery" |
The San Francisco Bay Area Hand Club has been meeting for about three decades. Its origin is lost in the mists of time, but for many years, the hand surgeons of the area would get together at various locations for a local speaker. At one time, the location was the Nut Tree, on Highway 80 near Davis, since it was halfway between San Francisco and Sacramento. Other locations included most of the area's hospitals.
Sterling Bunnell was the founding father of hand surgery, and San Francisco was proud to boast of being the location of his practice as well as other early pioneers such as his partners, L.D. Howard and Donald Pratt (surgeons who knew and operated with all three partners said that Bunnell had the discipline to write, but Howard and Pratt were more accomplished surgeons), as well as John Neibauer and Gene Kilgore. No one can remember who held the first meeting, where it was, or who attended. None of these illuminaries are still with us, and the secret has gone with them.
The San Francisco Bay Area Hand Club continues their tradition of devotion to scholarship and fellowship in hand surgery.
San Francisco lost a pioneer of hand surgery, Dr. Harry Buncke, in May of 2008.