Welcome to the AOSSM Anna Combined 2021 Annual Meeting. Please welcome to the stage AOSSM President, Michael G. Ciccotti. Good morning. How's everyone doing? All right. Well, it is my great pleasure to begin one of our AOSSM time-honored traditions, our AOSSM awards program, which includes our AOSSM Hall of Fame inductees, followed by our 2020 and 2021 Robert E. Leach Award presentations. And I would now like to invite up to the podium our outstanding chair of the Hall of Fame Committee, Mary Lloyd Ireland. Thank you. I can't tell you how excited I am and fortunate to serve as the Hall of Fame Chairman. And welcome to the Southeast. Y'all should enjoy this. I also would like to thank my committee members and Ed McDivitt for their time and support. The inductees from 2020 and 2021 are here, all except for Ken Singer, who we will honor next year. He spent his entire career at the University of Oregon, all 40-ish years of that. All our Hall of Famers have stayed in one place. I think that's exceptional. I wanted to share one quote from Hippocrates that embodies all of these inductees. Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also love of humanity. Collectively, all of these Hall of Famers share character and professionalism. They are humble, kind, and have faith, strong sense of family, and community, and our society, AOSSM. I asked the inductees for three adjectives and a quote that they lived by and why they are now Hall of Famers. It was difficult for them to come up with these, but they finally did. I also asked their primary nominator for the same thing. So I will share with you these quotes and where they were trained and where they went to school. First is Bob Stanton, Williams undergrad, Columbia Medical School, Yale residency. He has practiced in Fairfield, Connecticut, private practice for his entire career. His adjectives, patient-focused, caring, enthusiastic, quote, I have two. If you join an organization, participate and volunteer your time. When life serves up random opportunities, welcome them and seize them. His primary nominator, P. Delicato, dedicated to AOSSM for more than 30 years, loyal to a small private university in Fairfield, Connecticut, affable, never met anyone that he didn't like as a friend. He has passion for polo, for skiing, for his family, personal and his AOSSM family. I present inductee from 2020, Bob Stanton. Well thank you. Thank you, Mary Lloyd, and thank you to the Hall of Fame committee. I'm incredibly humbled and honored to be inducted into the Hall of Fame. I think I've known or have known, unfortunately, have known most of those previously inducted into the Hall of Fame. I always thought that serving as chairman of the Hall of Fame committee, which I did several terms ago, was as close as I would ever be to joining this special group. So from the bottom of my heart, thank you. My first AOSSM meeting was in Williamsburg, Virginia, nearly 40 years ago. I only knew a few members at that time. I still remember how I was immediately made to feel like I belonged. Members I only knew from hearing their talks or reading their papers or articles about the athletes they were caring for in the newspaper immediately welcomed me. I realized almost immediately that the AOSSM was truly a member-run organization. Its strengths was and is member participation. The AOSSM is a family, my family, and I mean that. And every member should pitch in, present your research, teach a course, join a committee, be involved. That is what I did, never expecting any more reward than making us the premier sports medicine organization in the world. From serving on and chairing many committees to being honored to serve as your president and then as chairman of the Medical Publishing Board of Trustees has made me a better person and has led to cherished friendships throughout the world. I know that many of you are here today. Thanks to all for your help and support, something I hope that I have returned to you. Today's other inductees are all my friends. What a special group with whom to be inducted, just a great group of people. I would never have achieved this honor without the support of my late wife, Debbie, who I am sure is smiling down on me, and my wife, Mandy, who is sitting here filming, who is my support and anchor. So from the bottom of my heart, thank you very much for this great honor. Thank you. Next inductee from 2020, Vince McInerney, St. Peter's University undergrad, Rutgers, New Jersey Medical School, Seton Hall, St. Joseph Residency, Fellowship Mass General, one of the first. He has practiced in New Jersey, Meridian School, Seton Hall University, Hackensack, his entire career. Again, another phenomenal accomplishment. He has some quotes, enjoy life and spiritual values. His adjectives are joyous, enthusiastic, visionary. His quote, start by doing what's necessary, then do what's possible. And suddenly, you are doing the impossible, St. Francis of Assisi. Anthony Scalia, his nominator, energetic, caring, dedicated. Throughout his 40-year career, he has tirelessly dedicated to helping educate and mentor anyone interested in the field of sports medicine, from students of all levels, trainers, physical therapists, and physicians of any background. Congratulations, Dr. McInerney. This is our second tennis player. I think we got a racket going on here. Thank you, Mary Lloyd and the Hall of Fame committee for this incredible honor. Congratulations to my co-honorees, all my buddies and friends. What spectacular people they are. I'm here because of my family, Lisa, my wonderful wife and soulmate, Laurel, my daughter, and my son, Vincent, who is in heaven and paradise watching over me. My four sisters, my residents, the New Jersey Orthopedic Society, my partners, Anthony Scalia, Jim Paroli, Stu Fisher, Deepak Patel, my role models and mentors, Bert Zarens, my best teacher, Mark Bolan, Russ Warren, Tom Wikowitz, Stu Hirsch, Shep Horowitz, and it goes on, John Fulkerson, Jack Ryan, Jim Andrews, Jeffrey Abrams, even Mary Noyes here. Great to see you, Mary. From Eric Hast, my neighbors, and John Bergfill. My spiritual leaders, what a trio, John Kelly, Eddie McDivitt, and, of course, Eric McCarty. My professional family at Seton Hall University and the Sisters of Charity at St. Joseph's University Hospital. Our children have grown up together, loving the Family Olympics. Kudos to George Merriman and Bill Bew for organizing and sponsoring the Family Olympics for many years, and maybe somehow George will do it again. The AOSSM embodies everlasting principles, camaraderie and friendship of the highest quality, relentless pursuit of clinical research and educational excellence. This is a call to action for our young members. I echo Bob Stanton. Be active. Sign up for committees. Be philanthropic. Give back by supporting the incredible efforts of this superb organization. Believe in our motto, living, loving, learning, and our journey through life together. Thank you for this great honor. Thank you. Now to the three 2021 inductees. Gotta hold your applause, because I know there'll be a lot. Bob Arciero, St. Bonaventure undergraduate, Georgetown School of Medicine, Medical School, Army Medical Center, Washington State, fellowship with John Fagan. He served as the Army doctor at Keller Army Hospital, West Point, until 2000, and presently is professor at the University of Connecticut. He was the last guy to get his adjectives in, too. He had trouble with this, finally got him on something. Team first, friendship, camaraderie, open-minded, quote, what you lack in talent can be overcome with a commitment to excellence, drive, and giving 110% effort all the time. Gus Mazzocca, he was the first one in with these adjectives, and he doesn't have three. Integrity, spirit, honesty, helpful, gracious, team player, friendship, competitive energy, especially in the OR, amazing experience in understanding, technical superiority, loyal, respectful, communication, love of family, wine, beer, and music. Happy, proud, so those were his three adjectives, sorry about that. And also he has a few quotes, quote Gus Mazzocca on Bob Arciero, you need to read the orthopedic literature before year 2000. Detailed history and complete physical exam will give you the most clues you need to successfully treat a patient. Know your limitations and do not be afraid to ask for help. Prepare and practice in the OR just like athletes. We love the con, but the con does not love us back. Not sure what that meant, but I'll have to find out. I present to you Hall of Famer Bob Arciero. Thank you so much. Thank you Mary Lloyd and the Hall of Fame committee. Quick brief little story, Gus walks into my office in October, says, hey how old are you? I said, I'm 65. He goes, I'm on the Hall of Fame committee, that's all you got to be is 65 to be nominated. All your buddies are on the committee, it's stacked, you're in. Who would expect anything less than Gus to say that, right? I want to thank my little brother, he is not here. I want to thank Bernie Bock and Freddie Fu for writing these incredibly untrue letters. And of course I want to thank the Hall of Fame committee. And I do want to thank my bride, Kathy, who has waged war for 43 years with me, has been very supportive, taking care of our children. And I do want to thank the AOSSM for giving me an opportunity to embrace my clinical practice, maybe look at things, ask questions, what doesn't work, and giving me a vehicle to be involved in the best society in the world. And just a fabulous, fabulous opportunity. And to that point, I have to extend my thanks to Jack Ryan and Jim Wheeler, my first two bosses at West Point. Being a non-West Point grad, and Jack being a West Point grad, he really did take, he doesn't realize how much of an effect he had on me. But he took me under his wing and said, here's what you got to do. And same for Walt Curl, who was daring enough to ask me to be his program chair back in 2000, and really set me on a pathway to take advantage and volunteer and take opportunity. And I think I could go on and on with so many people who have had a positive influence on my life. One other one was Bob Winquist when I was a resident. He's one of my orthopedic idols. And he just set a standard of excellence for everything, and he used to say, the enemy of good is shitty. That's what he used to say. Not the enemy of good is perfect, but is shitty. So I said, ah, okay. It means it's okay to strive for perfection. Don't accept less. But anyway, I want to get back to our AOSSM family. I congratulate everybody coming in. These are wonderful people. I go back so far with Jo, almost to the beginning of my career, and I've had a special relationship with her, and can't wait to hear her speak here. The last thing I want to leave is I'm very, very proud and uplifted by the Emerging Leaders program, and I hope there's enough of you in here that really grab this opportunity and bring our society to the next level. I listened to some of the talks today, yesterday, and there's a whole bunch of child prodigies out there, and the AOSSM will bear fruit from your effort, so don't be afraid. Thank you very much. Thank you. Gus did recuse himself from the vote because he was a partner. And Dr. Arcio still got in unanimously. Next Joe Hanifin, Brown undergrad, Dartmouth post-grad, Albert Einstein Medical School, Albert Einstein Montefiore Residency, Fellowship, HSS, Russ Warren, Tom Wickwitz, and others. A true physician scholar. Her adjectives, grateful, consensus builder, passionate. This quote has been in her office her entire career by Troy Smith, if your presence doesn't make an impact, your absence won't make a difference either. Peter Andelicato, extremely focused, loyal, fight and survivor. His quote, if she played football she'd be a linebacker. So to the linebacker Joe Hanifin, who is an elite rower, one of her favorite books was Boys in the Boat, and I must say that she has supported, mentored, and empowered women to be the girl in the boat. So here's to the best girl in the boat, always push for us and others, I present Joe Hanifin, Hall of Famer. All right, we got all the women in blue and white over there, there's a theme to the day today. I'd like to thank the Hall of Fame committee for honoring my career in sports medicine with induction into the Hall of Fame. And as other people have said, I am really truly humbled to join this incredible group of men and one woman, Sandy Kirkley, who unfortunately passed away early in her career, who served our profession, the society, the sports medicine community, and most important, our patients. When I began my residency in 1985, I had no idea what the future would hold for me. The only thing I knew was I wanted to be a sports medicine doc, and everything flowed from there. I owe a deep debt of gratitude to my three primary mentors at HSS, Doctors Russell Warren, Tom Wikowitz, and Steven Arnosky, who are all members of the Hall of Fame, which is pretty cool that I get to join them. They helped me to finally tune my surgical skills, my diagnostic skills, and research skills, particularly in the year I spent with Steve, and not only served as my mentors, but more importantly, they served as my sponsors, and I think that's a word we all have to think about. Mentors guide you, sponsors open doors for you. And they opened doors to me in the early 1990s when being a female in sports medicine was really the exception. There are a number of people here who were with me at my first meeting, and John Fagan walked up to us in the back of the room and saw these six women standing together because we didn't know anyone, and he took a photograph of us, which he sent to all of us with a camera, so you couldn't email it, sent it to all of us, and we have all treasured that picture for all of our careers. I'd also like to thank my partners in the Women's Sports Medicine Center at HSS. We have a great time working together and have been supportive of each other over the years. I'd also like to thank, as everyone else has, all who participate in the OSSM, from the clinical giants who I learned from during my career, to the young members who I'm continuing to learn from, who are gonna advance the science of sports medicine and will move the society forward. And most importantly, I'd like to thank my husband, John Brisson, and my children, Andrew, Caitlin, and Connor, for their love, support, and extraordinary patience throughout this career, because time away has sometimes been difficult, and they've been really wonderful through the whole time. Thanks very much. Thank you. And last but not least today, Ben Kibler. I am so privileged and proud to introduce him to be a Hall of Famer and also to have practiced in the same city for the last 30-40 years. He's a Vanderbilt Commodore through and through, undergraduate medical school presidency. His fellowship was self-taught, self-directed. He was passionate about sports medicine and learning more about sports medicine, so he basically blazed his own trail. He practices at the Lexington Clinic for the last 44 years and he has taught us so much about the importance of the scapula and body and shoulder and elbow injuries. His adjectives, consistent, intelligent, innovative. He gave me three more. Consistent, again. Character, excellence. His quote, fortunate is he who knows the cause of things, Virgil. There's another quote from Jed Kuhn. He is a kind, humble man of faith who has given a unique way of looking at the world. Instead of anatomy, he sees function. Instead of pathology, he sees dysfunction. This has led to a paradigm shift in the way orthopedic surgeons think, considering the patient's function to be paramount in our approach to treatment. Pete Hester was his primary sponsor, nominator, and he was very enthusiastic as well. Pete's adjective for Dr. Kibler, relentless, pioneering, stubborn. This foundation is his relationship with and faith in Christ who he trusts in full and allows to guide him in everything he does. He is a man of great faith and he allows that gift to lead him in practice of medicine and healing. His pioneering efforts and bold conceptualization of scapula function and dysfunction by the way of thorough understanding of anatomy along with his application of biomechanical and engineering principles yielded a revolutionary approach to understanding shoulder pathology and altered how we treat many patients and athletes. I present to you 2021 Hall of Famer Ben Kibler. Well, thank you, Mary Lloyd and the committee, like all the others. I just want to say what an honor it is to be here. When I started on this journey in the A.O.S.S.M. back in 1986 at Sun Valley, I had no idea where it was going to end, that it would end here. It's been a great journey with all of you all alongside. One of the things that guided me on this journey is what my father told me. He said, son, God puts you on this earth to be useful to your fellow man. Do it God's way and things will be all right. And I've tried to live it that way. Obviously, as everybody said, there's a whole lot of people that need to be acknowledged and thanked. First of all is these groups here that are represented at this meeting. They provide the structure, the dynamics, the resources for us to be the best we can. Among the people, there's way too many to acknowledge individually, but there's a group of them. One would be the mentors, the guys that went before me. They were my role models. They had the vision. They encouraged and guided me. I look to them as the titans. Most of them are in the Hall of Fame. Second group are the people that are my colleagues, my collaborators. We grew together. We learned together. We had good times. We innovated in sports medicine. It's been a great time in the last 40 years to innovate. They're my friends and my colleagues. As other people, Bob said, the group is coming behind me and us. The guys who challenge us. They always make me bring my A-game to this meeting and these discussions. Thank you very much for them as well. Special thanks to my nominator, my practice partner, Pete Hester, and for my supporters, Jed Kuhn, Brian Cole, Eric McCarty, and Buddy Savoy. Thank you very much for your support. Much more importantly, I want to thank my family, especially my wife of 51 years, Betty. She is my main encourager, friend, resource person. Bob Leach told me, you can be your best if you've got a good, stable home life. Boy, I got a winner when God put Betty into my life. Special thanks for my two sons and their families, Dave and Chase. They're great in their achievements. Most importantly and last is that I've got to acknowledge God. He's the creator of this wonderful, complex body. He gave me the skills and the abilities to do what I've done on this journey. So once again, thank you all very much for this great honor. Thank you all very much. Enjoy Nashville. Tim McGraw song, Be Humble and Kind. That's what our group here is. Thank you all very much. Thank you, Mary Lloyd. That was perfect. So now we're going to continue our AOSSM awards program with the 2020 Robert E. Leach Award presentation by our incoming president, Kurt Spindler. Well, it's certainly a great honor to present this Leach Award, especially to someone that I've known for a long time. The Robert E. Leach Award is bestowed upon the AOSSM member who has provided the most outstanding service and the highest contributions to sports medicine. So this is our individual winner in the younger days. I know we all like our young pictures of ourselves. Here's college days. He went for one year to Air Force and then to a school up north. You'll know what that is. Finally, here is his residency days and his picture, and I want you to notice that great mustache that was there at the time. And maybe this was how we treated ACLs way back when in the old days when we put casts on people after we reconstructed them. And finally, this is him with his partners and Gerald O'Connor and group of people he's worked with for many, many, many years. Of course, he's supported by his lovely wife for many years. And his family, and you can see those colors through and through, tried and true through the whole family. Finally, many hobbies, friends' hobbies, fishing, hunting. And one of the passions he has is his mission work to Haiti. It's taken very seriously. And then if you look at the top center picture, that is him with Alan Anderson on his traveling fellowship when he was younger. And this picture surrounding that as a godfather on the traveling fellowships, as an ambassador for us at AOSSM around the world. Finally with his close friend, Bruce Ryder. Many other friends pictured there in this room. And here he is, as you know him, as his contributions as editor for many, many years to sports health. This is the... And welcome, Ed, as the Robert E. Leach Award winner 2020. Words can't express my appreciation to the society, to all my friends here, the great experiences I've had, and especially to my family, my wife Robin, who's here today, my son. Thank you very much. So now it's my honor to induce Mark Miller to come present the 2021 Leach Award. I am pleased to announce that the 2021 Robert E. Leach Award, formerly known as Mr. Sports Medicine, will be awarded for the first time ever to a woman. This recipient is no stranger to this audience. She was just honored and also was a Kennedy Lecturer at Specialty Day. But because that lecture was virtual and many of you did not see it, I will try to capture any suspense remaining. Our recipient, the middle child of three, grew up in Falls River, Massachusetts. Her parents, Arthur and Helen, installed a strong work ethic in all of their children. Although she played basketball and swam in high school, she did not discover her true sport until she founded the women's varsity crew team at Brown University, pushing for equity and equality. Following her graduation from Brown, she did postgraduate work at another Ivy League school, attending Albert Einstein University, where she earned her Ph.D. and M.D. She continued rowing throughout this time and jumped to the national level, winning national championships in her third year of medical school. And in 1984, she rode her way to the top, setting records at the head of Charles Regatta and a silver medal in the World Championships in Montreal, where women competed for the first time at the same distance as men. Not only did she find excellent coaching at the New York Athletic Club, where she trained, she also found the love of her life when she met John, her husband of almost 39 years. After graduating from medical school, our recipient completed a two-year fellowship at HSS and was invited to stay on as staff. So after almost two decades in training, she began as a junior and then an assistant attending HSS. She was so successful at HSS that she garnered many accolades and was recognized for her outstanding research and teaching skills. She also founded the Women's Sports Medicine Center at HSS in 1997. She retired earlier this year after 31 years at that institution and will be greatly missed. Our awardee has been very active in Olympic team coverage, serving as rowing team physician since 1994 and as the head team physician for that sport since 2015. She also served as team physician for many other sports, including being the head team physician for the WNBA's New York Liberty since 2005. As I mentioned previously, the New York Athletic Club brought our recipient success in rowing but also brought her a lifetime partnership with her husband, John. Not only were they partners in life, they also were rowing partners, with many wins and mixed doubles to their credit. They trained together and continued to track through life together with a beautiful family. Her greatest joy, however, will come from her three wonderful children. Andrew, who are oldest, thrived in the arts and graduated from Alfred University. Andrew is now a successful artist in Denver. He's a very bright child and consistently challenged everything, earning the nickname the King of Contradiction. Kaitlyn, her daughter on the other hand, had propensity to spill or knock something over, earning her the title the Queen of Spillage. Kaitlyn, who also graduated from Brown, now works in Seattle in tech and is getting married this fall. Congratulations to Kaitlyn. We all send her our best wishes. And Connor, the youngest, discovered at an early age that polite words worked. So he was aptly dubbed the Prince of Politeness. A successful diver, winning medals at the NCAA championships, these days Connor is working in New York City as a real estate analyst. If there was any doubt about our recipient's kindness, dedication, and compassion, one only needs to look at her beautiful family for proof. She was the first female president of AOSSM in 2014 and has served as a member of the AOSSM board for nine years. She was also the first female president of the Herodica Society in 2015. She's published over 150 articles in peer-reviewed journals, received numerous awards, including the Orthopedic Research New Investigator Award, Our Society's O'Donoghue Award and Revere Award, the New York Academy of Science Outstanding Woman in Science Award, the U.S. Rowling Jack Kelly Award, the ORS Women's Leadership Forum Award, the Einstein Modifior Orthopedic Distinguished Alumnus Award. She's an honorary medical officer of the City of New York Fire Department. She's Castle Connolly Physician of the Year and a Lifetime Achievement Award from her own institution, the Hospital for Special Surgery, in 2014. The accolades go on and on and all are well-deserved. Through her numerous contributions to the field of sports medicine and services to the AOSSM, she's made lasting contributions to our profession throughout her career. Her list of first women to do is quite remarkable, both in and out of medicine. Today we celebrate her career and her accomplishments. She's an extraordinary doctor, a dedicated wife and mother, and a very supportive friend. And if everything I listed this morning is not impressive enough, she's also a cancer survivor in her ninth year of remission, as if we did not have enough to celebrate already. With all that said, it's my absolute honor and pleasure to award the 2021 Robert E. Leach Award to my friend, Dr. Joe A. Hannafin. Well, the only good thing is I was happy to see that Ed was crying on the way up because I'm not just the girl crying up on the podium here. I was joking with a number of the women in the forum before that I was trying my best not to cry with the Hall of Fame because I said when I started orthopedics, I promised myself I would never cry in front of another orthopedic surgeon. And now I've just cried in view of a couple of thousand. But I'm honored, I'm really humbled, and extraordinarily grateful. And gratitude is my mantra over the last decade or so. And what I've learned is that gratitude is good for everybody, even if you don't feel like you need to be grateful. It improves your spirit, it improves the way you deal with people. So whatever little things happen in your day, be grateful for it because God is good and life is good. Thank you very much.

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