Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the Chair of the AOSSM Hall of Fame Committee, Dr. Brian Busconi. Thank you. Good morning, everyone. It's wonderful to be part of 52 years of AOSSM, or as I learned yesterday and coined by Dean, part of 52 years of awesome. My name is Brian Busconi, and I have the privilege of chairing the Hall of Fame Committee, whose charge is to select the most deserving candidates for induction into this prestigious group of AOSSM icons. I would like to thank my fellow Hall of Fame Committee members for their thorough and thoughtful work this year. The committee and I are humbled by the honor of considering candidates for our society's highest recognition. And I have to put a special shout out to Christine Tomaso, who's just done a fantastic job of organizing all of this. This year, we are thrilled to welcome a true giant of sports medicine into the AOSSM Hall of Fame, Chuck Bush Joseph. Chuck graduated from the University of Michigan Medical School in 1983. He completed his residency in orthopedic surgery at Rush, and then completed a fellowship with Frank Noyes at the Cincinnati Sports Medicine Institute. Chuck is a distinguished member of the orthopedic surgical team at Midwest Orthopedics at Rush and serves as a professor of orthopedic surgery at Rush University Medical Center. He has served as an associate director of Rush Orthopedic Sports Medicine Fellowship Program for 26 years. He is a respected educator of medical students, residents, fellows, and practicing orthopedic surgeons, lecturing at numerous national education meetings. Overall, to summarize some of his academic CVs, Chuck's own academic productivity has resulted in seven grants, 114 peer-reviewed manuscripts, and 26 book chapters. In addition to his robust education and research work, Chuck is an esteemed team physician for the Chicago White Sox, where he was the head team physician for 15 years, including one World Series championship in 2005. He also serves as an associate team physician for the Chicago Bulls and cares for patients at all levels, whether they be collegiate, high school, or amateur. He was elected to the Major League Baseball Medical Advisory Board and has served as the president of the Major League Baseball Team Physician Association in 2012. Truly an illustrious career. Chuck's involvement in AOSM extends to every area of our organization. He has chaired and served as a member of the Council of Delegates Research Fellowship Program Education and Nominating Committees. Truly amazing, Chuck. All your devotion to our society. He has chaired and served the faculty at dozens of courses. In 2015, he entered into the AOSM presidential line, eventually serving as our 46th president in 2017-18. Immediately at the conclusion of his presidential years, he began serving as the chair of the AOSM Medical Publishing Board, which is a position he still holds. Quite honestly, though, if you were to ask Chuck, he would certainly say that of all of his accomplishments, the ones he finds most prestigious in his heart is his marriage to his wife, Vicki, 41 years, his three adult children, Kathleen, Sam, and Jack, all of which are here with us, and the three grandchildren who are all patiently waiting for this to get over so they can have some more muffins. These truly are Chuck's number one priority. Bernie Bach, who nominated Chuck for the Hall of Fame and is his longtime colleague at Rush, summarizes Chuck as follows. Between the bookends of intelligence and surgical skills, Chuck has the intangibles that make him a very special individual. Affect, character, ethics, integrity, dedication, humility, respect, consistency, he is a consummate teammate. This most certainly is reflected in how AOSM members view Chuck, and to quote Bernie, Chuck is just a great guy. I could not agree more. Please welcome to the AOSM Hall of Fame, Chuck Bush Joseph. Well, thank you very much. It's always nice to hear words like that when you're still looking at the green side of the grass, so I really appreciate that, Brian. First of all, I want to say congratulations to Dean Taylor, our president, who's done a fabulous job, put on a wonderful meeting. His program chairs, Allison and John Dickens, they're so good that actually I hear that Ned has absconded them for the AOS meeting, so unfortunately they're going to be professionals. I don't want to take much time, but I do want to acknowledge a few things. Number one, there are certain times in our life where certain people have effect, and I was a beneficiary of that. In addition to my wife, Vicki, I was just a young doctor. My dad was a truck driver, but I met the right people at the right time, and those people had such tremendous influence on my life, and that's the opportunity that everybody in this room has, and we need to make sure that we follow through on, really, what is our duty. Somebody opened the door for me, and I'm going to challenge everybody in this room, you have to open the door for somebody else, if not three or four others. I'm so honored to be the 90th member of the AOS Assembly Hall of Fame, and I guess what I'm going to say again, that associations mean so much to us. You know, we all have our challenges at home, our hospitals, our practices, our local environments, but this is our locker room. We're team physicians, and every player that I've taken care of over the 40 years of my career, they love the locker room, and I can't say I'm any different. I love this locker room. I can't wait to see my teammates and share the same stories and the same challenges and the same successes. So as I mentioned earlier, those four people have really had a huge influence in my life, beyond my wife, Vicki, who my life partner forever. I had the opportunity to meet Ed Voidus when I was a fourth-year medical student, and I thought I was going to be an internist, because they were the smart guys, and I thought potentially I was a smart guy, and Ed convinced me of a different direction that I owe him forever. But certainly the most important person was Bernie Bach. Obviously, Bernie has been my lifetime partner that has allowed me to, you know, to develop and grow into positions and things that I thought was never capable of a truck driver's son from the Lower East Side of Detroit. And then Frank Noyes. Frank Noyes sort of gave me the thought and the education in how to understand data and how to study it and how to look critically. And then the fourth person, unfortunately, who could not make it here today, was a big influence and helped me realize the value of this organization was Chris Harner. I've been touched by so many fabulous people who've had a great influence on my career. And you know, as I said at our fellowship event last night, I'm only here because I was lucky enough to interact with so many of the people in this room. All of you have added something to my life and added something to our profession and hopefully to our patients in the world as a whole. So with that, I want to thank all of you again. I want to thank Jonathan and Allison for putting on such a spectacular meeting. Every meeting we have in this organization is better than the year before. Thank you, Brian, very much for the opportunity. And thank you to the AOSSM. Give it up for Chuck, baby! Yeah! Chuck, congratulations again on this well-deserved honor. A quick reminder that the Hall of Fame candidate submission process will open in the fall of 2024. We encourage you to review the qualifications and nominate your eligible mentor or colleague. And please join us right after this morning's session for a very special networking opportunity. Many of our Hall of Famers, past and present, will be in the member zone to share and connect with you all. As Chuck said, welcome to this awesome locker room that is AOSSM. Thank you very much. Thank you.

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