Visiting Professor, Motion Analysis Center
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- Friday, November 13, 2009
- 9 a.m. to 11:55 a.m.
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Children's Memorial Hospital, Bigler Auditorium |
2300 Children's Plaza
, Chicago
, IL
60614
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The Motion Analysis Center at Children's Memorial Hospital is proud to announce Hank Chambers, MD, as this year's Visiting Professor. Local talent will also present their work in related topics.
Hank Chambers, MD, is a pediatric orthopedic surgeon at Rady Children’s Hospital and Health Center in San Diego. He also serves as a clinical professor of Orthopedic Surgery at the University of California at San Diego. After medical school at Tulane University School of Medicine, he completed an orthopedic surgery residency at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, TX. He finished a pediatric orthopedic surgery fellowship in San Diego under David Sutherland, Scott Mubarak and Dennis Wenger in 1990.
He is currently the David Sutherland Director of Cerebral Palsy Research at Rady Children’s Hospital. Dr Chambers was the chief of staff at Rady Children’s Hospital San Diego from 2004 – 2006 and now serves as the director of the Motion Analysis Laboratory and the Sports Medicine Program. He is active nationally in many organizations including the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons, the Pediatric Orthopedic Society of North America, and the American Academy of Pediatrics. He is currently the president of the American Academy for Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine. His wife, Jill, is active in many local and national patient advocacy groups. His son, Sean (27), who has cerebral palsy, is currently in an assisted living situation in San Diego, and other son, Reid (26) is attending medical school in Chicago.
Dr. Chambers will share his experiences with the Children's Memorial broad community on a variety of motion analysis-related topics.
Target audience: Surgeons, orthopaedics and neurosurgery; physical medicine and rehabilitation physicians; therapists, occupational and physical; orthotists and prosthetics; biomechanical or rehabilitation engineers and kinesiologists; respective residents and medical students; and in general those involved in the decision-making process and delivery of interventions for the care of children with neuromusculoskeletal-related movement disorders.
Further details are forthcoming.