Dr. Lew Schon, director of Foot and Ankle Services and director of the Foot and Ankle Fellowship at Union Memorial Hospital in Baltimore, is the new president of the American Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Society. Dr. Schon will also serve on the Board of Directors of the Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Outreach & Education Fund (OEF). Dr. Schon is a two time recipient of the prestigious Roger Mann Award and the J. Leonard Goldner Award.
Lew C. Schon, M.D. Installed as President of AOFAS
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Dr. Schon is assistant professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at the Johns Hopkins University and clinical associate professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Georgetown University School of Medicine. Dr. Schon received his medical degree from Albany Medical College in Albany, New York, and did his residency at Hospital for Joint Diseases Orthopaedic Institute in New York. He then completed a foot and ankle fellowship at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston. Dr. Schon was an AO Scholar in Foot and Ankle Surgery at the University of Washington/Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.
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This is a fascinating development. In my practice we've seen similar outcomes with the revised protocol. The key differentiator seems to be patient selection criteria. Has anyone else noticed the correlation with BMI thresholds?
Great point. I'd push back slightly on the conclusion, the sample size in the cited study is too small to draw population-level inferences. That said, the directional signal is compelling and worth a larger RCT.
We implemented a similar approach last year. Early results are promising but we're still gathering 12-month follow-up data. Happy to share our protocol if anyone is interested.
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