Best wishes to Mehrdad Abbasian for starting his sports med fellowship Andrews Institute - welcome summer interns Danny Rodriguez, Emma King, Sevak Glorikian, Caitlin Evers and Anna Baghdassarian to the lab - and happiest of birthdays to Diana #orthostrong 💪

Congratulations to Pooja Chainani for passing her PhD qualification exam BU MechE with Emma Lejeune and AlbroLab on her committee - strong work and a job well done - look forward to seeing your contributions to the field💪🍻

Congratulations to Kaveh Momenzadeh, M.D. for winning a poster prize BIDMC #research retreat 2022 from Ortho_BIDMC & congrats to Ben Freedman for presenting his exciting research at the retreat - great work

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Today we announced that our Distinguished Lecture Series will now be known as the Wilson C. "Toby" Hayes Distinguished Lecture Series on Musculoskeletal Health. Dr. Hayes was the founding director of the Orthopedic Biomechanics Laboratory at our department in 1979.

>9M Americans suffer from frozen shoulder, a debilitating condition that lasts up to 4 yrs & prevents people from basic activities of daily living + significant pain and discomfort - funding needed to address these ailments Jake Auchincloss Ed Markey Elizabeth Warren tinyurl.com/4tjwctsa

Overcoming previous obstacles with drug delivery, researchers in Science Translational Medicine present a minimally invasive, microparticle therapy that reverses the debilitating condition #arthrofibrosis in rats by delivering therapeutic relaxin-2 into the joint. scim.ag/iY

Congratulations Dr. Arun J. Ramappa, Chief of Sports Medicine & Shoulder Surgery, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery @BIDMC, on receiving the Teacher of the Year 2021-2022 award from NE Baptist Hospital Sports Medicine Fellowship!

For patients w/ frozen shoulder, lack of effective treatment options means surgery to regain joint ROM & nix prolonged pain. Could a tailored delivery system for sustained release of relaxin help? More from Mark G. @Nazarianlab & co-authors Science Translational Medicine: bit.ly/3t6XjRd

“This data supports the use of MPFL reconstruction when the patient has normal alignment & use of combined MPFL reconstruction & tibial tuberosity transfer in patients w/ elevated TT-TG distances to avoid focal overload.” Ara Nazarian, PhD 🇦🇲 & co-authors Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy bit.ly/3UioxjG

Excited to announce that our joint stiffness (arthrofibrosis) therapeutic has been accepted to compete in #statmadness! by STAT - think #MarchMadness for#Science. Help us win and vote here: PLS GO TO MATCHUP 21 and VOTE for Beth Israel Deaconess 👉 bit.ly/3J2EIhQ

🩺 Have you tried the Medical Image Labeler app? Let us know below 👇🦴 #MedicalImaging #DataProcessing #ImageSegmentation

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