Chalk Talk Sports Medicine Fellowship Happenings

From the Classroom to the Community

Inside this issue

Current Fellows ................... 1

A Few Words ........................ 2

Alumni News ........................ 2

Where Are They Now? ..... 3

10 Things ............................... 3

Upcoming Events ............... 4

Community…………………….4

Contact Us ............................. 4

Special points of interest

Program Director

Society Meeting 2017

Featured Alumni

Featured Faculty

TRIA Happenings

Calendar of Events

Support

Fellows in Action

Current Fellows

Class of 2017-2018

As another academic year begins, we were excited to welcome our new fellowship class. We will

be featuring them throughout the year, so let’s get to know them.

Chris A. DeFalco, MD attended medical school at the University of Illinois, Chicago and completed his residency at Indiana University. The dedication and discipline of the active patient is what has fueled Dr. DeFalco’s interest in pursuing a sports medicine fellowship. Whether the patient is a middle-aged individual who hopes to return to jogging, or a high school advanced athlete, he says they are highly motivated. During this year, he hopes to refine the clinical and surgical skills needed to help these patients return to their activities. Dr. DeFalco, his wife Megan and their dog Cal reside in Downtown Minneapolis. Scott A. Linger, MD attended medical school at the University of Indiana School of Medicine and also completed his residency at the University of Indiana. Working with an active population and athletes during residency drew his interest to pursue a fellowship in orthopaedic sports medicine. As an active person himself, Dr. Linger understands the patient’s desire to get back to activities and looks forward to learning new procedures and skills to provide excellent care to meet their needs. Dr. Linger, his wife Katherine, and their two children Danielle and Samuel reside in Burnsville. Jarred K. Holt, DO attended medical school at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine and completed his residency at Summa Western Reserve Hospital in Ohio. Dr. Holt believes the sports medicine field is arguably the area of orthopaedic surgery with the most expansive and dynamic frontier. New techniques and procedures are being developed and presented regularly and there is constant potential for ground breaking innovation to improve patient outcomes. Dur-ing his year with us, he hopes to hone his technical skills and to enhance his knowledge base for the field. Dr. Holt, his wife Megan and their three children Thomas, Emily and Nora reside in Eagan.

November 2017

Volume 1, Issue 3

TRIA Orthopaedic Center

From left, Chris DeFalco,

MD; Scott Linger, MD; and

Jarred Holt, DO.

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2017 Fischbone Society Meeting

Traverse City, MI

Alumni News

A Few Words… November 2017

Gary B. Fetzer, MD

Program Director

Sports Medicine Fellowship Program

TRIA Orthopaedic Center

The 2017 Fischbone Society Meeting took place in Traverse City, MI in August. Many Alumni and their families

made it to this great academic and social event hosted by some of our Michigan Alumni: Peter McAndrews, DO

(Class of 05-06) and his wife Beth, Matthew Sardelli, MD (Class of 09-10) and his wife Eleni, John Samani, MD

(Class of 95-96) and his wife Miriam, and Andrew Schorfhaar, DO (Class of 06-07) and his wife Beth.

2017 marks the 30th Anniversary of the Fellowship. We held a symposium, featuring early Fellowship staff and

Alumni, including Shelly Perpich-Koland; Hollis Fritts, MD; David Burstein, MD; David Fischer, MD; Judy Saewert

and Sheldon Burns, MD. Lots of funny and emotional stories were remembered.

Our academic program included orthopaedic and non-orthopaedic topics. Lanny Johnson, MD delivered the

‘What’s Important’ address. Dr. Johnson is a well known and recognized orthopaedic surgeon that has been

devoted to research and development in medicine since retirement from practice.

We were fortunate to have our first Presidential guest, Marc Safran, MD. He is a sports medicine surgeon at

Stanford School of Medicine in Redwood City, CA and presented on the Athlete’s Hip. Other guests and speakers

included C. Thomas Vangsness, MD; Steven Arnoczky, DVM; and John Bergfeld, MD.

Our annual Fischbone Golf Competition was held at the award winning Bear Golf Course at the Grand Traverse

Resort and Spa. Scott Haskins, MD (Class of 16-17), Pete McAndrews, DO (Class of 05-06); Jon Cooper, DO (Class

of 05-06), and Derek Lamprecht, DO (Class of 05-06) were the winners of the 2017 Fischbone Cup.

TRIA Happenings

TRIA Woodbury opened the doors

to the public on Monday 9/18/17.

Below you can see the building lit

up at night; a day view of the other

side of the building; and the ribbon

cutting ceremony held on 9/12/17.

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Alumni that

attended the 2017

Meeting

From left: Jon Copper,

DO; Derek Lamprecht,

DO; Scott Haskins, MD

and Pete McAndrews,

DO, winners of the

Fischbone Cup

From left: Shelley Koland-

Perpich; David Burstein, MD;

David Fischer, MD; Hollis

Fritts, MD; Judy Saewert;

Sheldon Burns, MD. Our 30th

Anniversary Panelists

The 2017

Fischbone Society

Meeting attendees

It was great to see all the alumni and friends of the Fellowship at the 2017 Fischbone

Society Meeting in Traverse City. Thank you and congratulations to the meeting

organizers, Maia, Megan, and Dr. Fischer for all the hard work in preparation and

execution of the meeting. Also, special thanks to our local alumni hosts, Drs.

McAndrews, Schorfhaar, Samani, and Sardelli and their spouses Beth, Beth, Miriam, and

Eleni for their planning and participation. The discussions and happenings of the

meeting caused me to reflect on the changing landscape of sports medicine and

fellowship training. Of course, fellowship training programs and educators have to

adjust to the changing workforce environment and needs of our fellows. The fellowship

‘market’ has become very competitive in terms of attracting the best applicants to TRIA.

Right or wrong, selecting an appropriate fellowship training program has become a

‘buyer’s market’ for our candidates. As such, we are always looking for feedback and

ideas for unique educational opportunities for our Fellows, either local or abroad.

Having a strong alumni network and support is important for the maintenance and

growth of our program. We appreciate your continued engagement.

Fetz

Another Successful Year

Goodbye Class of 2016-2017

Our 2016-2017 Fellows, John Harris, MD, Scott Haskins, MD and Chris Urband, MD completed

their Sports Medicine Fellowship training successfully on 7/31/17. Once again, we say good-

bye to an amazing class and wish them the best on their new adventures.

John Harris, MD will be residing in Dallas, TX with his wife Lincoln and four children. He

joined a private practice group, Texas Orthopaedic Surgical Associates. During their stay in

Minnesota, Dr. Harris and his family enjoyed family bike rides, hockey games and lots of

sledding.

Scott Haskins, MD will be residing in Sheboygan, WI with his wife Carrie and two children. He

joined a private practice group, Prevea Health. Dr. Haskins is a huge MN Sports fan and had

the time of his life assisting Dr. Steubs with the MN Twins. He is also an avid golfer and en-

joyed being in town while the Rider Cup took place in Chaska last year.

Chris Urband, MD will be residing in San Diego, CA with his wife Dr. Lindsay Hegstrom. He

joined the Torrey Pines Orthopaedic Medical Group as a sports medicine orthopaedic

surgeon. Dr. Urband is a very active athlete that enjoyed riding his bike on various MN trails,

as well as participating in many running races and triathlons.

We had a great graduation and farewell party at Dr. and Mrs. Aadalen’s home to celebrate

our fellows’ hard work and accomplishments throughout the year. We wish the three of

them and their families the best of luck!

From left: Scott Haskins, MD;

John Harris, MD and Chris

Urband, MD

10 Things You Don’t Know About Me

Every day, I read international news.

Something unique about me is that I speak Norwegian.

The best thing I have ever done is to become a hus-

band and a father.

If I could not be an orthopaedic surgeon, my dream

job would be an astronaut.

One thing I’ll never do again is live in a house without

a sump pump. Cleaning a basement after a flood

(more than once) is no picnic.

My role model/hero us my 94 year old grandfather. He

served mandatory duty in the Army and then has been

a life long farmer. His devotion to our family and

stewardship of the land is an amazing example.

I have several favorite movies (basically all from

childhood) and can’t choose only one: Smokey and the

Bandit, Bad New Bears, and Tommy Boy.

One thing I would like to do but never will is ride in the

Tour de France.

One thing I have not done, but know I will do eventual-

ly is to start a band.

Lastly, my favorite place to be is trying local cuisine

while visiting a new place in another country. I love to

travel.

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by Marc A. Tompkins, MD-Faculty Member

Where Are They Now…?

Douglas P. Tewes, MD-Class of 1992-1993

Dr. Tewes attended medical school at the University of Nebraska Medical Center and completed his

residency at the University of Kentucky Medical Center. Currently, Dr. Tewes works at Lincoln Orthope-

dic Center in Lincoln, Nebraska, which are the oldest practice in town, with 11 providers and the only

free standing orthopedic surgery center in southeast Nebraska. Dr. Tewes specializes primarily in knee

and shoulder arthroscopy reconstruction, but has an active hip arthroscopy practice as well, thanks to his

co-fellow Dr. Guanche, who convinced him to adventure into hip arthroscopy.

Dr. Tewes has been married to his wife Denise for 32 years, who has been the Choral Director at Messiah

Lutheran Church for 25 years. They have six children, Jacob, Michael, Luke, Samuel, Tom and Kristina.

Jake and his wife Heather blessed Dr. Tewes and Denise with their first grandson, Lewis, and they reside

in Lincoln. Mike and his wife Shelby live in Omaha. He is in his 3rd year of dental school an she is an

NICU nurse. Luke is married to Kelly and they live in Bolivar, MO. He serves as the GA for the Drury University baseball team, and she is a PT student working on

her doctorate. Samuel plays baseball for the Palm Beach Cardinals. Last summer was his first pro year pitching. He is also finishing his business degree at WSU.

Tom also got bit by the baseball bug, Dr. Tewes says, and is a freshman pitcher at Drury University in Springfield, MO. And the youngest, Kristina, who they adopted

when she was 12 years old from Ukraine, is a senior at Lincoln Lutheran High School this year, and will be heading off to college next year to pursue a career in

elementary education.

They love to hang out together as a family. A yearly trip to the north woods of Minnesota is always a highlight, as all the boys like to hunt and fish. Dr. Tewes also

flies a small plane, which has been a real blessing as they try to keep up with all the kids’ activities, specially when they are away for college.

What Dr. Tewes remembers from his fellowship year is that Dr. Fischer would toss out pearls about being a surgeon. They weren’t always recognizable at the time,

but he has found their value over the years, as he established his practice. He says that he learned way more than just surgery from him and all faculty, like the

importance of finding balance between his personal and professional life.

Fellowship Faculty and Staff

Gary B. Fetzer, MD

Program Director

Designated Institutional Official

Kirk J. Aadalen, MD

Joel L. Boyd, MD

Edward V. Craig, MD

Jonathan P. Braman, MD

Jonathan M. Cooper, DO

David A. Fischer, MD

Alicia K. Harrison, MD

Jeffrey A. Macalena, MD

Alan W. Markman, MD

Bradley J. Nelson, MD

John A. Steubs, MD

Marc A. Tompkins, MD

Robby Sikka, MD

Research Scientist

Megan Reams, MA, OTR/L

TRIA Institute Manager

Maia Knox

Fellowship Coordinator

TRIA Orthopaedic Center

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December 2017:

Friday 12/1-Rotation II Begins

Wednesday 12/6-Fellows Lab-Hamstring Dissection

Tuesday 12/12-CCC Meeting

Friday 12/15-Fellows’ Rotation I Reviews

January 2018

Friday 1/5-Interviews Welcome Social

Saturday 1/6-Sports Medicine Fellowship Interviews

Friday-Sunday 1/26-1/28-ISMF Conference-Carlsbad, CA

Support the Fellowship

Upcoming Fellowship Events

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Our Fellows in the Community

From left, Dr. Holt and Troy Banse, ATC at a

Gustavus Football game

From left, Dr. Boyd , Dr. Linger and Dr.

Macalena at a Gophers Football game Dr. DeFalco working hard at a Magicians

game