The UAB Orthopaedic Surgery Hand Department represented UAB at the American Society for Surgery of the Hand (ASSH) 2022 Annual Meeting this past September.

The ASSH annual meetings allow members to display their research findings alongside their peers by hosting lectures, laboratory sessions, seminars and workshops.

UAB Orthopaedic Surgery Associate Professor Richard Meyer, M.D., and Assistant Professor Erin Ransom, M.D., presented an instructional course lecture on Thoracic Outlet Syndrome titled "Neurogenic Thoracic Outlet: Primer for the Hand Surgeon.”
Meyers and Ransom presented alongside colleagues from Carilion Clinic and Wake Forest and the international guest lecturer of ASSH, Dr. Jayme Bertelli.

Additionally, Orthopaedic Surgery Assistant Professor Mohamed Morsy, M.D., presented his paper “Results of Zone II Flexor Tendon Repair Under WALANT vs General Anesthesia: A Randomized Control Trial,” in which he touches on the superiority of using the Wide Awake Local Anesthesia No Tourniquet (WALANT) technique for hand surgery over the use of general anesthesia. Morsy’s paper ranked one of the Top 5 Best Papers at the meeting.

The Department also hosted its’ first annual UAB Hand Fellowship Reunion at the meeting, including past and present fellows such as Drs. Thomas Sellers, Joshua Hammond, Corianne Rogers, Tyler Ward, Mohamed Morsy, Matt McCarley, Will Zimmerman, Emily Compton, Rachel Aliotta, Ashley Bentley, Kathleen McKeon, Allison Hunter, Erin Ransom, Jean Oakes, John McGuigan and Richard Meyer.

This year’s meeting was held in Boston, Massachusetts, from September 29 to October 1, 2022, at the John B. Hynes Veterans Memorial Convention Center.