UAMS Orthopaedic Surgeon Receives Prestigious Award
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LITTLE ROCK – James Aronson, M.D., of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has received the prestigious Nicolas Andry Award for 2003 from the Association of Bone and Joint Surgeons.
Aronson is a professor of orthopaedic surgery in the UAMS College of Medicine. Dr. Aronson performed the first leg-lengthening procedure in North America using the osteogenesis technique known as the Ilirzarov method. Since that first operation in 1985, he has used the method to help hundreds of patients salvage limbs that were shortened from congenital deformity, and to reconstruct complex angular deformities.
Dr. Aronson won the Andry Award for a research paper, “The Loss and Recovery of Endosteal Osteogenic Potention with Aging.” The manuscript contains the results of nearly 10 years of federally-funded research at UAMS on the regulation of bone formation. Aronson accepted the $15,000 award and presented the paper at the association’s annual meeting May 16 in Paris. The paper will be published in the scientific journal Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research. Dr. Aronson plans to use the prize to continue his basic research.
A professor in the Departments of Orthopaedics Surgery and Pediatrics, Dr. Aronson earned his M.D. degree from the University of Pittsburgh in 1975. He served a one-year residency in general surgery at Maine Medical Center in Portland and a four-year residency in orthopaedics at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina, before coming to UAMS in 1984.