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                           JeffNEWS, July 1, 1995
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More than 700 Attend Hand Foundation Symposium and Workshop
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Robert M. McFarlane, MD, FRSCS, of Ontario, Canada, and Col. (ret.) John W. 
Moore, OT, of Seattle, were the honored senior professors at the 20th annual 
symposium and workshop, Surgery and Rehabilitation of the Hand - '95, 
sponsored by the Hand Rehabilitation Foundation and Jefferson Medical
College (JMC).

Dr. McFarlane is emeritus professor of surgery and former chairman of the 
division of plastic surgery at the University of Western Ontario, and Col. 
Moore is the retired chief of occupational therapy at Walter Reed Army 
Medical Center in Washington, DC. 

Each year, the Hand Rehabilitation Foundation funds the attendance at the 
symposium of a hand surgeon or hand therapist from a developing country so 
that the newest concepts in the field can be introduced into these lands.

This year's recipient was Janine Hareau, PT, OTR, the only occupational and 
hand therapist in Uruguay. "This has been for me a once-in-a-lifetime 
opportunity. . . .I have to be able to awaken in others the desire to study 
and go more deeply into this field," Ms. Hareau said.

Course chairmen were Distinguished Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, JMC, 
James M. Hunter, MD, president of the Philadelphia Hand Center and of the 
Hand Rehabilitation Foundation; Lawrence H. Schneider, MD, clinical professor 
of orthopaedic surgery, JMC, and executive director of the division of hand 
surgery, and Evelyn J. Mackin, PT, director of the Hand Rehabilitation 
Foundation. The workshop coordinator was Patricia M. Byron, MA, OTR/L, CHT, 
clinical director of hand therapy at the Philadelphia Hand Center.

University president Paul C. Brucker, MD, was on hand at the opening 
session to welcome the participants, who numbered more than 700 surgeons and 
therapists from almost every state, as well as Canada, Brazil, England, 
Finland, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Ukraine and Uruguay.

The event featured 52 presentations along with 22 concurrent workshops and 
panels by a 56-member faculty who correlated the concepts, indications, 
surgical techniques and pre- and postoperative care of the injured and 
disabled arm and hand.

For information about the 1996 symposium, call 215-925-4579.


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