Service to patients. Passion and drive. Excellence, integrity, and humanism. Those and many other qualities were cited by admiring presenters as University of Colorado School of Medicine faculty were honored July 29 at the school’s Distinguished Clinician and Distinguished Faculty Professionalism Awards ceremony.
This episode of the AC News Flash features Cass Isidro and Dr. Danielle Melton. Dr. Melton, is a new Amputee Coalition board member and director of the Amputee Medicine and Rehabilitation Program at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.
It was early November, and Dr. Lynn Pezzanite was standing in an operating room at Colorado State University’s Translational Medicine Institute, flanked on either side by two of her most influential mentors, Dr. Laurie Goodrich and Dr. Jason Stoneback. Goodrich and Stoneback had scrubbed in to assist on a pair of equine surgeries tied to Pezzanite’s first research grant as the principal investigator.
Dr. Stoneback and his research team are working with equine veterinarians and researchers at the CSU Translational Medicine Institute to research the development of post-traumatic arthritis in horses. The goal is to develop methods for earlier detection and treatment of human post-traumatic arthritis.
Few people other than his teammates noticed problems when Broncos safety Rahim Moore left the biggest game of the season and didn’t come back Sunday night.
Denver Broncos safety Rahim Moore was experiencing such severe pain in his lower left leg after returning home from Sunday's game against the Kansas City Chiefs that he called the team's head athletic trainer in the middle of the night.