The mission of the GOS Foundation is to advance the orthopedic education and well-being of patients, orthopedic surgeons, and residents in orthopedic training programs.



GOSF HALL OF FAME

PURPOSE:  THE HALL of FAME HONORS ICONIC SURGEONS AND INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE ADVANCED THE SOCIETY AND THE PROFESSION THROUGH THEIR LEADERSHIP, SERVICE AND/OR DEDICATION TO EDUCATING ORTHOPAEDIC SURGEONS IN GEORGIA

2023 Hall of Fame inductee:

J. Wendell Duncan, MD  

Joined the GOS Board of Directors in 2009 and served 12 years in various capacities.  Representative from GOS to the Medical Association of Georgia in 2015

Served six years as an AAOS Board of Councilors Representative and was Chairman of the State Orthopaedic Societies Committee his final 3 years and served on the BOC Executive Committee. 

President of GOS 2015-2016, his project was working with the GOS Board to update the Bylaws, and in 2017 created a program of visiting all 4 Georgia Orthopaedic Residency programs biennially to share the importance of being a member of their state orthopaedic society and getting involved in the Thomas Whitesides, MD competition of papers.  Advocacy had been a major interest of his and he taught the residents the importance of the National and State PACs.  

Drafted bylaws for the Georgia Society for Surgery of the Hand 2017. 

Wrote the 75-year History of the Georgia Orthopaedic Society 2021.  For the first time, the GOS history was put into a printed format for all members.  I

Instrumental in creating the Georgia Orthopaedic Society Foundation and served as its first President 2019

2022 Hall of Fame inductees:

James l. Becton, MD  

President of GOS 1978-1979

Secretary-Treasurer of GOS

Founding member GSSH 1991

Educated residents at AU post –retirement

Frequent gos meeting attendee

Grady S. Clinkscales, Jr, MD 

President of GOS1974-1975

Secretary-Treasurer of GOS

Obtained cme credits for annual meeting

Put the constitution & bylaws in booklet form

Created the 1st pictorial membership directory 1982

Founded GSSH 1991

Frequent GOS meeting attendee

Joseph H. Dimon, III, MD

President of GOS 1976-1977

Dedicated to teaching

1st total hip in Atlanta

Orthopaedic trailblazer

Jim Funk award 2007
 

Thomas E. Whitesides, MD

President of GOS 1971-1972     

Educated residents throughout his career

AAOS kappa delta award

Residents’ paper award named for him in 2002

Jim Funk award 2009

THE FIRST 25 YEARS ~ 1946-1971

2021 Hall of Fame inductees:

Michael Hoke, MD     1st orthopaedists in Georgia

1st Medical Director of the SRH

1st Medical Director of the Warm Springs Foundation

Hiram Kite, MD GOS Pres ’49-’51  

2nd Medical Director of the SRH

Organized the orthopaedic section of the Medical Association of Georgia           

Founding member of GOS

Author

Charles Ed Irwin, MD Founder Georgia Orthopaedic Society

1st GOS President

2nd Medical Director of the Warm Springs Foundation

1st Georgian to be invited to join ASSH

FDR’s personal orthopaedist

Faculty combined Georgia Baptist/MCG orthopaedic residency program


F. Bert Brown, MD

Founding member of GOS;  1st GOS Sec-Treas;  GOS Pres ‘53


Ruth Waring, MD Founding member of GOS   

GOS Pres ’59-’60 (1st Female President)


Jack Hughston, MD Founding member of GOS;  ;  

GOS Pres ’67-’68

1st GOS Rep to BOC

1ST to promote OREF

Founder Hughston Clinic


Robert P. Kelly, MD Founding member of GOS;     

Founder Emory University Orthopaedic Residency Program

Chief Emory Univ. Orthopaedic Surgery Dept until 1974


Floyd Ted Bliven, MD GOS Pres ’63-’64

Chair MCG Orthopaedic Surgery Residency Program until 1979

1st GOS Historian

Established GOS Residency Paper Award


Peter B. Wright, MD Founding member of GOS

1st Residency Program director MCG 1945


Jim Funk, MD GOS Pres ’61-’62

Founder Peachtree Orthopaedic Clinic Atlanta

Performed 1st THA & 1ST Knee Arthroscopy in Atlanta

Jim Funk Distinguished Service 

Award


Richard King, MD 1st Chairman Georgia Baptist Medical Center Orthopaedic Residency Program     

GOS Pres ’64-‘65


Bill Bondurant, MD GOS Pres ’65-’66

Kept early GOS minutes secure


Darius Flinchum, MD GOS Pres ’66-’67

Faculty combined Georgia Baptist/MCG Residency program teaching Residents with Dr. Irwin and Dr. Lovell 

 

Robert Wells, MD GOS President ’68-’69

1st GOS BOC Rep to be elected Chair of the BOC

1ST Georgia Orthopaedist to be elected President of AAOS ’81 

Jim Funk Award Winner 2012


Wood Lovell, MD GOS Pres ’58-’59

3rd Medical Director of SRH

Co-Founder Georgia Baptist Orthopaedic Residency Program

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