 | 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.
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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 | |
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1st Medical Director of the Warm Springs Foundation |
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| 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 | |
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Author |
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| 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 | |
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Faculty combined Georgia Baptist/MCG orthopaedic residency program |
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| F. Bert Brown, MD |
Founding member of GOS; 1st GOS Sec-Treas; GOS Pres ‘53 |
| Ruth Waring, MD | Founding member of GOS |
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GOS Pres ’59-’60 (1st Female President) |
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| Jack Hughston, MD | Founding member of GOS; ; |
| GOS Pres ’67-’68 | |
| 1st GOS Rep to BOC | |
| 1ST to promote OREF | |
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Founder Hughston Clinic |
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| Robert P. Kelly, MD | Founding member of GOS; |
| Founder Emory University Orthopaedic Residency Program | |
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Chief Emory Univ. Orthopaedic Surgery Dept until 1974 |
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| Floyd Ted Bliven, MD | GOS Pres ’63-’64 |
| Chair MCG Orthopaedic Surgery Residency Program until 1979 | |
| 1st GOS Historian | |
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Established GOS Residency Paper Award |
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| Peter B. Wright, MD | Founding member of GOS |
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1st Residency Program director MCG 1945 |
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| Jim Funk, MD | GOS Pres ’61-’62 |
| Founder Peachtree Orthopaedic Clinic Atlanta | |
| Performed 1st THA & 1ST Knee Arthroscopy in Atlanta | |
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Jim Funk Distinguished Service
Award |
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| Richard King, MD | 1st Chairman Georgia Baptist Medical Center Orthopaedic Residency Program |
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GOS Pres ’64-‘65 |
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| Bill Bondurant, MD | GOS Pres ’65-’66 |
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Kept early GOS minutes secure |
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| Darius Flinchum, MD | GOS Pres ’66-’67 |
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Faculty combined Georgia Baptist/MCG Residency program teaching Residents with Dr. Irwin and Dr. Lovell
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| 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 | |
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Jim Funk Award Winner 2012 |
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| Wood Lovell, MD | GOS Pres ’58-’59 |
| 3rd Medical Director of SRH | |
| Co-Founder Georgia Baptist Orthopaedic Residency Program | |
| Author |