Codman Shoulder Society

Dear Colleagues: Don’t miss this opportunity to attend the Nice Shoulder Course this June 2026. It is one of the best Shoulder Courses in the world and only comes around every few years. The registration link can be found here: https://nice-shoulder-course.com/ Kind Regards, Jon "JP" Warner MD Founder, CSS

Dear Colleagues: A recent publication in Nature titled "'Disruptive' science has declined — and no one knows why" concluded that few publications disrupt the status quo: Today, I am sharing an article with you which has been written by shoulder specialists. Here is the link to “What are the most disruptive publications in shoulder surgery?” This study reviewed almost 6,000 articles and analyzed the disruptive impact of this work using the Disruptive Index (DI), a validated bi

Dear Colleagues: What follows below is a post by our Clinical Research Coordinator this year. Devin M. Vasquez made the move from investment banking to healthcare and is applying to medical school this cycle. Here are his insights and thoughts into the differences between these two vocations, inspired by the attached article. +++ It is difficult to think of a career after college where opportunity cost feels more tangible than choosing between finance, specifically inves

Dear Colleagues: Please see attached an abstract from an informative article recently published in JAMA. This article proves that context and times determine behavioral economics. It is no secret that currently, the business of healthcare is focused on financial survival and there has been a major shift over the past decade to employment models in many institutions, both private and public. Moreover, many Academic Medical Centers have grown through acquisition of private prac

Dear Colleagues: I enclose below a message I sent to my partner, Dr. Bassem ElHassan. I am lucky to have the resource of this Pac-Man for revision surgery, as he is by far the most talented revision surgeon I have ever known. In addition to this, he has a character disorder known as “Panglossian” (named after Dr. Pangloss from Voltaire’s Candide, which describes someone who believes that "everything is for the best in this best of all possible worlds," even in the face of ext

Dear Colleagues: Do you wonder about the skills you may need going forward? While you are all excellent doctors and surgeons, the skills required in general business are as important in the business of healthcare. And healthcare is a BIG BUSINESS . Below is a screenshot of a lecture given by Douglas Warner (yes, he is my brother) to the Fuqua Business School class at Duke University. Douglas has extensive experience in business, having worked for the start-up Shutterfly, serv

Dear Colleagues: Enclosed is a great LinkedIn Post from Eric Bricker. He is a healthcare economist and offers insight into an analysis done by McKinsey & Company on profit in different healthcare sectors. This is not only interesting, but an example of the great posts Mr. Bricker makes on LinkedIn. I’d recommend you follow him for similar insights. The consulting firm McKinsey & Company published a study analyzing the profit of various sectors within the US healthcare industr

Dear Colleagues: I’d like to bring to your attention a novel meeting which blends innovation with entrepreneurship. The Inaugural Boston Orthopedic Technology Summit will be held May 15-16 at The Cambridge Innovation Center. Here is the official announcement from the organizers: https://tinyurl.com/tdk95weu +++ What happens when the world’s top clinical minds meet the boldest MedTech founders? From Harvard Medical School and Mass General Hospital to Silicon Valley —At th

Dear Colleagues: To all of you who don’t know “Buz”, he is one-of-a-kind, and that term might well have been invented for him. In my career he was woven into the fabric of my professional life as he mixed humor with all his wonderful presentations at AAOS and ASES. He is past President of the American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons. What most of you may not know is that he has been the main singer in a band named “Buz and The Medicated Trio” — “The only band that takes Medicare

Dear Colleagues: I’d like to share with you a recent publication that considers surgeon’s perspective as well as that of industry, on the value of digital technology for shoulder arthroplasty. Many of you may be thinking of “robotics”; however, this study was done before robotics started to become an option in shoulder surgery. That said, remember that the alphabet represents many of the technologies that are being scaled or have not caught hold. For example, VR, AR, MR, AI