Codman Shoulder Society

Dear all, This is your cordial invitation to Dr. Jon Warner’s official BSI reunion at the annual AAOS meeting in Las Vegas. All former fellows and interested parties are welcome to attend! We hope to see you there. Best regards, Argen Omurzakov, BA Research Coordinator for Dr. Jon JP Warner and Dr. Bassem Elhassan Boston Shoulder Institute Massachusetts General Hospital

Dear Colleagues, The 8th Annual Meeting of the CSS this June (Del Coronado Hotel, San Diego, June 17, 2023) will consider innovation, entrepreneurism, leadership, and professional/personal development. While that is a large bite of the creativity apple, we’ll selectively deal with key concepts. One of these which bridges innovation and leadership is the concept of innovation vs management of the status quo. Clayton Christensen and Colleagues wrote about this in their book, “T

Lanny Johnson, MD on Innovation to Entrepreneurship: “The Rigors from Concept to Commercialization” Dear Colleagues, I offer you a teaser for our 8th Annual Codman Shoulder Society Meeting. Dr. Lanny Johnson will talk about his experiences and observations as an innovator/entrepreneur. Enclosed is an article he authored in 2020. It will be a good primer for our meeting. I hope you can attend both the 40th-anniversary Meeting of the San Diego Shoulder Institute and the 8th Ann

What is Innovation? Is it declining or growing? Dear Colleagues, Part I of the 8th Annual Codman Shoulder Society Meeting ( https://www.codman-shoulder-society.com/meetings ) will consider Innovation & Entrepreneurship. I will soon post the details of the program. So that you can understand some of what we think we know and, most importantly, what we don’t know, I am enclosing Open AI’s (ChatGPT) on concepts of Innovation: I am also attaching an article which suggests we may

Dear Colleagues, The New England Shoulder and Elbow Society (www.neses.com) had its 20th Anniversary meeting this past weekend. Gus Mazzocca has run this meeting over all these years, and our idea was developed during the Advanced Val d’Isere Arthroscopy course in France about 21 years ago. Below is a picture of the representation of our MGH Shoulder Team at the meeting. This includes PA’s, current and former Shoulder and Sports fellows, Sports Service Attendings, and RA’s. W

What is Innovation & Who has the DNA to Innovate? Dear Colleagues, The 8th Annual Meeting of the Codman Shoulder Society will consider the above questions. As surgeons we all fashion ourselves as innovators and we believe we do this every day. But what is Innovation and is it unique to an individual as an inherent trait or is it somethings we can develop? Is it an individual or team endeavor? Moreover what are the regulatory and cultural barriers to innovating a novel idea or