Jacques Jenny Lecturer
VOS Meeting 2009
Synthes has been the sole sponsor of the Jacques Jenny Lectureship since its inception. The VOS is grateful for the financial and philosophical support provided by Synthes for this foundational component of our annual conference. |
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Jacques Jenny was born in Switzerland in the small ski village called Ennenda. He became interested in horses and veterinary medicine while he worked on his cousin's farm and that is why he joined the Cavalry for his military service duty. Jacques Jenny graduated veterinary school at the University of Zurich in 1942. From 1942 to 1944 he was an assistant in anatomy at the University of Zurich. He then went to France from 1944 to 1945 to study under Professor Marcenac in the Alfort National Veterinary School, where he was an assistant in surgery.
Jacques Jenny came to the United States in 1948 and worked 6 months at Angell Memorial Hospital in Boston. He was recruited to the University of Pennsylvania in June of 1948 and became an instructor in surgery under Dr. Mark Allam. In 1960, he became a professor of surgery at the University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Jenny's contributions to veterinary orthopedics include clinical and research advancements such as: the first intramedullary pinning performed in man or animals in the city of Philadelphia; intramedullary nailing with Kuentscher nails; work on hip dysplasia and bone grafting; the first successful fracture fixation of equine long bones, which made him famous; and development of a water raft recovery system for horses after orthopedic surgery.
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Dr. Jenny chaired the first organizing committee for the American College of Veterinary Surgeons and served as the college's first President. Dr. Jenny initiated many teaching courses in bone and joint surgery that crossed species lines. He was a renowned international speaker and won many awards and honors for his teaching and his clinical accomplishments.
Dr. Jenny and his wife, Elinor, a 1949 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania's College of Veterinary Medicine, raised 5 children. They were avid participants in fox hunting, steeple chasing and horse breeding. Colleagues that worked with Jacques Jenny will always remember him as an energetic, deeply committed teacher of orthopedic surgery.
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Dr. Kurt P. Spindler, MD
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We were excited and honored to have Dr. Kurt Spindler as our 2009 Jacques Jenny Lecturer. Dr. Spindler is the consummate clinician-scientist in Sports Medicine. He is a critical thinker and an exceptional speaker. He has done a tremendous job in fostering and promoting evidence-based medicine in orthopaedics. He has also organized collaborative clinical research teams, like the Multicenter Orthopaedic Outcomes Network (MOON), aimed at prospective, randomized, controlled clinical trials for providing epidemiologic, diagnostic, and therapeutic evidence for "better" decision making in orthopaedics. His major areas of interest in both clinical practice and research include intra-articular ligaments, articular cartilage defects, and meniscal health and disease. He has the amazing ability to perform extremely high level, hypothesis-driven research in these areas and bridge the data to clinical practice. He has set the bar for the orthopaedic community in this regard. |
Dr. Spindler completed medical school, a research fellowship, and residency training at the University of Pennsylvania. He then completed a Sports Medicine fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. He holds multiple patents and has published and presented extensively in orthopaedic forums throughout the world. His research is very well funded by multiple granting agencies including the Arthritis Foundation, the Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation, the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine, and the National Football League. He was an Eagle Scout, has completed 4 marathons, is one of America's Top Doctors, and has won two Cabaud Awards, the O'Donoghue Award, and teaching awards. His most recent NIH-funded research involves the study of ACL healing and regeneration using a canine model. He has also done ACL reconstruction on a NASA chimp in his "veterinary related" work and has worked extensively with veterinarians in multiple areas of basic and clinical science. He is currently Professor, Vice-Chair of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation, Medical Director, and Head Team Physician at Vanderbilt University. We were thrilled to have Doctor Kurt Spindler as our JJ Lecturer for 2009!
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