The Rover

♦ Please welcome newly IRB approved surgeons: Champ Baker III Stephen Brockmeier Steven Gecha Ben Ma David Johnson Tim Johnson Robert McCormack

♦ The newsletter will now be sent on the First Working Monday of each month rather than the first working day of the month.

♦ Congratulations to the following surgeons for enrolling their first study subject:

N. Lindsay Harris, Tim Hosea, Bruce Miller, Ali Motamedi, Mark Purnell, James Slauterbeck, and James Williams.

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What’s New? Volume 1 (3) September 1, 2008

Reminders ⇒ All completed packets (x-rays, sur-

geon form, patient questionnaire, etc.) should be sent to:

Laura Huston Vanderbilt Orthopaedic Institute 1215 21st Avenue South MCE, South Tower, Suite 4200 Nashville, TN 37232 ⇒ New IRB approved surgeons

please forward a copy of your up-dated CV to haasa@wudosis.wustl.edu so that it may be formatted to a NIH bios-ketch for the MARS grant.

⇒ New surgeons need to make sure

they have turned in the following PRIOR to enrolling your first pa-tient:

IRB Approval Letter Surgeon Agreement Letter Practice Surgeon Form Meniscal Inter-Rater Forms

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Questions or Comments? E-mail us at haasa@wudosis.wustl.edu or call (314) 362-3768

MARS Coordinator Conference Calls-

September 24, 2008 at 1pm central time.

September 25, 2008 at 10am central time.

Call in number: 1-877-300-8186 (Code-415621)

*Please e-mail Amanda if you cannot make one of these days*

Upcoming Events 

University of Pittsburgh IRB– Expires 9/16/08

UCSF IRB– Expires 10/2/08

Bridger Orthopaedics IRB– Expires 10/24/08

Tennessee Orthopaedic Alliance IRB– Expires 11/8/08

COR-Arlington, VA IRB– Expires 11/14/08

Inland Orthopaedics IRB– Expires 11/29/08

Need New IRB Approval Letters From: Case Western

Connecticut Children’s

Upcoming IRB Renewals   

Top Ten List Name Number Enrolled 1) Dan Cooper* 2) Chris Kaeding* 3) David McAllister* 4) Rick Wright* 5) Kurt Spindler 6) Rick Parker 7) Tom DeBererdino* 8) Brick Lantz* 9) Matt Matava 10) Christina Allen*^ 11) John Campbell*^ 12) Michael Stuart*^

Ties are listed in alphabetical order* Twelve listed due to tie^ Totals are as of 8/22/08

24 24 17 17 16 15 12 12 10 9 9 9

Congratulations to Dr. Mark Purnell and Coordinator Drew Larson for enrolling the most patients (6) this month.

Martians of the Month

Questions or Comments? E-mail us at haasa@wudosis.wustl.edu or call (314) 362-3768

1) Completing the bottom of the 1st page of the patient form (“Registration Number”) before you send it to Van-derbilt On the bottom of page 1 of the patient questionnaire, there is a section called “Registration Number”. (See image to right.) It consists of three components—The surgeon’s initials, the pa-tient’s social security number, and your site code. Often times the surgeon’s initials and site code are pre-labeled. However, the middle section needs to have the patient’s social security number. In order to pay your patient the $20 subject participa-tion fee, Vanderbilt payroll (the folks who cut the check) re-quire it. They won’t send a check without it. So, we ask each site to complete the bottom section of the 1st page of the pa-tient questionnaire. In the case that a patient does not have a social security num-ber (i.e. non US citizen, child), just put a note saying “no SSN on file”, so we’ll know. In those cases, we’ll send them a VISA $20 gift card. It is more paperwork on our end, but at least your subject gets paid. 2) Crossing out a page that doesn’t apply Answer: Don’t Reason: We use an optical scanning software package, and the application will assume an answer is checked if it sees any line (errant or not) going thru the box that’s associated with it. So on the pages where a line inadvertently goes thru some of the boxes, the software will pick it up and erroneously put that answer into the database under that question. Vanderbilt can override that (and delete it), but it takes a bit of manual ma-nipulation. Alternative Solutions: Put a post-it note with a “X” on it, let-ting you know that this doesn’t need to be populated. Then it can easily be removed. Or, put an “X” at the top of the page where it doesn’t cross any of the variable boxes.

Packet Completion Issues 

First Three Boxes are Surgeon Initials; Next Nine Boxes are Patient SSN; Last Three Boxes are the Site Code

Enrollers of the Month Congratulations to the following Surgeons and Coordinators for Submitting a patient this month (as of 8/22/08): Surgeon Coordinator(s) Site Christina Allen May Shishido UCSF Jack Andrish Lynn Borzi / Julia Brasfield Cleveland Clinic Dan Cooper Donna Stewart W.B. Carrell Memorial Clinic Alex Creighton UNC Sharon Hame UCLA N. Lindsay Harris Drew Larson Ortho. Assoc. of Aspen Elliott Hershman Tom Ross Manhattan Orthopaedics, P.C. Tim Hosea Patricia Seuffert Robert Johnson Woods Bob Marx Patrick Grimm HSS Eric McCarty Paula Langer University of Colorado Bruce Miller Theresa Kijek University of Michigan Ali Motamedi UCLA Dan O’Neill Mia Simone /Gretchen Wilkie New Hampshire Knee Center Rick Parker Lynn Borzi / Leah Schmitz Cleveland Clinic Mark Purnell Drew Larson Ortho. Assoc. of Aspen Jon Sekiya Hemang Panchal University of Michigan James Slauterbeck University of Vermont Kurt Spindler Vanderbilt University James Williams Lynn Borzi / Leah Barmasse Cleveland Clinic James York Dan Stenger Chesapeake Ortho.

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