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CONNECTICUT STUDENTS TO PLAY SPORTS DOCTOR FOR A DAY
Fairfield Woods 8th Grade Science Students Learn
How To Set Broken Bones At Orthopaedic Foundation Lab
Cos Cob, CT, -- On Wednesday March 30, 2011, from 9:00am-12noon, eighth grade science students from the Fairfield Woods Middle School will have the unique opportunity to
play sports doctor for a day at a special program at the Cos Cob based Orthopaedic Foundation for Active Lifestyles (OFALS) Lab. The 24 science students will spend the
morning learning how to repair broken arm bones.
The Sports Doctor for a Day Lab at OFALS (www.ofals.org) provides a unique forum for student education about current surgical techniques for the repair of broken
bones. The Lab features actual surgical equipment including drills, plates and screws which the students will use to screw, pin together and insert supportive plates
into realistic synthetic broken forearms. The program offered to the students is one of a series of such classes for local students from New York City to Boston.
The students will be supervised by nationally renowned Orthopaedic Surgeon, Sports Medicine Specialist and Greenwich resident Kevin Plancher M.D., Chairman of OFALS.
Dr. Plancher created the Sports Doctor for a Day Lab and will serve as a medical-education outreach resource for these top science students.
“The core mission of the Orthopaedic Foundation for Active Lifestyles is to support medical education and research resources for doctors and other communities in
orthopaedics and sports medicine,” Dr. Plancher said. “By offering this series of programs for high school students, we are working to bring medical concepts to
students and encourage them, we hope, to consider medical careers.
Dr. Plancher explained “The Lab’s focus on broken forearm bones helps bring medical and surgical concepts to the students by showing them techniques for fixing body
parts that they’ve seen broken in their lives, whether their own, their friends or their sport heroes.”
WHEN: Wednesday March 30th 2011 9:00am - 12 Noon
WHERE: Orthopaedic Foundation For Active Lifestyles
31 River Road
Cos Cob, Connecticut, 06807
WHO: Science students from the Fairfield Woods Middle School
Kevin D. Plancher M.D, Chairman of the Orthopaedic Foundation
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Kevin Plancher, MD, Chairman of the Board
Janine D. Bahar, Executive Director
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George Kollitides II
Albert Nickel
Robert Plancher
Jonathan Scott
Kenneth M. Wisdom
Mary Ellen Yacura
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