Meet our MSOS 2023 Program Director Panelists!
Dr. Ryan Rose, MD
Dr. Rose is a Board Certified Orthopaedic Surgeon who specializes in Hand, Wrist, Elbow and Shoulder Surgery. He provides both non-operative and operative treatment to improve function and to reduce pain. He has special interests in Complex Trauma and Reconstruction of the Entire Upper Extremity; with injuries to nerves, tendons, ligaments as well as fractures. His elective practice includes arthroscopy for the upper extremity, nerve compressions as well as arthritis.
Dr. Rose was born and raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where he completed medical school at the University of New Mexico. He then moved to Dallas, Texas, to complete his residency at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. While there, he received training in Upper Extremity Trauma at the Parkland Trauma Center. During his residency Dr. Rose was named Chief Resident, over the entire Orthopaedic Residency Department and received the G. Truett James Award for Excellence in Training. After Residency, Dr. Rose was chosen to continue his upper extremity training as the only Littler Eaton Hand Traveling Fellow at New York University Hospital of Joint Disease. His traveling fellowship included time at the renowned Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children, as well as the Hand Institute in New Zealand. He also completed a Microsurgery course at Columbia University in New York. Since his appointment at UTHSCSA, he received the Fred G. Corley Outstanding Faculty Mentor award. He also received the Texas Rising Young Doctors award several times as well as the Best San Antonio Doctors award. His proudest accomplishment is becoming the Program Director for UTHSCSA, and being responsible in guiding residents in their education.
Dr. George Dyer, MD, FACS
Dr. Dyer is the Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Harvard Medical School and an attending upper extremity surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Dr. Dyer is a graduate of Harvard College, Harvard Medical School, the Harvard Combined Orthopaedic Residency Program and the Upper Extremity Fellowship of the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Children's Hospital. Dr. Dyer specializes in upper-extremity trauma surgery, as well as complex post-traumatic reconstruction of the elbow, shoulder, wrist and hand. He also serves as Program Director for the Harvard Combined Orthopaedic Residency, one of the largest orthopaedic residency programs in the country with training sites at Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Boston Children’s Hospital.
Before medical school he served seven years active duty in the U.S. Air Force. He recently resumed service as a reservist in the U.S. Navy Medical Corps. He lives in Cambridge, MA, with his wife Martha Dyer.
Dr. Tessa Balach, MD
Dr. Balach serves as the Director of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine and the Executive Medical Director for Learning and Engagement at University of Chicago Medicine. Dr. Balach received her undergraduate education at The University of Chicago before completing medical school at New York Medical College in 2005. She returned to The University of Chicago for both her Orthopaedic Surgery Residency and Musculoskeletal Oncology Fellowship. She joined the faculty at The University of Chicago in 2016. As an orthopaedic oncologist, Dr. Balach, provides comprehensive surgical care for bone and soft tissue tumors. She treats a broad range of benign and malignant tumors in adults and children. She is a member of the Musculoskeletal Tumor Society and was the 2022 Annual Meeting Program Chair.
Dr. Balach focuses on development, growth, and research of orthopaedic surgery educational initiatives and programs in her education leadership. She is the Chair of the American Orthopaedic Association’s Council of Orthopaedic Residency Directors. As the Executive Medical Director for Learning and Engagement, she provides leadership for several programs at the intersection of training and engaging learners, faculty and staff in quality improvement activities and institutional training in quality and safety for students, residents fellows, and faculty. A dedicated educator and researcher, Dr. Balach completed the MERITS (Medical Education Research Innovation and Teaching Scholarship) program investigating how to improve training and experiences of graduating medical students entering competitive specialties.
Dr. Raffi Avedian, MD
Dr. Avedian is an orthopaedic oncology surgeon who specializes in the care of adults and children who have bone or soft tissue tumors of the extremities. In addition to his clinical work, Dr. Avedian is passionate about education and currently serves as the residency program director for the Stanford University of Department of Orthopaedic Surgery residency program. As the program director he oversees the educational program for residents and medical students interested in orthopaedic surgery.
Dr. Albert Lin, MD
Dr. Lin is the Vice Chair of Education, Chief of Shoulder Surgery, Co-Director of the Pittsburgh Shoulder Institute, Associate Chief of Sports Medicine, and Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Lin specializes in the care of athletes and shoulder conditions, and has extensive experience with shoulder arthroscopy, shoulder arthroplasty, and complex reconstructive and open surgery of the shoulder. He is a graduate of Harvard Medical School and completed his residency in Orthopaedic Surgery at the Harvard Combined Orthopaedic Residency Program, as a well as fellowships in Sports Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and Shoulder Surgery at Harvard University.
Dr. Lin is an active committee member of AAOS, AOSSM, ASES, ISAKOS, AOA fellowship coalition, the AUC rotator cuff committee of AAOS, and was recently inducted to the prestigious Herodicus Society and ASES Neer Circle in 2022. He is a regular invited faculty member for AAOS, ASES, AOSSM, AANA, ISAKOS, and MASES and is the co-chair of the ASES Fellows’ Day 2021 and 2022, and vice-chair of the shoulder and elbow program of the OSET Summit Meeting 2022. In addition, he currently serves on the editorial review board of KSSTA, Arthroscopy, and Annals in Joint and is a reviewer for AJSM, Arthroscopy, JAAOS, JSES, KSSTA, JBJS, and JOR. Dr. Lin has published more than 300 papers, abstracts, and book chapters related to clinical and basic science research on shoulder instability, rotator cuff pathology, shoulder arthroplasty, and complex shoulder conditions, and regularly presents his research at international and national meetings. He currently holds two NIH (R03, R21) grants as a PI related to shoulder biomechanics research in addition to two additional federally funded grants with the NIH (R01) and DoD as a Co-I related to shoulder instability research. He is actively involved in residency and fellowship education and currently serves as the Program Director of the Residency and Associate Program Director of the UPMC Sports Medicine Fellowship. In addition, he is the head orthopaedic team physician for Duquesne University and Pittsburgh Central Catholic High School.
Dr. Brian Scannell, MD
Dr. Scannell specializes in pediatric orthopaedics at OrthoCarolina and serves as the Orthopaedic Surgery Residency Program Director at Atrium Health – Carolinas Medical Center. He received his medical degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He completed his residency, which included participation in the year-long research fellowship, at Carolinas Medical Center. In 2013, he completed a fellowship in pediatric orthopaedics and spine at Rady Children's Hospital of San Diego. He has a wide range of pediatric clinical interests including trauma, spine, hip disorders, and lower extremity deformity. He previously served as the Associate Program Director for 4 years and became the Residency Program Director in 2019.