Duke Faculty Lead and Receive Honors at AOFAS Annual Meeting in Savannah

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Left to right: Dr. Samuel Adams, Dr. Andrew Hanselman, and Dr. Jonathan Kaplan at the AOFAS event.

Duke Orthopaedics proudly congratulates our faculty for their leadership and recognition at the American Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Society (AOFAS) Annual Meeting 2025, held September 10–13 in Savannah, Georgia. Dr. Samuel Adams, associate professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, served as Program Co-Chair, and Dr. Jonathan Kaplan, associate professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, co-chaired the Pre-Meeting, helping shape a dynamic and impactful event

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Dr. Cesar de Cesar Netto and Dr. Scott Ellis, MD, Professor of Orthopedics at Hospital for Special Surgery and Weill Cornell University, proudly holding their Roger Mann Award.

We also celebrate our award recipients:

  • Dr. J. Leonard Goldner was honored as a 2025 Legacy Pillar of the AOFAS, honoring iconic surgeons who have demonstrated a lifelong commitment to sustained excellence in leadership, education, and philanthropy.
  • Dr. Cesar de Cesar Netto, associate professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, along with colleagues Rebekah Belayneh, MD; Scott Ellis, MD; Donald Anderson, PhD; Nacime Salomao Barbachan Mansur, MD, PhD; Grayson Talaski, BSE; and Francois Lintz, MD, PhD, received the prestigious Roger A. Mann Award for their outstanding clinical study presentation: “Enhancing the Progressive Collapsing Foot Deformity (PCFD) Classification System through the Establishment of Defined Radiopathic Cut-Off Threshold Values for the Different Deformity Classes.”

These achievements reflect Duke’s continued excellence in orthopaedic research, education, and leadership on the national stage.

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