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About Olayinka Ogunro, M.D.

Dr. OgunroMEDICAL TRAINING

Medical student externship:

  • Hopital Cantonal de Geneve, Switzerland
  • Clinica San Mateo, Pavia, Italy
  • El Gran Hospital de la Benificencia del Estado, Madrid, Spain
  • Staedische Krankenhaus, Essen, Germany
  • Graduated from Glasgow University Medical School, Scotland

INTERNSHIP

Rotating internship: Mount Sinai Hospital Service, New York.

RESIDENCY

  • Surgical Resident: The Mount Sinai Hospital, New York.
  • Orthopedic residency: Montefiore Hospital and Medical Center, New York

FELLOWSHIP

  • Fellow on Hand Surgery: Columbia Presbyterian Hospital and Medical Center, New York.
  • Former Senior Registrar Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Lagos
  • Private practice in Dallas in the field of Hand Surgery and general orthopedics from December 1977 till present

BOARD CERTIFICATION

  • Orthopedic Surgery
  • Hand Surgery

ACADEMIC TITLE

Associate clinical professor, Department of Orthopedics, University of Texas, Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, Texas.

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

  • Fellow American Academy of Orthopedic Surgery
  • Fellow American College of Surgeons
  • Member American Society of Surgery of the Hand
  • Member of Dallas County Medical Society, Texas Medical Association and American Medical Association.

LANGUAGES SPOKEN

English, French, Spanish, German, Italian

PRESENTATIONS and PUBLICATIONS

SCIENTIFIC PRESENTATIONS

American Society of Surgery of the Hand, 1986
Topic: External fixation of the injured nail bed with the INRO Surgical Nail Splint

OVERSEAS PRESENTATIONS

West African College of Surgeons: 1975.
Topic: Une analyse des mains traumatisees a Lagos University Teaching Hospital

West African College of Surgeons: 1976.
Topic: Pattern of Hand injuries in Lagos

British Society of Surgery of the Hand: 1988.
Topic: Management of nail bed injuries

French Society of Surgery of the Hand: 1990
Topic: Utilisation de l' orthese ungueale Inro dans le traitement des traumatismes du lit de l'ongle.

German Society of Surgery of the Hand: 1991
Topic: Management of nail bed injuries. Awarded a statute of the hand

4th International Congress of the Surgery of the Hand: 1992, Paris, France
Topic: Management of avulsion injuries of the nail bed by the non-graft technique.

French Society of Surgery of the Hand, Round table: December 2005, France
Topic: Avulsion du lit de l'ongle n'a pas besoin de greffe

Tunis Society for Surgery of the Hand: May 2006, Tunis
Topic: Avulsion du lit de l'ongle n'a pas besoin de greffe

PUBLICATIONS

Avulsion of the flexor profundus secondary to enchondroma of the distal phalanx. Journal of Hand Surgery pp. 315-316, 1983

Dorsal Transposition Flap for reconstruction of lateral or medial oblique amputations of the thumb with exposure of bone. Journal of Hand Surgery pp. 894-898, 1983

Fracture of the body of the hamate bone, Journal of Hand Surgery pp. 353-355, 1983

Restoration of sensibility to the thumb by the technique of digital nerve advancement, a new surgical procedure. Journal of Hand Surgery pp. 440-444 1984.

External fixation of the injured nail bed with the Inro Surgical Nail Splint. Journal of Hand Surgery pp. 236-241, 1989.

Pending publication: Treatment of avulsion injuries of the nail bed by the simple use of the INRO surgical nail splint without the use of a nail bed graft. Submitted 1996

Avulsion injuries of the nail bed do not need nail bed graft: Techniques in Hand and Upper Extremity Surgery, 2007, in press

Dynamic Stabilization of Chronic Scapholunate Dissociation with Palmaris Longus Transfer: A New Technique: Techniques in Hand and Upper Extremity Surgery. 2007 11(4):241-245.