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ORTHOPAEDIC SURGERY NEWS • SPRING 2011Welcome New Staff!INTRODUCINGRAKESHDONTHINENI,MDOUR NEWORTHOPAEDICONCOLOGISTDr. Donthineni earned his MDdegree from University of WalesCollege of Medicine, Cardiff, UK, andcompleted his orthopaedic residencywith University of California, San Diego,CA. He returns to the UC Davis HealthSystem after helping to develop theOrthopaedic Oncology division from2003 to 2006. He will be providingclinical care to orthopaedic patientsand assisting in the teaching oforthopaedic trainees.To schedule a medical appointment,please call the ACC Orthopaedic clinicat 916.734.2700.INTRODUCINGOUR NEWANALYSTJackie Dalke willbe managingour departmentwebsite, purchasing and the Lipscomband Orthopaedic Surgery GrandRounds Series. She earned her degreein Health Services Administration fromCalifornia State University Chico.Spotlight:Physicians for the Sacramento KingsThe average NBA basketballplayer stands at 6 feet 7 inches talland 225 pounds. He sprints andbursts his way through several milesper game and jumps dozens of times,often landing forcefully in a crowd.Add liberal doses of backwardsrunning, direction change and lateralmovement — plus elbows in the lane— and there’s plenty of potential forinjury over the course of an 82-gameseason.For many years, the SacramentoKings have trusted our UC Davisphysicians to counteract the effects ofthese “major-league” biomechanicalforces. Sports Medicine andorthopaedic specialists at UC DavisHealth System have served as theKings’ official team doctors for morethan two decades, keeping membersof the 15-man roster healthy andmoving.For the Kings, we provide regularmedical care and injury-preventionconsultation as well as treatmentfor both acute injuries and chronic/overuse problems.To meet the challenge, ourSports Medicine Program employs anintegrated, interdisciplinary approachthat brings to bear all of the uniqueresources of an academic healthsystem. This includes fellowshiplevelexpertise, availability of newtechnologies, and ready access toclinical trials and emerging treatmentapproaches. We are also able tooffer these resources to Olympiclevelathletes, collegiate playersand members of the general publicranging from fitness buffs to theproverbial “weekend warriors.”Richard Marder, our servicechief, co-directs the Sports MedicineProgram with sports medicinespecialist Jeffrey Tanji. Tanji andSports Medicine specialists DavidCosca and Gina Lokna from thePrimary Care Network offer treatmentfor non-operative musculoskeletalconditions such as strains, sprains,overuse problems and fractures.They work in concert with BrianDavis and Brandee Waite from theDepartment of Physical Medicine andRehabilitation.Marder, Kirk Lewis, James Vanden Bogaerde, Cassandra Lee and ourFoot and Ankle Service chief Eric Gizacan provide consultation and surgicalexpertise when more aggressivetreatment is required. As the area’slargest orthopaedic group, ourdepartment also offers several otherformal subspecialties that can beapplied when needed in case of injuryor accident, and can draw upon theexpertise of our level-I trauma center.The sports program also worksto develop new prevention andtreatment approaches throughresearch. Our orthopaedic researchlaboratories became the LawrenceJ. Ellison Musculoskeletal ResearchCenter in 1997, made possiblethrough a generous gift by LawrenceJ. Ellison, then president andchief executive officer of OracleCorporation, to help develop aworld-class research center inskeletal molecular biology. Cartilagemechanobiology, cell biology andregeneration are particularly activecurrent research areas.
DEPARTMENT OF INTERNAL MEDICINEMeet a ValuedVolunteerDr. AmirJamali is nostranger to theDepartment ofOrthopaedicSurgery.Appointed tothe UC DavisFaculty in 2003,he quicklybecame avaluable asset to our Department andwell respected amongst his peers,residents and medical students. In2010, he transitioned into an MSPposition and continued to be activelyinvolved in teaching and clinicalduties. Dr. Jamali has recently becomea Volunteer Clinical Faculty memberand, in this new role, will continue thetradition of excellent service.Dr. Jamali is a board-certifiedOrthopaedic surgeon withCertification of Added Qualificationfor Sports Medicine. He is also amember of the Board of Directorsof the California OrthopaedicAssociation. He is a fellow of theAmerican College of Surgeonsand of the American Academy ofOrthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) inaddition to membership in theOrthopaedic Research Society, andthe Western Orthopaedic Association.Dr. Jamali’s clinical interest is injoint preservation surgery includingcartilage transplantation, realignmentsurgery (osteotomy), arthroscopy, andtotal joint replacement of the hip andknee.Dr. Jamali has been activelyinvolved in both resident educationand medical student education, andhas shown a strong commitment toquality education. He pays close(continued on page 6)Portrait of a Grateful PatientPati MalinowskiPati Malinowski has been a busy person raising three children andcrisscrossing the country due to her husband’s employment. Originally fromRochester, New York, the family moved to Thousand Oaks in Southern California,to Colorado Springs, Colorado, back to New York, down to Phoenix,Arizona and is currently settled in the Sacramento region. Malinowski maybe staying put for now, but thanks to treatment by UC Davis orthopaedicsurgeons, she gets around better than ever.When she was 16 years old, Malinowski had a bicycle accident andinjured her right knee. She said it hurt quite a bit, but the pain went away– and she ignored the injury as all teenagers do. But when she reached her40s the joint started bothering her again. Malinowski nursed it over theyears and sought relief from chiropractors, steroid shots in the knee andarthroscopy a couple of times.A quilter specializing in 1800s quilting by profession, Malinowski saidthings came to a head while attending a quilting show. She was pushinganother individual in a wheelchair and at the end of the day she felt pain inher left knee; Malinowski knew it was from compensating for her right knee.When she visited her primary care doctor for the pain, he told her the rightknee was bone-on-bone and needed to be replaced.After doing her research, Malinowski decided UC Davis had the bestpossible care. “After being told I needed surgery, I chose UCD because of itsunmatched reputation.” She chose to come to the Department of OrthopaedicSurgery and specifically requested Dr. Paul Di Cesare, chair of orthopaedicsurgery. “I found out later that he was the head if the department. Iknew I couldn't be in better hands.”While Dr. Di Cesare wasready to move forward with thesurgery, Malinowski wanted toget through the holidays so sheelected to go with “visco replacement”or viscosupplementation– an injection of a fluid to supplementor replace the naturalsynovial fluid in the knee jointcapsule. The injection affordsmore lubrication and cushioningfor the cartilage. The cushioninglasted through the holidays andthen Malinowski scheduled hersurgery with Dr. Di Cesare.(continued on page 6)
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