By Martin I. Boyer, MD, MSc, FRCS(C)
ASSH President

I was Jim Strickland’s fellow in the winter of 1997. I walked into his office one day, and he told me about a friend of his that was looking to hire a young hand surgeon to be a member of his new Department of Orthopedic Surgery at Washington University in Saint Louis. Strick suggested that I call his friend to find out more about the possibility of starting my career in Saint Louis. I did. The rest, as they say (who are they, anyways?) is history. Almost twenty-three years later, I am still in Saint Louis with my wife Marci (who I met in Saint Louis) and two fantastic children (both born in Saint Louis.) I had never imagined that I would end up outside of Canada, in the midwest, in the home of the 2019 Stanley Cup Champions. Had I not walked into Jim Strickland’s office that day, I would have almost certainly ended up elsewhere both physically and metaphysically. 

Martin I Boyer, MD MSc FRCS(C)
Carol B and Jerome T Loeb Professor of Orthopedic Surgery
Washington University School of Medicine