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National association recognizes Wilson for contributions as clinician, educator

Dr. Frank C. Wilson, Kenan professor and emeritus chief of orthopaedics at UNC’s School of Medicine, received the second-annual American Orthopaedic Association-Smith & Nephew Distinguished Clinician-Educator Award at the association’s June meeting.

The national award, presented by the association and the Smith & Nephew Co., honors outstanding contributions to orthopaedics in the roles of clinician and educator.

Wilson was recognized for landmark clinical studies in replacement of the knee, injuries of the ankle and surgical infection. In the field of education, he was recognized for his commitment to classroom teaching and his influence on educational policies nationwide and worldwide during his leadership with several orthopaedic-oriented organizations.

At UNC, Wilson chaired orthopaedics from 1967 through 1996 and directed the musculoskeletal curriculum from 1971 through 2002. He has taught literature courses in the undergraduate honors program at UNC regularly since 1980, and from 1998 through 2000 he served as president of the Thomas Wolfe Society.

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Dinkin named chair of national public health leadership organization

Donna R. Dinkin of Greensboro, program director for the Southeast Public Health Leadership Institute, was recently elected chair of the National Public Health Leadership Development Network at its annual meeting in St. Louis.

The Southeast Public Health Leadership Institute is a program of the N.C. Institute for Public Health, part of UNC’s School of Public Health.

The network is a consortium of organizations and programs dedicated to building public health leadership programs and skills in communities; state, regional, national and international programs are included in the network.

Dinkin, a public health practitioner with 20 years’ experience, works with representatives in a five-state region to develop, implement and evaluate a yearlong leadership development program for public health professionals.

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