Tulane University School of Medicine
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
1440 Canal Street, Suite 1500
New Orleans, LA 70112
PH: (504) 558-0103
FAX: (504)558-0106
Email: oedmunds@tulane.edu

Education (including locations, dates and degrees obtained):

• Washington & Lee University, Lexington, Virginia, 1958-60
• Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, 1960-62, B.A.
• Oxford University, Oxford, England, 1962-63
• University of Florida, College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida, 1963-67, M.D.

Hospital Training (including dates of internships, residencies, fellowships, etc.):

• Internship - Ochsner Foundation Hospital, New Orleans, Louisiana 1967-68
• Residency - Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 1971-75
• Fellowship - Duke University, Hand Surgery, 1976

Current Professional Appointments:

• Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Tulane University School of Medicine;
• Director, Hand and Upper Extremity Service Tulane University Medical Center;
• Director, Hand Surgery VA Hospital;
• Chief, Hand Surgery, Medical Center of Louisiana at New Orleans;
• Director, Hand Surgery, Medical Center of Louisiana at New Orleans;
• Attending Orthopaedic Surgeon, Divn of Handicapped Children Louisiana State Dept. of Health.

Certification, including date(s):

• American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery, 1977.
• American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery, 1989.
    --Certificate of Added Qualifications in Surgery of the Hand

Current Professional Activities/Committees:

• Fellow-American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons;
• Editorial Board Southern Orthopaedic Assn Journal;
• President (88-89) Southern Orthopaedic Assn;
• Member-Clinical Orthopaedic Society;
• Member-Mid American Orthopaedic Assn;
• Member-International Society of Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology;
• Medical Director-Orthopaedic Research & Education Foundation;
• Campaign Chairman - American Foundation for Surgery of the Hand;
• Executive Committee-Medical Center of Louisiana at New Orleans;
• Founding Member-Southeastern Hand Club;
• Fellow-American Society for Surgery of the Hand;
• Director-Tulane Orthopaedic TeleVideo Conferencing Center;
• Director-Tulane Orthopaedic Computing and Video Laboratory

Role in Residency Training Program:

• Responsible for residency education and supervision in hand and orthopaedics at Medical Center of Louisiana at New Orleans, VA Hospital of New Orleans, Tulane Medical Center, VA Hospital of Alexandria

Selected Publications in Refereed Journals in the Last Five Years:

• Cook SD, Barrack RL, Salkeld SL, Prewett AB, Edmunds JO Jr : Bone Ingrowth into a Porous-Coated Total Shoulder Component Retrieved Postmortem. J Arthroplasty 1993 Apr 8(2):189-94