New members join the AMAA board. (Member News).

On April 2 0th, at the annual Board of Directors meeting, Ronald S. Dubin, M.D., and LTC Francis G. O'Connor, M.D., FACSM, were elected to join the AMAA Board. Dubin, who has been in practice for 16 years as an orthopedic surgeon in Middlesboro, KY is also an avid pilot and notes, "I love flying my plane to various marathons for weekend getaways." He's completed 13 marathons and one ultra marathon, and has already filled his fall calendar with races he'd like to run.

Dubin has been a regular attendee at the AMAA Sports Medicine Symposium at Boston and this past April joined the faculty to present on "Athletes with Limitations," a talk focusing on the long distance runner with artificial joint replacement or other limitations that affect performance abilities.

O'Connor, the Director of Primary Care Sports Medicine at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, MD, has been instrumental in helping to plan and implement the annual AMAA Sports Medicine Symposium at the Marine Corps Marathon. See page 17 for a "Member Profile" of Dr. O'Connor.