New Chair of Orthopaedic Surgery Named

Jeffrey Anglen, MD, has been named chair of the IU Department of Orthopaedic Surgery. He will begin his new duties in early 2005.

Dr. Anglen is a clinical professor of orthopaedic surgery at the University of Missouri Health Sciences Center. He joined the faculty in 1992 as an assistant professor and chief of Orthopaedic Trauma Services. Previously, he was an orthopaedic trauma fellow at the Florida Orthopaedic Institute in Tampa, Fla., in 1992.

He also has been an assistant clinical professor of orthopaedics at the University of Missouri - Kansas City and a volunteer orthopaedic surgeon with Orthopaedics Overseas in Transkei, South Africa .

Dr. Anglen graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor's degree from the University of Missouri. He received his medical degree and completed his internship and residency at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

"Jeff Anglen is an accomplished trauma orthopaedist who is now at the University of Missouri ," said Dean Craig Brater, MD. "He and his wife and their young children plan to move to Indianapolis in December and he will assume his responsibilities soon thereafter. As we welcome Jeff we also should thank Randy Loder, MD, for the excellent job he has been doing as interim chair."

Dr. Loder was named interim chair of the Department of Orthopaedics in August 2003, replacing Stephen Trippel, MD, who resigned the position to devote more time to patient care, his clinical practice, and research.