HECTOR W. KAY MEMORIAL LECTURESHIP

Hector W. Kay was born in Australia, November 1, 1909. After his basic education in Australia, he completed his formal education in 1938 at Springfield College where he received a Masters Degree in Education. It was also here that Hector met and married Katherine Johnson, a Springfield native. Hector’s early association with prosthetics and prosthetic education began at New York University where he spent the years 1952 through 1965 in the Adult and Child Prosthetic Studies group. During this period, he became intimately associated with the Sub-Committee on Children’s Prosthetic Problems of the Committee on Prosthetics Research and Development of the National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council. He was instrumental in developing the original cooperative clinic group, working very closely with the pioneers in this field: Drs. George T. Aitken, Charles Frantz, Newton McCollough and Claude Lambert. In 1965, he left New York University to join the Committee on Prosthetics Research and Development of the National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council as Assistant Executive Director. Here he continued to coordinate the activities of the Sub-Committee on Children’s Prosthetic Problems. The committee was gradually expanded to cover orthotic problems as well as the prosthetic problems. During this period, Hector also acted as editor of the Interclinic Information Bulletin. The Interclinic Information Bulletin has more recently had a name change to the Journal of the Association of Children’s Prosthetic-Orthotic Clinics. Hector retired from the Committee on Prosthetics Research and Development in 1974, and met a very untimely death on March 31, 1975. He is deeply mourned by all of those who knew him, respected him, and looked to him for advice. No organization owes more to one individual than does the Association of Children’s Prosthetic-Orthotic Clinics. Though founded after his death, ACPOC owes its existence to an organization he nurtured.

2027 HECTOR W. KAY MEMORIAL LECTURER

James O. Sanders, MD

Dr. Sanders is currently the Frank C. Wilson Distinguished Professor and Chair of Orthopaedics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He attended college at SMU graduating with degrees in Civil Engineering and Chemistry. Attending Medical School at Johns Hopkins University, he did his residency in orthopaedics at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio, and fellowship at the Texas Scottish Rite Hospital in Dallas. His initial practice was in San Antonio when he became Chief of Staff of Shriners Hospitals for Children in Erie, PA, the division chief at the University of Rochester before assuming his current role.

He has a long interest in pediatric spinal deformity and growth and has focused his research largely in these two areas though he treats children with a wide variety of pediatric orthopedic problems. His work on infantile scoliosis helped popularize casting for infantile scoliosis. He developed a skeletal maturity staging system closely correlated with scoliosis progression and is now working on the fundamental mechanisms of scoliosis progress.

Outside of work, Dr. Sanders and his wife, Tricia, have 4 sons, 3 daughters in law and 2 grandsons and enjoy the outdoors whether on the beach, the mountains and time with family, friends and colleagues.

PAST HECTOR KAY LECTURERS

2026 — Susan Apkon, MD
2025 — Hank Chambers, MD
2024 — Vincent Mosca, MD
2023 — Mark Dahl, MD
2022 — Ola L.A. Harrysson, PhD
2021 — Stan Sonu, MD, MPH
2020 — Deborah Gaebler-Spira, MD
2019 — Joan E. Edelstein, MA, PT
2017 — Scott Kozin, MD, Philadelphia, PA
2018 — John G. Birch, MD, FRCS(C)
2016 — Melissa Stockwell, CP, Chicago, IL
2015 — Eric P. Neufeld, CPO, FAAOP, Denver, CO and David J. Krupa, CP, Quito, Ecuador
2014 — Lori A. Karol, MD, Dallas, TX
2013 — Terry R. Trammell, MD, Indianapolis, IN
2012 — Ellen M. Raney, MD, Portland, OR
2011 — John H. Bowker, MD, Miami, FL
2010 — Kenneth J. Guidera, MD, Twin Cities, MN
2009 — Sheila Hubbard, OT, PT, Toronto, ON, Canada
2008 — James A. Harder, MD, Alberta, BC, Canada
2007 — John R. Fisk, MD, Springfield, IL
2006 — Randall R. Betz, MD, Philadelphia, PA
2005 — Peter F. Armstrong, MD, Tampa, FL
2004 — Michelle A. James, MD, Sacramento, CA
2003 — Sandra Dukat, Heber City, UT
2002 — Craig W. Heckathorne, MS, Chicago, IL
2001 — Lewis B. Holmes, MD, Houston, TX
2000 — Michael Keith, MD, Banff, AB, Canada
1999 — Hugh G. Watts, MD, St. Pete’s Beach, FL
1998 — Curtis D. Edholm, MD, Grand Rapids, MI
1997 — Michael Lovett, PhD, Dallas, TX
1996 — Michael J. Goldberg, MD, Boston, MA
1995 — Mary Williams Clark, MD, Hershey, PA
1994 — Yosio Setoguchi, MD, Los Angeles, CA
1993 — Robert E. Tooms, MD, Memphis, TN
1992 — N/A
1991 — Charles H. Epps, Jr., MD, Washington, DC
1990 — Leon Kruger, MD, Springfield, MA
1989 — Dudley Childress, PhD, Chicago, IL
1988 — Norman Berger, BS, MS, New York, NY
1987 — R. Merv Letts, MD, FRCS(c), Winnipeg, MB, Canada
1986 — Georg Neff, MD, Tubingen, Germany
1985 — Charles Scott, MD, Wilmington, DE