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.

2024 HECTOR W. KAY MEMORIAL LECTURER

Biomechanics and Principles of Assessment and Management of Pediatric Foot and Ankle Deformities and Malformations

Vincent, Mosca, MD

Researcher and Expert in Management of Foot Deformities

Dr. Vincent Mosca is a Professor in the Department of Orthopedics at the University of Washington School of Medicine and an academic full-time pediatric orthopedic surgeon at Seattle Childrens Hospital. He completed his orthopedic surgery residency at Duke University Medical Center in North Carolina, and then did a 1 year fellowship in pediatric orthopedics at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada before starting his practice in Seattle. Dr. Vincent Mosca is a Professor in the Department of Orthopedics at the University of Washington School of Medicine and an academic full-time pediatric orthopedic surgeon at Seattle Childrens Hospital. He completed his orthopedic surgery residency at Duke University Medical Center in North Carolina, and then did a 1 year fellowship in pediatric orthopedics at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada before starting his practice in Seattle. Approximately 70% of his clinical work and most of his publications and lectures pertain to the understanding of, and treatment for, deformities of the childs foot. Dr. Mosca has authored or coauthored 29 articles, 26 book chapters, and 4 monographs. He has been an invited guest speaker/visiting professor in more than 90 medical centers and orthopedic conferences in the US, and in 36 orthopedic conferences in 21 countries outside the US. His lectures and publications on the assessment and management principles for foot deformities in children and adolescents have organized this complex information in a format that has made it the standard for understanding and treating foot deformities in children. Dr. Mosca is the immediate past Chairman of the Education Council for the Pediatric Orthopedic Society of North America, and on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Pediatric Orthopedics (USA) and the Journal of Childrens Orthopaedics (Europe). He is listed in 12 national/international Whos Who directories and has been listed in the book, The Best Doctors in America, since 1996. Dr. Mosca was the Director of the Department of Orthopedics at Children’s Hospital and Regional Medical Center, and the Chief of Pediatric Orthopedics at the University of Washington in Seattle for 13 years. He stepped down from his administrative responsibilities 8 years ago to devote more time to research and writing, while maintaining his very busy clinical practice.

PAST HECTOR KAY LECTURERS

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