On behalf of Dr. Heather Baltzer

Ralph Manktelow Day

October 18, 2019

7am - 12pm

Invited Speaker:

Dr. Jennifer Moriatis Wolf, MD

Professor, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
The University of Chicago

Talk Title:

"Sex Differences in Thumb CMC Arthritis: Epidemiology, Hypermobility, Hormones, and History"

• Light breakfast at 7 am, program to commence at 8am
• Hand therapy program to follow in the afternoon

Location:

Toronto Western Hospital
2 West McLaughlin Auditorium

Jennifer Moriatis Wolf, MD was born in Harrogate, Yorkshire, England and grew up in Baltimore, Maryland. She attended the University of Maryland for her undergraduate education. Dr. Wolf is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and completed her orthopaedic surgery residency and trauma fellowship at Brown University/Rhode Island Hospital. She did a fellowship in hand surgery at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. At the University of Chicago, her clinical and research interests include gender differences and the impact of hormones on basilar thumb arthritis. She holds a Department of Defense grant to study the impact of Vitamin D on post-traumatic osteoarthritis. She currently serves as the deputy editor in chief for the Journal of Hand Surgery, as well as the hand surgery fellowship director as the University of Chicago. She spends her free time with her husband and two sons, and enjoys distance running, travel, and hiking.