Orion,
I'm afraid I'm not sophisticated (or web-savvy!) enough to use messenger services, but I do maintain an e-mail address for this type of posted communication at rkennon3###@... (delete the #'s - they're to throw off spambots). Besides, I troll the forums too infrequently for anything but email to be practical.
As a further thought, an area where orthopaedic and plastic surgery interests most likely overlap would be with hand & digit work, such as advancement and V-Y flaps, etc. I'm not sure how specific or general your interests are.
Another area for software simulation in which many orthopaedic surgeons would be interested, and which may be significantly easier to simulate, is arthroscopic surgery. Because this primarily involves getting a spatial sense from watching the video screen without much tactile feedback anyway, or the need for something akin to finite element analysis to simulate adjoining tissue deformation, it may be significantly easier to create. Other than endoscopic CTR, however, I am uncertain of what arthroscopic procedures in which you would also be interested.
At any rate, please drop me an e-mail at some point - I'd love to chat with you above it further. It's great to find someone else who shares this hobby.
Cheers,
Robert Kennon, M.D.
I'm afraid I'm not sophisticated (or web-savvy!) enough to use messenger services, but I do maintain an e-mail address for this type of posted communication at rkennon3###@... (delete the #'s - they're to throw off spambots). Besides, I troll the forums too infrequently for anything but email to be practical.
As a further thought, an area where orthopaedic and plastic surgery interests most likely overlap would be with hand & digit work, such as advancement and V-Y flaps, etc. I'm not sure how specific or general your interests are.
Another area for software simulation in which many orthopaedic surgeons would be interested, and which may be significantly easier to simulate, is arthroscopic surgery. Because this primarily involves getting a spatial sense from watching the video screen without much tactile feedback anyway, or the need for something akin to finite element analysis to simulate adjoining tissue deformation, it may be significantly easier to create. Other than endoscopic CTR, however, I am uncertain of what arthroscopic procedures in which you would also be interested.
At any rate, please drop me an e-mail at some point - I'd love to chat with you above it further. It's great to find someone else who shares this hobby.
Cheers,
Robert Kennon, M.D.