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Ten years ago, on December 13, 2007, Dr. Koris had a stroke while in his office after finishing the last case of the day. It had snowed heavily that day, and the first symptoms of the stroke were flu like. Shortly after they started, he decided that he was too sick to drive home, and called a cab. he went to the parking lot to wait for a cab, which never came. After one half hour, he met an OR tech who offered to take him to the ER, and by doing so, saved his life. A CT scan showed no bleeding. he was later admitted to the CCU for a hypertensive episode. Later that night, when he had trouble breathing, an MRI confirmed his stroke. He awoke from a coma in the neurology ICU and slowly became aware of his condition: intubated, being fed with a “G-tube”. Much later he had to decide what he wanted to do with the rest of his life. Fortunately the stroke left him with a motor deficit, but completely intact mentally. he decided to continue doing what he was trained for; Orthopedics. This would be a medical legal practice until his loss of motor function returned. He would start by doing Chart Reviews, and later IME’s and finally, Expert Witness Testimony as well as lecturing and teaching. Dr. Koris has established a business, doing medical legal practice for attorneys and insurance companies.
Dr. Koris' early background was in electrical engineering, and biomedical engineering. He had just completed all the Ms and Phd classwork, and had just passed the Phd qualifying exam; leaving only the Master’s and Phd thesis incomplete, when he got accepted in medical school at Case Western Reserve University, in Cleveland Ohio. He had decided to proceed along that second path instead of completing his Masters and Phd thesis. Nevertheless, he has always maintained a strong interest in medical and biomedical engineering.
In 1986 when Dr. Koris was first hired by Brigham and Women’s Hospital as an upper extremity surgeon, he was approached by his Sr partner, Dr. Barry Simmons, to help him with the operative and clinical training of 2 hand fellows (increasing to 4 or 5 fellows a year , after 6-7 years, for about 20 years, until his stroke terminated his participation in the fellowship. The graduates of the Fellowship have accepted positions in leading orthopedic residencies across the United States.
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>During his training time at Case Western Reserve University, before Medical School, in Biomedical Engineering, he had the opportunity to become involved in research which became his MS. And PHD research project, on Neural Control of patients with spinal cord injuries: In the Applied Neural control Lab; which he later continued in his time at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston Mass. This research was guided initially by Thomas Mortimer Phd, Michael Kieth M.D. Hunter Peckham Phd. And Pat Crago Phd, but later, by Hunter Peckham, as it evolved through animal studies. Into clinical trials on Human subjects. They ended up developing surgical techniques to restore denervated muscle function, by implanting functional nerves into denervated motors, or electrically stimulated nerves into dysfunctional muscles. The science was successful, but the cost of the project was prohibitive, an so it was eventually terminated. Drs Kieth, Peckham , Crago , Mortimer and Koris went their own ways.
• Another project he was involved in was the restoration of bone loss in patient’s tibia due to developmental deformities. This was a surgical technique that required a surgeon very skilled in microvascular procedure. As he had the ability. he was selected by my surgical group to go to Duke University. Where they were doing this surgery. He attended several procedures at Duke; and became quite skilled in performing the technique, but they didn’t follow through with the procedure , because they didn’t have the numbers of surgical patients.
Two cases that were highlighted from his training, illustrated his evolving ability to work alone and to deliver reliable patient care when required. The first of many such occasions occurred at John's Hopkins Hospital to Dr. Koris , within the first two months as an Orthopedic Resident. Having completed his General Surgery under Dr. William Silen at Boston's Beth Israel hospital. Once the General Surgeons learned that he was going to do an Orthopedic Residency, they decided not to "waste" any more General Surgery on him, and let him finish his last 6 months on a cardio-thoracic rotation. Unknowingly, this was perhaps the best preparation for what he was about to do at Johns Hopkins.
He started his Orthopedic Residency as an attending's assistant, and had done several total hip arthroplasties with the attending. The last case was an elderly man with cardiac instability, who became very unstable in the ICU with the attending home, the med chief resident busy in another ICU room, and likely to be tied up for a few hours. This was his case, and his responsibility. He was told by the nurses that at Hopkins, ICU's were run by Medical Chief Residents. But there WAS no med resident to be found. he called the medical chief resident and told him that he had "Swanned Gatz'd " other patients at the BI before, but never unsupervised; He was quite confident that he could do it. After all that, he floated the Swan Gantz catheter into the patient, managed him with dopamine and verapamil all night, and turned him over to the daytime team ALIVE . he was again told that at Hopkins, the med chief resident should do procedures in the ICU. With that the procedure was forgotten, and never mentioned again, and his status among the other residents climbed precipitously!
The second 2) was at Mass General and described " Dr. Koris’ first unsupervised Groin Flap" in which he had a patient who blew his hand apart, with explosives. He did the microsurgery, which was completed on the first night. But the wound had to be covered with soft tissue by day 3. His attending suggested a 'Groin flap", and offered to help since Dr. Koris had never done one. When the operating time arrived, Dr. Gelbernan was called into another room to do his own case. With a shrug he said "good luck' you'll find someone else." Dr Koris remembered that his friend, a plastic Surgeon chief resident named Charlie Hergruter had done some of these cases, and upon further exploration Dr Koris found he was free, and willing to help. They did the case without incident, and he added it to his list of useful tools.
I refer you to my website for publications & my CV: markkorisortho.com
PERSONAL ACHIEVEMENTS
Education
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine Class of 1982
Case Western Reserve University M.S., Biomedical Engineering, 1976 –1978
Worcester Polytechic Institute B.S., Electrical Engineering, 1971 – 1975
Licenses
MA State Medical License -Active through 2013
American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery
Special Training
Massachusetts General Hospital Fellowship, Hand Surgery, 1989 –1989
Johns Hopkins Hospital Year 4 Residency, Orthopedics, 1988 –1988
Maryland Shock Trauma Residency, Part of Johns Hopkins Program: 1 Year
Trauma Residency., 1987 –1987
Johns Hopkins Hospital Year 1 and 2 Residency, Orthopedics, 1985 – 1986
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Residency, General Surgery, 1982 – 1984
Honors
Member Ewald Award American Shoulder and Elbow Society
Ewald Award American Shoulder and Elbow Society
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http://media2.expertpages.com/ep/media/3436_korris.pdf Background and Bibliography
http://media2.expertpages.com/ep/media/3437_koris_pres_lect_gr.pdf Presentations, Lectures, & Grand Rounds
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