Campbell Clinic Foundation: Six Questions with the Trauma Fellow
The Campbell Clinic Foundation is proud to facilitate six different orthopaedic sub-specialty fellowships, a one-year highly specialized training following the five-year residency. Dr. Rock Hwang has been the Orthopaedic Trauma fellow this year, spending most of his time teaching and training at Regional One Health. Name: Rock Hwang, MD, Class of 2025 Residency: Cooper University Hospital, Camden, NJ Medical School: Drexel University College of Medicine Hometown: Irvine, CA Orthopedic trauma gives me the opportunity to make an almost immediate and...
Momentum – Spring 2025 is here!
Read online! The latest edition of Campbell Clinic Foundation’s semi-annual newsletter is packed with updates and recognition:
Ladies and Gentlemen: Know Your Bone Health
Each May, National Women’s Health Week is a time to encourage women to prioritize their health at every stage of life. For the Campbell Clinic Foundation, wellness for both men and women is a year-round commitment. This month, we’re shining a spotlight on a condition that often goes undetected in men and women: osteoporosis. Osteoporosis is far more common in women than in men, so much so that nearly 80% of Americans with osteoporosis are women (1). Despite its prevalence,...
Campbell Clinic Foundation Announces New Endoscopic Spine Surgery Fellowship
Fellowship Overview This is a 3-month, single fellow experience focused on endoscopic and minimally invasive spine surgery. Fellows will spend time in the clinic learning indications for and applications of endoscopic spine surgery. They will also experience a high volume endoscopic surgical practice, learning techniques and gaining hands-on experience with endoscopic spine surgery. The goal of the fellowship is for exiting fellows to have completed the “learning curve” under the guidance of an experienced endoscopist. Fellows will have the opportunity...
Become a Doctor, Lawyer or Engineer: Lessons from Alum, Dr. Kaku Barkoh, Class of 2016
Dr. Kaku Barkoh, the son of Ghanian immigrants, has long mentored youths who were considering a career in health care. Now the Campbell Clinic alum (class of 2016) and orthopaedic spine sub-specialist has a new tool in his mentoring toolbox: a self-published book, “Become a Doctor, Lawyer, or Engineer: Misguided Advice of Immigrant and Middle-Class Parents.” As Dr. Barkoh grew up in Texas and went through medical training, he discovered many similarities among middle-class immigrants’ parenting and expectations of their...
Attention College Students: Summer Orthopaedic Internship Will Launch in 2025
The Campbell Clinic Foundation is proud to partner with the UTHSC-Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Biomedical Engineering to host a Summer Orthopaedic Internship in 2025 to encourage and support undergraduate women who aim to pursue medical education and focus on orthopaedic medicine. The program will run June 16-July 25, 2025. The program offers mentorship by current and future orthopaedic surgeons, advance practice providers and other healthcare professionals and executives; exposure to the operative, clinical and business components of medicine; and camaraderie...