University Orthopedics Center history

These schools joined in 1905 to form the Kansas City area campus of the Medical School of the University of Kansas.

In 1924 the Kansas University Medical Center moved to a new "Bell Memorial Hospital," located several blocks south of the "Goat Hill" campus.

He was born on August 15, 1936 to St John, KS farmer James Manley Asher and Pratt, KS native and high school mathematics teacher Lucile Turner Asher.

In 1946 the orthopedic residency program at KU was initiated.

The department is very proud of the fact that since 1956 all orthopedic residency graduates have obtained board certification.

In 1946 the orthopedic residency program at KU was initiated. It was well into the 1960's before a national residency matching plan was put in place and KU was approved to have two residents per year in the four-year residency training program.

His early career included work at the United States Public Health Service as the General Medical Officer in Leavenworth, KS and as an Assistant Professor of Orthopedic Surgery and Residency Training Coordinator at the University of Texas Medical School at San Antonio in 1970.

In 1979, a new large clinical facility, officially named the University of Kansas Hospital was opened.

Come 1993, UOC had outgrown its Regent Court location, prompting the construction of a new facility at 101 Regent Court.