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BCMS
HONOREES

HONOREE

INTRODUCTION

The Bexar County Medical Society gave out special awards to three of its most distinguished
and long-serving members during the 2019 Installation ceremony on Jan. 19.

The honorees were Drs. David P. Green and Manuel Quiñones, who both received the
Golden Aesculapius Lifetime Service Award, and Dr. Marvin Forland, who received the
BCMS Distinguished Service Award. In the coming months, San Antonio Medicine will publish

feature articles on each of the honorees who are briefly introduced below.

Dr. David P. Green
A native Texan, David Green, MD, grew up in El Paso, but went to New York City for
his orthopaedic and hand surgery training. In 1970, he joined the full-time faculty of the
Department of Orthopaedics at the Medical School in San Antonio. For eight years he was
the Coordinator of Resident Training, serving also as Chief of the Hand Surgery Service.
While at the medical school, Dr. Green co-authored, with Dr. Charles A. Rockwood, a two-
volume textbook on fractures that is now in its 8th edition and is the standard reference
book on this subject. It is used in all orthopaedic residency training programs throughout
the country.
In 1978, he left the medical school and became the first surgeon in San Antonio to devote
his practice entirely to hand and upper extremity surgery. He is the hand surgery consultant
for the San Antonio Spurs, and has treated numerous professional athletes, including mem-
bers of the Dallas Cowboys, world class gymnasts, professional rodeo cowboys, and golfers
on the PGA tour. Dr. Green has edited a comprehensive textbook entitled Operative Hand
Surgery (now in its 7th edition), which is used not only throughout the entire United States,
but by hand surgeons in virtually every country in the world. Because of this book, Dr.
Green has an international reputation in hand surgery and has been invited as a guest speaker
to many foreign countries. He is also a past president of the American Society for Surgery
of the Hand, and in 1997 was named the Distinguished Alumnus of his own residency
training program. Dr. Green is an enthusiastic skier, a drop-out bluegrass banjo picker, and
has published several non-medical books.

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