New HCORP Program Director and Program Coordinator

George S. M. Dyer, MD

It is a great pleasure to announce that after an exhaustive national search, the HCORP Executive Committee selected Dr. George Dyer, Instructor in Orthopaedic Surgery at HMS and outstanding hand surgeon at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, as our new Program Director for the Combined Harvard Orthopaedic Residency Program.

Dr. Dyer trained at Harvard and completed an upper extremity fellowship at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Children's Hospital and the MGH. His clinical interest is in trauma and post-traumatic reconstruction of the upper extremity. As Residency Program Director, he looks forward to helping Harvard lead the way toward improving orthopaedic surgical training, to make it safer for patients, more effective for trainees, and more fun for everybody.

Diane Sheehan

This year, Diane Sheehan, who served as the Harvard Combined Orthopaedic Residency Coordinator for 14 years, assumed the position of Senior Accreditation Manager in the Graduate Medical Education Office at MGH. Diane first started working in Orthopaedics in 1974 when Dr. John Hall at Children’s Hospital hired her as his medical secretary. She left that position in 1981 and spent the next decade as a stay-at-home mom. From 1991 until 1998, Diane worked at Brigham and Women’s Hospital for Dr. Barry Simmons as his administrative assistant and Hand Fellowship Coordinator. In June 1998, Diane was recruited to become the Orthopaedic Residency Coordinator for Dr. James Herndon, Program Director, until he retired in 2000. Diane finished her Orthopaedic career during the Program Directorship of Dr. Dempsey Springfield.

Diane lives with her husband, Gary, in Norwood and has three adult children, Michael, Patricia, and Kenneth. We will miss her at HCORP!