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.

Jennifer Duane, ME

I recently led the search for a new Harvard Combined Orthopaedic Residency Coordinator and am pleased to report that Jennifer Duane assumed that position and joined us in June. Jennifer comes to us from Boston Children’s Hospital, where she worked for the past ten years as the Program Coordinator and later the Program Administrator for the Harvard Medical School Joint Program in Nuclear Medicine. Because her previous experience was with a multi-institutional program sponsored by Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Jennifer is already very familiar with the accreditation process and the Partners GME community. Jennifer earned a Bachelors degree in Psychology from Boston College. Her work in the GME field inspired her to pursue a Masters of Education at Boston University, concentrating in Higher Education Administration. She is excited about working with all 62 of the HCORP residents and the upcoming recruitment season. Jennifer also looks forward to working with Dr. Dyer, the new HCORP Program Director, and other members of the HCORP faculty on implementing new educational initiatives, as well as preparing the program for the ACGME’s Next Accreditation System (NAS).

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!