Alejandro Badia, MD of the Miami Hand Center recently conducted the instructional course in Elbow Reconstruction at the annual meeting of the American Association for Hand Surgery held in Kauai, Hawaii from Jan. 8-10, 2003. He also lectured in the course regarding rheumatoid hand reconstruction discussing wrist instability and tendon transfers in patients with inflammatory arthritis. He recently was inducted into the American College of Surgeons.