DR. John H. Moe Exhibit

DR. MOE’S GREATEST INTEREST AND ACADEMIC CONTRIBUTIONS WERE IN THE AREA OF SPINAL DEFORMITY. [4] In the fall of 1947, Dr. Moe was invited by Dr. Claude N. Lambert to join the Contemporary Orthopaedic Society, a group of outstanding orthopaedic surgeons from all around the United States. At its first meeting in Milwaukee that year, the topic was scoliosis, and Dr. Moe took lengthy notes. [3] From what he was learning, it became quite apparent to Dr. Moe that scoliosis was not treated at Gillette State Hospital as well as it was at the Hospital for Ruptured and Crippled in New York by Dr. John R. Cobb or as it was at the Milwaukee Children’s Hospital by Dr. Walter P. Blount. [5]

This meeting marked the beginning of Dr. Moe’s deep interest in scoliosis, and he returned to Gillette determined to apply everything that he had learned. [2] He immediately contacted Dr. Carl C. Chatterton, chief of staff at Gillette Hospital, and asked for his permission to start a scoliosis service in an attempt “to get a more realistic and productive treatment to this much neglected subspecialty of orthopaedic surgery.” [3] Dr. Chatterton agreed and, armed with his new-found knowledge, Dr. Moe went to work.