Alumnus Puts His Best Hand Forward Dr Harold Kleinert, Class of 1941 Perhaps you heard about the New Jersey man who became the first hand transplant recipient in the United States on January 25th. What you might not have known is that much of the research required for the surgery and a participating surgeon were from the Kleinert, Kutz and Associates Hand Care Center PLLC, co-founded by Northern alum Harold Kleinert. After graduating from NMC in 1941, Dr. Kleinert went on to school at Temple University and founded his first hand clinic in Louisville, Kentucky in 1953. In 1964, Harold and partner Joseph Kutz created the organization now known as Kleinert, Kutz and Associates Hand Care Center. Dr. Kleinert is currently a Clinical Professor of Surgery at the University of Louisville and Indiana University-Purdue University and National Consultant to the Surgeon General, the United States Air Force, Shriners Hospital for Crippled Children and Kosair Children's Hospital. He served as President of the American Society for Surgery of the Hand in 1976 and is credited with more than 160 publications. In 1980, Dr. Kleinert received the Scientific Achievement Award from the American Medical Association. Return to Aurora
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