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U.S. News & World Report 2012 Top Doctor
Mpls. St. Paul Magazine 2012 Top Doctor
Elected to American Orthopaedic Association, AOA (1999)
Winner: Best Clinical Poster Presentation for "Correction of Distal Radius Malunion Using a Volar Approach and Subchondral Fixation", American Society for Surgery of the Hand, Annual Meeting, Balt
Peer Reviewed Publication
Buttermann GR, Putnam M: Wrist position affects loading of the dorsal scaphoid: Possible effect on extrinsic scaphoid blood flow priesers. (Co-Author) J Hand Surgery [Br]. 26:1:34-40, 2001.
Buttermann GR, Putnam MD, McElfresh EC, Tountas CP, Walker GD: Idiopathic osteonecrosis of the scaphoid: A series of three surgical cases (case series and literature review). (Secondary Author) Am J Orthop. 33(3):142-147, 2004.
Chapters in Books
Putnam MD: “Management of Regional Pain Syndromes”. (Primary Author) Hand Essentials Manual, JG Seiler III (ed), Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2002.
Putnam MD: “Management of Foreign Materials within the Upper Extremity”. (Primary Author) Hand Essentials Manual, JG Seiler III (ed), Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2002.
Putnam MD, Meyer NJ: “Carpal Fractures Excluding the Scaphoid”. (Co-Author) Hand Surgery Update, third edition, T. Trumble (ed), Published with Lippincott, 2003.