140 year of Shriners

140 year of Shriners

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Chief of Staff Earns Teaching Honors




July 20, 2010

Perry L. Schoenecker, M.D., chief of staff at Shriners Hospitals for Children® – St. Louis, has earned two awards this year in recognition of his work as a professor of orthopaedics at Washington University School of Medicine.

Earlier this year, the residents at Washington University School of Medicine voted to award Dr. Schoenecker with the Palma Chironis Award for excellence in teaching. This is the third time Washington University residents have honored him with this award, previously in 1995 and 1998.

The 2010 graduating orthopaedic residents from the University of Kansas, Wichita, School of Medicine voted him the “Outstanding Teacher of the Year for 2010”.

Dr. Schoenecker has served as chief of staff for Shriners Hospitals for Children® – St. Louis for 33 years. In addition to serving as professor of orthopaedics at Washington University School of Medicine, he is also acting chairman of the department of orthopaedics at St. Louis Children’s Hospital.

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