Dr. Gerald Williams, Jr., Honored as the Newest Shoulder Care Hero

Cambridge, MA, April 16, 2002: Shoulder1.com, a leading Internet Web site for shoulder health information, is honoring Dr. Gerald Williams of the University of Pennsylvania as its most recent Shoulder Care Hero, recognizing him as a world-wide leader in orthopedic shoulder care.

Dr. Williams finds challenge in the diversity of the shoulder joint and the gamut of injuries it can incur. "I find it to be a very complicated joint; I find shoulder surgery fun. It's not often that you can operate on just one joint and do so many different operations," says Williams. "Shoulder surgery offers the opportunity to see everything from adolescent kids with instability to older people with arthritis that need shoulder replacement … things that I do in the operating room are as sublime as arthroscopic repairs of small rotator cuff tears to as significant as replacing the entire shoulder joint." For the full article, see "Dr. Gerald Williams, Jr.: Finding Diversity in One Area" on the Shoulder Care Hero page at www.shoulder1.com/hero/hero.cfm/9/1.

Body1, Inc. was founded in February 1999 to provide on-line health and wellness information to consumers. The company focuses on interactively communicating with patients by partnering with technology innovators and collecting the leading voices and experts in a specific field into one place-a Knowledge Cooperative (KnowCo). Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, within five miles of Harvard, MIT and the world's largest concentration of teaching hospitals, Body1's founding group includes physicians, medical writers, business executives and computer specialists from these institutions.

Shoulder1.com, a Body1, Inc. KnowCo, offers comprehensive shoulder information, accomplished through news features, technology reports, searchable databases of the most prevalent shoulder conditions and possible treatments as well as interactive tools where patients can tell their shoulder stories and ask doctors questions. The Shoulder Care Hero series serves to spotlight the leading shoulder surgeons whose exceptional accomplishments exemplify what medicine can achieve.