Clinical Interests: Hip, knee, shoulder, sports related injuries, arthritis, cancer
Research Interests: Bioabsorbable materials, intra-articular meniscal suture devices, biomechanics of the musculoskeletal system
Board Certification:
Certified by the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery, 1968
Recertified by the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery, 1994
Education:
MD: University of Chicago
Residency: Stanford University, Palo Alto, California
Fellowship: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
Honors and Awards:
- Member of the Black Key Society - Men's honorary society at Hiram College
- Special Fellowship - Public Health Service, 1967-1968
- President-American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine, 1984-1985
- William Allen Orthopaedic Library Fund, established February 5, 1988
- President- Mid-America Orthopaedic Association, 1991-1992
- Annual William C. Allen Professorship, established 1996
- Godfather of the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine Pacific Rim Traveling Fellows, October 1997
- Mr. Sports Medicine, American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine, 2004
Honorary Memberships:
Michigan State Orthopaedic Society
Tennessee State Orthopaedic Society
Kansas State Orthopaedic Society
Brazilian Orthopaedic Association
Thai Orthopaedic Associaton
Royal College of Orthopaedic Surgeons of Thailand
Current Academic Appointments:
1994-Present Professor, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Missouri-Columbia
1976-Present Professor, Harry S. Truman Memorial Veterans' Hospital, Columbia, Missouri
Selected Publications:
Price CT and Allen WC: Ligament Repair in the Knee with Preservation of the Meniscus. Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, 60(A):61-65, 1978.
Allen WC, Heiple KC, and Burstein AJ: A Fluted Femoral Intramedullary Rod-Biomechanical Analysis and Preliminary Clinical Results. Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, 60(A):506-515, 1978.
Allen WC: The Relationship Between Residency Programs and Fellowships in the Educational Setting. Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, 257:57-60, 1990.
Allen WC and Marder RW: Injuries of the Lateral Ligaments of the Knee In: Chapman MW, ed. Operative Orthopaedics, 2nd ed. J.B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, PA, pp. 2109-2114, 1993.
Gehrke JC, Allen WC, Gehrke CW, Kuo K: Modified Nucleosides as Biological Markers for Osteosarcoma. Orthopaedic Transactions, 17(1):166, 1994.
Allen WC and Cope R: Coxa Saltans: The Snapping Hip Revisited, Including the Role of the Iliopsoas. Journal of the American Acadademy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, 3:303-308, 1995.
Lowry KJ, Hamson KR, Bear L, Peng YB, Calaluce R, Evans ML, Anglen JO, and Allen WC: Polycaprolactone/Glass bioabsorbable implant in a rabbit humerus fracture model. Journal of Biomedical Materials Research, 36:536-541, 1997.
Burd TA, Conroy BP, Meyer SC, Allen WC: The effects of chlorhexidine irrigation solution on contaminated bone-tendon allografts. American Journal of Sports Medicine, Vol. 28, No. 2, pp. 241-244, Mar/Apr 2000.
Allen WC: A Patient's Guide to Knee and Hip Replacement. Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Vol. 82-A, No. 5, pp. 756, May 2000.
White RA, Hughes M, Burd, T, Hamaan J. Allen WC. A New Operative Approach to External Coxa Saltans; The Snapping Hip. Am J Sports Med. 32 (6):1504-1508, September 2004.
Hoskins JS, Burd TA, Allen WC. Surgical correction of internal coxa saltans: a 20-year consecutive study. Am J Sports Med. 2004 Jun;32(4):998-1001.
Hughes, MS, Burd, TA, Allen WC. Posttraumatic Catamenial Sciatica. Orthopedics 2008 31:400.
Patents:
Sampson Nail, U.S. Patents #3,783,860 and Re 26502
Bone Biopsy Set, USSN 989,476-PCT/US90/06268
Meniscal Suture Device Patents #5,467,786 and #5,320,633
Contact Information:
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
One Hospital Drive, MC213
Columbia, MO 65212
(573) 882-3106
E-mail: allenw@health.missouri.edu
Contact person: Heidi Boyer
boyerha@health.missouri.edu
