Single-assembly total hip prosthesis - Preliminary report (Reprinted from Orthopedic Digest, vol 2, pg 15-18, 1974)

James Ennis Bateman was born in 1915. He was educated in Toronto, receiving his medical degree from the University of Toronto in 1938. He was named a Gallie Fellow in Surgery and served in this capacity until he joined the staff of the American Hospital at Headington, near Oxford, England. The orthopedic service of that hospital was, at that time, directed by Phillip D. Wilson, Sr., and received casualties from the bombing of London. Bateman later served in the Canadian army as surgeon in charge of peripheral nerve injuries in the Special Treatment Hospital in Toronto. This experience formed the basis of his book on peripheral nerve injuries. In 1948, he became the first Canadian-trained orthopedic surgeon to be certified by the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery. In 1949, he became Surgeon-in-Chief of the Orthopedic & Arthritic Hospital, in Toronto, a post he filled for 34 years. Currently, he is the Emeritus Surgeon-in-Chief of that hospital and an Associate Professor of Orthopedic Surgery at the University of Toronto. Bateman has made significant contributions to the literature concerned with peripheral nerve injuries and with the shoulder. His work on hip arthroplasty is also important. The Classic article, Single-Assembly Total Hip Prosthesis-Preliminary Report, published in 1974, describes the development of his implant. He was the first to incorporate the principle of the interposition arthroplasty into a total hip prosthesis. While initially this prosthesis was intended to be used for primary arthroplasty, it appears its greatest value may lie in revision arthroplasty.