Vanderbilt Health's Obremskey named president of Orthopaedic Trauma Association
VUMC says the supply-chain medical director has held multiple OTA leadership posts over two decades.
NASHVILLE - Vanderbilt Health orthopaedic surgery professor Dr. William Obremskey has been named president of the Orthopaedic Trauma Association, according to a Vanderbilt University Medical Center news release dated Oct. 7.
Obremskey is a professor of orthopaedic surgery and executive medical director of supply chain for Vanderbilt Health, the release says. VUMC says he has served the association for more than two decades in roles including chair of its membership and evidence-based medicine committees.
He joined Vanderbilt Orthopaedics in 2002 and completed a Master of Management in Health Care at Vanderbilt's Owen Graduate School of Management in 2013, according to the release. VUMC also says he has been principal investigator on four Department of Defense Major Extremity Trauma Research Consortium-funded studies and has authored or co-authored more than 400 peer-reviewed publications.
Source: Vanderbilt University Medical Center, "William Obremskey named President of Orthopaedic Trauma Association" (Oct. 7, 2026), https://news.vumc.org/2026/10/07/william-obremskey-named-president-of-orthopaedic-trauma-association/