R Dale Blasier, MD, MBA, FRCS(C)
R Dale Blasier is a pediatric orthopaedic surgeon based at Arkansas Children’s Hospital. His specialty interests include the treatment of pediatric trauma and adolescent idiopathic scoliosis. Originally from Dearborn, Michigan he graduated from the University of Michigan with B.S. in Industrial and Operations Engineering. He completed medical school and orthopaedic residency at Wayne State University in Detroit and pediatric orthopaedic fellowship at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg. After a four year stint in the USAF at Travis AFB, California, he joined the UAMS faculty. He received his MBA from Capella University in Minneapolis in 2008.
Dr. Blasier has been involved in Orthopaedic education during his whole career. Since 2003, he has been Residency Program Director in Orthopaedic Surgery at the UAMS. As a member of many subspecialty and medical societies he has been involved in extensive committee work. He has been a Board Examiner for the ABOS since 1996. He has been advisor and member of the AMA Relative Value Update Committee since 2002. He was appointed to the Orthopaedic Residency Review Committee of the ACGME in 2010. He has chaired or been a member of the coding committees of the AAOS, SRS, NASS and the AOFAS. He has been Treasurer OMeGA Medical Grants Association since 2015. He was appointed to the Member Advisory Panel on Outreach and Education (APOE) for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in 2015. He has served as delegate to the AMA House of Delegates for the AOA from 2007-2013 and for NASS from 2013 to present.
Dr. Blasier continues in active practice at the Arkansas Children’s Hospital and is active in societal volunteer work involving Resident Education and Physician Payment Policy.

American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons
American Medical Association
American College of Surgeons
American Orthopaedic Association
North American Spine Society
Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America
European Paediatric Orthopaedic Society

Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon

Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America
Committee on Trauma, 1994-1997
Chairman, Committee on Trauma, 1997-1998

Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America
Specialty Day Program Committee, 1997-2000

American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery
Oral Board Examiner, 1996-Present

Specialist Site Visitor for Residency Review Committee for Orthopaedic Surgery 1998 through 2008

Resident Grant Reviewer, OREF, 1998 to 2002

Historian, Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America, 1999-2006

AAOS Committee on Health Care Financing 2002-2004

AAOS Advisor to AMA Relative Value Update Committee 2002-2008

AAOS Representative to AMA Relative Value Update Committee 2009-present

Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America, Chairman Council on Health Care Delivery, 2004-2006.

Reviewer, Grant Applications, Center for Disease Control and Prevention (DHS), Spring 2005.

Academic Leadership Committee of the American Orthopaedic Association 2007-2013

Representative to the AMA House of Delegates for the American Orthopaedic Association, 2007-2013.

Representative to the AMA House of Delegates for the North American Spine Society, 2013 – present.

Chairman of Coding Committee for the Scoliosis Research Society 2005-2006, 2011-2012, 2012-2013

Co-Chairman Coding Committee, North American Spine Society 2011-present

Committee on Coding, Coverage, and Reimbursement for the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons 2005 – present

Chairman of Committee on Coding, Coverage, and Reimbursement for the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons March 2012 – March 2016

Representative of NASS to AAOS Boards of Specialties February 2014 to present.

Educational Process, Outcomes and Assessment Workgroup of the American Orthopaedic Association 2010-2013

Resident Review Committee in Orthopaedic Surgery for the ACGME appointed 29 September 2010

Member NASS Advocacy Council 2011 - present

Member Council on Advocacy, AAOS 2012 – present

Member Board of Directors OMeGA Medical Grants Association for 2015 – appointed 17 October 2014.

Treasurer OMeGA Medical Grants Association – elected 17 January 2015.

Member Advisory Panel on Outreach and Education (APOE). Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services effective 7 October 2015.

Attending Staff, University Hospital, Little Rock, Arkansas, 1989-present
Attending Staff, Arkansas Children’s Hospital, Little Rock, Arkansas, 1989-present

Blasier, R.D., Glasier, C., Flahiff, C. Serial MRI of Healing Transected Rabbit Tendo Achilles: Correlation with Histology and Return Tensile Strength, $5000, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, 1990

Hollis, J.M., Blasier, R.D. Biomechanical Comparison of Ankle Ligament Reconstruction Techniques. $180,000, 1990-1993.

Blasier, R.D. Absorbable Intramedullary Pin Fixation of Rabbit Radius - A Histopathological Study. $11,898. Bioscience, Inc., 1994-1995.

Blasier, R.D., Moran, K., Flock, S. Laser Effected Shrinkage of Type I Collagen. $8000. General Orthopaedic Research Fund, 1994-1995.

Blasier, R.D., Daniels, C.D. Absorbable Cross-Pin Fixation of Distal Rabbit Femur: A Biomechanical Study of Fatigue Failure. $4000, General Orthopaedic Research Fund, 1994-1995

Blasier, R.D., Flock, S. Effect of Ho:YAG Laser on Rabbit Stifle Joint Retinacular Tissue Tensile Strength. $2000, General Orthopaedic Research Fund, 1995.

Blasier, R.D. Key Predictors in the Development of Late Onset Blount Disease and Slipped Capital Femoral Epiphysis in Pediatric Patients. $15,691, Dean’s/Children’s University Medical Group Research Development Fund, 1994-1996.

Blasier, R.D., Goldstein, S. The effect of retrograde femoral nailing on growth and limb length in the lamb. $42,000, Synthes, 2003,