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A Special Handshake

Issue Date: 
July 12, 2010
British Prince Harry (left) shakes hands with U.S. Marine Corporal Joshua Maloney (right), while W.P. Andrew Lee looks on. Lee, a professor of surgery and orthopedic surgery as well as chief of the Division of Plastic Surgery in the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, performed the 2009 transplant that gave Maloney a new right hand. Maloney’s own hand had been destroyed during a 2007 military training exercise. The three men met in New York City during a June 25 reception that Prince Harry hosted on the aircraft carrier USS Intrepid to honor British and American veterans. The prince, who is training to become a pilot with the British Army Air Corps, is interested in Pitt and UPMC’s hand-transplantation program. He spoke with Lee and Maloney about the medical procedure and its potential to help other wounded warriors.  British Prince Harry (left) shakes hands with U.S. Marine Corporal Joshua Maloney (right), while W.P. Andrew Lee looks on. Lee, a professor of surgery and orthopedic surgery as well as chief of the Division of Plastic Surgery in the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, performed the 2009 transplant that gave Maloney a new right hand. Maloney’s own hand had been destroyed during a 2007 military training exercise. The three men met in New York City during a June 25 reception that Prince Harry hosted on the aircraft carrier USS Intrepid to honor British and American veterans. The prince, who is training to become a pilot with the British Army Air Corps, is interested in Pitt and UPMC’s hand-transplantation program. He spoke with Lee and Maloney about the medical procedure and its potential to help other wounded warriors.