Brian Bear, MD, of Rockford-based OrthoIllinois was included on Castle Connolly's Top Doctors list, according to the Rockford Register Star.
1. Dr. Bear has now been included in Castle Connolly's Top Doctors list for four consecutive years.
2. New York City-based Castle Connolly Medical Ltd. honors a select group of doctors in America each year after a peer physician nomination process.
3. At OrthoIllinois, Dr. Bear and his colleagues focus on shoulder, elbow, hand, microvascular, traumatic and reconstructive surgeries.
4. Dr. Bear is an associate professor at Rockford-based University of Illinois College of Medicine and serves as an assistant clinical professor of orthopedic surgery at Chicago-based Rush University Medical Center.
5. He is a reviewer for the Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery and regularly conducts research and publishes journal articles.
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