Lakewood, Wash.-based St. Clare Hospital, part of Seattle-based Virginia Mason Franciscan Health, is the first hospital in Washington, Oregon and Montana to offer robotic-assisted total shoulder replacement surgery. The inaugural procedure was performed by orthopedic surgeon Jacob Gorbaty, MD. The…
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Appleton, Wis.-based ThedaCare Medical Center-Orthopedic, Spine and Pain is using a new surgical table designed to improve outcomes for arthroscopic hip surgery. The Guardian HipCheck surgical table, developed by Stryker, uses a boot-like harness and the patient’s body weight to…
Bridgeport, W.Va.-based WVU Medicine United Hospital Center, became the first hospital in the world to use the Lapidus I-Beam plate in bunion surgery. Carl Hasselman, MD, an orthopedic foot and ankle surgeon at the hospital, performed five procedures using the…
When Shay Bess, MD, adult and pediatric orthopedic spine surgeon at Greenwood Village-based Colorado Scoliosis and Spine Specialists, helped formalize the International Spine Study Group more than a decade ago, adult spinal deformity research was still a fragmented field. Individual…
The American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons has named Antonia Chen, MD, as its president for the 2026-2027 term. Dr. Chen, who joined AAHKS in 2016, has held roles on the Finance, International and Women in Arthroplasty committees and…
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New York City-based Hospital for Special Surgery presented three 2024-2025 studies on osseointegration outcomes in patients with limb amputations at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons 2026 Annual Meeting in New Orleans. The first study compared 83 femur-level and 64…
Tampa General Hospital, Florida Orthopaedic Institute are the first in Florida to perform surgery using the Touch CMC prosthesis, an FDA-cleared implant for total joint replacement of the thumb carpometacarpal joint. The procedure was completed by FOI orthopedic surgeons Devin…
Halifax Health Medical Center in Daytona Beach,Fla., has completed its first robotic-assisted total knee replacement using Johnson & Johnson’s Velys robot. The procedure was performed by orthopedic surgeon Brian Hatten, MD, of the Orthopedic Clinic in Daytona Beach, according to…
The Baton Rouge-based Spine Center of Louisiana has completed the city’s first Barricaid procedure, a technique designed to reduce the risk of reherniation following discectomy surgery. Orthopedic spine surgeon Kevin McCarthy, MD, performed the procedure using the Barricaid annular closure…
The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons recognized three researchers for their contributions to orthopaedics during its 2026 annual meeting in New Orleans. Johnny Huard, PhD, received the Arnold I. Caplan Award for Distinguished Research in Orthobiologics. Dr. Huard is chief…