29 orthopedic surgeon moves in the first quarter of 2018

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Here are 29 orthopedic surgeons that joined new organizations, moved locations or received promotions in the first quarter of 2018.

January

Rueben Nair, MD, joined Downers Grove, Ill.-based DuPage Medical Group.

Cetas Healthcare appointed Jacques-Paul Saltre, MD, PhD, to its newly formed Board of Experts as its orthopedics and surgical care industry expert.

Chicago-based Illinois Bone & Joint Institute, the largest independent physician-owned orthopedic practice in the U.S., appointed William Robb III, MD, as orthopedic director and chief medical officer.

Elaine Mau, MD, joined Utica, N.Y.-based Mohawk Valley Health System Orthopedic Group.

Harold Weems Jr., MD, joined the recently established Christus Trinity Clinic in Texarkana, Texas.

Frank Hermantin, MD, began seeing patients at OrthoConnecticut's New Milford and Sharon offices.

Pine Bluff-based Jefferson Regional Medical Center's South Arkansas Orthopedic Center welcomed Gordon Birk, MD.

Robert Elvington, MD, joined Varnville, S.C.-based Hampton Regional Medical Center.

Stephen Duncan, MD, an assistant professor of orthopedic surgery at Lexington-based University of Kentucky, was selected for the prestigious John N. Insall Traveling Fellowship.

February

Orthopedic surgeon Leonid Dabuzhsky, MD, joined the Center for Orthopedics & Joint Replacement at Carney Hospital in Dorchester, Mass.

Randolph Sealey, MD, began seeing patients at OrthoConnecticut's New Milford location.

Jason Tani, MD, joined North Hawaii Health & Wellness Orthopedic Clinic at the North Hawaii Community Hospital in Waimea.

Jonathan Lechner, MD, joined Bradford (Pa.) Regional Medical Center, effective Feb. 5.

Orthopedic trauma surgeon J. Tracy Watson, MD, joined The CORE Institute in Phoenix.

OrthoAtlanta in Stockbridge, Ga., welcomed Minoo Hollis, MD.

Gulf Breeze, Fla.-based Andrews Institute for Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine welcomed Eddie Powell, MD.

Orthopedic surgeon Brian Seeto, MD, joined The CORE Institute in Phoenix.

Wilmington, Del.-based Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children named Michael Shrader, MD, its new division chief for cerebral palsy.

Community Hospital in Grand Junction, Colo., welcomed Kirk Clifford, MD, and James Gebhard, MD.

Pediatric orthopedic surgeon Gary Botimer, MD, returned to Idaho to open a practice at Boise-based St. Luke's Children's Hospital's medical center in Nampa.

Ronald F. Lopez, MD, became senior medical director of Missouri Care, a St. Louis-based health plan.

Cleveland Clinic elected orthopedic surgeon Brian Donley, MD, to assume the role of CEO of the health systems new London location.

March

Steven J. Kaplan, MD, joined Lewis County General Hospital and Lewis County Orthopedics in Lowville, N.Y.

Bernard Bach, Jr., MD, of Chicago-based Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush, was inducted into the American Orthopedic Society of Sports Medicine Hall of Fame.

Melissa Kounine, DO, joined the Washington Orthopaedic Center in Centralia.

Peter Mulhern, MD, joined OSF HealthCare St. Mary Medical Center in Galesburg, Ill., and OSF HealthCare Holy Family Medical Center in Monmouth, Ill.

N.J.-based Atlantic Health System named James Wittig, MD, medical director of orthopedic oncology and chairman of the orthopedics department at Morristown (N.J.) Medical Center.

Chief of adult reconstructive surgery at Chicago-based Rush University Medical Center Craig Della Valle, MD, was named the 28th president of the American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons.

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