Here are 12 orthopedic surgeons in the news this week.
Utah Jazz team physician Travis Maak, MD, performed shoulder surgery on the Jazz's Alec Burks.
Norfolk, Neb.-based Northeast Nebraska Orthopedics' Stephen Smith, MD, performed the first Vanguard XP Preserving Knee replacement procedure in the Siouxland region.
Kris Stowers, MD, a sports medicine physician for Florida State University, was featured for traveling with the team to the Rose Bowl after being injured earlier in the season while covering the game from the sidelines.
Orthopedic surgeons Matthew Morrey, MD, and Zachary Post, MD, were awarded the John N. Insall Traveling Fellowship from The Knee Society.
Orthopedic surgeon Daniel Hebert, MD, joined Waldo County General Hospital in Belfast, Maine.
Ferris Pfeiffer, MD, and James Stannard, MD, received part of a $600,000 grant to benefit their research at the University of Missouri schools of medicine focused on engineered knee cartilage.
Co-director of the joint replacement program at Ocean Medical Center in Brick, N.J., Arthur K. Mark, MD, discussed the hospital's program achieving Joint Commission.
Jimmy Chow, MD, performed more than 1,000 total hip arthroplasty surgeries using the SuperPath Hip technique from MicroPort Orthopedics.
Jeffrey Greenspoon, MD, and Bryan Parry, MD, will join Health first's network.