Orthopedic

Armodios Hatzidakis, MD, surgeon at Denver-based Western Orthopedics, Denver Surgery Center and Rose Medical Center, has completed the first U.S. clinical case using Stryker's Tornier pyrocarbon humeral head for shoulder hemiarthroplasty. 

Steven Struhl, MD, operated on Broadway actor Ben Bogen, according to a March 30 news release.

Richard Berger, MD, reached a milestone 25,000 hip and knee replacements, he said March 29.

Derek Jenkins, MD, an adult reconstruction surgeon at East Providence, R.I.-based University Orthopedics, has become the first surgeon in New England to use Depuy Synthes' Emphasys system for a total hip replacement surgery. 

Below is a list of 10 orthopedic surgeons who have made a positive impact on their organizations and the profession. 

From a Major League Baseball surgeon to a university chair, here are four orthopedic surgeons who retired or stepped down from their roles in the first quarter of the year: 

Sage Transparency, a healthcare transparency database from the Employee's Forum of Indiana, has named the ASCs charging the highest percentage above Medicare payments to commercial insurers in every state based on the facility's Medicare reimbursement rate. 

Geisinger's plans for a $180 million orthopedic center were called off, The Daily Item reported March 28.

Texas Health Arlington Memorial Hospital has earned The Joint Commission's Advanced Certification for Total Hip and Knee Replacement, according to a March 28 email sent to Becker's. 

Orthopedic surgeon Rear Adm. Bruce Gillingham, MD, is retiring as the 39th surgeon general of the U.S. Navy.