Orthopedic

Orthopedic staff at New York City-based Mount Sinai Health System are pivoting to assist frontline healthcare workers battling a surge in COVID-19 patients across the system's emergency rooms and urgent care facilities.

Here are 15 orthopedic surgeons and sports medicine physicians that joined new practices or received new appointments in March:

Rockford-based OrthoIllinois was already building up its telemedicine program before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, but the crisis "fast-forwarded everything," orthopedic surgeon Geoff Van Thiel, MD, told mystateline.com.

Phoenix-based The CORE Institute is offering orthopedic urgent care services to support COVID-19 relief efforts.

Olympia (Wash.) Orthopaedic Associates used telemedicine to help a quarantined patient recover from knee surgery, practice representative Nikolai Hammer told Thurston Talk. 

Hudson Regional Hospital named Robert Kayal, MD, as the chief of the musculoskeletal department.

Tom Pereles, MD, typically performs joint replacements at Shenandoah Valley Orthopedics and Sports Medicine in Fishersville, Va.

McKinley Orthopedics and Sports Medicine in Fairbanks, Alaska, temporarily closed after it was linked to 15 COVID-19 cases.

Here are nine orthopedic surgeons making headlines this week:

Lowry Barnes, MD, began his term as president of the American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons on March 25.