Orthopedic

Last month Rod Wigle, MD, retired after 37 years of practicing orthopedics in his chosen town of Bend, Ore., reports local newspaper The Bend Bulletin.

Moby Parsons, MD, performed a reverse shoulder replacement procedure at Seabrook, N.H.-based Atlantic Coast Surgical Suites.

Board-certified orthopedic surgeon Chris FitzMorris, DO, will begin work at Mount Washington, N.H.-based Memorial Hospital's orthopedic practice in May, the Conway Daily Sun reports.

Ascension Via Christi Hospital in Pittsburg, Kan., has added Terry Schwab, MD, to its medical staff, KOAM News Now reports.

Bradenton, Fla.-based Coastal Orthopedics' Richard Bundschu, MD, had his research on high-frequency spinal cord stimulation published in the Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology.

Alexander J. Pappas, MD, of OrthoSC in Carolina Forest, Conway and Murrells Inlet, is set to perform his 100th total ankle replacement procedure at Grand Strand Medical Center April 25.

Pain management specialist Dr. Richard H. Bundschu became one of nine physicians globally whose high-frequency spinal cord stimulation (HF-SCS) research was recently published in the Annals of Clinical and Transnational Neurology, an open-access journal of the American Neurological Association.

Former NFL player Dave Kempfert will bring his more than 16 years of physical therapist experience to Franklin-based Bone and Joint Institute of Tennessee, Brentwood Home Page reports.

Rockford-based OrthoIllinois recently spent a day practicing emergency response drills, local news affiliate WREX reports.

  Mark Hanna, MD, an orthopedic surgeon at Atlanta-based Resurgens Orthopaedics was named the medical honoree of the Arthritis Foundation’s 2019 Walk to Cure Arthritis.