Orthopedic

Thomas Fehring, MD, launched the OrthoCarolina Periprosthetic Joint Infection Center in Charlotte, N.C., with four fellow hip and knee surgeons.

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OrthoAtlanta added Domenic Scalamogna, MD, to its Georgia practices in Fayetteville, Newman and Peachtree City.

Andrew Pearle, MD, is director of the computer assisted surgery center at Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City and editor-in-chief of the Orthopedic Journal Techniques in Knee Surgery.

Midland-based MidMichigan Health added James Lewis, DO, to its musculoskeletal team, reports Our Midland.

Watertown, N.Y.-based Samaritan Medical Center added Holden Heitner, MD, to its medical staff, reports Inform NY.

Dwight Kemp, DO, is joining WVU Medicine Orthopedics-Spring Mills in Martinsburg, W.Va., after 25 years in private practice.

Retired orthopedic surgeon George Rapp, MD, will be presented with the 2019 Sachem Award by Governor Eric J. Holcomb of Indiana, reports Washington Times Herald.

Here are 11 orthopedic surgeons joining new practices.

Doylestown (Pa.) Hospital re-elected Charles Burrows, MD, as director of the orthopedic service line, reports The Morning Call.