Orthopedic

Bullhead City, Ariz.-based Western Arizona Regional Medical Center welcomed Smith Meads, DO, the Mohave Valley Daily News reports.

Orthopedic surgeon Charles E. Claps, DO, joined Resurgens Orthopaedics in Atlanta.

Bryan Little, MD, is an orthopedic surgeon at Detroit Medical Center's Orthopaedic & Sports Medicine — Heart Hospital.

Here are 22 orthopedic surgeons who recently joined new practices or took on new positions in August.

Greenwich, Conn.-based Orthopaedic & Neurosurgery Specialists welcomed Mark Yakavonis, MD.

Alexander T. Caughran, MD, joined Huntington, W.Va.-based Marshall Orthopaedics.

Brian Tallerico, DO, joined the team of orthopedic specialists at Auburn (N.Y.) Community Hospital, according to The Citizen.

Francis H. Shen, MD, is the Warren G. Stamp Endowed Professor of Orthopedic Surgery at Charlottesville-based University of Virginia Health System.

Kenneth W. Bramlett, MD, is an orthopedic surgeon at Bramlett Orthopedics in Birmingham, Ala.

Scott Ryan, MD, chief of orthopedic trauma surgery at Boston-based Tufts Medical Center, performed surgery on a New York man who was attacked by a shark off the coast of Cape Cod, Mass., according to the Boston Globe.