Orthopedic

Rick Wilkerson, DO, received the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons 2018 Humanitarian Award at the AAOS Annual Meeting in New Orleans for nearly three decades of work serving underserved populations worldwide, Lakes Business News reports.

Richard Angelo, MD, PhD, is an orthopedic surgeon at Kirkland, Wash.-based Joint Life Orthopedics & Sports Medicine.

Orthopedic surgeon Michael Oberlander, MD, presented on the promise of telerehabilitation for patients with orthopedic injuries at Healthcare Information Management Systems Society 2018 in Las Vegas.

N.J.-based Atlantic Health System named James Wittig, MD, as the medical director of orthopedic oncology and chairman of the orthopedics department at Morristown (N.J.) Medical Center.

Charles Bush-Joseph, MD, is an orthopedic surgeon at Chicago-based Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush.

Blood clots in patients following major orthopedic surgery is the leading cause of preventable in-hospital death, according to David Zukor, MD, chief of orthopedics at the Montreal, Canada-based Jewish General Hospital. A clinical trial by Dr. Zukor and fellow researchers…

S. David Stulberg, MD, is an orthopedic surgeon at Chicago-based Northshore Orthopaedic Institute.

Chief of Adult Reconstructive Surgery at Chicago-based Rush University Medical Center Craig Della Valle, MD, was named the 28th president of the American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons.

Roger Ostrander, MD, is an orthopedic surgeon at Gulf Breeze, Fla.-based Andrews Institute for Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine.

Here are four orthopedic surgeons who made headlines this week.