Orthopedic

John Bachman and Jocelyn Frederick were elected to the Boston-based New England Baptist Hospital Board of Trustees, effective Jan. 24.

Yair Kissin, MD, a board certified orthopedic surgeon at Hackensack (N.J.) University Medical Center, successfully completed New Jersey's first robotic-assisted total knee replacement surgery last month using the Think Surgical Solution TSolution One System.

Mary O'Connor, MD, is an orthopedic surgeon at Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Conn.

Patients injured in locations with higher median age, lower per capita income and greater distance from Level 1 or 2 trauma centers are more likely to die of their injuries, a study in JAMA Surgery found.

Gulf Breeze, Fla.-based Andrews Institute for Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine welcomed Eddie Powell, MD, according to Santa Rosa's Press Gazette.

Andrew John Cosgarea, MD, is an orthopedic surgeon at Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore.

Here are nine orthopedic surgeons making headlines.

Mark Bowen, MD, is an orthopedic surgeon at Evanston, Ill.-based NorthShore University HealthSystem.

Edward Wojtys, MD, is an orthopedic surgeon at Ann Arbor, Mich.-based University of Michigan Health System.

Bruce Albert, MD, is an orthopedic surgeon at Irvine, Calif.-based Elite Orthopedics & Sports Medicine. He specializes in treating both knee and shoulder problems.