Orthopedic

Craig Lippe, MD, and Chad Fortun, MD, joined Southport, N.C.-based Dosher Memorial Hospital's medical staff, the WilmingtonBiz reports.

Jonnie Vanderhoef, CRNA, settled a whistleblower lawsuit with Sparrow Carson Hospital in Carson City, Mich., the Lansing State Journal reports.

Brian Parsley, MD, is an orthopedic surgeon at the Houston-based University of Texas Health Science Center.

Ceterix Orthopaedics received a patent for the NovoStitch Plus Meniscal Repair System.

The OrthoPediatrics Foundation for Education & Research received IRS 501(c)(3) status as a public charity in the state of Indiana March 7, 2018.

E. Marlowe Goble, MD, is an orthopedic surgeon at Logan, Utah-based Goble Medical.

Mark Figgie, MD, is an orthopedic surgeon at New York City-based Hospital for Special Surgery.

Smoking significantly increases the risk of infection, wound complications and reoperation after revision total knee arthroplasty, according to a study in The Journal of Arthroplasty.

The International Association of HealthCare Professionals honors Donald Kucharzyk, DO, with his upcoming publication in the Leading Physicians of the World.

Orthopedic surgeon Teddy Atik, MD, has been named an NJ Top Doc for the sixth consecutive year, according to Benzinga.