Orthopedic

Frank Noyes, MD, is an orthopedic surgeon and medical director of the Cincinnati SportsMedicine and Orthopaedic Center.

Operation Walk USA provided an estimated 60 patients with free joint replacements from 40 volunteer orthopedic surgeons at 36 hospitals from Dec. 4 to Dec. 9, 2017. The program has been extended through February.

Freddie Fu, MD, is an orthopedic surgeon and orthopedic surgery chair at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.

Milwaukee-based orthopedic surgeon and philanthropist Michael Kubly, MD, passed away on Jan. 23. He was 82.

Ned Amendola, MD, is an orthopedic surgeon at Duke University in Durham, N.C.

Simultaneous bilateral total knee arthroplasty in patients with end-stage hemophilic arthropathy is a safe and cost-effective treatment for HA, according to an article in Nature.

Microsoft founder Bill Gates listed Dr. Mathew Varghese as one of five real-world heroes on his blog, Gates Notes. Dr. Varghese is an orthopedic surgeon at St. Stephen's Hospital in Delhi, India, where he runs India's only polio ward.

Stephen Duncan, MD, an orthopedic surgeon and assistant professor of orthopedic surgery at Lexington-based University of Kentucky, was selected for the prestigious John N. Insall Traveling Fellowship.

Geoffrey Westrich, MD, is an orthopedic surgeon and research director of adult reconstruction and joint replacement services at Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City.

According to a study in The Journal of Arthroplasty, patients with bipolar disorder or schizophrenia are at a heightened risk of increased complications after total joint arthroplasty.