Orthopedic

Del Schutte, MD, the Comprehensive Joint Program director at Mount Pleasant, S.C.-based East Cooper Medical Center, performed South Carolina's first Mako total knee replacement surgery.

Pine Bluff-based Jefferson Regional Medical Center’s South Arkansas Orthopedic Center welcomed Gordon Birk, MD, according to Pine Bluff Commercial.

Matthew Austin, MD, is an orthopedic surgeon at The Rothman Institute in Philadelphia.

Danbury, Conn.-based physician Frank Hermantin, MD is now seeing patients at OrthoConnecticut's New Milford and Sharon offices. Randolph Sealey, MD, will also begin seeing patients at the New Milford location starting Feb. 5, according to the Milford Patch.

Tyler, Texas-based orthopedic surgeon Michael Merrick, MD, has been named a 2018 Top Doctor.

Joseph Moskal, MD, is an orthopedic surgeon and chair of orthopedics at the Carilion Clinic in Roanoke, Va.

Culpeper, Va.-based Craig Reigel, MD, has been named a 2018 Top Doctor.

Orthopedic surgeon Ronald Royce, DO, will be honorably mentioned in The Leading Physicians of the World, a publication of The International Association of HealthCare Professionals.

Patients living alone can be safely discharged directly home after total joint arthroplasty, according to a study in The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery.

Board certified orthopedic surgeon Harold Weems Jr., MD, will join the recently established Christus Trinity Clinic in Texarkana, Texas, effective Thursday.