Orthopedic

Here are 17 orthopedic surgeons making headlines over the past week.

Robert L. Mauck, PhD, received the 2015 Kappa Delta Young Investigator Award from the Kappa Delta Sorority and the Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation.

The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons named David Alexander Halsey, MD, chairman of the board of specialty societies.

The American Medical Association classified obesity as a chronic disease in 2013, but the overall conversation has remained much the same.

Michelle Carlson, MD, is an associate attending orthopedic surgeon at Hospital for Special Surgery and New York-Presbyterian Hospital, as well as an associate professor at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York.

John Dunham States, MD, a Rochester orthopedic surgeon and devoted car safety advocate and pioneer, has passed away at 89. Dr. States taught at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, served as chief of orthopedics at Rochester…

Sarasota (Fla.) Orthopedic Associates added Nomen Azeem, MD, and Gregory C. Farino, MD, to its physician team.

Certain racial and socioeconomic groups are at a disadvantage when it comes to hip fracture care, according to a study presented at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons in Las Vegas, March 24 to March 28.

East Amherst, N.Y.-based Northtowns Orthopedics is adding urgent care services, after-hours and on weekends, according to a Buffalo Business First report.

Thomas A. Brandon, MD, is a board certified orthopedic surgeon and president of the Peninsula Orthopedic Associates and chief of the orthopedics division at Peninsula Regional Medical Center in Salisbury.