Orthopedic

William D. Bugbee, MD, an orthopedic surgeon at Scripps Green Hospital and Scripps Clinic in La Jolla, Calif., received the 2015 Kappa Delta Elizabeth Winston Lanier Award for his team's 15 years of research on optimizing the process and effectiveness…

Ortech will introduce a new data registry system at The Orthopaedic Institute at Hackensack University Medical Center, which will capture intra-operative and implant data, and patient outcomes to measure and analyze patient progress. This data is aimed to support decision-making.

Surgeons and volunteers attending AAOS's 2015 Annual Meeting joined with Kaboom, a national non-profit for bringing active play to kids' lives, to build a 2,600 square foot playground in the Las Vegas area.

Tyrone (Pa.) Regional Health Network has unveiled its Orthopedic Center of Excellence.

Thomas Stackhouse, MD, FAAOS, ASSH, is not only an orthopedic surgeon specializing in hand and wrist injuries at Reconstructive Orthopedics in New Jersey, but he is also an American roots musician in a band named Ong's Hat Band. According to…

Anthony A. Romero, MD, is a sports medicine, elbow, shoulder orthopedic surgeon at Midwest Orthopedics at Rush as well as the program director of the Shoulder and Elbow Fellowship, and section head of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery in the Division…

A four-year, $12 million research project funded by the AHRQ, called FORCE-TJR, will allow independent assessment of total joint replacement effectiveness in terms of performance and improvement in patients paint and function.

Jason Phillips, MD, of Pottsville, Pa.-based Phillips Brayford Orthopaedics, has become affiliated with Arthritis and Joint Replacement Center of Reading (Pa.), according to a Republican Herald report.

Richard J. Hawkins, MD, specializes in shoulder, elbow and knee reconstructive surgery and sports medicine and is a founding member of the American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons Society. Dr. Hawkins is also a team physician for the Denver Broncos and…

The American Association of Orthopaedic Surgeons supports Congress's efforts to repeal the sustainable growth rate.