Orthopedic

The St. Louis-based Pediatric Orthopedic Group, a nonprofit organization with a team of orthopedic surgeons and healthcare professionals, travels annually to the Dominican Republic to perform corrective spinal surgeries on children suffering from scoliosis.  

Here are 10 orthopedic surgeons in the news this past week.

Ozarks Community Hospital of Gravette (Ark.) added Edwin Roeder, MD, to its physician team, according to an Eagle Observer report.

With a second devastating earthquake hitting Nepal two day ago, physicians are staying back to help victims, including physicians from NorthShore Orthopaedic Institute and Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, both in Chicago, according to a Chicago Tribune report.

Fresno, Calif.-based Sierra Pacific Orthopedics welcomed Richard J. Lamour, MD, to the team.

Kent J. Lowry, MD, received the 2015 ASTM International President's Leadership Award, according to an AAOS Now report.

Bruce Blackstone, MD, will retire at the end of the month, according to a report by The Daily News Online.

Joshua Siegel, MD, is the sports medicine director of New Hampshire-based Access Sports Medicine & Orthopaedics, and is also a founding member of Northeast Surgical Care in Newington, N.H.

Orthopedic surgeons are the third-highest prescribers of opioid prescriptions among United States physicians, says a Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons study.

Lance Silverman, MD, is the founder of Silverman Ankle & Foot in Edina, Minn., a practice dedicated to foot and ankle conditions.