Dr. Yaszemski is certified by the American Board of Orthopedic Surgery and his clinical interests include adult scoliosis and spine surgery, primary and revision hip and knee arthroplasty and bone tissue engineering-polymer synthesis. He has authored more than 100 research papers that have been published in journals such as Spine and The Journal of Orthopaedic Research. In 2007, Dr. Yaszemski, along with a team of 11 Mayo Clinic specialists successfully performed a risky, 20-hour procedure where a woman’s pelvis was cut in half to remove a tumor and then reconstructed.
Dr. Yaszemski has received numerous awards during his career. In 2013, he received the William W. Tipton, Jr. MD Leadership Award at the 2013 American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Annual Meeting in Chicago. In 2011, he was named John and Posy Krehbiel Professor of Orthopedics honoring Bernard F. Morrey, MD, emeritus chair of the orthopedics department at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.
Dr. Yaszemski earned his medical degree at Georgetown University School of Medicine in Washington, D.C. He completed residencies at Wilford Hall Medical Center at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas and earned a doctor of philosophy degree in chemical engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass. He completed fellowship training at Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.
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