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The creator of the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery Part 1 Examination Board Preparation and Review Course for orthopedic surgery residents Frank J. Frassica, MD, has retired, and A. Jay Khanna, MD, will succeed him as course director, according to…

David Schlactus, CEO of Hope Orthopedics of Oregon and Willamette Surgery Center in Salem, shares five strategies he uses to negotiate strong payor contracts for his orthopedic-driven ambulatory surgery center.

An overview of multiple studies on pain relief finds that ultrasound-guided nerve block procedures do not significantly relieve pain, according to an Anesthesia & Analgesia report.

Sports Medicine physicians at Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush have joined the healthy TXT Football Tips Campaign, according to a Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush news release.

Lee Berger, MD, an orthopedist who practices in North Bergen and Fair Lawn, N.J., has developed a microchip that can be placed within surgical implants and transmit patient information, according to a report by the Hudson Reporter.

Charles J. Gatt Jr., MD, an orthopedic surgeon at University Orthopaedic Associates in New Jersey, has been appointed as Program Director of Limb Salvage and Regeneration for the Rutgers-Cleveland Clinic Consortium of the Armed Forces Institute of Regenerative Medicine, according…

The American Medical Informatics Association has suggested the FDA articulate its definition of clinical decision support systems, according to an AMIA news release.

The Medical Board of California is investigating charges that a Southern California physician withheld part of Demerol injections for pain patients and took them himself, according to a Lake Elsinore-Wildomar Patch report.

Steven T. Nguyen, MD, an anesthesiologist specializing in pain management, has joined the New England Pain Diagnosis and Treatment Center at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield, Mass., according to an iBerkshires report.

W. P. Andrew Lee, MD, a professor in the department of plastic and reconstructive surgery at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, was recently elected president of the American Society for Surgery of the Hand, according to a…