George N. Guild III, MD, is an orthopedic surgeon focused on adult hip and knee reconstruction at Emory Healthcare in Atlanta. He is a member of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, American Academy of Hip and Knee Surgeons and International Congress of Joint Reconstruction. He has previously helped develop a contemporary outpatient total joint replacement center at both Northside Hospital Atlanta and Peachtree Orthopaedic Surgery Center in Atlanta.
Dr. Guild's clinical interests include direct anterior hip arthroplasty, outpatient total hip arthroplasty, complex primary hip arthroplasty, revision knee arthroplasty, unicompartmental knee arthroplasty and computer-navigated total knee arthroplasty. His research has been published in peer-reviewed publications, such as The Journal of Arthroplasty and Orthopedic Clinics of North America. He is one of the first surgeons in Georgia to routinely perform outpatient total hip and knee replacements.
Dr. Guild earned his medical degree at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in New Orleans. He completed his residency at Emory University in Atlanta. He completed his adult hip and knee reconstruction fellowship at Insall Scott Kelly Institute in New York.