ConforMIS honored Vivek Neginhal, MD, for his contribution to the development and validation of the measured resection surgical technique using the iTotal PS Knee Replacement System, according to a Herald-Dispatch report.
Here are five points:
1. Dr. Neginhal provides care at St. Mary's Medical Center's Regional Joint Replacement Center in Huntington, W.Va. He also practices with Huntington-based Scott Orthopedic Center.
2. His clinical interests include total joint replacement, general orthopedics and traumatic reconstruction.
3. Launched in 2016, the iTotal PS is a customized, posterior-stabilized total knee replacement system.
4. Dr. Neginhal is one of the first surgeons in the United States to use the implant and St. Mary's is the first West Virginia-based hospital to offer the implant.
5. Dr. Neginhal completed a fellowship in total joint replacement at Lenox Hill Hospital/Cornell University in New York City.