Here are 25 orthopedic surgeons making headlines:
Charlotte, N.C.-based OrthoCarolina welcomed orthopedic surgeons Brian Brighton, MD, David Ciaccia, DO, Michael Gart, MD, Swaroop Gonchikar, MD, W. Bryan Jennings, DO, John McMurtry, MD, Brian Scannell, MD, Joshua Smith, MD, James S. Starman, MD, and Benjamin Sutker, MD.
Robert Walker, MD, was named the orthopedics medical director at Boise, Idaho-based St. Luke's Health System.
Lake Success, N.Y.-based Northwell Health appointed Philadelphia-based Rothman Orthopaedic Institute surgeons Justin Tsai, MD, Dan Seigerman, MD, Joseph Lee, MD, Brandon Erickson, MD, and Meghan Bishop, MD, to clinical leadership positions at Phelps Hospital in Sleepy Hollow, N.Y. and New York City-based Lenox Hill Hospital.
Scottsbluff, Neb.-based Regional West Physicians Clinic welcomed P. Bruce Ebrahimpour, MD.
John Haggart, MD, joined Duluth, Minn.-based Essentia Health's specialty care clinic in Fargo, N.D.
I. Darrell Pugh, D.O., rejoined Salem (Ohio) Regional Medical Center.
Omaha, Neb.-based CHI Health orthopedic surgeon Casey Beran, MD, was inducted into the 2018 Nebraska Football Hall of Fame in Lincoln Sept. 14.
R. Brandon Trale, DO, performed a partial hip replacement case as part of a Pluristem Therapeutics stem cell trial at Indiana (Pa.) Regional Medical Center.
As Cortez, Colo.-based Southwest Memorial Hospital goes through an "ongoing financial recovery process," according to The Journal, the hospital laid-off orthopedic surgeon Doug Baage, MD.
Brunswick-based South Georgia Health System welcomed Jake Porter III, MD, to its Summit Sports Medicine & Orthopaedic Surgery clinic in Brunswick.
Thomas Carter, MD, and C. Dain Allred, MD, joined Phoenix-based Steward Orthopedic & Sports Medicine Center, formerly named Hedley Orthopaedic Institute.