Orthopaedic Clinical Investigators

Cartilage Repair

• Research focus on cartilage repair, regenerative medicine, and the treatment of early arthritis within the knee joint.
• Research focus is on clinical outcomes after biologic knee joint preserving surgery: cartilage transplantation; meniscal transplantation; osteotomies; and custom knee Joint replacement in young patients.

Foot and Ankle

• Foot and ankle clinical research focus is on clinical outcomes and practice management policy-based research for foot and ankle orthopaedic problems
• Eric Bluman, MD
• Christopher Chiodo, MD
• Jeremy Smith, MD

Hand and Upper Extremity

• Dr. Philip Blazar and Dr. Brandon Earp research focus is on surgical and clinical outcomes of upper extremity orthopaedic procedures.
• George Dyer, MD

Hip and Knee Replacement

• Dr. Wolfgang Fitz’s research focus is on total knee replacement surgical outcomes due to surgical techniques, surgical implants, and pre/post operative modification in exercise and or diet.
• Jeffery Lange, MD
• Thomas Thornhill, MD
• Clinical information about Hip and Knee Replacement Surgery

Orthopaedic Oncology

• Dr. Marco Ferrone’s research focus is on examining predictive characteristics of orthopaedic oncology patients.

Orthopaedic Trauma

• The orthopaedic trauma research program focuses on orthopaedic quality of care and outcomes research. Our research involves the assessment of patient-reported outcome measures, the investigation of surgical interventions and techniques, and investigation into orthopaedic geriatric outcomes.
• Michael Weaver, MD
• Mitchel Harris, MD

Shoulder

• Elizabeth Matzkin, MD: see Sports Medicine

Spine

• Research focus on patient-reported outcomes related to various spinal procedures
• Dr. Jay Zampini’s research research focus is on visualization of spine surgery using Magnetic Resonance Imaging
• Dr. Kang’s clinical research focus is on clinical outcomes in patients requiring surgery for Hip-Spine and Neck-Shoulder Syndromes and his basic science research focus is on novel molecular and stem cell therapies for treating intervertebral disc degeneration.
• Dr. Andrew Schoenfeld’s research focus is on utilization of large databases in evaluating outcome of spinal treatment.
• Spine Clinical Outcomes Research Center

Sports Medicine

• Dr. Elizabeth Matzkin’s research research focus is on clinical studies that evaluate both the subjective and objective outcomes of surgical and non-surgical interventions, with the goal of improving diagnosis and treatment for musculoskeletal injuries.
• Cheri A. Blauwet, MD