Orthopaedic Clinical Investigators

Adult Reconstruction and Total Joint Arthroplasty

• Antonia F. Chen, MD

Hand and Upper Extremity

• Philip Blazar, MD
• Dafang Zhang, MD

Orthopaedic Spine

• James D. Kang, MD  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.
• Andrew Schoenfeld, MD  Dr. Schoenfeld’s research focus is on utilization of large databases in evaluating outcome of spinal treatment.
• Spine Clinical Outcomes Research Center

Orthopaedic Trauma

• Michael Weaver, MD
• 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.

Shoulder

• Carolyn Hettrich, MD

Sports Medicine

• Christian Lattermann, MD
• Elizabeth Matzkin, MD  Dr. Matzkin’s 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.