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Newsweek recently ranked the world’s best specialized hospitals. UNC Orthopaedics was ranked 92 in the top 100 hospitals worldwide!   https://www.newsweek.com/worlds-best-specialized-hospitals-2022/orthopedics

Hybrid Conference Speaker Biography Michael Suk, MD, JD, is the systemwide chair of Geisinger’s Musculoskeletal Institute and professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at the Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine. Selected to lead the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery in 2012, Dr. Suk became one of the youngest people in the U.S. to head...

Distal Radius Fractures – What You Should Know in 2021 Warren Hammert, MD August 4, 2021 at 6:30 am Hybrid Conference PROFESSOR DEPARTMENT OF ORTHOPAEDICS (SMD) PROFESSOR DEPARTMENT OF SURGERY, PLASTIC SURGERY (SMD), JOINT   Speaker Biography Dr. Hammert is a Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Plastic Surgery, and Chief...

Want to Learn More About Our Program? Join an October Virtual Open House! Get to know our program director and some of our current residents.  We welcome questions from participants during these sessions, so please bring some questions with you!  Registration is required to participate. Next Date:Tuesday, October 20, 2020...

Dr. Jeffrey Spang was featured on WRAL late last week for a groundbreaking collaboration he has been working on with bioengineers from North Carolina State University. This innovation uses bioprinting technology to crease new tissue from the patient’s own cells. The team have successfully generated meniscus tissue that could one...

Dr. David Berkoff has begun offering treatment in a cutting-edge new therapy that uses amniotic fluid to treat injuries by assisting healing and promoting the growth of healthy tissue. The treatment is currently being used to promote healing in partial thickness tendon tears, sprains / strains, joint pain and soft...

Edmund Campion, MD, Frank C. Wilson Distinguished Professor and Chair, Department of Orthopaedics, was featured on WRAL discussing Magec Rods,  a newly available intervention for adolescents with severe scoliosis. [From WRAL] A new option to treat scoliosis in children could help some kids avoid multiple surgeries to reposition pins as...

UNC Opens Tendon Treatment Program to Public Chapel Hill: UNC Orthopaedics recently opened a Tendon Treatment Program at its Carolina Pointe II location in Chapel Hill. With the goal of keeping active people active, this new program offers innovative approaches to the care of tendons and ligaments to help prevent...

UNC Orthopaedics recently hosted students from a local 4-H Summer Camp for an introduction to sports medicine. UNC Orthopaedics recently hosted students from a local 4-H Sizzle Summer Camp for an introduction to sports medicine. The camp attendees traveled to the UNC School of Medicine campus and learned basic principles...

New research from UNC shows that rates of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction are increasing sharply, with the most dramatic increase among girls aged 13-17. Media Contact: Jamie Williams, jamie.williams@unchealth.unc.edu, 984-974-1149 CHAPEL HILL, NC – Among teenage athletes, the rate of ACL tears is rising, with the sharpest increase seen...

The Department of Orthopaedics recently received accreditation for a new fellowship for orthopaedic sports medicine. Alex Creighton, MD, will serve as program director. The Department of Orthopaedics recently received accreditation by the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) for a new fellowship for orthopaedic sports medicine. This is the...

NC State’s Office of Research, Innovation, and Economic Development (ORIED), along with RTI International and Kenan Institute, announced the four winning teams who will receive Game-Changing Research Incentive Program (GRIP) Awards. NC State’s Office of Research, Innovation, and Economic Development (ORIED), along with RTI International and Kenan Institute, announced the...