Welcome from the Chairman

We would like to thank you for visiting the Web site of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Johns Hopkins. We consider it an honor to care for patients.

Our faculty in Orthopaedics works together as a team to provide
optimum patient care. We see our role in patient care as both educators and treating physicians working together with you and your community health care providers to offer you the best possible medical and surgical care available.

As well, we feel that our role as academic-orthopaedic physicians is to educate our future orthopaedic leaders as both clinicians and researchers. This will provide them with the ability to advance current orthopaedic knowledge and techniques and put them on the cutting edge of future orthopaedic advancements.

You are invited to review our Web site and gain further insight into the services provided by our professional staff members. We suggest you use our site as a learning resource for patients and physicians alike.

Frank J. Frassica, M.D.
Robert A. Robinson Professor
Chairman, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery


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Congratulations to the Faculty and Staff of the Orthopaedic Surgery Department. Your department has been ranked # 4 in the US News and World Report as the best Orthopaedic service. Johns Hopkins Hospital was ranked # 1 as the best hospital in the nation.


Congratulations to Arabella Leet, M.D., Assistant Professor, Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery for receiving Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America Outstanding Basic Scientific Paper award for her paper, "The Paradoxic Response of Human Osteoblasts in Patients with Osteogenesis Imperfecta to Alendronate". The award was given at the annual POSNA meeting in May 2007.


Welcome to Bashir Zikria, M.D. who will be practicing Sports Medicine at the Green Spring and White Marsh location, starting in July 2007.



Congratulations to the graduating Johns Hopkins Orthopaedic Surgery Chief Residents!

Kris Alden, M.D., Ph.D. - entering a Fellowship in Joint Arthroplasty & Reconstruction at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
Michael Bahk, M.D. - entering a Fellowship in Sports Medicine at Southern California Orthopedic Institute, followed by a Fellowship in Shoulder/Elbow at Thomas Jefferson, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Adam Jason Farber, M.D. - entering a Fellowship in Sports Medicine at the Kerlin-Jobe Orthopaedic Clinic, L.A., California
Andrew Manista, M.D. - entering a Fellowship in Spine Surgery at Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, Maryland
Theodore Manson, M.D. - entering a Fellowship in Orthopaedic Trauma Surgery at the R. Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, Baltimore, Maryland


Welcome to the new Orthopaedic Residents!


Stuart Myers - University of Pennsylvania
David Oji - Case Western Reserve
Kristoff Reid - Washington University
Thomas Ring - University of Chicago Pritzker
Nima Salari - Temple University


The cover of the June 6, 2007 issue of JAMA (The Journal of the American Medical Association) is a watercolor by Esther Heins of Paeonia suffructicosa. Ms. Heins' botanical watercolors have previously been selected for the covers of this prestigious journal. Of special note, is that Esther Heins is the grandmother of Arabella Leet, M.D., Assistant Professor, Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery.

Michael Ain, M.D., Associate Professor, Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery was the keynote speaker for the May graduation at the Villa Julie College in Maryland.

To access the Division of Shoulder Surgery Patient Guides, First Postoperative Instructions, and Rehabilitation Protocols, click here


To access the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons website, Just click here



Grand Rounds Lectures

To view the current Orthopaedic Surgery Grand Rounds, just click here


Pediatric Orthopaedics, Sports Medicine and other Specality Services:

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