Latest News & Press Release

April 26, 2013

Dr. Thay Lee has the honor of being Guest Professor at the 21st Annual Orthopaedic Research Seminar for the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Loma Linda University, School of Medicine on May 17, 2013. He will be presenting three lectures.

  • Rotator Cuff Repair: Biomechanical Perspective
  • Academic Perspective on Biomechanics Research for Shoulder & Knee Arthroplasty
  • Basic Science Education in Orthopaedic Residency Training

April 15, 2013
Dr. Ran Schwarzkopf: Total Hip Arthroplasty Periprosthetic Femoral Fractures - A Review of Classification and Current Treatment. Read more...

March 18, 2013
Dr. Ran Schwarzkopf was elected to the AOA ELP (American Orthopaedic Association - Emerging Leaders Program)

At the AAOS Academy next week Dr. Schwarzkopf will be presenting:

February 2, 2013
Dr. Nitin Bhatia was selected as an Orange County Physician of Excellence for 2013. It's an honor voted on by other physicians. Read more...

February 2, 2013
Dr. Nitin Bhatia was also selected as a 2013 Super Doctor which is also selected by other doctors and includes less than 5% of physicians. Read more...

February 1, 2013
Dr. Bang Hoang’s patient, Lan Zentil, a young and active woman who was diagnosed with a chondrosarcoma in her shoulder. After delicate surgery and physical rehab, Lan is once again paddle boarding, playing tennis and even rock climbing. She was so grateful for the expertise of everyone at the Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, she raised funds for fellow patients by enlisting sponsors for a challenging paddle boarding endeavor. Read more...

December 4th, 2012
Dr. Douglas Kiester won an award for one of the best research posters at the 2012 Western Orthopaedic Assocation meeting in Portland, Oregon.

November 8th, 2012
Insurance Status Affects Spine Trauma Treatment Decisions

In a study by Samuel Bederman, M.D., Ph.D., the authors found that patients with acute spinal fractures and insurance coverage had a 30 percent higher chance of undergoing surgery compared to those without insurance coverage. Subset analysis performed by the investigators revealed that, in patients with spinal fractures and spinal cord injuries, the difference between those who underwent surgery versus those who did not was even more pronounced for those who had insurance versus those who did not.

"In our study of over 40,000 patients from the National Trauma Data Bank, insurance coverage accounted for a 30 percent difference in the chance of getting surgery for acute spinal fractures. This discrepancy suggests that economic factors may be influencing treatment decisions," Bederman said. "Surgeons need to maintain the standard of care for all patients; however, improvements in reimbursement for the delivery of care are required."

Read more...

September 19th, 2012
Dr. Ranjan Gupta
featured in the Orange County Register to discuss Joint Arthropplasty at
UC Irvine. Read more...

September 19th, 2012
Dr. Neil Jones gave presentations at the American Society for Surgery of the Hand meeting in Chicago in August:

  • Faculty member for a Precourse on “Congenital hand surgery” and gave 2 presentations entitled “Bilhaut-Cloquet operation for thumb polydactyly” and “When to do toe transfers for congenital hand anomalies.”
  • Member of the panel on “Thumb reconstruction” and spoke on “Decision making for post-traumatic thumb reconstruction.”
  • Chairman of an Instructional Course entitled “Thumb reconstruction - state of the art” and spoke on “Toe-to-thumb transfers in children.”

Recent publications include:

  • Jones NF, Dickinson BP, Hansen SL. Reconstruction of an entire metacarpal and metacarpophalangeal joint using a fibular osteocutaneous free flap and silicone arthroplasty. Journal of Hand Surgery 37A: 310-315, 2012.
  • Jones NF, Ahn HC, Eo SR. Revision surgery for persistent and recurrent carpal tunnel syndrome and for failed carpal tunnel release. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery 129: 683-692, 2012.
  • Nguyen ML, Jones NF. Ruptures of both the abductor pollicis longus and extensor pollicis brevis tendons after steroid injection for DeQuervain’s tenosynovitis. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery 129: 883, 2012.
  • Lee H, Eo SR, Cho S, Jones NF. The surgical release of Dupuytren’s contracture using multiple transverse incisions. Archives of Plastic Surgery 39; 426-430 2012.

Recent book chapters include:

  • Chi Y, Jones NF. Thumb hypoplasia. In: Hand Surgery Update V. American Society for Surgery of the Hand, 2012
  • Hansen S, Jones NF. Silastic MCP and PIP joint arthroplasty. In: Arthritis of the Wrist and Hand. American Society for Surgery of the Hand, 2012.

In August, along with 4 other surgeons, Dr. Jones travelled to Cambodia on a mission to reconstruct both hand injuries in adults and children born with hand deformities. We also taught 26 Cambodian surgeons in the first course on microsurgery held in Cambodia at Sihanouk Hospital Center for HOPE in Phnom Penh.

July 12th, 2012
On April 14, 2012, Dr. Bang Hoang was invited as the keynote speaker by the Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research at the 24th Annual Meeting of the Surgical Society for Musculoskeletal Sarcoma (SSMS) in Tokyo, Japan. The SSMS Annual Meeting gathers experts in the field of musculoskeletal oncology from cancer centers throughout Japan to discuss the latest clinical research to treat patients with these conditions. Dr. Hoang delivered a lecture entitled: “Bone and Soft Tissue Sarcoma: Where are the New Frontiers?” and served as a visiting professor at the Tokyo Ariake Cancer Institute to discuss new surgical techniques for limb salvage in patients with bone and soft tissue cancers.

May 23rd, 2012
Dr. Jones was an Invited speaker at the 9th World Symposium on Congenital Malformations of the Hand in Dallas in March 2012 and the European Federation of Societies for Reconstructive Microsurgery in Paris in April 2012 and spoke on "A documentation system for congenital absent digits" and "Toe transfers for congenital anomalies of the hand"

Publications:
Jones NF, Ahn HC, Eo SR. Revision surgery for persistent and recurrent carpal tunnel syndrome and for failed carpal tunnel release. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery 129: 683-692, 2012.

Jones NF, Dickinson BP, Hansen SL. Reconstruction of an entire metacarpal and metacarpophalangeal joint using a fibular osteocutaneous free flap and silicone arthroplasty. Journal of Hand Surgery (American) 37A: 310-315, 2012.

Webinars
PyroCarbon implant arthroplasty for degenerative arthritis of the thumb carpometacarpal joint.? Jones NF. January 2010.
http://www.vumedi.com/webinar/150703

Indications and surgical techniques of nerve grafting. Jones NF. April 2011.
http://www.vumedi.com/webinar/150703

Failed carpal tunnel release. Jones NF. January 2012.
http://www.vumedi.com/webinar/296312

March 20th, 2012
Dr. Bang Hoang from UC Irvine Department of Orthopaedic Surgery has been named America's Top Doctor 2012 by Castle Connolly Medical LTD.

The designation is given after a nomination and peer review process and physcians cannot pay to be included in this list. Dr. Hoang's profile will be included in forthcoming Castle Connolly magazine, Top Doctors: Southern California. Read more...

March 8th, 2012
Dr. Jones was an invited panellist at the American Association for Hand Surgery meeting in Las Vegas in January and spoke on "Decision making for the mangled hand."

Our International Hand Fellow at UC Irvine, SuRak Eo MD PhD, also gave a podium presentation at this meeting on "Revision surgery for persistent and recurrent carpal tunnel syndrome and failed carpal tunnel release," co-authored with Dr Jones.

Dr Jones participated in a Webinar in January 2012 on "Carpal tunnel syndrome" and spoke on "Failed carpal tunnel release surgery." This can be accessed on the internet at http://www.vumedi.com/cme/orthopedic/17 or http://www.vumedi.com/webinar/296312

Dr Jones was an invited speaker at the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons annual meeting in San Francisco in February 2012 and spoke on "Replantation in the upper extremity."

A paper entitled "Reconstruction of an entire metacarpal and metacarpophalangeal joint using a fibular osteocutaneous free flap and silicone arthroplasty" authored by Dr Jones was published in the February 2012 issue of the Journal of Hand Surgery 37A:310

January 6th, 2012
Doctors Nitin Bhatia, Neil Jones, and Ranjan Gupta at UC Irvine Orthopaedic Surgery have been named by Los Angeles Magazine as Southern California Super Doctors for 2012. The award is given to the top 5% of physicians in their field, and selected and voted on by other physicians.

More than 31,000 doctors were asked to nominate one or more colleagues (excluding themselves) they would choose in seeking medical care. The Super Doctors research team investigated further and searched for exceptional doctors to complement the results. Candidates were evaluated on the indicators of peer recognition, professional status and disciplinary history.

Super Doctors can be found online at superdoctors.com where doctors can be searched by practice area and location.

November 21, 2011
Dr Jones was a keynote speaker at the Chang Gung - Mayo Clinic Reconstructive Symposium in Taipei, Taiwan in October 2011 and gave 4 presentations on:

  • Toe-to-hand transfers for congenital hand anomalies
  • Current indication and surgical techniques of nerve grafting
  • Pollicization
  • Compression neuropathies"

November 21, 2011
Dr Jones was the keynote speaker at the Japanese Society of Reconstructive Microsurgery in Niigata, Japan in November 2011 and lectured on

  • The contribution of microsurgery to hand and upper extremity surgery
  • Current indication and surgical techniques of nerve grafting"

October 21, 2011
Drs. Bhatia, Bederman, Lombardo, Malik, Stamos, Pigazzi, Zell, Louie, and Sazgar are featured in stories in the spring/summer issue of our UCI Health newsletter. Click to download newsletter.

August 15, 2011
Dr. Samuel Bederman and Dr. Nitin Bhatia were featured in “Becker’s Orthopedics” as 2 of the top 10 surgeon in America performing computer assisted and robotic spine surgery. Read more...

August 15, 2011
MUD HENS MANAGER INSPIRES CRASH SURVIVOR
By Dana Wakiji
Dr. Nitin Bhatia of the UC Irvine Medical Center performed a five-hour surgery to fuse Wilhite's neck and head together with a titanium plate, rod and screws. Read entire article...

July 20, 2011
UC Irvine’s Bhatia to discuss spine surgery, robotics on Healthy OC

Dr. Nitin Bhatia, UC Irvine’s chief of orthopaedic spine surgery, will appear this week on Healthy OC to discuss back pain, spine surgery and the SpineAssist robotic system.
Healthy OC airs on PBS SoCal, formerly known as KOCE-50. The interview will be rerun during the Real Orange news program at 6:30 p.m. and 11 p.m. on Thursday, July 21 and at 8 a.m. on Friday, July 22. Please check the PBS SoCal Web site to find the channel on your cable provider.

In March, Bhatia and colleague Dr. Samuel Bederman used SpineAssist to perform the first robot-assisted spine surgery on the West Coast.

"We expect this technology to improve outcomes, shorten surgical times and enhance healing in our spinal surgery patients," Bhatia said. "The system allows us to preplan an operation using CT scans to precisely plot the surgery and program the robot to guide screws in exactly the right spot in the patient’s spine."

Read more about SpineAssist...

 

June 14, 2011
Dr. David Kruse of UCI’s Orthopaedic & Sports Medicine Center explains how to avoid summer injuries. READ MORE...

June 14, 2011
Dr. David Kruse and the UC Irvine Comprehensive Sports Concussion Program hosted the Concussion in Youth & High School Sports Summit this past Saturday, June 11. See this OC Register article for more information.

June 14, 2011
Dr. Bang Hoang has been named the recipient of the 2011 Career Development Award by the Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation. READ MORE...

June 14, 2011
The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons has named Dr. Bang Hoang the 2011 winner of the prestigious Kappa Delta Award.
http://health.universityofcalifornia.edu/2011/03/11/researchers-recognized-for-bone-cancer-research/

http://www.aaos.org/news/aaosnow/feb11/research1.asp

April 12, 2011
Dr. Nitin Bhatia and Dr. Samuel Bederman have conducted the first robot-assisted spinal surgery on the West Coast. READ MORE...

March 22nd, 2011
Dr. Nitin Bhatia was selected by the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgery (AAOS) to design and run the Advanced Cervical Spine symposium (ICL) at the AAOS annual meeting in San Diego in February, 2011. The topics covered included Minimally Invasive Cervical Spine Surgery, C1-C2 Posterior Cervical Fusion, Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion, Cervical Total Disc Replacement (Arthroplasty), and Cervical Osteotomy Techniques. Dr. Bhatia is the first Orange County spine surgery selected by his peers to be the director of this course.

Dr. Nitin Bhatia was an invited speaker and faculty member at the Cervical Spine Research Society instructional cadaver lab and annual course in January, 2011. He spoke on “Emergent Cricothyroidotomy and Airway Emergencies after Anterior Cervical Surgery” and was an instructor for techniques on advanced and complex anterior and posterior cervical surgery techniques. Attendees included surgeons from the United States and around the world.

Dr. Nitin Bhatia and Dr. Samuel Bederman performed the first robot spinal surgery in Orange County in March, 2011. As the leading spine center on the West Coast, the UC Irvine Orthopaedic Spine Program uses robotic techniques to perform complex spinal surgery with higher levels of accuracy and safety than other centers can provide. Drs. Bhatia and Bederman are considered world leaders in robotic spinal surgery and are often asked to give lectures and instruction to other physicians on this technology. Robotic spine surgery can be used to improve outcomes for a variety of spinal problems including scoliosis, spinal stenosis, and disc herniations.

March 7th, 2011
Dr. Samuel Bederman has been selected to participate in the 2011 AAOS/ORS Comparative Effectiveness Research Symposium (CER) that will take place May 19-21, 2011 on Capitol Hill in Wahington DC.

March 4th, 2011
In December 2010, Dr. Jones was the Robert H. Ivy Visiting Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and gave two presentations entitled "The contribution of microsurgery to hand and upper extremity surgery" and "Tendon transfers for reconstruction of the wrist and hand."

He was an invited speaker at the American Association for Hand Surgery meeting in January 2011 on two panels on "Congenital hand anomalies" and "Management of the mangled hand," as well as speaking on "Radial tunnel syndrome" in an instructional course on compression neuropathies. In fact two University of California Irvine orthopedic faculty members, Dr. Gupta and Dr. Jones were speakers on the panel on the "Mangled Hand" at this meeting.

Dr. Jones was also an invited speaker for the Masters in Microsurgery Series during the American Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery meeting in January 2011, presenting a lecture on "Pediatric microsurgery."

March 3rd, 2011
In March, Dr. Stuart Green will be speaking at a Plastic Surgery meeting
in Eilat Israel, warning the attendees not to get involved with cosmetic
leg lengthening. His presentation, "Cosmetic Stature Surgery: Goldmine or
Time Bomb," will emphasize concerns about the development of
osteoarthritis of the knees in such patients, caused by subtle changes in
the mechanical axis alignment of limbs after elongation.

By the end of March, Dr. Green will have finished his modules for an
American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons' resident training course on
medical and surgical ethics. The course, consisting of Powerpoint
presentations and a discussion leader's handbook, will eventually become a
required educational program for orthopaedic surgery residents throughout
the United States and Canada (and perhaps the rest of the world as well).

In April, Dr. Green will be the featured speaker at the annual gathering
of the 3000 engineers of Edwards LifeSciences, the manufacturer of the
Starr-Edwards heart valve and numerous other biomedical products. Dr.
Green's topic, "the Evolution of Medical Technology," will assess the
similarity of the evolution of medical devices like total knee
replacements and mechanical heart valves to the evolution of early
life-forms in the Cambrian period one billion years ago. Unlike previous
presentations of this topic (which emphasized the FDA's role in medical
device regulation), The Edwards talk will analyze the importance of sexual
reproduction in responding rapidly to environmental changes, and how such
cross fertilization can benefit a workplace dealing with technological
innovation.

In June, Dr. Green will be presenting a paper at the Dublin meeting of the
Association of Bone and Joint Surgeons titled: "Benjamin Franklin's
Sojourn in Ireland."

March 2nd, 2011
Dr. Samuel Bederman is a keynote Speaker for the 12th Annual Phillip Zorab Symposium hosted by the British Scoliosis Research Foundation and the Fondation Yves Cotrel - Institut de France. His lecture "Surgical Treatment of Adult Scoliosis: where have we been and where are we going?" will be presented at the Royal College of Surgeons of England in London on March 18, 2011.

January 27, 2011
UC Irvine orthopaedic oncologist earned the
2011 Kappa Delta Ann Doner Vaughn Award.

Bang H. Hoang, M.D., Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and director of Musculoskeletal Oncology at the University of California, Irvine has been named the 2011 winner of the Ann Doner Vaughan Kappa Delta Award by the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS). Dr. Hoang presented his award-winning lecture, "Toward Novel Therapeutic Intervention for Osteosarcoma: Clinical Implications of the Wnt Pathway” on January 15, 2011 at the 57th annual meeting of the Orthopaedic Research Society in Long Beach, CA. Hoang will then travel to San Diego to receive the Kappa Delta Award at the opening ceremony of the AAOS annual meeting on February 16, 2011. Since 1950, the Kappa Delta Awards have been presented to individuals who perform research in orthopaedic surgery that is of the highest impact and significance. Annually, three awards of $20,000 each are given. Two awards are named for national presidents of the Kappa Delta Sorority who were instrumental in the creation of the awards: Elizabeth Winston Lanier and Ann Doner Vaughn. The third is known as the Young Investigator's Award. The Ann Doner Vaughn award represents a career’s work for Dr. Hoang: Since 2002, he and his colleagues from the U.S. and abroad have studied tumor suppressor genes that are abnormally turned off by cancer cells. He and his group found that by blocking a cellular signaling pathway using these tumor suppressors, they can suppress the growth and metastatic potential of bone and soft tissue sarcomas, a group of deadly cancers in children and young adults.

January 13, 2011
Four of our surgeons have been recognized by their peers as clinical leaders. The OCMA has chosen its “Physicians of Excellence” for Orange County, and the highly prestigious national “Best Doctors” has chosen three of our faculty to be included in their list . Our department is proud to announce the following physicians:

Dr. Bhatia
OCMA physician of excellence

Dr. Gupta
Best Doctors

Dr. Jones
Best Doctors
Best Doctors in America - Hand surgery and for microsurgery since 1993
Best Doctors in Los Angeles - Hand surgery and for microsurgery
Best Hand Surgeon in Los Angeles for children's hand deformities

Dr. Ross
Best Doctors

 

 

  

 

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