Department of Orthopaedics - University of Pitt

10/01/2025

Congratulations to Dr. Nam Vo, who has been appointed the Ruby and James Kang, MD Chair in Orthopaedic Spine Surgery at Pitt Medicine, effective September 1, 2025.

“This appointment is a testament to Dr. Vo’s extraordinary career as a scientist and innovator in spine research,” said Dr. MaCalus V. Hogan, MD, MBA. “He has advanced our field in remarkable ways and will continue to shape the future of spine surgery while honoring the legacy of Dr. James Kang.”

Join us in celebrating this well-deserved honor!

09/29/2025

Anyone else watch the game yesterday? Go Steelers!

09/18/2025

Last year, our department awarded the inaugural Pitt Orthopaedics Development award (P.O.D) to promising Pitt Ortho trainees and faculty. The P.O.D. Award was meant to be utilized to support endeavors in leadership, education, academia, research, new innovations or community outreach.

We are happy to announce that one of the P.O.D award recipients, resident Dr. Xi Chen, used her funds to support her research between orthopaedic faculty demographic diversity and resident attrition.

The published paper can be found here on PubMed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40948567/

09/12/2025

An amazing day highlighting all of the great research coming out of our BMRC group. Excellent work to all involved! Can't wait for next year!

https://www.bethel.pitt.edu/2025/09/10/first-annual-bmrc-symposium-features-discovery-collaboration-and-celebration/

Our first annual BMRC Research Symposium went off without a hitch last Friday, September 5 at the Greensburg Country Club.

The day brought together nearly 160 faculty, staff, students, and researchers for a full day of research, collaboration and celebration.

This year’s Symposium featured talks from core BMRC labs in both clinical and basic science, as well as presentations from the five BMRC/Orthopaedic Research Society Fellows, who shared research supported by BMRC over the past year.

We are so thankful to all who assisted in planning, executing and running the day.

09/08/2025

Happy birthday to the UPMC Rooney Sports Complex! The Complex is home to the renowned Freddie Fu Sports Medicine Center, one of the nation's leading sports medicine facilities, where our amazing Sports Medicine team provides expert care to support athletes from the rec deck hockey player to the professional footballers you watch on TV. Here's to 25 more years!

Today marks 25 years of excellence at the UPMC Rooney Sports Complex — a facility that’s shaped athletes, advanced sports medicine, and set the gold standard in performance training. Take a closer look at everything this world-class complex offers and discover why it continues to be a cornerstone for champions on and off the field.

The UPMC Rooney Sports Complex is home to the renowned Freddie Fu Sports Medicine Center, one of the nation's leading sports medicine facilities. This facility combines expert care, advanced technology and cutting-edge research to support athletes at every level.

It is home to a 40,000-foot sports complex, 34 evaluation rooms, a 4,000 square foot rehabilitation gym, and a full-sized therapeutic pool with 20,000 gallons.

09/03/2025

We are thrilled to announce the upcoming class of Bethel/ORS Fellows. After a highly competitive application process, these five outstanding early-career researchers are your 2025 class of Bethel/ORS Fellows.

We look forward to seeing what they discover in their careers and are proud to have had a hand in supporting them.

Read more on our website: https://www.bethel.pitt.edu/2025/09/03/announcing-the-2025-class-of-bethel-ors-fellows/

Thank you to our partners at the Orthopaedic Research Society for their invaluable assistance with this fellowship.

Department of Orthopaedics - University of Pitt

08/05/2025

Congratulations to the BMRC SSRP group on their keystone poster presentation day last week. Great work from a dedicated bunch of young researchers!

07/23/2025

All shoulder replacements are not created equal and not everyone who needs one is older - check out this feature with our own Dr. Albert Lin talking about the different types of replacements and how they've become the fastest-growing replacement surgery in the country: https://www.post-gazette.com/sponsored?prx_t=afQJAShRyAQtcVA&ntv_acpl=1431362&ntv_acsc=0&ntv_avcsc=0&ntv_ot=6&ntv_plt=1431362_63814&ntv_ui=1e186302-b746-458a-8a5a-9f6ff15936b8&ntv_ht=laB3aAA

07/07/2025

We are pleased to welcome Dr. Maïté Jaspers, Orthopaedic Surgeon Fellow, UPMC Sports Surgery Clinic, Ireland for her stay here in Pittsburgh. Dr. Jaspers is our inaugural exchange fellow with our partners in orthopaedic care at the UPMC Sports Surgery Clinic in Dublin, Ireland, the leading private orthopaedic hospital in Ireland.

Dr. Jaspers will be spending time with our UPMC Sports Medicine team during her stay (including getting some workouts in!). We look forward to continuing the fellowship exchange program throughout the academic year.



UPMC Sports Medicine

06/27/2025

This week, we kicked off the 2025 UPMC/CNX M.O.V.E.S. (Motivation, Opportunity, Value, Experience, Success) Program with twelve students from the CNX Mentorship Academy. Students had a quick tour of UPMC Magee Women’s Hospital and met members of the teams they will be working with this summer.

Developed in 2023, UPMC/CNX M.O.V.E.S. offers hands‑on internships, externships, volunteer opportunities, job shadowing experiences, and on-site visits to 11th and 12th graders interested in exploring the world of healthcare: https://www.positiveenergyhub.com/cnx-foundation-joins-upmc-to-launch-healthcare-focused-career-pathway-initiative

The program has proved successful in leading graduates to employment - last year UPMC hired four graduates after the summer internship period was over: https://www.positiveenergyhub.com/cnx-resources-in-collaboration-with-regional-partners-celebrates-signing-day-for-15-mentorship-academy-graduates

We’re excited to have these future healthcare leaders on board and look forward to seeing them grow this summer!

The Mentorship Academy

06/26/2025

The 2025 Orthopaedic Surgery Resident Graduation Ceremony was held on Friday, June 20, 2025, at the historic Duquesne Club in Downtown Pittsburgh. This year’s graduation ceremony was well attended by the graduating residents and their families along with Department clinical faculty and residents.

2025 Graduating Residents:

Colin Beckwitt, MD, PhD
Susanne Boden, MD
Gabrielle Fatora, MD
Morgan Kohls, MD
Sumail Bhogal, MD
Stephen Chen, MD
Maria Munsch, MD
Nyaluma Wagala, MD

06/23/2025

Members of our PittOrtho and UPMC Orthopaedic Team were proud to be a part of the annual Pittsburgh Cure Sarcoma (PCS) walk this past weekend at the North Park Boathouse. The PCS is a 100% volunteer-led non-profit organization dedicated to raising awareness and funding life-saving research for sarcoma in the Pittsburgh region and beyond. PCS generates funding for life-saving research and the annual walk has generated over $2 million in research funding over the last decade.

Drs. Ines Lohse and Kurt Weiss, members of our Musculoskeletal Oncology Lab, were honored to be PCS grant recipients in 2023.