Research Programs
Our research groups and focus include:
- Total Joint Arthroplasty
- Upper extremity biomechanics
- Spinal fusion
- Bone graft substitutes
- Molecular biology
- Tendon-bone healing
- Fracture healing
- Cartilage healing
- ACL reconstruction
- Drug delivery
- Gene therapy
- Osteoinductive molecules
- Finite element analysis
- Bone remodeling
- Computer modeling
- Retreival analysis
- Clinical trials
- Outcome databases
- Craniofacial deformities
- Mandibular distraction
- Cranial synostosis
- Instrument design
- Cardiovascular hemodynamics
- Surgical treatment of heart failure
- Prosthetic heart value design and evaluation
- Cardiovascular tissue mechanics.
These research areas provide a number of clinically significant and basic science projects which our group will continue to explore in the future.