Dr. Russell Bodner joins us for this episode, a fellowship trained sports medicine orthopedic surgeon with specialties in joint replacement and adult reconstruction surgery. Dr. Bodner has been in practice for over 30 years and currently at Northwestern Medicine Regional Medical Center in Sycamore, IL. We hear about his passion for innovation and wanting to make a difference in orthopedics.

Topics include:

-We hear his story with medical school at UCLA, residency at University of Pennsylvania and half-year fellowship in Austria and the other half with Dr. Steadman in Lake Tahoe.

-We discuss his practice with a recent partnership in private equity.

-We hear his remarkable story working with Dr. Larry Dorr, titan and legend in arthroplasty, on their breakthrough research on finding the appropriate location of the acetabular component in hip replacements. By utilizing Dr. Dorr’s patient database and Dr. Bodner’s postural science and biomechanics, they were able to pioneer new technology to innovate in the hip arthroplasty space.

Find out more about Dr. Russell Bodner here.

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