Columbia University’s Department of Orthopedic Surgery at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital carries on the tradition of The New York Orthopaedic Hospital in using proven methods and developing novel ways to restore movement and independence with a coordinated multidisciplinary approach to adult reconstructive surgery.

The Columbia University Center for Hip and Knee Replacement, in addition to treating New York Metropolitan area patients, is a major referral center for national and international patients with significantly diminished quality of life due to hip and knee pain. This is a result of the coordinated care provided by a team that includes surgeons, consulting physicians, nurses, physical and occupational therapists, and social workers.

Columbia University has been at the forefront of hip and knee replacement since the 1960’s, when these operations were first performed. The late Frank Stinchfield, M.D., Chairman from 1956 to 1976, founded a program in total hip replacement at the hospital in 1968, one of the first in the nation. He learned the technique from another Columbia surgeon, Nas Eftekhar, M.D., who studied with the originator of total hip replacement, British surgeon Sir John Charnley. In 1970, Dr. Eftekhar performed the first total knee replacement in the United States. The technique he developed, condylar knee replacement, is still used today.

Currently, two national multicenter clinical trials (one on hip replacement and one on revision knee replacement) keep this group on the cusp of state-of-the-art joint reconstruction techniques. Columbia University surgeons are also scientifically evaluating a promising and possibly more durable plastic, a highly crosslinked polyethylene, used for hip replacements.

Columbia University is home to some of the nation’s finest doctors in the supportive medical subspecialties such as internal medicine, metabolic bone disease, rheumatology, anesthesiology, rehabilitation medicine, cardiology, and transplant surgery. These doctors work closely with Columbia University’s hip and knee replacement surgeons to insure that operative risk is minimized, outcome is maximized, and recuperation is speedy.

Care does not end after discharge. Surgeons have a total commitment to follow-up care, including annual follow-up, reviews, and patient exams to prevent any potential problem.

Columbia University’s hip and knee replacement surgeons collect prospective clinical research data within the Center for Hip and Knee Replacement to ensure future generations of patients flourish with the information gained through medical experience.

Dr. William Macaulay's Center for Hip & Knee Replacement received runner up honors in New York Magazine's Best Hospitals 2006.  This is an incredible achievement for the CHKR, which performed 1,040 hip replacements last year.  Click here to view the article

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