Training Opportunities

The Department of Orthopaedic Surgery provides research opportunities for students and post-doctoral fellows as well as visiting scientists.

Seminar Series

Two orthopaedics-based seminar series are available to students, residents, and faculty: The Distinguished Lecture Series, and the Orthopaedic Research Seminar Series. For these series’, we invite the most prominent clinical and research orthopaedic scientists from all over the world. These scientists visit for 1 1/2 days so that everyone can hear about their research and clinical activities in depth and get to know them. We have hosted Dr. Joshua Jacobs from Rush-Presbyterian-St. Lukes, Dr. Rocky Tuan, the new director of the Cartilage Branch of the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Timothy Wright from The Hospital for Special Surgery, Dr. Bernie Morrey from Mayo Clinic and Dr. Christopher Evans from Harvard Medical School, among many others.

Musculoskeletal Core Facilities

The Biomechanical Engineering Laboratory serves as a core facility for the functional evaluation of skeletal tissues. Through this lab, musculoskeletal researchers from throughout the Medical Center have access to a Norland/ Stratec small animal computed tomography (pQCT) scanner and an Instron materials testing system. The CT scanner is used to quantify cross-sectional densitometric and geometric properties of bones from small animal models such as transgenic and knock-out mice. The materials testing system is used to assess the structural mechanical properties of bone and soft tissues, for example, the bending strength of mouse femora.

The Confocal Microscopy Core Facility

The facility is equipped with a BioRad Dual detection confocal microscope with argon ion and helium/neon lasers, which allows simultaneous red and green imaging for dual-labeling fluorescence experiments at subcellular resolution.