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Bolingbrook orthopedic surgeon to host top Brazilian doctors for
surgical education
Suburban Life Media (Downers Grove, Illinois)
Monday, March 4, 2013
BOLINGBROOK - Orthopedic surgeon Dr. Gregory Markarian will host about
15 doctors from Brazil at Bolingbrook Adventist Hospital March 20,
teaching them a surgical technique to preserve, rather than replace, a
patient's knee.
The visitng doctors will oversee Markarian's five scheduled March 20
surgeries. Brazil is in the process of granting medical approval to
the technology that makes Markarian's Arthrosurface approach possible,
and he is teaching those doctors how to use it in advance of that
approval.
`The American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons is meeting the third week
of March, so the timing is very good that this will soon be approved
by Brazil,' Markarian said. `All their top doctors are coming March 20
to Bolingbrook to observe and learn.'
As a follow-up, Markarian plans to later travel to Brazil to work with
the doctors again.
`I'm going to go down and help them with their initial cases and teach
them down there,' Markarian said. `This is pretty involved and can't
really be learned in one setting.
The Arthrosurface approach allows physicians to place small implants
into small defects in knee cartilage, making it smooth again.
`The technology allows you to do that by going after smaller defects
that eventually become bigger,' Markarian said.
A diplomat with the American Board of Orthopedic Surgeons, Markarian
previously served as a consultant to the National Football League's
Miami Dolphins for seven years. He was also head team physician for
the XFL's Chicago Enforcers. He's a 1987 graduate of the University of
Michigan and received his medical degree from Northwestern University
in 1991.
Email: [email protected]
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
surgical education
Suburban Life Media (Downers Grove, Illinois)
Monday, March 4, 2013
BOLINGBROOK - Orthopedic surgeon Dr. Gregory Markarian will host about
15 doctors from Brazil at Bolingbrook Adventist Hospital March 20,
teaching them a surgical technique to preserve, rather than replace, a
patient's knee.
The visitng doctors will oversee Markarian's five scheduled March 20
surgeries. Brazil is in the process of granting medical approval to
the technology that makes Markarian's Arthrosurface approach possible,
and he is teaching those doctors how to use it in advance of that
approval.
`The American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons is meeting the third week
of March, so the timing is very good that this will soon be approved
by Brazil,' Markarian said. `All their top doctors are coming March 20
to Bolingbrook to observe and learn.'
As a follow-up, Markarian plans to later travel to Brazil to work with
the doctors again.
`I'm going to go down and help them with their initial cases and teach
them down there,' Markarian said. `This is pretty involved and can't
really be learned in one setting.
The Arthrosurface approach allows physicians to place small implants
into small defects in knee cartilage, making it smooth again.
`The technology allows you to do that by going after smaller defects
that eventually become bigger,' Markarian said.
A diplomat with the American Board of Orthopedic Surgeons, Markarian
previously served as a consultant to the National Football League's
Miami Dolphins for seven years. He was also head team physician for
the XFL's Chicago Enforcers. He's a 1987 graduate of the University of
Michigan and received his medical degree from Northwestern University
in 1991.
Email: [email protected]
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress