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Orthopaedist Robert LaPrade, Biomechanics Research Team, New Board Members Boost Steadman Philippon Toward Becoming the World’s Premier Sports Medicine Institute By Mike Egan, Chief Executive Officer, Steadman Philippon Research Institute Over the past three years, we have been especially efficient with the Institute’s expenditures because of the nation’s economic downturn. Nevertheless, due to the continued generosity of our donors and corporate friends, and through sound financial management, we were in a position to successfully recruit Robert LaPrade, M.D., Ph.D., from the University of Minnesota, where he was an orthopaedic surgeon, professor, and director of the University’s Biomechanics Department. Dr. LaPrade is an internationally recognized clinical scientist and board-certified sports medicine orthopaedic surgeon who joined the Clinic and the Institute on May 1, 2010, as Director of the Biomechanics Research Department. While an extremely busy clinician known for his outstanding diagnostic and surgical skills, Dr. LaPrade is most known for his passion for research and utilizing his findings to improve the ability to diagnose complex cases, optimize surgical techniques, and provide for better patient outcomes. With more than 100 scientific manuscripts, 50-plus invited articles and book chapters, and one comprehensive textbook on the knee, he is one of the world’s most published researchers in orthopaedics. Dr. LaPrade has special expertise in complex knee disorders that include “back-of-the-knee” injuries, ligament injuries, ACL reconstructions, meniscal transplants, knee osteotomies, and osteoarticular allografts, among other knee injuries.
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