Interactive Event Provides Consumers Real Time Access to Experts BALTIMORE—(March 21, 2019)—MedStar Orthopaedic Institute will host The Future of Orthopaedics is Here webcast, on Facebook Live, Wednesday, March 27, from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. Moderated by WMAR ABC news anchor Kelly Swoope, the live interactive forum will stream from MedStar Orthopaedic Institute in Timonium and will feature top orthopaedic surgeons and therapists for discussions on the latest innovations in joint replacement, robotic surgery, rehabilitative approaches and more. Viewers and in-house audience members will interact with a panel of five orthopaedic surgeons: Drs. Henry Boucher, Allison Fillar, Bradley Moatz, Robert…

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New Algorithm May Aid in Adoption of Better Heart Pacing Method BALTIMORE—(February 15, 2019)—An algorithm created by cardiac electrophysiologist Aditya Saini, MD, of MedStar Heart and Vascular Institute at MedStar Union Memorial Hospital, may pave the way for a superior method of installing pacemakers to become more widely adopted around the world. In an article published in the medical journal Circulation- Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology released last week, Dr. Saini proposes an algorithm that solves a practical barrier to the adoption of a method of pacemaker installation, known as His bundle pacing (HBP). His bundle pacing takes advantage of the natural…

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System is One of a Kind in the World BALTIMORE—MedStar Union Memorial Hospital unveiled this month a custom-built, cutting-edge robotic simulator that replicates musculoskeletal motion, allowing researchers to study the forces on muscles, bones and joints, and improve surgical methods utilized in orthopaedic reconstructive surgery. The system, which is the only one like it in the world, will help anchor the MedStar Musculoskeletal Education and Research Institute, a system-wide research initiative in collaboration with the MedStar Health Research Institute, which has expanded and enhanced existing research efforts in the areas of degenerative, deformity, traumatic, and congenital pathologies of the musculoskeletal…

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