Duke Department of Orthopaedic Surgery strongly emphasizes research excellence, focused on generating and implementing new knowledge to improve rehabilitation and musculoskeletal care for people worldwide.
Our researchers include:
- faculty who are primarily focused on research;
- practicing clinicians who also engage in research;
- faculty from our Doctor of Physical Therapy and Occupational Therapy Doctorate programs;
- and, scores of trainees
This cutting-edge research spans from fundamental biology to population-based investigations. Many of our researchers have relationships with Duke University’s fundamental science departments and research institutes through joint or secondary appointments, facilitating links to the wealth of high-quality researchers and core facilities throughout Duke’s campus.
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Our research is broadly grouped into two areas:
Discovery and Translational Science
Clinical, Epidemiology, and Implementation
| Ned Amendola, MD | Flavia Penteado Kapos, PhD |
| Oke Anakwenze, MD | Tally Lassiter, MD |
| Antoine Bailliard, PhD | Brian Lau, MD |
| Blake Boggess, DO | Trevor Lentz, PhD |
| Jeff Bytomski, DO | Tim Lindsay, PhD |
| Kendall Bradley, MD | Cesar De Cesar Netto, MD |
| Brian Brigman, MD | Amy Pastva, PhD |
| Anthony Catanzano, MD | Christian Pean, MD |
| Anthony Ceraulo, MD | Laura Pietrosimone, PhD |
| Chad Cook, PhD | Emily Reinke, PhD |
| Emily D'Agostino, PhD | William Richardson, MD |
| Malcolm DeBaun, MD | Brett Rocos, MD |
| Jon Dickens, MD | Liz Scott, MD |
| Luting Eckensweiler, MD | Corey Simon, PhD |
| Jody Feld, PhD | Chris Shaffrey, MD |
| Steve George, PhD | Harry Stafford, MD |
| Christine Goertz, PhD | Dean Taylor, MD |
| Adam Goode, PhD | Alison Toth, MD |
| Maggie Horn, PhD | Julia Visgauss, MD |
| William Jiranek, MD | Rebecca Wadlinger, MD |
| Josh Johnson, PhD | Jocelyn Wittstein, MD |
| Kenzie Johnston, MD |
Message from our Research Leadership
The Department of Orthopaedic Surgery is working to grow our research programs and to collaborate with existing and developing programs throughout Duke University’s research community. We actively support the development of work that crosses shared interests among the research and clinical faculty. We host a series of seminars in specialty areas of research that support groups within critical areas of musculoskeletal research. Our clinical research unit facilitates research among our patients and links to the Duke Clinical Research Institute to support multisite clinical projects.
Our department hosts core facilities for essential work, including mechanical testing, histology and radiographic analysis of musculoskeletal tissues, and the K-Lab, which focuses on motion analysis.
Chad Cook, PT, PhD, MBA, FAPTA, Director of Clinical Research Facilitation
Adam Goode, PT, DPT, PhD, Vice Chair of Clinical Research and Epidemiology and the Director of the Musculoskeletal Epidemiology Research Center
Matthew Hilton, PhD, Associate Chair of Research
Steven Olson, MD, Clinical Research Unit Director
Shyni Varghese, PhD, Division Chief, Research Division; Vice Chair of Clinical Research