HOI Hosts Anterior Hip Foundation Traveling Fellows

Hoag Orthopedic Institute (HOI), one of the nation’s leading providers of orthopedic and spine care and the leading provider of joint replacements in California and the Western United States, hosted the Anterior Hip Foundation’s traveling fellowship program last week.

The foundation’s traveling fellowship program allows a limited number of early-career surgeons to shadow world-renowned experts in anterior hip arthroplasty. The fellows participate in hands-on learning and interactive discussions in an immersive, operating room-focused fellowship.

Three orthopedic fellows --Joshuea Cameron, M.D., Christian Contreras, M.D. and John Mawn, M.D.--completed their anterior hip surgical fellowship with HOI surgeons and arthroplasty leaders Robert S. Gorab, M.D. and Jay Patel, M.D. as well as other HOI joint replacement surgeons.

“We were pleased to share the latest in arthroplasty techniques and technologies that are currently being employed at HOI,” said Dr. Gorab, an early adopter of anterior hip replacement and chairman of the Hoag Orthopedics joint arthroplasty fellowship program. “The fellows had the opportunity to gain insight into the best practices in anterior hip replacement surgery through real-time operating room engagement.”

HOI is the highest-volume anterior hip replacement center in California and a visitation site for outside surgeons seeking to learn the procedure. HOI surgeons have been performing anterior hip arthroplasty since 2007 and have trained hip surgeons through the Hoag Orthopedics Adult Reconstruction and Joint Replacement Fellowship since 2012. Additionally, HOI is a referral center for complex primary and revision anterior hip replacement on the West Coast.

“We were honored to host the traveling fellows at Hoag Orthopedic Institute and to share best practices in anterior hip arthroplasty,” said Dr. Patel. “In addition to the clinical knowledge gained, our physicians were honored to make new friendships and welcome these talented surgeons to HOI.”