Department of Orthopedics and Rehabilitation

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Our clinicians employ the most up-to-date techniques for diagnosis and treatment. Research and development have been a central part of our department’s efforts.

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We take pride in providing leading-edge patient care, advancing the field of orthopedics through first-rate research, and offering superior education to the next generation of high-quality orthopedic specialists.

$22M

in external research support for 89 different projects

>80K

patients per year

# 1

Iowa's #1 hospital as ranked by U.S. news & world report

Education

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Education

Research

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Research

About Us

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News

Time Capsule: Buckwalter: Lifetime of excellence in orthopedics

Thursday, April 24, 2025

Q&A: J. Lawrence Marsh

Wednesday, April 23, 2025

Full scope of orthopedics care

Friday, April 18, 2025

College of Medicine Events

ACB Seminar Series - Madhuri Bendale

Wednesday, May 21, 2025 9:30am to 10:30am

Bowen Science Building

Madhuri Bendale, a Cell and Developmental Biology Graduate Student in the Frank Lab will present a seminar titled "Studying Homeostatic Plasticity at the Fly NMJ."

Internal Medicine Grand Rounds 5/22/2025

Thursday, May 22, 2025 12:00pm to 1:00pm

General Hospital

DiBona Lecture: "Connecting Networks in the Thorax, Fibroblast, and Among the Enslaved" by Stephen McGowan, MD

ACRC Seminar Series

Friday, May 23, 2025 8:50am to 7:50pm

Medical Education Research Facility

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