Five Loyola Physicians Named To Chicago Magazine's 2018 'Top Orthopaedic Doctors' List
September 27, 2018Categories: Orthopaedics, Awards & Recognitions
Tags: Orthopaedics
MAYWOOD, IL – Five Loyola University Medical Center orthopaedic surgeons have been named to Chicago magazine's 2018 list of "Top Orthopaedic Doctors."
The list, published in the magazine's October 2018 issue, was compiled by Castle Connolly Medical Ltd, a healthcare research and information company.
Here are the Loyola physicians on the magazine's top orthopaedic doctors list, along with their areas of clinical expertise:
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Michael Bednar, MD: Carpal tunnel syndrome, hand and wrist problems and fractures, upper extremity weakness after cervical spinal cord injuries, hand problems in children
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Terry Light, MD: Congenital hand deformities, pediatric hand injuries, thumb absence, pediatric hand reconstruction
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William Hopkinson, MD: Joint replacement, arthritis, hip and knee replacement
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Pietro Tonino, MD: Knee surgery, shoulder and elbow surgery, sports medicine, arthroscopic surgery
- Karen Wu, MD: Hip replacement and revision, knee replacement and revision, partial knee replacement
Dr. Wu was featured in a sidebar article in which she offered advice for preventing arthritis of the hip and knee. "Maintain a healthy weight," Dr. Wu advised. "Obese patients have more than two and a half times the risk of developing knee osteoarthritis, and there's probably a higher risk as well with the hip."
Loyola's team of orthopaedic specialists offers comprehensive care to treat rare and complex bone and joint disorders and diseases. Loyola University Medical Center's orthopaedics program is ranked 36th in the country in U.S. News & World Report's 2018-19 Best Hospitals rankings.
Castle Connolly's online nomination process is open to all licensed physicians in the United States. The doctors' educational and professional experience is carefully screened before final selection is made among those physicians most highly regarded by their peers. Doctors cannot nominate themselves, nor pay to appear on the list.
About Loyola Medicine
Loyola Medicine, a member of Trinity Health, is a nationally ranked academic, quaternary care system based in Chicago's western suburbs. The three-hospital system includes Loyola University Medical Center (LUMC), Gottlieb Memorial Hospital, MacNeal Hospital, as well as convenient locations offering primary care, specialty care and immediate care services from nearly 2,000 physicians throughout Cook, Will and DuPage counties. LUMC is a 547-licensed-bed hospital in Maywood that includes the William G. and Mary A. Ryan Center for Heart & Vascular Medicine, the Cardinal Bernardin Cancer Center, the John L. Keeley, MD, Emergency Department, a Level 1 trauma center, Illinois's largest burn center, the Nancy W. Knowles Orthopaedic Institute, a certified comprehensive stroke center, transplant center and a children’s hospital. Having delivered compassionate care for over 50 years, Loyola also trains the next generation of caregivers through its academic affiliation with Loyola University Chicago’s Stritch School of Medicine and Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing.
For more information, visit loyolamedicine.org. You can also follow Loyola Medicine on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram or X (formerly known as Twitter).
About Trinity Health
Trinity Health is one of the largest not-for-profit, faith-based health care systems in the nation. It is a family of 127,000 colleagues and more than 38,300 physicians and clinicians caring for diverse communities across 26 states. Nationally recognized for care and experience, the Trinity Health system includes 93 hospitals, 107 continuing care locations, the second largest PACE program in the country, 142 urgent care locations and many other health and well-being services. In fiscal year 2024, the Livonia, Michigan-based health system invested $1.3 billion in its communities in the form of charity care and other community benefit programs. For more information, visit us at www.trinity-health.org, or follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook, and X (formerly known as Twitter).