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FOJP Service Corporation
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American Associates, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
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10018 New York -
Aatod
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10014 New York -
American University of Antigua College of Medicine
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Christopher L. Barley M.D
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10022 New York
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Columbia University has been at the forefront of hip and knee replacement in the U.S. since the 1960's, when these operations were first performed. The late Frank Stinchfield, M.D. (Chairman from 1956 to 1976) founded a program in total hip replacement at the hospital in 1968 (one of the first in the nation) when he hired British trained Nas Eftekhar. Nas trained at Wrightington, England with Sir John Charnley, the father of total hip arthroplasty. This monumental improvement in hip arthroplasty quickly sent mould arthroplasty (which Dr. Stinchfield had become widely known for) into obsolescence. In 1970, Dr. Eftekhar performed the first total knee replacement in the United States. The technique he developed, condylar knee replacement, is still used today.