Penn Medicine Expands Orthopaedic Services at Pennsylvania Hospital

PHILADELPHIA — In an ongoing effort to provide exceptional, personalized treatment to patients with basic and advanced orthopaedic conditions, Penn Orthopaedics is expanding services at its Pennsylvania Hospital location at 8th and Spruce Streets in center city Philadelphia.

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David G. Nazarian, MD

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As part of this expansion, David G. Nazarian, MD — a leader in joint repair and replacement surgery — will remain at Pennsylvania Hospital as part of the Penn Orthopaedics team.

“We’re pleased to offer patients the advantage of more treatment options and the most experienced surgeons all dedicated to providing the most advanced orthopaedic care at Pennsylvania Hospital,” said L. Scott Levin, MD, FACS, chair, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Paul B. Magnuson Professor of Bone and Joint Surgery, and professor of Surgery (Division of Plastic Surgery) at Penn Medicine. “Patients have convenient access to a wide range of diagnostic, medical and surgical treatment options in ten subspecialty programs at Pennsylvania Hospital.”

The newly expanded department features orthopaedic specialists providing clinical and operative care at in the following ten subspecialties:

Vincent Arlet, MD
Chief, Spine Service

Keith D. Baldwin, MD
Chief, Neuro-Orthopaedics

James L. Carey, MD, MPH
Sports Medicine

Wen Chao, MD
Foot and Ankle

Derek J. Donegan, MD
Trauma and Fracture

Andrea J. Evenski, MD
Orthopaedic Oncology

R. Bruce Heppenstall, MD 
General Orthopaedics

G. Russell Huffman, MD, MPH
Shoulder and Elbow

L. Scott Levin, MD, FACS
Department Chair
Hand, Microsurgery and Limb Salvage

David G. Nazarian, MD
Knee and Hip Replacement

Charles L. Nelson, MD
Chief, Knee and Hip Replacement

Neil P. Sheth, MD
Knee and Hip Replacement

Andrew M. Steiner, MD
Foot and Ankle

Keith L. Wapner, MD
Foot and Ankle

For appointments in Penn Orthopaedics at Pennsylvania Hospital, please call 1-800-789-PENN (7366).

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