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Since its inception in 1987, the Orthopaedic Research Institute at Via Christi Hospital in Wichita has been a leader in its field. Here are a few of its many accomplishments:
- Innovation, development, patenting, and wide commercialization of the Wichita Fusion Nail, an intramedullary (inside the bone) rod for knee fusion
- More than 100 published articles and invited presentations
- Publication in 1999 of "A Primer of Biomechanics," Springer, New York, ISBN 0-387-98456-9, a textbook on biomechanics for orthopaedic residents
- Implanting of orthopaedic/surgical devices in five patients
- Received a Department of Veterans Affairs, Rehabilitation R&D Service Research grant of more than $500,000
- Adjunct/volunteer faculty service by ORI staff in Kansas University School of Medicine-Wichita and the Wichita State University College of Engineering.
- Provides internships for medical students, and engineering undergraduate and graduate students
- Invited lectures by ORI staff members in more than a dozen countries including France, Germany, India, Japan, Korea, Mexico and Chile
- Sponsorship of "Perspectives in Total Joint Arthroplasty," an annual instructional course for orthopaedic surgeons from throughout the United States
- Established an extensive fatigue/environmental testing laboratory that includes six independently controlled load frames with servohydraulic actuators
- Provides contract testing and development services for numerous industrial sponsors
- Provides materials sensitivity testing for orthopaedic patients at risk for adverse reactions
- Applied research and design efforts in support of the development of more than a dozen orthopaedic/surgical devices and systems
- Received Income from patent license fees of more than $500,000
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