The Direct Anterior Approach to Hip Reconstruction

About the Editors

orthopaedic journals and has published over 140 peer-re viewed scientific articles and book chapters. Dr. Rubin is one of the world’s leading experts in the minimally invasive direct anterior approach (DAA) technique, has been an invited lecturer on multiple con tinents, and has been an invited faculty member for the International Congress for Joint Reconstruction’s Annual DAA Course and the International Master’s Anterior Course for the past 13 years. In 2016, he published the world’s first comprehensive book on anterior hip surgery, The Direct Anterior Approach to Hip Reconstruction , which quickly became a landmark reference used by surgeons around the world, with the second edition of this text reaching print in 2024. Dr. Rubin resides in Connecticut with his wife Jamie along with their two children, and their two rescued beagle mix dogs.

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Lee E. Rubin, MD, FAAOS, FAAHKS, FAOA

Lee Eric Rubin, MD, is a fellow ship trained, board-certified ortho paedic surgeon, who currently serves as an Associate Professor of Orthopaedics & Rehabilitation with Yale Medicine and the Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut. Originally from New Jersey, Dr. Rubin matriculated as a Presidential

Scholar at Brandeis University and graduated cum laude in 2000. He then graduated with Alpha Omega Alpha distinction from the Tufts University School of Medicine in 2004 and completed Orthopaedic Surgery Residency training at Yale in 2009. This was followed by an adult reconstruction fellowship in 2010 with Dr. Kristaps J. Keggi and the Keggi Orthopaedic Foundation at the Waterbury Hospital in Connecticut. Dr. Rubin spent 5 years in practice with University Orthopedics, Inc. and Lifespan, while serving as Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery on the fac ulty of the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. In this role from 2011 to 2016, he was actively engaged at The Miriam Hospital’s Total Joint Center and was the Rhode Island Arthritis Foundation Chapter’s “Medical Honoree” at the Providence Walk to Cure Arthritis event in 2015. At age 35, Dr. Rubin was selected as one of the “Forty Under 40” by the Providence Business News, becoming the first orthopaedic surgeon to win this honor in Rhode Island. In late 2016, Dr. Rubin was appointed as the Section Chief for Yale University’s Division of Adult Reconstruction and as the Chief of the Yale New Haven Hospital’s Total Joint Replacement Program. He later became the founding Program Director for the Yale Arthroplasty Fellowship, which commenced in August 2021. He was selected as one of Castle Connolly’s & Connecticut Magazine’s in 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, and 2024. Academically, he has served as a reviewer and editorial board member for a number of prestigious

SENIOR EDITORS B. Sonny Bal, MD, MBA, JD, PhD

Dr. Sonny Bal served as Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Adjunct Professor of Material Sciences at the University of Missouri, with over 25 years of clinical experience as an orthopaedic surgeon, and consulting attorney. Dr. Bal has an extensive background in research, with multiple publications in peer-­ reviewed journals.

Dr. Bal was appointed to the Board of Directors of SINTX Technologies in 2012, and currently serves as the CEO and President of that organization. Most recently, Dr. Bal has served on the Board of Trustees of the OREF (Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation). He earned his MD from Cornell University along with an MBA from Northwestern University, JD from the University of Missouri, and a PhD in Materials Engineering from the Kyoto Institute of Technology in Japan. He completed his Adult Reconstruction Fellowship at Harvard Medical School with Dr. William Harris in Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Bal lives in Columbia, Missouri with his wife and four children. Copyright © Wolters Kluwer, Inc. Unauthorized reproduction of the content is prohibited. 2024

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