Steven Yang, MD is a board-certified UCI Health orthopedic surgeon who specializes in adult reconstructive surgery, with a focus on primary and revision hip and knee replacement.
He has specialized training in modern arthroplasty techniques, including anterior-approach hip replacement, computer-assisted joint replacement, patient-specific knee replacement as well as partial knee replacements. He also treats patients who have complications from failed or painful hip and knee replacements. Refer a patient or learn more about his practice here: https://www.ucihealth.org/find-a-doctor/y/steven-yang
So my talk today really centered around how we got where we are today. You know, how we've done knee replacements for about 40 years really? And what has allowed us to sort of change to um what we call personalized alignment, philosophies or alternative alignment philosophies. There's a lot of different names for it with the improvement of technology, improvement of implants and better understanding of how the knee functions. A lot of surgeons, you know, myself included have gone towards a, you know, have, have kind of gotten licensed to start doing knee replacements a little bit differently. And I think, you know, the the future is bright for us. I think the technology that we have now is very enabling, not only for I improving our surgeries, but also in understanding how we should be doing these surgeries, it really enables some of the research that needs to be done. I'm I'm Stephen Yang. I'm an orthopedic surgeon. I'm faculty here at U Irvine. Um I'm a hip and knee replacement surgeon, hip knee arthroplasty surgeon. Towards the end of the talk, I talked about robotics, which I think it's a, it's a new journey that we're embarking on here at UC I, it's something that's been happening in the joint replacement world. And I think that robotics in particular is helping us unlock sort of the, the mysteries of the knee, the things that we didn't know before. And um I think that that'll make a big difference for our patients and for, for patients in, you know, in the future as well. This is our annual orthopedic symposium where, you know, it's in celebration of our graduating uh chief residence. And we also have um sort of a symposium on a broad range of orthopedic topics. And this year, we have a more, more of a focus on degenerative disease and we have a number of guest speakers uh centered around hip and knee replacement. Our guest speaker this year is Doctor Jay Parvizi, who's really a world renowned expert in orthopedics and specifically in orthopedic infections. He's a um you know, like myself, a hip and knee replacement surgeon. Uh he's done a tremendous amount of um of work. He's pioneered a lot of work on infection and, and, you know, VTE and other things. Um It's really an honor to have him. He's a very engaging and relatable speaker and, you know, he's, you know, he spent a couple days with us, which has been a real treat.
