Kenneth Egol, MD, Director
Gina Aharonoff, MPH, Assistant Director
Brian Golden, MD
Adam Karp, MD
Kenneth Koval, MD, Consultant
Andrew Rosenberg, MD
Joseph Zuckerman, MD
Ellen Wang, Research Assistant
Grace Chan, Research Assistant
The Hip Fracture Research Group, a multidisciplinary team of orthopaedists, epidemiologists, nurse specialists, geriatricians, and social workers, was established in 1985 to gather research data on hip fracture patients that would help clinicians better understand this important population. Since then, virtually every hip fracture patient admitted to HJD who is age 65 or older, community-dwelling, ambulatory, and cognitively intact has been contacted at periodic intervals, from 3 months to as far out as 10 years after fracture, to obtain information on function. The resultant database, which has grown more sophisticated over the years, currently contains detailed information culled from over 4,000 follow-up records from more than 1,000 hip fracture patients.
Hip Fracture Research Group members meet monthly to review ongoing projects and discuss future plans, and they regularly present their findings at national and international orthopaedic, geriatric, public health, and related symposia and conferences. The group’s findings are have been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals, including the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma, Geriatrics, Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, and Facts and Research in Gerontology, as well as in several book chapters.