Keith R. Berend MD

Dr. Keith R. Berend, a native of Columbus, Ohio, graduated from Upper Arlington High School in 1988. He received his undergraduate from Florida Southern College with honors. He completed his medical doctorate and orthopedic residency at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. While in training, he received several major awards for his research work including the Clinical Orthopaedic Society Resident/Fellow Research Award, the Eastern Orthopaedic Association Resident Research Award, the American Orthopaedic Association – Zimmer Annual Travel Resident Research Award, Duke University’s Division of Orthopaedics Annual Award for Outstanding Research, and an International College of Surgeons Research Scholarship. He is a Chief Medical Development Officer at OrthoAlliance in the USA.

Dr. Berend completed a fellowship in Adult Reconstruction of the Hip and Knee at Joint Implant Surgeons, Inc., with Dr. Thomas H. Mallory, MD, and Adolph V. Lombardi, Jr., MD. He joined that practice in 2003 and was a founding physician of New Albany Surgical Hospital. Dr. Berend was a Hip Society-British Hip Society Traveling Fellow in 2004 and a John N. Insall Knee Society Traveling Fellow in 2005. Dr. Berend and Joint Implant Surgeons annually host over 200 visiting national and international surgeons at their center, and are now a host site for the John N. Insall Knee Society and Rothman-Ranawat Hip Society Traveling Fellowships.