Mission Statement: Improve the lives of people suffering from diseases, deformities, and injuries of the spine and limbs

Goals:

• Provide exemplary, compassionate, and effective patient care
• Critically evaluate the initial and long-term results of medical, surgical, and physical treatments
• Develop more effective medical, surgical, and physical treatments and ways of preventing diseases and injuries
• Advance knowledge of the structure, function, diseases, injuries, and restoration of the limbs and spine and tissues, cells, and molecules that form them
• Teach medical, graduate, and undergraduate students, resident physicians, and practicing physicians the structure, function and pathophysiology of the musculoskeletal system, and the values, ethics, and methods of the arts and sciences of orthopaedics and rehabilitation