Dr. Murthi is chief of the orthopaedic service at Kernan Hospital and an assistant professor of orthopaedics at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
Dr. Murthi received his medical degree from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and completed his general surgery internship and orthopaedic surgery residency at George Washington University Medical Center. He completed the internationally recognized fellowship in shoulder and elbow reconstruction at the New York Orthopaedic Hospital-Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center.
He is the current editor for the shoulder and elbow sections of the international
journal Current Opinions in Orthopaedics. He has published and presented
numerous research papers on a national and international stage. He is currently
a journal reviewer for the Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery and
Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. As a teacher he has been involved
in teaching physicians around the country surgical techniques in shoulder and
elbow surgery. He is current president and founding member of the Association
of Clinical Elbow and Shoulder Surgeons (ACESS) group.
Dr. Murthi continues to perform research and publish articles and was recently
elected to join the prestigious American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeon Society.
This is a highly selective society and inclusion is based on significant contributions
to shoulder and elbow surgery.
Dr. Murthi specializes in the treatment of complex shoulder and elbow reconstruction, shoulder and elbow arthritis, shoulder and elbow replacement surgery, shoulder and elbow fractures, rotator cuff pathology, shoulder and elbow instability (dislocations), injuries in the throwing athlete, neurologic diseases of the shoulder, arthroscopic surgery, revision surgery, repetitive motion disorders, frozen shoulder, and sports-related shoulder and elbow problems.
Dr. Murthi's research interests include biomechanics of the shoulder and elbow, tissue engineering, novel surgical techniques, minimally invasive arthroscopic surgical techniques, and outcomes studies on shoulder and elbow surgery.
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