Russell Edward Windsor

Dr. Russel Windsor is an attending orthopedic surgeon with substantial experience in revision surgery and has performed thousands of knee and hip replacements. He is an expert in gender-specific knee replacement and ligament reconstruction with a special interest in total knee replacement in the athlete and the younger, active patient with arthritis. His research concentrates on minimally invasive unicompartmental and total knee replacement. He received his medical education at Georgetown, Thomas Jefferson, and Cornell Universities. He completed his orthopedic training at the University of Pennsylvania and did a fellowship in Knee Reconstructive Surgery at HSS under John Insall, MD, who was one of the original developers and father of total knee replacement surgery. He has presented his work and served as faculty member in over 250 national and international seminars and has written over 60 original publications and contributed chapters in reconstructive surgery in 40 textbooks. He has been featured on Good Morning America with Diane Sawyer and the NBC Today Show where he discussed total knee replacement and total hip replacement surgery. He was Chief of the Knee Service at HSS from 1990-2006 and was President of the American Knee Society in 2005. He has been an active design consultant for various total knee replacement designs and has approximately 15 American and international patents for the design of Zimmer’s unicompartmental replacements and rotating hinge knee replacement.