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Dr. David Kalainov

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Clinical Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery

About

Areas of Focus

  • Hand and upper extremity orthopedic surgery
  • Rotator cuff tears
  • Tendon injuries
  • Opioid epidemic
  • Waste in healthcare
  • Healthcare policy, including Medicare and Medicaid health insurance program
  • Business of medicine
  • Entrepreneurship in healthcare

Work/Research

  • Utilizing the electronic health records system to reduce postoperative opioid prescriptions 
  • Opioid epidemic - outcomes of education and health care system-wide prescription reduction
  • Publications on clinical outcomes, anatomy, molecular biology, biomechanics, opioid epidemic and value-based care

Career

  • Teach and mentor medical students and resident physicians
  • Faculty in a Northwestern University graduate school course on entrepreneurship in medicine (includes the schools of Law, Medicine, Business, and Engineering)
  • Team Physician Consultant, Northwestern University Varsity Athletics