John Lawrence Marsh MD

J. Lawrence Marsh, MD, is the Chairman of the Department of Orthopedics and Rehabilitation. His expertise encompasses a wide variety of fractures, bone infections, and post-fracture problems such as failure to heal and post-traumatic arthritis. He has a variety of research interests in the assessment and treatment of fractures with particular emphasis on minimally invasive techniques, post-traumatic arthritis, fracture classification, surgical education, and surgical simulation.

He was the president of the American Board of Orthopedic Surgery from 2015 to 2016 and was the president of the American Orthopedic Association and the Mid-America Orthopedic Association from 2014 to 2015. He is a member of many professional organizations including the Orthopedic Trauma Association, the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons, National Board of Medical Examiners, and he is the past chair of the Orthopedic Residency Review Committee of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education.