Dr. Michael Ries is an orthopedic surgeon and the Arthroplasty Fellowship Director at the Reno Orthopaedic Clinic. He received a BS and MS from MIT, and his medical degree from Dartmouth Medical School, and has been in practice for more than 25 years.
Dr. Ries has a practice limited to hip and knee arthroplasty surgery and treatment of arthritic hip and knee conditions. He was on the full time faculty at the University of California, San Francisco from 1997 to 2013 where he was Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Chief of Arthroplasty. During this time he also participated regularly in laboratory and clinical research. Dr. Ries has published 210 peer reviewed journal articles and 52 book chapters on topics related to clinical outcomes and biomaterials used in hip and knee replacement.
What differentiates D. Ries most from his peer group is that he has helped develop a number of hip and knee replacements and is an inventor on 45 US patents for hip and knee replacement devices. He is also a father of three active children, husband to a beautiful Russian wife, avid skier, and household handyman.
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The Joint Kitchen by Michael Ries is a book like none other
“The Joint Kitchen by Michael Ries is a book like none other on the creative process that blends knowledge and unfocused thought leading to “outside the box” medical inventions. Dr. Ries goes beyond explaining his thought process of discovery to a description of the...
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Ries, M.D.: The Jumbo Cup: Curtain calls and Caveats. Sem Arthroplasty, 25: 151-155,2014.
Ries, M.D.: The Electronic Medical Record (EMR): Friend or Foe? Clinical Face Off. Clin Orthop Rel Res, 472(1): 16-21, 2014
Nwankwo, C., Dong, N.N., Heffernan, C.D., Ries, M.D: Do Jumbo Cups Cause Hip Center Elevation in Revision THA? A Computer Simulation. Clin Orthop Relat Res, 472(2): 572-6, 2014.
The Joint Kitchen
The remarkable efficiency of the human hip and knee are described with simple illustrations, and why we can’t make hip and knee replacements quite as perfect as the normal joints we were born with. A doctor who found himself just doing ordinary everyday activities drew similar images of what he was looking at that turned into patents for new hip and knee replacements. The story suggests that when our mind is in a peaceful state of tranquility the creative and problem solving parts of our brain can magically connect to form a new idea.
