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29 ORTHOPEDICS Drs. David Evanich, Chris Evanich perform 59 total joints in a week — 5 highlights By Angie Stewart O rthopedic surgeons David Evanich, MD, and Chris Evanich, MD, led One World Surgery teams to complete 59 total joint surgeries in one week at the Holy Family Surgery Center in Jalaca, Honduras. Here's what you should know: 1. e surgeons performed the procedures in June through One World Surgery. 2. One World Surgery operates global surgery centers, leads weeklong surgical medical missions and supports local com- munities through medical education and training. 3. One World Surgery was established in May 2017 through the combination of Holy Family Surgery Center in Honduras and Deerfield, Ill.-based Surgical Care Affiliates Medical Missions. Eden Prairie, Minn.-based OptumHealth CEO Andrew Hayek serves as One World Surgery's chairman and co-founder. 4. Dr. David Evanich practices at Ortho- pedic Associates in Flower Mound, Texas. He earned his medical degree from the University of Texas - Southwestern Medical School in Dallas. Living Magazine named him the Best Orthopedic Surgeon of Flower Mound in 2016. 5. Dr. Chris Evanich practices at e Orthopedic Institute of Wisconsin in Wauwatosa. He graduated from the Medi- cal College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee and performs nearly 500 hip and knee replacements each year. Dr. Evanich has been selected for inclusion on Milwaukee Magazine's Top Doctor list every year since 2000. n Jury awards $8.2M in patent infringement suit against DePuy Synthes: 5 things to know By Laura Dyrda A jury found in favor of Acantha in a patent dispute with DePuy Syn- thes, a Johnson & Johnson company, capping a longtime strife over unlicensed spinal products. Here are five things to know: 1. Acantha filed a patent for orthopedic technology used to join bone seg- ments, U.S. Patent No. RE43,008('008), in 2001, and the patent was reissued in 2011. 2. The co-inventors of the technology, David Talaber and James Lloyd, MD, connected with DePuy Synthes about the patent in the mid-2000s; Dr. Lloyd even traveled to DePuy Synthes' headquarters in 2005 to explain the technology and how it could help the company with problems it was experiencing. 3. DePuy did not license the patent for the technology; however Acantha alleged DePuy used the technology in a series of spinal implants, including its Zero-P VA System and Vectra. 4. Acantha sued DePuy Synthes over the patent dispute, and a jury in Green Bay, Wis., found DePuy did willfully infringe on Acantha's patent. 5. The jury awarded Acantha $8.2 million in actual damages. n Ohio Specialty Surgical Suites & Spectrum Orthopedics performs 1K total joint replacements By Eric Oliver N orth Canton-based Ohio Specialty Surgical Suites and Spectrum Orthopedics performed its thousandth total joint replacement sur- gery, IndeOnline.com reports. Here's what you should know: 1. The facility opened in December 2014. 2. The facility is the first freestanding ASC in Northeast Ohio to reach this case volume. 3. OSS was among the first outpatient ASCs in the U.S. to earn The Joint Commission's advanced certification in total hip and knee replacements. 4. The facility gave patients special gifts to mark the occasion. n The jury awarded Acantha $8.2 million in actual damages