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Physician Bio

Dr. Snyder is the Director of the Orthopaedic Center of Excellence at Good Samaritan Hospital, which in 2011 received the area’s first Gold Seal Award from the Joint Commission for excellence in total hip and knee replacement. There he collaborates with other joint reconstructive surgeons to improve the safety, endurance, and clinical outcomes in total joint replacement surgery. In 2010, he developed an initiative entitled “Zero in on Zero” which will radically reduce complications and ensure the highest level of patient satisfaction with their joint reconstructive outcomes. He is a frequent guest professor throughout the world. He often teaches on medical missions, demonstrates advanced joint replacement techniques; and he provides comprehensive programs in total joint patient care all the way from patient selection, to surgical techniques, to preventing complications, and to managing the most difficult patient care challenges. He is a consultant to and product innovator for several prominent medical device companies.

As of 2011, Dr. Snyder completed more than 9,500 primary and revision total knee and hip replacement surgeries. In the Tri-State area, he is the volume leader in knee replacement operations. He helped develop new implant systems and surgical techniques like “Less Invasive Surgery” to ease recovery from joint replacement and likely improve the quality of the outcome. He teaches these methods throughout the country. A hallmark of his clinical priorities is the regular use of “multimodal pain management methods” which greatly reduce the potential for intense pain associated with total joint replacement. In keeping with innovative clinical research, Dr. Snyder is a nationally recognized proponent of total joint registries; and he has employed registry-based clinical tracking to reduce surgical complications and improve the results and durability of total joint replacement. He is integrally involved in the construction of a new total joint registry for the Good Samaritan Hospital that will enhance the surgical care all participating orthopaedic surgeons provide to their patients.