More than 20 surgeons from top-ranked Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush have been named to an elite list of Healthcare Research All-Stars for 2025 in a variety of sub-specialties. Avant-garde Health compiles the Healthcare Research All-Star lists and includes only the top 5% of hospitals and surgeons publishing leading-edge research. This honor is a recognition of the quality and quantity of the research the physicians have authored and published between January 2023 and June 2024.

The following are the MOR award winners:

Orthopedic Surgery

Top 1%

• Robert Burnett
• Jorge Chahla
• Brian Cole
• Matthew Colman
• Craig Della Valle
• Brian Forsythe
• Grant Garrigues
• Simon Lee
• Shane Nho
• Nikhil Verma

Top 2-3%

• Denis Nam

Top 4-5%

• Richard Berger
• Tad Gerlinger
• Wayne Paprosky
• Arash Sayari
• Xavier Simcock
• Scott Sporer

Sports Medicine

Top 4-5%

• Gregory Nicholson

Hand

Top 4-5%

• John Fernandez

Spine

Top 1%

• Kern Singh

Top 4-5%

• Frank Phillips

The full list of Research All-Stars can be viewed here.