Since its inception in 1987, the Orthopaedic Research Institute at Via Christi Regional Medical Center has been a leader in its field.  Here are the few of it many achievements:

• Innovation, development, patenting, and wide commercialization of the Wichita Fusion Nail, an intramedullary (inside the bone) rod for knee fusion
  
   
• More than 100 published articles and invited presentations
  
  
• Publication in 1999 of "A Primer of Biomechanics", Springer, New York, ISBN 0-387-98456-9, a text book on biomechanics for orthopaedic residents
  
  
• Implanting of orthopaedic/surgical devices in five patents
  
  
• Received a Department of Veterans Affairs, Rehabilitation R&D Service Research grant of more than $500,000 dollars
  
  
• Adjunct/volunteer faculty service by ORI staff in the Kansas Univeristy School of Medicine-Wichita and the Wichita State University College of Engineering
  
  
• Provision of internship experience for medical students, and engineering undergraduate and graduate students
  
  
• Support and direction for research published by orthopaedic residents and fellows
  
  
• Invited lectures by ORI staff members in more than a dozen countries including France, Germany, India, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Chile and China
  
  
• Sponsorship of "Perspectives in Total Joint Arthroplasty", an annual instructional course for orthopaedic surgeons throughout the United States
  
  
• Establishment an extensive fatigue/environmental testing laboratory that includes six independently controlled load frames with servohydraulic actuators
  
  
• Provides contract testing and development services for numerous industrial sponsors
  
  
• Applied research and design efforts in support of the development of more than a dozen orthopaedic/surgical devices and systems
  
  
• Received income from patent license fees of more than $500,000 dollars