Dr. Brander is a board-certified physiatrist with in-depth expertise in arthritis rehabilitation. Her academic responsibilities include appointments in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. She serves as a visiting Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation at West China Hospital of Sichuan University in Chengdu, China. She served as consultant to the National Institute of Health's 2003 Consensus Development Conference on Total Knee Replacement and is an advisor to the International Consortium for the development of rehabilitation guidelines for THA and TKA.
Dr. Brander serves on numerous panels and Boards, and has authored many papers and books on the subject of hip and knee replacement.
“Hip and knee replacements can be miraculous procedures; transforming the lives of disabled patients and their families. There is no reason that patients in poor communities should suffer when we have the ability to treat them.”
