Dr. Jack Farr is an orthopaedic surgeon and clinical researcher, who specializes in knee restoration, both in his practice and in medical trials. As a recognized leader in clinical cartilage restoration advances, Dr. Farr participates in several ongoing articular and meniscal cartilage clinical trials. For those patients with knee arthritis too far advanced for restoration, he is able to offer them the option of partial knee replacement.

After a degree in Biologic Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in 1975, Dr. Farr completed  medical and Orthopaedic Surgery training in 1986. Over the past 17 years, Dr. Farr has focused his practice on the knee and he started his subspecialty focus on cartilage in 1998 with the Cartilage Restoration Center of Indiana. His numerous appointments and affiliations include a volunteer clinical Associate Professorship in Orthopaedic Surgery at Indiana University Medical Center, as well as board positions with the Cartilage Research Foundation and the Patellofemoral Foundation.

Dr. Farr is a member of one of the largest private orthopaedic surgery groups in the United States, OrthoIndy (www.OrthoIndy.com) and performs surgery in the inpatient and outpatient facilities of the Indiana Orthopaedic Hospital, which has received high rating by Health Grades.

Disclosures

In this era of increased scrutiny of relationships between doctors and the medical industry, Dr. Farr is listing the companies that he has business relationships:

Advanced Biologic Surfacing: consultant

DePuy Orthopaedics: consultant and design surgeon

DePuy Mitek: consultant and design surgeon

Genzyme: consultant and research study

OrthoFix: prior consultant; royalties for surgical technique

Stryker: consultant and design surgeon

Schwartz Biomedical: consultant

Tigenix: Consultant

Zimmer: consultant and design surgeon