Specialties
- Minimally invasive total knee and total hip arthroplasty
- Minimally invasive surgical techniques for partial knee replacement
- Complex revision of failed hip & knee implants
- Rapid rehabilitation protocols for faster recovery after surgery
Bio
- 35+ years at JIS Orthopedics
- 35,000+ surgeries performed
- World leader in the development and use of minimally invasive hip and knee replacements
- Developer of rapid recovery protocols
- Respected as a role model in outpatient hip and knee replacement
- President of the Hip Society in 2011 and President of the Knee Society in 2017
- Designer and developer of internationally used hip and knee implant systems
- 2015 American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons Humanitarian Award and 2011 Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Ohio Dominican University
- Founder and President of Operation Walk USA
Dr. Adolph V. Lombardi, Jr.
Joined JIS in 1987 and is now its President.
Education
Dr. Adolph V. Lombardi, Jr. was born and educated in Philadelphia
- Bachelor of Science degree from Saint Joseph’s University
- Medical Doctorate from Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University
- Orthopedic surgery residency training at Albert Einstein Medical Center
Two Fellowships in Reconstruction of the Hip and Knee
- Joint Implant Surgeons in Columbus directed by Thomas H. Mallory, MD
- National Hospital for Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation and the Anderson Orthopaedic Institute in Arlington, Virginia, directed by Gerard A. Engh, MD
Read more about Dr. Lombardi
He joined the practice of Joint Implant Surgeons, now JIS Orthopedics, in 1987.
Dr. Lombardi’s vision for a physician-owned musculoskeletal specialty hospital spurred the development of New Albany Surgical Hospital, which opened in 2003 and was acquired by Mount Carmel Health System in 2007.
In 2013 he and his partners opened their first of several ambulatory surgery centers, White Fence Surgical Suites, where they have performed over 15,000 outpatient arthroplasties.
He currently serves on the Board of Directors for White Fence and as President of Central Ohio Orthopaedic Management Company, which oversees Mount Carmel New Albany.
He is a Clinical Assistant Professor at The Ohio State University in the Department of Orthopaedics.
He has authored over 420 textbook chapters and research articles published in peer-reviewed journals.
In addition to having lectured at hundreds of medical meetings around the world, he annually hosts numerous visiting national and international surgeons to observe his surgery and practice.
Dr. Lombardi holds multiple patents related to instrumentation and implants.
He is a surgeon designer of:
- Maxim Knee System
- Vanguard Knee System
- AVL Anti-Subluxation Rotating Hinge Knee
- Taperloc Complete Hip System
- Signature System in which patient-specific custom guides for performing arthroplasty are generated from preoperative imaging studies.
Dr. Lombardi is a reviewer for many orthopedic journals.
Has been an oral examiner for the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery since 1997.
Dr. Lombardi served as President of:
- The Hip Society in 2011
- Knee Society in 2017
He has been a volunteer surgeon for Operation Walk, traveling to Nicaragua and Guatemala to provide orthopedic care for indigent patients.
In 2011 he founded Operation Walk USA to provide charitable orthopedic care across the U.S. and is its Executive Committee President.
In recognition of his humanitarian work, Dr. Lombardi received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from:
- Ohio Dominican University in 2011
- American Association of Hip Knee Surgeons Humanitarian Award in 2015
Dr. Lombardi’s special interests include:
- Efficiency Optimization
- Rapid rehabilitation protocols for faster recovery after surgery
- Minimally invasive surgical techniques for:
- Partial knee
- Total knee
- Total hip replacement
- Complex reconstruction
Recent Published Articles
- Alexander JS, Lombardi AV Jr, Berend KR, Houserman DJ, Adams JB, Crawford DA. Minimum 25-year results of a tapered titanium porous plasma spray coated femoral component. J Arthroplasty. 2023 Sep;38(9):1802-1807. doi: 10.1016/j.arth.2023.03.021. Epub 2023 Mar 15. PMID: 36924856
- Alexander JS, Lombardi AV Jr, Berend KR, Morris MJ, Adams JB, Crawford DA. Custom triflange acetabular components for catastrophic bone loss: minimum 5-year results. J Arthroplasty. 2023 Jul;38(7):1251-1256. doi: 10.1016/j.arth.2022.12.043. Epub 2023 Jan 2. PMID: 36603744
- Alexander JS, Redfern RE, Duwelius PJ, Berend KR, Lombardi AV Jr, Crawford DA. Use of a smartphone-based care platform after primary partial and total knee arthroplasty: 1-year follow-up of a prospective randomized controlled trial. J Arthroplasty. 2023 Jul;38(7 Suppl 2):S208-S214. doi: 10.1016/j.arth.2023.02.082. Epub 2023 Mar 6. PMID: 36889524
- Crawford DA, Alexander JS, Erlichman RB, Semaan DJ, Lombardi AV Jr, Berend KR. Is an “Outpatient Arthroplasty Risk Assessment Score” needed for predicting safe selection of outpatient arthroplasty candidates? J Arthroplasty. 2023 Jan;38(1):13-17. doi: 10.1016/j.arth.2022.08.024. Epub 2022 Aug 19. PMID: 35988824
