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Dr. Farr received his undergraduate degree in Biological Engineering from Rose Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute, Indiana in 1975, where he also was awarded an honorary doctorate of Biological Engineering. He earned his medical degree from Indiana University in 1979. He completed his Orthopaedic Surgery residency at Indiana University Medical Center in 1986.
Over the past 20 years, Dr. Farr has continued to focus his practice in sports medicine and knee restoration. His numerous appointments and affiliations include a voluntary clinical professorship in Orthopaedic Surgery at Indiana University Medical Center and a board position with the Cartilage Research Foundation.
As a leader in US cartilage restoration advances, Dr. Farr participates in several ongoing articular and meniscal cartilage clinical trials. He also designed and received a patent for a Meniscal Allograft Transplant System. For patients with knee changes too far advanced for restoration, Dr. Farr worked as a design surgeon for a new partial knee replacement system.
Dr. Farr is actively affiliated with the Indiana Orthopaedic Hospital and St. Francis Hospital Center. He also has courtesy affiliations with other Indianapolis area hospitals. He is a member of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, the American Orthopaedic Society of Sports Medicine, the International Cartilage Repair Society and numerÂous other professional organizations.
Knee Restoration
Meniscal Repair/Transplantation/Scaffolds and Impants
Carticel (Autologous Chondrocyte Implantation)
Allograft (Fresh Osteochondral Grafts)
Ligament Reconstruction
Patellar Transplantation/Realignment
Knee Arthroplasty/Partial Knee Replacement
Computer Assisted Surgical Navigation
Sports Medicine
ACL Reconstruction
Meniscal Repair
Injury Prevention
Industrial Medicine/Worker’s Compensation
Evaluation and Management
Research (see OrthoIndy.com/research for current studies)
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