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Lewis Zirkle, MD
Lewis Zirkle, MD

    Dr. Lewis G. Zirkle, Jr., is a board certified orthopedic surgeon in private practice in Richland, Washington. He graduated from Davidson College and Duke University Medical Center. He was selected to continue at Duke University Medical Center for surgical and orthopedic surgery training but was drafted into the US Army and sent to Vietnam. He continued his training in the Army.

    Dr. Zirkle has traveled extensively in developing countries to teach orthopedic surgery. In 1994 he realized that training is not sustainable unless surgical implants to stabilize fractures are donated along with teaching about fracture care. SIGN was formed in 1999 on that premise. Since then, SIGN has established more than 150 programs in 44 developing countries, and trained more than 2,000 surgeons to use the SIGN system to treat over 60,000 poor fracture patients.

    Since SIGN was founded, he has spent increasing amounts of time engaged in development of new surgical implants which can be used in developing countries, developing curriculum applicable to the surgeons, and traveling to teach surgery and modern orthopaedic care.

    Schedule28 Mar 2024