Dr. Christian Lattermann

Vice Chairman for Orthopaedic Research Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Sports Medicine
Director, Center for Cartilage Repair and Restoration
University of Kentucky Medical Center

I’m Dr. Christian Lattermann and I am the face of arthritis research.

The biggest challenge I’m facing as a clinician and researcher is to understand a disease and evaluate new and established treatment options objectively from the physician’s as well as the patient’s perspectives. Only if a new treatment for a disease, such as arthritis, is effective from both a health care provider’s perspective and from the patient’s experience is it likely to be successful in the long run... read more