Young-Min Kwon, MD, PhD, FRACS, FRCS, FACS, FAOA, is the Vice Chair of the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital and Professor of Orthopedic Surgery at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Kwon is the Director of the Bioengineering Laboratory and the Mass General Center for Tribocorrosion Evaluation & Treatment. Dr. Kwon is an accomplished surgeon, researcher and educator specializing in minimally invasive total hip and knee replacements and complex revision surgeries. Dr. Kwon's practice is dedicated to caring for patients who require hip and knee joint replacements.
Dr. Kwon earned his MD with Honors from the University of Sydney, Australia and completed his orthopaedic residency at the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. He completed his Fellowship in Adult Reconstructive Surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School and completed an additional Hip Reconstruction Fellowship at the Balgrist University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland. He earned a PhD from the University of Oxford, United Kingdom. He is board certified in Orthopaedic Surgery with the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery (ABOS), the Royal College of Surgeons of England (FRCS) and the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (FRACS). He is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons (FACS) and the American Orthopaedic Association (AOA). He is an Active Member of The Hip Society and The Knee Society.
Dr. Kwon is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including the Sir John Irvine Hunter Prize in conjunction with the title of Prosector, the AOA Traveling Fellowship Award, the FRCS's Traveling Fellowship Award, the New Investigator Recognition Award from the Orthopaedic Research Society (ORS), the Kappa Delta Award from the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) and the John Charnley Award from The Hip Society.