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H.S.'10, Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Duke University School of Medicine

Jocelyn Wittstein, MD is an orthopaedic surgeon specialized in sports medicine with 15 years of practice. She is an associate professor of orthopaedic surgery at Duke University School of Medicine where she serves as a clinician, an NIH funded researcher and an educator of medical students, residents, and fellows. Her research interests are the female athlete across the lifespan, post traumatic arthritis after knee injuries, frozen shoulder and its relationship to menopause, and the musculoskeletal syndrome of menopause among others. She is co-author of “The Musculoskeletal Syndrome of Menopause”. She is president of The Forum: Women in Sports Medicine, a core leadership member of the Duke Female Athlete Program, and a member of the Milken Institute Women’s Health Initiative. She has collaborated with Dr. Ford on perioperative management of contraceptives and menopausal hormone therapy to reduce VTE risk as well as a study of the relationship of frozen shoulder to use of hormone therapy in menopausal women, and is Co-PI of their musculoskeletal symptoms of menopause registry. She has collaborated with Drs. DeFrate and McNulty on multiple NIH funded studies of chondral resiliency after ACL and meniscus injury, and aims to use this same methodology to study declining chondral health at menopause as well as the influence of hormone therapy utilization as a potential means of chondral protection. She is also co-author of The Complete Bone and Joint Health Plan. She is enthusiastic to partner with Duke Women’s Health to provide collaborative, non-siloed care of menopausal women to optimize not just their bone and joint health, but their overall well-being.