Trevor Pickering, MD, and his team at The Surgery Center at Mississippi Sports Medicine performed the first ROSA® robotic hip replacement in the United States. Tuesday, September 21st, Trevor Pickering, MD, and his team at The Surgery Center at Mississippi Sports Medicine performed the first ROSA® robotic hip replacement in the United States. "ROSA® robotic surgery is the latest and newest development in robotics and orthopaedics. It comes with numerous advances that benefit the patients directly. It makes the surgeries more predictable, more efficient and it makes them much more reliable because our precision is greatly increased." says Trevor Pickering, MD, regarding the benefits of ROSA® robotic surgery as opposed to traditional surgery.

Trevor Pickering, MD presented on several topics at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons' annual meeting in September. Dr. Pickering spoke on Technology in hip and knee replacement as well as on anterior hip replacement.

Dr. Trevor Pickering led a Robotics in Knee Replacement national course in Los Angeles recently for over 100 surgeons. As one of the leading physicians in the field of using robotics in knee replacement surgeries, Dr. Pickering led the team at Mississippi Sports Medicine and Orthopaedic Center that was the very first in the nation to perform outpatient knee replacement surgery using robotics. Since that time, Dr. Pickering has performed total knee replacements using robotics.