Mark Bingham Coventry, MD

Affiliations:	1934-1937	School of Medicine	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI
	1937-1938	Intern	University Hospital, Ann Arbor
	1938-1939	General Surgery	Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Rochester, MN, United States
	1939-1942	Orthopaedics	Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Rochester, MN, United States
	1942-1983	Orthopaedics, staff	Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Rochester, MN, United States
	1955-1974	Orthpaedics, chairman	Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Rochester, MN, United States

Area:

total joint arthroplasty, cortisone therapy for joint injuries, prophylactic anticoagulation for pulmonary emboli, heterotopic ossification

Website:

https://www.healio.com/orthopedics/hip/news/print/orthopedics-today/%7B4c34453a-6b30-427d-afd8-97237171ccf7%7D/coventry-was-dedicated-to-broadening-orthopedic-knowledge-and-practice

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Mark B. Coventry, MD is most known for two accomplishments: performing the first total hip arthroplasty in the United States using a Food and Drug Administration-approved bone cement and popularizing the proximal tibial osteotomy.

To fully understand his accomplishments, however, consider that he was also the first to use cortisone for an orthopedic injury, that he designed the use of prophylactic anticoagulants for pulmonary emboli, that he established the first total joint registry, and that he initiated an innovative specialty-specific department organization.

Coventry, the son of a general surgeon, was introduced to medicine while accompanying his father on house calls. William, the father, taught his son to treat patients as people and not as conditions — a lesson the younger Conventry would remember throughout his long career.

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