Principal Investigators
The JUPITER (Justifying Patellar Instability Treatment by Results) Group was established as the first multi-center prospective patellar instability research group by principal investigators Dr. Beth Shubin Stein (Hospital for Special Surgery) and Dr. Shital Parikh (Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center).
Beth E. Shubin Stein, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery and Sports Medicine at Hospital for Special Surgery
Shital N. Parikh, MD, FACS
Professor Orthopaedic Surgery at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
Matthew Bollier, MD
Sports Medicine Fellowship Director & Team Physician at University of Iowa Health Care Medical Center
Jacqueline M. Brady, MD
Associate Professor, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Oregon Health and Science University
Peter D. Fabricant, MD
Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery & Sports Medicine at Hospital for Special Surgery
Lutul D. Farrow, MD
Director, Sports Medicine and Clinical Operations at The Cleaveland Clinic
Jason Koh, MD
Director and Mark R. Neaman Chair of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine
Daniel W. Green, MD, FACS
Director, Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery Fellowship at Hospital for Special Surgery
Todd Milbrandt, MD
Chair of the Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery division at the Mayo Clinic
Robert A. Magnussen, MD
rofessor in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
Lauren Hannon Redler, MD
Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Adult & Pediatric Sports Medicine at Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Ryan Roach, MD
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Sports Medicine, Team Physician at the University of Florida
Eric J. Strauss, MD
Professor, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at NYU Langone Medical Center
Marc Tompkins, MD
Orthopaedic Sports Medicine Surgeon and Associate Professor in the Department of Orthopaedics at the University of Minnesota
Robert W. Westermann, MD
Orthopaedic Surgeon at the University of Iowa Health Care Medical Center
Philip L. Wilson, MD
Director, Sports Medicine at the Scottish Rite for Children Frisco Campus
Kevin Farmer, MD
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Sports Medicine at the University of Florida
Benton Heyworth, MD
Division of Sports Medicine, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Boston Children’s Hospital
Nikolaos Paschos, MD
Co-Chief, Division of Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital
Adam J. Tagliero, MD
Assistant Professor of Orthopaedics & Senior Associate Consultant-Dept. Of Orthopaedic Surgery at the Mayo Clinic
Brian R. Wolf, MD
Professor and Vice-Chairman in the University of Iowa Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
Seth L. Sherman, MD
Sports Medicine fellowship director & Orthopaedic Surgeon at Stanford Medicine
People who experience a first-time patella dislocation frequently do so while participating in sports, causing the knee to suddenly buckle and they fall. Because ACL tears often happen in the same way, and because they are much more common than patella dislocations, it is important to rule out an ACL tear. In rare cases a patient comes in with an ACL tear and is found