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Randy Beard MD
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Dr. Beard's Education
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Residency
Wake Forest Baptist Health, Orthopaedic SurgeryMedical School
Wake Forest University School of MedicineFellowship
New England Baptist Hospital, Adult Reconstructive SurgeryPatient Reviews
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About Dr. Beard
Dr. Beard specializes in hip and knee replacements and revisions. He offers patients the latest minimally invasive options for total hip replacements, including direct anterior hip procedures. Dr. Beard also performs partial and total knee replacements and complex revisions of worn out, broken, unstable, painful, recalled, metal-on-metal or infected implants.
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He is board-certified by the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery and is also a member of the American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons (AAHKS), the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS), and the Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation (OREF).
Dr. Beard also serves as the Medical Director of the Total Joint Program at Lexington Health and helps oversee our status as a “DNV Center of Excellence” for hip and knee replacements. He has authored numerous articles and book chapters that highlight his evidence-based surgical approach.
Background
After graduating cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in religion from Princeton University, Dr. Randy Beard earned his medical degree from Wake Forest University School of Medicine. While in medical school, Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society and the Gold Humanism Honor Society recognized his academic performance and inducted him into their societies.
Dr. Beard then completed his orthopaedic surgery residency at Wake Forest Baptist Health in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where he received the department’s highest award for surgical performance for three consecutive years. He went on to complete the prestigious Otto E. Aufranc Fellowship in Adult Reconstructive Surgery at New England Baptist Hospital in Boston.