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Dr. Halbrecht is a board-certified orthopedic surgeon fellowship-trained in Sports Medicine with over 25 years of experience in private practice. She specializes in the conservative and surgical treatment of musculoskeletal injuries. Dr. Halbrecht has been recognized for her expertise in arthroscopic surgery. As a result, she has taught courses in knee and shoulder arthroscopy at the Orthopedic Learning Center in Chicago to orthopedic surgeons from all over the world. She has several publications in orthopedic journals and has been a team physician for football and hockey. The unique combination of her medical training and undergraduate degree in Engineering offers special expertise on causation. She has extensive medical-legal experience and has performed over 1000 IMEs serving as an expert for plaintiff and defense. She is known for taking complicated medical cases and terminology and presenting it in an organized fashion, using lay terms that are easy for all parties to comprehend.

In addition, Dr. Halbrecht is one of the few orthopedic surgeons with extensive expertise and experience in regenerative medicine and stem cell therapy. In 2015, she became an early adopter, offering orthobiologics to her patients. Due to widespread misinformation about Ã¢Â€Âœstem cellÃ¢Â€Â therapy, Dr. Halbrecht is now a leader orthobiologics advocacy. She has published 2 papers in the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. The first explored the ethics of stem cell clinic direct-to-consumer advertising and the second identified 896 stem cell clinic websites, 96% of which gave consumers misinformation. She lectures nationally on this topic.
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