Kenneth A. Gustke, M.D.

Dr. Kenneth Gustke is a founding member and past President of Florida Orthopaedic Institute. He received his medical education at Wayne State University and completed his orthopedic residency at Henry Ford Hospital, both in Detroit. Dr. Gustke received additional training in joint replacement and arthritis surgery at New England Baptist Hospital in Boston, and completed a fellowship in joint replacement and adult orthopedic reconstruction at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.

Dr. Gustke is renowned on the national and international level for his pioneering efforts in joint replacement surgery implant design and surgical technique. He is the co-designer of eight total hip replacement implants and a complete total knee replacement system which includes four different types of total knee implants. His implants have been implanted by other surgeons in hundreds of thousands of patients worldwide. He also holds three patents on hip replacement design. Dr. Gustke has been a primary developer of muscle sparing minimally invasive knee and hip replacement surgical techniques. As a consultant to a computer navigation company, he assists in the development of computer-assisted surgical techniques and instrumentation.

He has published numerous articles, textbook chapters, and technical monographs and has edited two professional journals. He has presented lectures at more than 400 local, national, and international forums. Twice yearly, he travels to Europe to perform and instruct orthopedic surgeons on the art of total knee replacement surgery. He monthly has national and international orthopedic surgeons visit him in Tampa for two to four day observerships.

Dr. Gustke has practiced medicine in Tampa for the past twenty-eight years. He is board certified by the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery and a founding member of the American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons. He is a Member of The Knee Society, a closed group of 109 members representing the very best knee replacement surgeons in the world.