Jason Lang, M.D.

We are proud to announce Dr. Jason Lang is joining the impressive group of joint replacement surgeons at DownEast Orthopedics in July.

Dr. Lang is a fellowship-trained, orthopedic surgeon specializing in hip and knee replacement. A native of North Carolina, Dr. Lang was born and raised in Durham. His parents were both in medicine, with his father being an orthopedic surgeon and his mother a nurse. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Johns Hopkins University before going to Duke University for medical school. Dr. Lang completed his orthopedic surgery residency at Duke Medical Center, where he earned the prestigious Chief Resident Teaching Award. He continued his training at New England Baptist Hospital as an Otto E. Aufranc Adult Reconstruction fellow, receiving extensive experience in the performance of both primary and complex revision hip and knee surgery.

Dr. Lang joined the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Wake Forest University in 2007, and spent nine years there rising to the rank of Associate Professor. During that time, Dr. Lang became the director Adult Reconstruction Section, and helped build a regionally recognized Joint Replacement program, and twice earned the Faculty Teaching Award from the resident physicians. Additionally, he served as Residency Director and Fellowship Director for Adult Reconstruction.

Dr. Lang joined EmergeOrtho, Blue Ridge Division in 2016, bringing his extensive experience in less-invasive techniques including direct anterior approach hip replacement and partial knee replacement, as well as his experience using patient specific instrumentation (PSI) and computer navigation to perform knee replacement surgeries. Dr. Lang also specializes in surgery for failed or poorly performing hip and knee replacements, known as “revision surgery”.

Dr. Lang has received several research grants and published multiple articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals. He has presented this research at regional and national orthpaedic surgery meetings. He has served as a journal reviewer for the Journal of Arthroplasty and Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research. He has worked on the abstract review committee for the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) national meeting and for the American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons (AAHKS) national meeting. He is a fellow member of both the AAOS and AAHKS. Dr. Lang has been elected to membership in the American Orthopaedic Association (AOA), a selective academic Orthopaedic society.

As a board-certified, fellowship-trained orthopedic surgeon specializing in Adult Reconstruction of the Hip and Knee, Dr. Lang addresses a variety of orthopedic conditions and injuries, which include:

• Osteoarthritis of the Hip/Knee
• Avascular Necrosis of the Hip/Knee
• Hip/Knee Pain
• Failed Replacement of the Hip/Knee
• Degenerative Tears of the Meniscus
• Degenerative Tears of the Hip Labrum

Dr. Lang utilizes sophisticated, minimally-invasive, patient-centered approaches to treat the conditions listed above. Examples of treatment methods and services provided by Dr. Lang include:

• Anterior Approach Hip Replacement
• Partial and Total Knee Replacement
• Patient Specific Instrumentation
• Robotic Assisted Knee Replacement
• Uncemented Knee Replacement
• Viscosupplementation
• Platelet-Rich-Plasma Injections