Utku Kandemir, MD, FACS
Professor
Orthopaedic Surgery
School of Medicine

During his Chief Residency year, he spent three months at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania. In 2000 he was awarded the traveling fellowship by EFORT (European Federation of National Associations of Orthopaedics and Traumatology), in Europe which he completed in April of 2000. After graduating from the orthopaedic surgery residency in 2000, Dr. Kandemir did a research fellowship for 15 months in Sports Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh, where he was further trained in clinical management of sports injuries, and joint anatomy and mechanics. Upon returning to his home country, he was appointed as a Clinical Instructor and then Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Hacettepe University Medical Center. With increasing interest in advanced training in trauma, he completed a clinical trauma fellowship at San Francisco General Hospital in 2004-2005. Dr. Kandemir was honored as an Associate Professor by the Council of Advanced Education of Turkey in March 2006. In 2005, Dr. Kandemir joined the faculty of Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at University of California San Francisco (UCSF) at San Francisco General Hospital. His areas of expertise include reconstruction after complex trauma. He treats fractures of pelvis, hip, upper extremity (elbow, shoulder, arm and forearm), lower extremity (hip, knee, ankle, thigh and leg), deformities, and posttraumatic infections. His research interests are in fracture and joint biomechanics. Dr. Kandemir is passionate about developing better teamwork in Orthopaedic Surgery. He is committed to providing the highest quality and most current techniques to patient care and resident education in Orthopaedic Surgery.

• Difficult Diaphyseal Femur Fractures: Pearls and Pitfalls.
  Instructional course lectures 2023 Kandemir U, Janghala A
• Displaced Intra-articular Calcaneus Fractures: Extensile Lateral and Less Invasive Approaches.
  Instructional course lectures 2023 Weatherford BM, Matz J, Kandemir U
• Femoral Neck Fractures in Young and Middle-Aged Adults: Pearls and Pitfalls.
  Instructional course lectures 2023 Gorczyca J, Kandemir U
• Fractures of the Talus and Pantalar Dislocations.
  Instructional course lectures 2023 Roddy E, Magnuson E, Firoozabadi R, Kandemir U
• Intertrochanteric Hip Fractures: Pearls and Pitfalls in Managing Difficult Fractures.
  Instructional course lectures 2023 Parikh K, Kandemir U, Agarwal A
• Subtrochanteric Femur Fractures: Pearls and Pitfalls.
  Instructional course lectures 2023 Ganta A, Kandemir U, Konda SR
• Anatomic Osteochondral Allograft Reconstruction for Concomitant Large Hill-Sachs and Reverse Hill-Sachs Lesions.
  Arthroscopy techniques 2022 Alrabaa RG, Padaki AS, Vijittrakarnrung C, Lansdown DA, Kandemir U, Tangtiphaiboontana J
• Incidence and risk factors of clinically important venous thromboembolism in tibial plateau fractures.
  Scientific reports 2022 Wang P, Yan X, Fei C, Zhang B, Xing J, Zhang K, Kandemir U
• Reply to Letter to the Editor: Preoperative Peripheral Nerve Blocks in Orthopaedic Trauma Surgery: A Guide to Diagnosis-Based Treatment.
  The Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons 2022 Kandemir U, Cogan C
• Public Insurance Payment Does Not Compensate Hospital Cost for Care of Long-Bone Fractures Requiring Additional Surgery to Promote Union.
  Journal of orthopaedic trauma 2022 Roddy E, von Kaeppler EP, Chan MC, Shearer DW, Kandemir U, Morshed S
• Anatomic Radial Head Arthroplasty: The Importance of Implant Angle.
  The Journal of hand surgery 2022 Cherches MF, Halvorson R, Lalchandani G, Kandemir U, Lattanza LL, Lee N
• Interobserver and Intraobserver Reliability of Classification Systems for Radiographic Complications After Radial Head Arthroplasty.
  The Journal of hand surgery 2022 Halvorson RT, Lalchandani GR, Cherches MF, Petit LM, Lattanza L, Lee NH, Kandemir U
• Association of COVID-19 With Achieving Time-to-Surgery Benchmarks in Patients With Musculoskeletal Trauma.
  JAMA Health Forum 2021 da Leah Gitajn, Paul M. Werth, Sheila Sprague, Nathan O’Hara, Gregory Della Rocca, Robert Zura, Meir Marmor, Christopher M. Domes, Lauren C. Hill, Christine Churchill, Christine Townsend, Chi Van, …
• Preoperative Peripheral Nerve Blocks in Orthopaedic Trauma Surgery: A Guide to Diagnosis-Based Treatment.
  The Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons 2021 Kandemir U, Cogan CJ
• Intraoperative Fluoroscopy for Correcting Rotational Malalignment After Fixation of Tibial Shaft Fracture: A Case Report.
  JBJS case connector 2021 Holler JT, Kandemir U
• 2021 John Charnley Award: A protocol-based strategy when using hemiarthroplasty or total hip arthroplasty for femoral neck fractures decreases mortality, length of stay, and complications.
  The bone & joint journal 2021 Roberts HJ, Barry J, Nguyen K, Vail T, Kandemir U, Rogers S, Ward D
• Implementing stakeholder engagement to explore alternative models of consent: An example from the PREP-IT trials.
  Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications 2021 uillermo Pechero, Branden Pfaff, Mayank Rao, David Pogorzelski, Paula McKay, Ella Spicer, Andrea Howe, Haley K. Demyanovich, Debra L. Sietsema, Michael F. McTague, Lolita Ramsey, Martha Holden, Joshua…
• Protocol-based interdisciplinary co-management for hip fracture care: 3 years of experience at an academic medical center.
  Archives of orthopaedic and trauma surgery 2021 Roberts HJ, Rogers SE, Ward DT, Kandemir U
• How to Avoid Failures in Tibial Plafond Fractures.
  Instructional course lectures 2021 Kandemir U, Lee J, Morshed S, Virkus WW
• Management of Metadiaphyseal Proximal Radius Fractures.
  Techniques in hand & upper extremity surgery 2020 Demetri L, Young C, Patterson JT, Kandemir U, Morshed S, Immerman I, Lee NH
• The effect of new preoperative preparation method compared to conventional method in complex acetabular fractures: minimum 2-year follow-up.
  Archives of orthopaedic and trauma surgery 2020 Wang P, Kandemir U, Zhang B, Fei C, Zhuang Y, Zhang K
• Delay of Antibiotic Administration Greater than 2 Hours Predicts Surgical Site Infection in Open Fractures.
  Injury 2020 Roddy E, Patterson JT, Kandemir U
• Role of peripheral nerve block in pain control for the management of acute traumatic orthopaedic injuries in the emergency department: Diagnosis-based treatment guidelines.
  Injury 2020 Cogan CJ, Kandemir U
• Acute Delirium Induced by Ciprofloxacin in a Patient With Chronic Kidney Disease: A Case Report.
  JBJS case connector 2020 Stroud SG, Kandemir U
• The influence of mini-fragment plates on the mechanical properties of long-bone plate fixation.
  OTA international : the open access journal of orthopaedic trauma 2019 Knox R, Curran P, Herfat S, Kandemir U, Marmor M
• Incidence and Risk Factors of Deep Vein Thrombosis in Patients With Pelvic and Acetabular Fractures.
  Clinical and applied thrombosis/hemostasis : official journal of the International Academy of Clinical and Applied Thrombosis/Hemostasis 2019 Wang P, Kandemir U, Zhang B, Wang B, Li J, Zhuang Y, Wang H, Zhang H, Liu P, Zhang K
• Treatment of capitellar and trochlear fractures with posterior comminution: minimum 2-year follow-up.
  Journal of shoulder and elbow surgery 2018 Wang P, Kandemir U, Zhang K, Zhang B, Song Z, Huang H, Wei X, Wang H, Cong Y, Zhuang Y
• INCIDENCE AND RISK FACTORS OF DVT IN PATIENTS WITH PELVIC AND ACETABULAR FRACTURES.
  CHEST Journal 2018 PENGFEI WANG, YAN ZHUANG, YUXUAN CONG, KUN ZHANG, KUN ZHANG, UTKU KANDEMIR
• Distal femur: dynamization of plating.
  Injury 2018 Kandemir U
• Perioperative incidence and locations of deep vein thrombosis following specific isolated lower extremity fractures.
  Injury 2018 Wang H, Kandemir U, Liu P, Zhang H, Wang PF, Zhang BF, Shang K, Fu YH, Ke C, Zhuang Y, Wei X, Li Z, Zhang K
• Implant Material, Type of Fixation at the Shaft, and Position of Plate Modify Biomechanics of Distal Femur Plate Osteosynthesis.
  Journal of orthopaedic trauma 2017 Kandemir U, Augat P, Konowalczyk S, Wipf F, von Oldenburg G, Schmidt U
• Fatigue Failure in Extra-Articular Proximal Tibia Fractures: Locking Intramedullary Nail Versus Double Locking Plates-A Biomechanical Study.
  Journal of orthopaedic trauma 2017 Kandemir U, Herfat S, Herzog M, Viscogliosi P, Pekmezci M
• Direct Measurement of Tissue Oxygenation as a Method of Diagnosis of Acute Compartment Syndrome.
  Journal of orthopaedic trauma 2016 Weick JW, Kang H, Lee L, Kuether J, Liu X, Hansen EN, Kandemir U, Rollins MD, Mok JM
• A short buttress plate fixation of posterior column through single ilioinguinal approach for complex acetabular fractures.
  International orthopaedics 2016 Zhuang Y, Zhang K, Wang H, Wei X, Liu P, Wang PF, Cong YX, Lei JL, Kandemir U
• Reduction of Radiation Exposure From C-Arm Fluoroscopy During Orthopaedic Trauma Operations With Introduction of Real-Time Dosimetry.
  Journal of orthopaedic trauma 2016 Baumgartner R, Libuit K, Ren D, Bakr O, Singh N, Kandemir U, Marmor MT, Morshed S
• Geometry of Proximal Humerus Locking Plates.
  Journal of orthopaedic trauma 2015 McDonald E, Kwiat D, Kandemir U
• Internal Fixation of Posterior Pelvic Ring Injuries Using Iliosacral Screws in the Dysmorphic Upper Sacrum.
  JBJS essential surgical techniques 2015 Morshed S, Choo K, Kandemir U, Kaiser SP
• When do anterior external or internal fixators provide additional stability in an unstable (Tile C) pelvic fracture? A biomechanical study.
  European journal of trauma and emergency surgery : official publication of the European Trauma Society 2014 Mcdonald E, Theologis AA, Horst P, Kandemir U, Pekmezci M
• Evidence based update: open versus closed reduction.
  Injury 2014 Ghayoumi P, Kandemir U, Morshed S
• Multiple lower-extremity and pelvic fractures increase pulmonary embolus risk.
  Orthopedics 2014 Godzik J, McAndrew CM, Morshed S, Kandemir U, Kelly MP
• Reexamination of pelvic inlet and outlet images using 3-dimensional computed tomography reconstructions.
  Journal of orthopaedic trauma 2014 Pekmezci M, Rotter P, Toogood P, Morshed S, Kandemir U
• Retrograde intramedullary nails with distal screws locked to the nail have higher fatigue strength than locking plates in the treatment of supracondylar femoral fractures: A cadaver-based laboratory investigation.
  The bone & joint journal 2014 Pekmezci M, McDonald E, Buckley J, Kandemir U
• Surgical approaches for tibial plateau fractures.
  The journal of knee surgery 2013 Kandemir U, Maclean J
• A method for detection of lateral malleolar malrotation using conventional fluoroscopy.
  Journal of orthopaedic trauma 2013 Marmor M, Kandemir U, Matityahu A, Jergesen H, McClellan T, Morshed S
• Acute complications of patients with pelvic fractures after pelvic angiographic embolization.
  Clinical orthopaedics and related research 2013 Matityahu A, Marmor M, Elson JK, Lieber C, Rogalski G, Lin C, Belaye T, Miclau T, Kandemir U
• Mid-term outcomes in HIV-positive patients after primary total hip or knee arthroplasty.
  The Journal of arthroplasty 2013 Lin CA, Takemoto S, Kandemir U, Kuo AC
• Are conventional inlet and outlet radiographs obsolete in the evaluation of pelvis fractures?
  The journal of trauma and acute care surgery 2013 Pekmezci M, Kandemir U, Toogood P, Morshed S
• Comparison of tissue oxygenation and compartment pressure following tibia fracture.
  Injury 2012 Hansen EN, Manzano G, Kandemir U, Mok JM
• Compartment Syndrome of Thigh.
  Techniques in Orthopaedics 2012 Jeffrey MacLean, Rosanna Wustrack, Utku Kandemir
• Diagnosis of Acute Compartment Syndrome.
  Techniques in Orthopaedics 2012 James Moon Mok, Erik N. Hansen, Heejae Kang, Utku Kandemir
• Gluteal Compartment Syndrome.
  Techniques in Orthopaedics 2012 Jeffrey MacLean, Rosanna Wustrack, Utku Kandemir
• Does plugging unused combination screw holes improve the fatigue life of fixation with locking plates in comminuted supracondylar fractures of the femur?
  The Journal of bone and joint surgery. British volume 2012 Firoozabadi R, McDonald E, Nguyen TQ, Buckley JM, Kandemir U
• Comparison of completely knotless and hybrid double-row fixation systems: a biomechanical study.
  Arthroscopy : the journal of arthroscopic & related surgery : official publication of the Arthroscopy Association of North America and the International Arthroscopy Association 2011 Chu T, McDonald E, Tufaga M, Kandemir U, Buckley J, Ma CB
• Quantification of rotator cuff tear geometry: the repair ratio as a guide for surgical repair in crescent and U-shaped tears.
  Archives of orthopaedic and trauma surgery 2009 Kandemir U, Allaire RB, Debski RE, Lee TQ, McMahon PJ
• Does a volar locking plate provide equivalent stability as a dorsal nonlocking plate in a dorsally comminuted distal radius fracture?: a biomechanical study.
  Journal of orthopaedic trauma 2008 Kandemir U, Matityahu A, Desai R, Puttlitz C
• The relationship between the orientation of the glenoid and tears of the rotator cuff.
  The Journal of bone and joint surgery. British volume 2006 Kandemir U, Allaire RB, Jolly JT, Debski RE, McMahon PJ
• Does Dega osteotomy increase acetabular volume in developmental dysplasia of the hip?
  Journal of pediatric orthopedics. Part B 2006 Ozgur AF, Aksoy MC, Kandemir U, Karcaaltncaba M, Aydingoz U, Yazici M, Surat A
• Is concomitant bone surgery necessary at the time of open reduction in developmental dislocation of the hip in children 12-18 months old? Comparison of open reduction in patients younger than 12 months old and those 12-18 months old.
  Journal of pediatric orthopedics. Part B 2006 Isiklar ZU, Kandemir U, Ucar DH, Tumer Y
• The effect of temporary hemiepiphyseal stapling on the growth plate: a radiologic and immunohistochemical study in rabbits.
  Journal of pediatric orthopedics 2005 Aykut US, Yazici M, Kandemir U, Gedikoglu G, Aksoy MC, Cil A, Surat A
• The evolution of sagittal segmental alignment of the spine during childhood.
  Spine 2005 Cil A, Yazici M, Uzumcugil A, Kandemir U, Alanay A, Alanay Y, Acaroglu RE, Surat A
• Open reduction through a medial approach in developmental dislocation of the hip: a follow-up study to skeletal maturity.
  Journal of pediatric orthopedics 2004 Ucar DH, Isiklar ZU, Stanitski CL, Kandemir U, Tumer Y
• Treatment of developmental dysplasia of the hip with Pavlik harness: prospective study in Graf type IIc or more severe hips.
  Journal of Pediatric Orthopaedics B 2004 D. Hakan Uçar, Z. Uur Iklar, Utku Kandemir, Yücel Tümer
• Treatment of developmental dysplasia of the hip with Pavlik harness: prospective study in Graf type IIc or more severe hips.
  Journal of pediatric orthopedics. Part B 2004 Uçar DH, Isiklar ZU, Kandemir U, Tümer Y
• Distraction osteogenesis (callotasis) for pelvic closure in bladder exstrophy.
  Clinical orthopaedics and related research 2004 Kandemir U, Yazici M, Tokgozoglu AM, Alanay A
• Open Reduction Through a Medial Approach in Developmental Dislocation of the Hip.
  Journal of Pediatric Orthopaedics 2004 D. Hakan Ucar, Z. Ugur Isiklar, Carl L. Stanitski, Utku Kandemir, Yucel Tumer
• Endoscopic treatment of calcific tendinitis of gluteus medius and minimus.
  Arthroscopy : the journal of arthroscopic & related surgery : official publication of the Arthroscopy Association of North America and the International Arthroscopy Association 2003 Kandemir U, Bharam S, Philippon MJ, Fu FH
• Morphology of the knee in adult patients with neglected developmental dysplasia of the hip.
  The Journal of bone and joint surgery. American volume 2002 Kandemir U, Yazici M, Alpaslan AM, Surat A
• Thermal capsuloplasty of the glenohumeral joint: Technique and results OF treatment.
  Operative Techniques in Sports Medicine 2002 Utku Kandemir, Lee Kaplan, Patrick J. McMahon
• Rotational profile of lower extremities in bladder exstrophy patients with unapproximated pelvis: a clinical and radiologic study in children older than 7 years.
  Journal of pediatric orthopedics 1999 Yazici M, Kandemir U, Atilla B, Eryilmaz M