Stefan Kreuzer
M.D., MSc.

As a board-certified and fellowship-trained joint replacement surgeon, Stefan Kreuzer, M.D., M.Sc., has pioneered the development of minimally invasive and computer-assisted hip and knee replacement surgery. He is actively involved in training and has been invited to lecture and demonstrate his surgical techniques for surgeons throughout the United States, Asia, Australia, and Europe. Dr. Kreuzer is currently on multiple design teams for the development of the next generation of knee and hip implants and acts as a consultant to many device companies to assist them with further advancing care for patients. With many research and academic interests in addition to his clinical practice, he has devoted his career to improving the quality of life for patients in need of joint replacement surgery.

A native of Switzerland, Dr. Kreuzer moved to the United States in 1983. He graduated from medical school at the University of Texas in San Antonio in 1995 and completed his orthopedic surgery residency at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas. He then undertook a fellowship in Adult Joint Reconstruction at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas in 2001.

As of October 2023, Dr. Kreuzer has performed over 6,500 anterior hip replacements and is one of the few experts in the world to perform revision total hip replacement through the anterior approach. Dr. Kreuzer is also a world expert on robotic joint replacement surgery; he was on the development team of the MAKO robotic system for anterior hip replacement and MAKO total knee replacement and was one of three surgeons to participate in the initial FDA approval study. He is currently working on the next generation of robotic surgery with THINK Surgical as a principal investigator in their FDA-approval clinical trial for total knee replacement, as well as working alongside Corin to develop kinematic alignment with the OMNIBotics system.

Dr. Kreuzer serves on several medical advisory boards of device companies and works with software companies to help develop various technologies. He is also revolutionizing the field of outpatient total joint surgery by working to develop care paths and protocols to allow minimally invasive joint replacement surgery to be performed in the outpatient setting, with the aim of quicker recovery, fewer complications, and a more expedient return to a functional lifestyle. INOV8 Surgical at Memorial City, the AAAHC Advanced Orthopedic Certificated ambulatory surgery center Dr. Kreuzer and his partners own, recently achieved a milestone of 2,500 outpatient total joint replacement surgeries.