Biographical summary
Daniel B.F. Saris, M.D., Ph.D., is an orthopedic surgeon with a specialty in knee surgery and additional focus on regenerative medicine.
Areas of expertise include:
- Knee surgery from simplest meniscus to infected total knee revision
- Osteotomy, joint distraction, and complex ligament reconstructions
- Specific expertise in regenerative medicine and cartilage repair with cell technology
- Application of stem cell technologies in treating degenerative diseases
- Ethics of stem cell technologies/therapies
Conditions treated
Procedures performed
- Arthroplasty
- Arthroscopy
- Cartilage repair
- Knee replacement
- Knee replacement revision
- Knee surgery
- Regenerative medicine therapy
- Unicompartmental knee replacement
Interests
- Knee repair
- Arthroplasty
- Biological joint reconstruction
- Osteotomy
- Cartilage cell therapy
- Regenerative medicine and cartilage repair with cell technology
- Clinical trials for regenerative medicine and stem cell therapies
Mayo Clinic locations
Education
- 2002
PhD - OrthopaedicsUniversity of Utrecht
- 2000
Residency - Orthopaedics (Academical Hospital Utrecht Department of Orthopaedics)University of Utrecht
- 1997
Research Fellowship - Orthopaedics, Cartilage & Biomechanics LaboratoryMayo Clinic Rochester
- 1992
Medical SchoolUniversity of Amsterdam
Activities and honors
Awards and honors
- 2021
Kelly Research AwardMayo Foundation
- 2016
IMPACT Trial "3 Hottest Topics @ AAOS"American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons
- 2016
ICRS Award for Best ResearchInternational Cartilage Repair Society
- 2014
Honorary LectureBASK Lordon Trickey
- 2009
Jack Houghston Award for AOSSM Best PaperAmerican Journal of Sports Medicine
- 2007
Honorary title "Fellow of the International Cartilage Repair Society"International Cartilage Repair Society
- 2003
Pauline van Wachem Award for the best PhD thesis 2002-2003Dutch Society for Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering
- 2002
Best Basic Science AwardJournal of Bone and Joint Surgery
- 1997
Kelly Research Award for "Outstanding Basic Science Research"Mayo Foundation
Professional memberships
- 2021 - present
Expert ReviewerCalifornia institute of Regenerative Medicine
- 2021 - present
Medical DirectorMayo Clinic Bone and Tissue Bank
- 2010 - 2012
PresidentInternational Cartilage Repair Society
- 2009 - 2010
ChairmanACL Consensus Guideline Committee, Dutch Orthopaedic Society
- 2008 - 2010
Vice PresidentInternational Cartilage Repair Society
- 2003 - 2008
Executive SecretaryInternational Cartilage Repair Society
- 2003 - 2008
Past TreasurerDutch Arthroscopy Society
- 2000 - present
MemberDutch Orthopaedic Society
- 2000 - present
MemberISAKOS - International Society of Arthroscopy, Knee Surgery and Orthopaedic Sports Medicine
- 2000 - present
MemberAmerican Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons
- 2000 - present
FellowInternational Cartilage Repair Society
- 2000 - present
MemberDutch Society for Orthopaedic Traumatology
Publications
Research activities