About Chad Watts, MD
Dr. Watts is a board-certified and fellowship-trained orthopedic surgeon, specializing in hip and knee replacement. He completed his residency training in orthopedic surgery at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota and his fellowship in advanced hip and knee reconstruction techniques at OrthoCarolina in Charlotte, North Carolina. After his fellowship, he was offered a coveted position to join the surgical staff at the Mayo Clinic but chose instead to return to Reno to be closer to family. He performs roughly 1,000 hip and knee replacements per year, ranking him among the top joint replacement surgeons in the country.
He has nearly forty publications in the orthopedic literature related to hip and knee replacement, has presented at numerous regional and national meetings, and has received awards for his research from the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons, the American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons, and the Mayo Clinic Department of Orthopedic Surgery. He is a reviewer for orthopedic journals including the Journal of Arthroplasty, the Bone and Joint Journal, and Clinical Orthopedics and Related Research.
His areas of expertise include:
- Direct Anterior Total Hip Replacement (Arthroplasty)
- Total Knee Replacement
- Partial Knee Replacement
- Revision and Complex Hip and Knee Replacement
- Robotic Joint Replacement Surgery (Certified in MAKO, Navio, and Cori robotics)
- Outpatient Same-Day Joint Replacement Surgery
- Minimally Invasive Surgical Techniques
- Custom Knee Replacement (Conformis or Restor3D)
- Quadricep Sparing Knee Replacement
