Andrew F. Kuntz

About

Andrew F. Kuntz, MD, is an Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and serves as the Director of the Shoulder Study Group. His clinical expertise focuses on shoulder treatment, encompassing all aspects of shoulder surgery from arthroscopy to joint replacement surgery. Dr. Kuntz is a Penn Medicine physician with hospital privileges at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Hospital, and Penn Presbyterian Medical Center. He has completed his medical education at the University of Virginia, followed by residency at the University of Pennsylvania Health System, and fellowship training at both the University of Pennsylvania Health System and Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. His professional memberships include the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, American Orthopaedic Association, American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons, and several regional and national orthopaedic societies. His research interests involve musculoskeletal conditions and treatments related to shoulder injuries and disorders, contributing to advancements in shoulder surgery techniques and understanding of shoulder pathology.

Research topics

• Medicine
• Surgery
• Anatomy
• Biomedical engineering
• Chemistry

Selected publications

• Preclinical tendon and ligament models: Beyond the 3Rs (replacement, reduction, and refinement) to 5W1H (why, who, what, where, when, how)

  Journal of Orthopaedic Research® · 2023-08-13 · 35 citations

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  Several tendon and ligament animal models were presented at the 2022 Orthopaedic Research Society Tendon Section Conference held at the University of Pennsylvania, May 5 to 7, 2022. A key objective of the breakout sessions at this meeting was to develop guidelines for the field, including for preclinical tendon and ligament animal models. This review summarizes the perspectives of experts for eight surgical small and large animal models of rotator cuff tear, flexor tendon transection, anterior c…

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• Biocompatibility and bioactivity of an FGF-loaded microsphere-based bilayer delivery system

  Acta Biomaterialia · 2020-05-16 · 31 citations

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• Pulsed electromagnetic field therapy alters early healing in a rat model of rotator cuff injury and repair: Potential mechanisms

  Journal of Orthopaedic Research® · 2021-10-17 · 16 citations

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  Rotator cuff repair failure remains common due to poor tendon healing, particularly at the enthesis. We previously showed that pulsed electromagnetic field (PEMF) therapy improved the mechanical properties of the rat supraspinatus tendon postoperatively. However, little is known about the mechanisms behind PEMF-dependent contributions to improved healing in this injury model. The objective of this study was to determine the influence of PEMF treatment on tendon gene expression and cell compositi…

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• Mechanical properties of the different rotator cuff tendons in the rat are similarly and adversely affected by age

  Journal of Biomechanics · 2021-01-14 · 12 citations

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• Targeting the hedgehog signaling pathway to improve tendon-to-bone integration

  Osteoarthritis and Cartilage · 2023-05-03 · 10 citations

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Recent grants

• Improving tendon-to-bone repair with hedgehog signaling therapeutics

  NIH · $371k · 2021–2024

• Effect of Scaffold-delivery Growth Factors in Rotator Cuff Repair

  NIH · 2015–2018

Frequent coauthors

• Joseph A. Abboud

  Thomas Jefferson University Hospital

  44 shared

• Louis J. Soslowsky

  University of Pennsylvania

  40 shared

• Ibrahim J. Raphael

  37 shared

• Michael P. Dougherty

  Augusta University

  37 shared

• Julianne Huegel

  University of Central Florida

  20 shared

• Courtney A. Nuss

  University of Pennsylvania

  18 shared

• Robert L. Mauck

  Philadelphia VA Medical Center

  13 shared

• Dong Hwa Kim

  12 shared

Labs

• Andrew F. Kuntz LabPI

Education

• MD

  University of Virginia School of Medicine

  2005

• BS, Chemistry

  College of William and Mary School of Arts and Sciences

  2001

Awards & honors

• The 2024 Kappa Delta Young Investigator Award: Leveraging In…

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