Stefano Bini

Dr. Bini is the Maria Manetti Shrem Endowed Professor in the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at the University of California San Francisco. He specializes in primary, revision, and complex hip and knee replacement and is a world-renowned leading proponent of personalized arthroplasty techniques in joint replacement. He is the co-founder of the Personalized Arthroplasty Society, which covers 30 countries and focuses on the personalization of care models in joint replacement. He has served as President of PAS and co-wrote a popular textbook on this surgical technique. 

Prof. Bini is an advocate of digital technologies applied to orthopedics. He is the Founder and Chair of the Digital Orthopaedics Conference San Francisco(DOC SF) meetings, podcasts, and webinars. DOC SF aims to bridge digital health and clinical orthopedics by catalyzing the adoption of technology in the musculoskeletal vertical. At UCSF, Dr. Bini serves as the Chief Technology Officer for the department and served as Orthopaedic Lead on UCSF’s Center for Digital Health Innovation. He currently serves on the board of the UCSF Health Hub and the UCSF Robotics Committee.

Dr Bini is the PI of the Digital Orthopaedics Lab at UCSF, through which he has led collaborative research with Google and the use of advanced machine learning algorithms to predict joint biomechanics from raw sensor data. He has previously served as the Chair of the Digital Health Committee for the American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons (AAHKS), where he received the Presidential Award, several committees of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgery (AAOS), and consults for multinational organizations and several start-ups on their digital innovation strategy amongst other topics. He has authored a book on change management, serves as associate editor for Arthroplasty Today, and is an elite reviewer for several journals. Current research interests include bringing precision medicine to total knee procedures using caliper-based knee alignment techniques and applications of AI in orthopedics and robotics.

Prior to UCSF, Stefano gained administrative experience working at Kaiser Permanente. He held numerous leadership positions, including Chief of Orthopedics at two medical centers and Associate Physician in Chief at one. He received the highly competitive California Health Care Foundation’s Leadership Fellowship and the Resident Teaching Award, among others.

Stefano was born in Italy, raised in Australia, and educated in California. He is married to his (amazing) wife and has two (awesome) kids. He is adamant about learning guitar despite having no inherent musical talent and rides bikes up steep hills to stay in shape.