Robert G. Volz

(1932- ) born at Lincoln. Orthopedic surgeon, educator, researcher, known for six inventions involving artificial joint replacements, notably a total wrist prosthesis in 1974, at the time one of two such medical devices available worldwide, which was approved as an implant procedure in 1977 by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, a new total elbow prosthesis in 1976 and new total knee prosthesis in 1978, all accomplished while at University of Arizona Health Sciences Center; author or co-author of more than 60 publications and more than 175 papers presented by invitation nationwide and in seven foreign countries; recipient of several honors, including recognition by American Hospital Association that total wrist prosthesis was one of the ten major advances in hospital treatment for 1976. Consult New York Times, June 13, 1976, Sec. 1, p. 39 and January 30, 1985, p. C-6 and Sunday /Omaha/ World Herald Magazine of the Midlands, March 29, 1987, pp. 12-14.

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