Lawrence J. Lemak, born in 1943 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is an orthopedic surgeon in Birmingham, Alabama, who specializes in sports medicine and in arthroscopy and reconstruction of the knee, shoulder, hip and elbow. In 1986 he and his partner James Andrews founded the Alabama Sports Medicine and Orthopedic Center and the American Sports Medicine Institute, and he has been a member of the institute's board of directors. In 2001 he founded the National Center for Sports Safety, a non-profit organization that promotes injury prevention and safety in youth sports. He took his medical degree at the University of Alabama and completed his orthopaedic residency at the University of Pittsburgh, and he chaired the Department of Orthopaedics at the University of South Florida from 2004 through 2008.
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Lawrence J. Lemak (born 1943; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
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specializing in arthroscopy and reconstruction of the knee, shoulder, hip and elbow
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is an orthopedic surgeon who practices at the Lemak Sports Medicine & Orthopedics in Birmingham, Alabama
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