William L. Bargar, M.D. was born and raised in Youngstown,
hio. He obtained a Bachelors Degree in Aeronautical Engineering from
Ohio State in 1968 and then went into the Navy for four
years. During this time he taught nuclear physics and reactor design at the
U.S. Naval Nuclear Power School in Bainbridge, Maryland, receiving his
Masters Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Delaware.
He then went back to Ohio State University School of Medicine and received
his Medical Degree in 1975. He completed a fellowship in Biomechanics and
Joint Replacement Surgery at UCLA in 1978 and completed his orthopaedic residency at CaseWestern in Cleveland in 1981.
From 1981 to 1986 he was on the fulltime faculty as an Assistant Professor
of Orthopaedic Surgery at U.C. Davis School of
Medicine. He is American Board Certified.

In 1986 Dr. Bargar began private practice in Sacramento at
Sutter General Hospital and Mercy Hospital, but he has continued his active research at the U.C. Davis Research Labs as well as
the Sutter Institute for Medical Research. He has developed a
new approach to cementless total hip replacement using CT generated CAD/CAM custom prostheses. He is also the co-developer of "Robodoc" a surgical robotic device for improving precision in orthopaedic surgery. He has written numerous scientific articles and book chapters on total hip and knee surgery. Dr. Bargar performs both hip and knee reconstructive surgery as well as surgery for musculoskeletal tumors of the lower extremities.

In his spare time he enjoys golf, tennis, skiing and spending time with is wife, Carol, and two daughters, Brooke and Lesley.

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