Total Joint Replacement
At Sonoma Valley Hospital, our Total Joint Replacement Team gets you back in action eliminating joint pain through joint replacement surgery. Our team members include three patient-acclaimed surgeons, a Skilled Nursing Facility for those who want to recuperate in the hospital, and a team of outstanding physical therapists who help increase the speed of healing with their care and thorough exercise program.
Our program is distinct in that we begin with education – about joint pain itself, about treatment options leading up to surgery, and about surgery and the healing process. We help educate you about how to work with our specialists to get better. Our Nurse Navigator is there every step of the way to guide, help and facilitate your healing. Our team of surgeons and physical therapists all work together to help you help yourself to heal and return to active living.
Meet OUR Total Joint Replacement Team
Dr. Michael A. Brown is a fellowship-trained total joint replacement specialist who has been practicing in both private and group practice for 20 years. Originally from Oklahoma, he attended University of Oklahoma and University of Oklahoma Medical School. He did his Orthopaedic residency at Washington University, in St Louis. He chose a fellowship in joint reconstruction because of his desire to work with active adults, especially senior citizens. Dr. Brown’s expertise includes treating sore joints, aches and pains, broken bones, ligament injuries, sports injuries as well as people who have arthritis – a group whose changing profile is transforming his practice. He now he finds he is doing joint replacements in people from the 30s age group on. Dr. Brown is a member of Prima Medical group, the Marin-based medical practice employing physicians in nine locations area-wide.
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Dr. Robert Harf, a board certified orthopaedic surgeon, has practiced orthopaedic surgery for 34 years. He has extensive experience treating patients with all types of spinal problems, and is an acknowledged, skilled expert in total joint replacements, utilizing state-of-the-art technologies in minimally invasive approaches to knees and hips as well as the spine. Dr. Harf specializes in caring for patients with failed spine surgery syndrome. Dr. Harf received his M.D. from the University Autonoma De Guadalajara and he is a member of the American Board Certified Orthopaedics, Spinal Surgery. He did his internship in the Metropolitan Hospital Center New York, Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, his residency in Long Island Jewish-Hillside, New York, and his fellowship at Rancho Los Amigos Medical Center in Los Angeles. He is fluent in Spanish, and dedicated to serving patients in Sonoma County and throughout Northern California.
Dr. Noah Weiss is a Board Certified Orthopaedic Surgeon who specializes in Sports Medicine, including shoulder and knee reconstruction, and surgery of the hand and upper extremities. Dr. Weiss did his Orthopaedic Surgery residency at Yale-New Haven Hospital then completed additional fellowship training at Hand & Microsurgery Group in San Francisco, and Tahoe Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine. Dr. Weiss performs total shoulder replacements and total knee replacements, as well as joint replacement surgery for the elbow, wrist and hand. Dr. Weiss is also actively involved in teaching Orthopaedic Surgery nationally and abroad, and has volunteered and taught in Vietnam and Haiti. Dr. Weiss has lived and worked in Sonoma for the past 19 years.
