Knee1.com Honors Orthopedic Surgeon Dr. James Lubowitz as a Knee Care Hero

Cambridge, MA, January 1, 2003: Knee1.com, a leading Internet Web site for knee health information, recognizes Dr. James Lubowitz as its newest Knee Care Hero. Dr. Lubowitz is the founder of the Taos Orthopaedic Institute and a member of the medical staff for the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Team. He also holds the prestigious position of Associate Editor Arthroscopy: The Journal of Arthroscopic and Related Surgery. He is currently practicing medicine in New Mexico, specializing in knee injuries and arthroscopy at the Institute that he founded.

Dr. Lubowitz has dedicated his career to providing orthopaedic care to underserved populations and continues to research the cost and outcomes of knee arthroscopy. "While we don't limit care based on costs, based on a patients' ability to pay, I think that we have an obligation to our society both from a public health standpoint and resource allocation to find the most cost-effective way to develop the highest level of care. " For the full article, see "Dr. James Lubowitz: Providing Knee Care in Rural New Mexico" on the Knee Care Hero page at www.knee1.com.

Body1, Inc. was founded in February 1999 to provide on-line health and wellness information to consumers. The company focuses on interactively communicating with patients by partnering with technology innovators and collecting the leading voices and experts in a specific field into one place-a Knowledge Cooperative (KnowCo). Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, within five miles of Harvard, MIT and the world's largest concentration of teaching hospitals, Body1's founding group includes physicians, medical writers, business executives and computer specialists from these institutions.

Knee1.com, a Body1, Inc. KnowCo, offers comprehensive knee information, accomplished through news features, technology reports, searchable databases of the most prevalent knee conditions and possible treatments as well as interactive tools where patients can tell their knee stories and ask doctors questions. Knee1 is sponsored by medical technology titan Smith & Nephew and Genzyme Biosurgery. The Knee Care Hero series serves to spotlight the leading knee surgeons whose exceptional accomplishments exemplify what medicine can achieve.