Tri-State Orthopaedic Surgeons

Tri-State Orthopaedics is the largest orthopaedic practice of its kind in the Evansville, Indiana area, founded in 1949 by Dr. John H. Sterne and Dr. Henry Leibundguth. Today, 68 years later, the practice has grown to 21 physicians who carry on our founders' reputation for excellence.

Our physicians have completed advanced clinical, academic, and examination requirements in their chosen specialties of Orthopaedic Surgery and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. Our physicians include those with Fellowship-Training in Adult Joint Reconstruction, Arthroscopy, Hand Surgery, Hand Trauma & Reconstructive Surgery, Spine Surgery, Microvascular Surgery, and Interventional Pain Management. We are proud to have doctors with Added Specialty Certifications in Surgery of the Hand, as well as Sports Medicine.

We offer Orthopaedic Urgent Care same day appointments and prompt appointments for work-related injuries, sports injuries and other orthopaedic conditions. For the convenience of our patients, our medical imaging services, surgery center, orthopaedic surgeon offices, and physical medicine and rehabilitation facilities are in the same vicinity.

Our goal is to promote active, healthy lifestyles with the latest medical and operative methods. We are committed to excellence-- providing the personal, life-enhancing, quality of care that our patients have come to expect since 1949. We want people to know that they will be treated like family whenever they turn to us.

James M Heinrich, MD • Phillip L Stiver, MD • Andrew T Saltzman, MD • John O Grimm, MD • Paul E Perry, MD • Jeana J Lee, MD • Glenn T Johnson II, MD • Terence A Alvey, DPM • Timothy S Hamby, MD • William A Ante, MD • Michael B Boyd, DO • Jacob M O’Neill, MD • Ross D Whitacre, MD • Brett T Weinzapfel, MD, PhD • Paul T Daines, DPM • Zachary C Hamby, MD • Jason T Franklin, DO • Craig T Carter, MD • Kati K Rush, DPM • David L Whitney, MD Peter A Knoll, MD