Robert Westermann, MD is a Sports Medicine Orthopedic Surgeon at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA. Dr Westermann is a board-certified orthopedic surgeon with an ABOS subspeciality certification in sports medicine. His clinical research is focused on improving outcomes after knee and hip arthroscopy through the MOON (knee) and the ANCHOR (hip) multi-center study groups. Dr Westermann went to medical school at the University of Washington in Seattle and completed his residency at the University of Iowa. He completed an orthopedic sports medicine fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic and was awarded the ANCHOR – Harris Career Development Award in hip preservation and completed a hip arthroscopy travelling fellowship with Christopher Larson, MD, Asheesh Bedi, MD, Ira Zaltz, MD and John Clohisy, MD. Dr Westermann serves on committees for the AOSSM, AANA, and ISHA. He is a member of the editorial board for the AJSM and the Arthroscopy Journal and is an orthopedic reviewer for the New England Journal of Medicine.