Stefano A. Bini, M.D., is an orthopedic surgeon specializing in arthritis and joint replacement. He serves as the Maria Manetti Shrem Endowed Professor and Chief Technology Officer in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of California, San Francisco. At UCSF, he leads innovation at the intersection of medicine and technology.

Dr. Bini was born in Italy, raised in Australia (he still has a slight Aussie accent), and finished high school in San Francisco. He received his bachelor's degree from Stanford University, his medical degree from Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons and completed residency training at UCSF. Dr Bini then completed a fellowship at the Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute in Italy and earned a second medical degree from the University of Florence (and ate lots of great food!).

Before rejoining UCSF, Dr. Bini worked at Kaiser Permanente as a joint replacement surgeon, where he held multiple leadership positions including Chief of Orthopedics at two medical centers and helped oversee all surgical operations across Northern California Kaiser with a focus on improving quality, access and efficiency. He was honored to be selected for the highly competitive California Health Care Foundation Leadership Program where he developed a strong interest in applied organizational design. As a result, Dr. Bini co-authored a book on change management in healthcare. After joining UCSF, Dr Bini founded and chairs the annual Digital Orthopaedics Conference San Francisco (DOC SF) and hosts the DOC SF podcast and webinars with goal of bridging the gap between clinical orthopedics and digital technologies.

Active in professional associations and academia, he has served as Chair of several committees for the American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons and American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons before founding the Personalized Arthroplasty Society in 2020 with several international colleagues. He has served as the Associate Editor of Arthroplasty Today and elite reviewer the Journal of Arthroplasty. Thanks to his pioneering work with Artificial Intelligence (AI), Prof. Bini was recently names Associate Editor for AI for the prestigious Journal of Bone and Bone Surgery. Over the past two decades, Dr. Bini has organized dozens of educational events and has attended over a hundred national and international conferences. He has presented and published 100’s of scientific papers, and authored books and book chapters on total joint replacement with a focus on leveraging large databases to help define best practices in hip and knee replacement surgery.

Dr. Bini returned to UCSF in 2014 and has worked to improve the patient care experience, clinical outcomes, and resident training. His clinical practice is focused on total joint replacement, with a current focus on the tissue sparing “STAR” approach for the hip, and the physiologically anatomictechnique called “kinematic alignment” (KA) for total and partial knee replacements. Dr Bini has also taken a special interest Abductor Tendon Repair (Gluteus Medius) with a busy laboratory testing various repair techniques. Since his early days in practice, Dr Bini has developed an interest and experience in revision and complex total joint replacement.

He is committed to teaching (and learning from) residents and colleagues and has received several related awards, including the James O. Johnston Award for Excellence in Orthopedic Research, Leadership and Resident Training; the San Francisco Orthopedic Residency Program Teaching Award; the national Kaiser Permanente James Vohs Award for Quality for his work establishing the Kaiser Permanente Total Joint Replacement Registry; and The Permanente Medical Group Award for Outstanding Planning of Physician Education.

Outside of work, Dr. Bini is an avid cook, pencil artist, reasonable dancer, and amateur photographer. He enjoys traveling, cycling, skiing, and the gym to stay in shape. He and his wife live in the East Bay and their two children are in So Cal for university. Anyone who is at home is currently putting up with his efforts to learn guitar—despite his lack of musical talent.