{"id":3673,"date":"2026-04-27T21:34:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T04:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vailhealth.org\/staff\/joel-matta\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T18:21:48","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T01:21:48","slug":"joel-matta","status":"publish","type":"staff","link":"https:\/\/www.vailhealth.org\/es\/about\/doctor-directory\/joel-matta\/","title":{"rendered":"Joel Matta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">El Dr. Joel Matta es un Cirujano Ortop\u00e9dico especializado en Reconstrucci\u00f3n de Cadera y Pelvis. Es el fundador y director del Instituto de Cadera y Pelvis en el St. John\u2019s Health Center en Santa M\u00f3nica, California. Con 35 a\u00f1os de experiencia en la pr\u00e1ctica de la cirug\u00eda ortop\u00e9dica, el Dr. Matta tambi\u00e9n es el Presidente fundador de la Anterior Hip Foundation. Ha publicado m\u00e1s de 30 art\u00edculos y estudios sobre el avance de t\u00e9cnicas y m\u00e9todos utilizados para simplificar y mejorar el reemplazo de cadera, el tratamiento de fracturas p\u00e9lvicas y acetabulares, y la osteotom\u00eda periacetabular.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Acreditaciones<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Miembro del American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery, 1981<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Colega de la Academia Estadounidense de Cirujanos Ortopedistas, 1983<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Asociaci\u00f3n de Traumatolog\u00eda Ortop\u00e9dica (miembro fundador), 1986<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sociedad Internacional de Cadera, electo en 1987<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sociedad de Cadera Americana, elegida en 1995<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Director, Instituto Emile Letournel, 1995<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fundador y Presidente, Colaborativa de Artroplastia Total de Cadera Anterior, 2005<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fundador y Director, Instituto de Cadera y Pelvis en St John's Health Center, 2006<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Miembro de tiempo completo del profesorado, Facultad de Medicina de la USC 1980-1990<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Premios y honores<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Conferencista nacional e internacional reconocido en cirug\u00eda de cadera y pelvis<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>La base de datos de un solo cirujano m\u00e1s grande sobre el tratamiento operativo y los resultados de las fracturas de pelvis y acet\u00e1bulo<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dise\u00f1ador de productos ortop\u00e9dicos que incluyen implantes para fijaci\u00f3n de fracturas, instrumentos quir\u00fargicos ortop\u00e9dicos, pr\u00f3tesis primarias y de revisi\u00f3n para reemplazo de cadera, y mesas de operaciones ortop\u00e9dicas.<\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"featured_media":3674,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":true},"tags":[],"staff-specialties":[36],"class_list":["post-3673","staff","type-staff","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","staff-specialties-orthopaedics"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Joel Matta | Vail Health<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vailhealth.org\/es\/acerca-de\/directorio-de-doctores\/joel-matta\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_MX\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Joel Matta | Vail Health\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Dr. Joel Matta is an Orthopaedic Surgeon Practicing Hip and Pelvic Reconstruction. &nbsp;He is the founder and director of the Hip and Pelvis Institute at St. John&#8217;s Health Center in Santa Monica, Calif. 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