{"id":5221,"date":"2026-04-21T11:05:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T16:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/?p=5221"},"modified":"2026-04-21T13:29:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T18:29:22","slug":"maps-student-organization-hosts-knee-replacement-demonstration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/2026\/04\/21\/maps-student-organization-hosts-knee-replacement-demonstration\/","title":{"rendered":"MAPS student organization hosts knee replacement demonstration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Minority Association of Pre\u2011Medical Students (MAPS) recently hosted a knee replacement demonstration that gave College of Science students a hands\u2011on look at orthopaedic surgery. The event provided participants with an opportunity to explore real\u2011world surgical techniques and medical innovation.<\/p>\n<p>The demonstration featured Dr. Ali Oliashirazi, professor and chair of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and chief of the Division of Total Joint Replacement at Marshall University\u2019s Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine. Students gained insight into joint replacement procedures and learned more about careers in orthopaedic medicine. The College of Science thanks MAPS and Dr. Oliashirazi for an engaging and educational experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minority Association of Pre\u2011Medical Students (MAPS) recently hosted a knee replacement demonstration that gave College of Science students a hands\u2011on look at orthopaedic surgery. The event provided participants with an opportunity to explore real\u2011world surgical techniques and medical innovation. The demonstration featured Dr. Ali Oliashirazi, professor and chair of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":224,"featured_media":5222,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-outreach","category-science-abstracts"],"acf":[],"fimg_url":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/files\/cos-maps-knee-replacement-demo.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5223,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5221\/revisions\/5223"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}